IIT Kharagpur has become the first Indian Institute of Technology in the country to offer postgraduate medical degree programmes accredited by the National Medical Commission (NMC), the Ministry of Education announced on Thursday, November 12.

Source: ANI

From the 2026-27 academic session, the institute will admit its first batch of 12 postgraduate medical students at the Dr B. C. Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre on its campus, the Hindu BusinessLine reported.

Source: The Hindu BusinessLine

Six MD courses, two seats each

The six programmes are MD General Medicine, MD Radiology, MD Physiology, MD Pathology, MD Community Medicine and MD Biochemistry, with two seats in each discipline, taking the first cohort to 12 resident doctors.

Admissions will be made through the NEET-PG 2026 online counselling process conducted by the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), and the programmes will be available for consideration in Round 2 of counselling, subject to the eligibility criteria and the seat matrix notified by the MCC.

An engineering institute enters postgraduate medicine

Founded in 1951, IIT Kharagpur was India's first IIT. Its move into NMC-accredited postgraduate medical education, in its 75th year, marks the IIT system's first entry into training specialist doctors — bringing an engineering and research institute directly into medical education and healthcare research.

The institute said the inaugural cohort will be the first generation of postgraduate medical students in the history of India's IIT system.