Yenepoya Medical College

Yenepoya Medical College is located about 11 km from Mangalore City and is a constituent college of Yenepoya University, a private deemed-to-be university situated in Deralakatte, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India. The university was granted deemed-to-be university status by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2008 and has been recognized under 3(A) of the UGC Act, 1956, receiving a NAAC Grade of A+. Yenepoya Medical College itself was established in 1999, and the university began offering post-graduate courses through it since 2005. The MBBS course lasts about 4.5 years plus a mandatory one-year internship, following standards set by the National Medical Commission of India. The college also offers MD courses in subjects such as General Medicine, Community Medicine, Paediatrics, Pathology, TB & Chest, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Pharmacology, Microbiology, and Biochemistry, as well as MS courses in OBG, Orthopaedics, General Surgery, Ophthalmology, and ENT. Yenepoya University, of which the medical college is a part, was ranked 85 among universities in India by NIRF in 2023, placing it in the 101–150 band overall.