Mysore Medical College

Mysore Medical College and Research Institute, previously called Mysore Medical College and also known as Government Medical College, Mysuru, is one of the oldest medical colleges in India, located in the heart of Mysuru adjacent to the Mysuru city railway station. It traces its origins to a medical education scheme started in 1881, and later the Mysore Medical School founded in Bangalore in 1917 to train Sub Assistant Surgeons. In 1924, this school was upgraded and renamed Mysore Medical College, becoming the first medical college in the Kingdom of Mysore and the seventh in India. It was affiliated to the University of Mysore at the time. In 1930, at the request of Sri Krishnadevaraja Wodiyar, the college was shifted from Bangalore to Mysore, with its foundation stone laid the same year and the main building constructed by Boraiah Basavaiah & Sons. The Krishnarajendra Hospital (K R Hospital) and Cheluvamba Hospital are attached to the college, both expanded over the decades. Today, the college is affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, and offers 250 MBBS seats filled through NEET, and 127 postgraduate seats, with 50% under All India Quota.