Uttar Pradesh medical colleges for NEET

Overview

Uttar Pradesh has 88 medical colleges offering MBBS programmes: 47 government and 41 private. The official DMET brochure published before NEET UG 2025 counselling (pages 21-22) listed 80 MBBS colleges (44 government and 36 private). The actual counselling rounds saw 88 colleges participate, with 8 additional colleges added through supplementary notifications issued after the brochure went to print. UP has been rapidly expanding medical education, with several new colleges approved during 2024-2025. These colleges spread across the state’s major cities, from Lucknow and Kanpur in central UP to Varanasi and Gorakhpur in the east, Agra and Meerut in the west, and Bareilly in the Rohilkhand region. The oldest among them, King George’s Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow, has been running since 1911. The newest colleges received recognition as recently as 2025. For NEET aspirants, UP is one of the largest markets for medical seats in India, with state counselling handled by DMET Lucknow through upneet.gov.in.

Similarly, for dental colleges, the DMET brochure listed 22 private dental colleges with 2,110 BDS seats, while the actual allotment data from upneet.gov.in shows 26 dental colleges participated in counselling.

Government medical colleges

The 47 government medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh form the backbone of both medical education and public healthcare delivery across the state. Several of these institutions have decades of clinical training behind them. (The DMET brochure figure of 44 government colleges reflects the count at time of publication; 3 additional government colleges joined counselling via later notifications.)

KGMU Lucknow is the state’s flagship institution. Established in 1911, it has 3,875 hospital beds, handles 21,481 OPD patients per month, and runs 50 departments. It admits 250 MBBS students each year. GSVM Medical College in Kanpur, another large government college, also has an intake of 250 seats. Other well-known government colleges include BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, MLB Medical College in Jhansi, and SN Medical College in Agra; each of these is a regional referral centre for its surrounding districts.

Private medical colleges

Uttar Pradesh has 41 private medical colleges. The DMET brochure listed 36 private colleges with a combined intake of 6,600 private MBBS seats; 5 more private colleges were added to counselling through supplementary notifications. These colleges are concentrated around cities with established healthcare infrastructure: Lucknow, the NCR-adjacent belt (Meerut, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad), and towns along the NH corridors like Bareilly, Hapur, and Barabanki. Rama Medical College in Hapur, Rajshree Medical Research Institute in Bareilly, and Mayo Institute of Medical Sciences in Barabanki each admit 250 students per year, placing them among the state’s largest private intakes.

Seat intake and fill rates

Our database has MSMER intake data for 60 of the 88 colleges. Across these 60, the combined latest-year MBBS intake is 8,878 seats: 3,828 government seats (from 31 government colleges) and 5,050 private seats (from 29 private colleges). The full state seat matrix is larger once the remaining 28 colleges are factored in. Per the official DMET brochure, private colleges alone account for 6,600 MBBS seats.

Five colleges share the highest individual intake of 250 seats each:

• KGMU, Lucknow
• GSVM Medical College, Kanpur
• Rama Medical College, Hapur
• Rajshree Medical Research Institute, Bareilly
• Mayo Institute of Medical Sciences, Barabanki

Of the total seats, 85% fall under the state quota (counselled by DMET Lucknow) and 15% under the All India Quota (counselled by MCC). State domicile candidates can participate in both rounds, while non-domicile candidates compete only for AIQ seats at UP colleges.

Infrastructure highlights

KGMU’s 3,875-bed hospital and 50-department setup makes it one of the largest teaching hospitals in northern India. Its monthly OPD volume of over 21,000 patients gives clinical students consistent exposure to a wide case mix. Other major government hospitals attached to medical colleges in Kanpur, Varanasi, Agra, and Gorakhpur function as regional referral points, handling cases from multiple neighbouring districts.

NMC recognition data is available for 81 of the 88 colleges in our database. Recognition status matters because colleges without valid NMC approval cannot admit students in a given academic year, and seats at such colleges are excluded from counselling.

Affiliating universities

Most medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh affiliate to one of two universities based in Lucknow:

• King George’s Medical University (KGMU) is itself a standalone university that conducts its own examinations.
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University (ABVMU), Lucknow affiliates the majority of government and private medical colleges across the state.

A few institutions operate as deemed universities or autonomous bodies with their own degree-granting authority. The affiliating university determines the examination pattern, internal assessment weightage, and academic calendar. Students should confirm affiliation status before counselling since it affects the degree certificate they receive upon graduation.

How to check college details

Each of the 88 colleges has a dedicated page on neet2seat with structured data on seat intake, NMC recognition status, hospital infrastructure, cutoff trends, and affiliated university. You can filter colleges by ownership type (government or private), city, and intake capacity to build a preference list that matches your NEET score range and budget.

For counselling-specific information (fee structures, document requirements, round-wise schedules), DMET publishes updates at upneet.gov.in during the counselling season. For an overview of how reservation categories affect seat allocation, see our UP NEET categories and reservations guide. For the full counselling process walkthrough, see our UP NEET counselling process guide.