NEET Hike Sways Private Medical Colleges to Upsurge Tuition Fees


BENGALURU: The proliferation in the capitation fee by National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) has influenced private medical colleges across India to significantly upsurge the tuition fees. The government college’s cost on the other hand remains unchanged.

Private medical colleges and deemed universities in Tamil Nadu has hiked the cost of medical education. The education cost at SRM Medical College has grown by leaps and bounds. The college located within the renowned SRM University hiked MBBS tuition fee from 10 lakh to 21 lakh per annum, excluding the books and lodging expenses.

The drastic increase in the tuition fee was also seen Katihar Medical College in north Bihar. This college has amended the fee from 8 lakh to 12.5 lakh. Likewise in Delhi, at the Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences, education fees for the management quota students has surged up significantly from 15 lakh to 18 lakh.

Comparing the fees of private medical colleges with the government medical colleges shows distinctive result with huge differences. The education fee of government colleges present in Rajasthan and Punjab ranges from 9000 to 4.4 lakh for complete MBBS course.

One of the reasons for private colleges being expensive is that most of these medical colleges come under the supervision of Supreme Court appointed fee committees in which each state and deemed universities hardly come under the states' radar, allowing them to randomly fix the fees.

Another common reason on why the medical institutions have increased their fees is because of the competition with the rival colleges. Earlier colleges used to hike the fee by 3 pct every year, but now it is revised up to 32 pct.

Dr. Raj Bahadur, Vice-Chancellor, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, asserts that MCI requisites for hospitals and college infrastructures are very inflexible. Moreover, it is very necessary to attract faculties from clinical practice, which is very difficult.

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