K. S. HEGDE MEDICAL ACADEMY

K.S. Hegde Medical Academy (KSHEMA) is a medical college situated in Deralakatte, about 13 km from Mangaluru, spread over 2.5 acres of land. It was established in 1999 by the Nitte Education Trust, which manages several professional colleges in Karnataka. The academy is named after its founder, late Justice K. S. Hegde, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of India and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha. KSHEMA offers an MBBS undergraduate course of four and a half years plus one year of internship, along with numerous MD and MS postgraduate programs across departments such as Anatomy, Physiology, General Medicine, General Surgery, and others. Admissions to the undergraduate course are conducted through NEET via centralised counselling since 2019. The college was affiliated to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences until 2009, after which it became affiliated to NITTE (Deemed to be) University. KSHEMA has international collaborations with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for research on diseases like malaria and tuberculosis, and a staff exchange program with Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn. Its sister institutions include A B Shetty College of Dental Sciences and Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences. In 2022, Outlook India ranked KSHEMA 14th among private medical colleges in India.