"Affordable MBBS" is not a marketing claim — it is a specific, countable set of seats. We hold 527 MBBS colleges in the registry; 441 publish an annual fee, and 440 of those sit under ₹5 lakh a year. This page shows who they are, where they are, and what the annual fee actually buys.
One caveat before the tables: a fee figure is a college's own published number and it excludes hostel, mess, one-time deposits and any state service bond. Treat everything here as an annual, tuition-class figure — useful for comparing colleges against each other, not as the full cost of the degree.
1. The whole fee ladder is five numbers
Across all 527 MBBS colleges, the recorded annual fees collapse into a handful of values — and the ₹25,000 tier alone covers 401 colleges. That is not a coincidence: a government medical college fee is set by state policy, so colleges in the same state (and often across states) end up on an identical figure.
| Recorded annual fee | Colleges | College types |
|---|---|---|
| ₹1,628 / year | 20 | AIIMS × 20 |
| ₹5,750 / year | 2 | JIPMER × 2 |
| ₹25,000 / year | 401 | Government × 398, AIIMS × 2, ESI × 1 |
| ₹45,000 / year | 7 | Central university × 7 |
| ₹1,45,000 / year | 10 | ESI × 10 |
| ₹20,00,000 / year | 1 | Deemed × 1 |
| Not recorded | 86 | Deemed × 54, government × 29, private × 3 |
Fees are the annual figure held in each college's registry record. The ₹20,00,000 entry is the single deemed-university MBBS course above the ₹5 lakh line; the 86 "not recorded" entries publish no fee in the sources we hold, so no claim is made about them either way.
2. The twelve largest affordable intakes
A cheap college with a tiny intake is not a plan. Sorted by All India Quota seats, these are the biggest under-₹5-lakh intakes in the registry — all government, led by two that admit 250 and 244 candidates through AIQ alone. Together these twelve account for 2,042 AIQ seats.
| College | State | Annual fee | AIQ seats (R1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Padmashree Dr. DY. Patil Medical College | Maharashtra | ₹25,000 | 250 |
| Maulana Azad Medical College | Delhi | ₹45,000 | 244 |
| Lady Hardinge Medical College | Delhi | ₹45,000 | 225 |
| JIPMER PUDUCHERRY | Puducherry | ₹5,750 | 182 |
| University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital | Delhi | ₹45,000 | 170 |
| Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital | Delhi | ₹45,000 | 164 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh | Uttar Pradesh | ₹45,000 | 150 |
| AIIMS, Jodhpur | Rajasthan | ₹1,628 | 150 |
| AIIMS, New Delhi | Delhi | ₹1,628 | 132 |
| AIIMS-Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | ₹1,628 | 125 |
| AIIMS, Bhubaneswar | Odisha | ₹1,628 | 125 |
| AIIMS, Raipur | Chhattisgarh | ₹1,628 | 125 |
AIQ seats are the Round 1 All India Quota intake, not the total MBBS intake: every college here also holds a much larger state-quota pool that a state candidate competes for in a separate counselling.
3. Where the affordable seats actually are
The 440 under-₹5-lakh college-courses are spread across 33 states and union territories and hold 13,762 AIQ seats between them — and no single state dominates. Uttar Pradesh leads with 48 colleges, Maharashtra 44 and Tamil Nadu 39, while the tail runs down to single colleges in Nagaland, Tripura and Dadra & Nagar Haveli. Note what the two columns mean: colleges is how many institutions qualify, seats is the All India Quota capacity those institutions offer to candidates from every state.
| State / UT | Colleges under ₹5 L | AIQ seats (R1) |
|---|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 48 | 1,271 |
| Maharashtra | 44 | 1,435 |
| Tamil Nadu | 39 | 896 |
| Telangana | 37 | 870 |
| Rajasthan | 34 | 855 |
| Karnataka | 26 | 909 |
| West Bengal | 26 | 881 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 20 | 653 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 17 | 524 |
| Assam | 16 | 362 |
| Bihar | 14 | 417 |
| Chhattisgarh | 13 | 356 |
| Gujarat | 13 | 392 |
| Kerala | 13 | 308 |
| Odisha | 12 | 366 |
| Jammu And Kashmir | 11 | 363 |
| Delhi | 9 | 1,163 |
| Haryana | 8 | 246 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 7 | 269 |
| Jharkhand | 7 | 245 |
| Uttarakhand | 6 | 220 |
| Punjab | 5 | 252 |
| Manipur | 3 | 60 |
| Puducherry | 3 | 270 |
| Andaman And Nicobar Islands | 1 | 17 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 0 |
| Chandigarh | 1 | 30 |
| Goa | 1 | 37 |
| Meghalaya | 1 | 8 |
| Mizoram | 1 | 15 |
| Nagaland | 1 | 15 |
| The Dadra And Nagar Haveli And Daman And Diu | 1 | 27 |
| Tripura | 1 | 30 |
A state appearing here with many colleges does not mean its seats are easy to win: most of that capacity is state-quota, and the AIQ column is the only part open to every candidate in the country.
4. What this list does not answer
Read the ₹5 lakh line for what it is: a government-seat line. Of the 86 colleges with no fee in our records, 54 are deemed universities and only 3 are private — precisely the institutions whose fees you most want to know. And the single deemed-university course above ₹5 lakh is priced at ₹20 lakh a year, which is the honest answer to "is there a cheap private MBBS seat": not in the data we hold.
The practical consequence is that a low-fee MBBS seat is a merit target, not a shopping choice. If your rank will not reach the AIQ or state-quota closing rank of these colleges, the fee is academic. Two tools that answer that part: the College Predictor maps a rank to the colleges that closed at or below it in the newest round, and the Cutoff Search lets you filter every published round by pool, category and quota so you can check a shortlist against the numbers. The fees and bonds guide covers the deposits and service obligations that sit outside the annual fee.
5. Affordable MBBS: the questions we are asked most
How many MBBS colleges charge under ₹5 lakh a year?
Of the 527 MBBS colleges in our registry, 441 publish an annual fee and 440 of them sit under ₹5 lakh a year. They are spread across 33 states and union territories and hold 13,762 AIQ seats between them.
Which government MBBS colleges have the biggest cheap intakes?
Sorted by All India Quota seats, the largest under-₹5-lakh intakes are all government colleges — led by two that admit 250 and 244 candidates through AIQ alone. The top twelve together account for 2,042 AIQ seats, and the ₹25,000-a-year tier alone covers 401 colleges.
Is a cheap MBBS seat a private college?
No — the ₹5 lakh line is effectively a government-seat line. Of the 86 colleges with no fee in our records, 54 are deemed universities and only 3 are private, so the institutions whose fees you most want to know are the ones that publish nothing we hold. The single deemed-university MBBS course above ₹5 lakh is priced at ₹20 lakh a year.
Does a low fee mean a low cutoff?
The opposite. A low-fee MBBS seat is a merit target: AIIMS colleges charge ₹1,628 a year and close at some of the toughest ranks in the country, and the under-₹5-lakh list is reached through AIQ or state-quota rank, not through affordability. Check the closing rank of any college on your shortlist in the Cutoff Search or estimate your own with the College Predictor.
Is the annual fee the full cost of the seat?
No. Every figure on this page is an annual, tuition-class number that excludes hostel, mess, one-time caution deposits and any state service bond. Bonds are set per state and move independently of the fee, so two colleges on the identical ₹25,000 figure can carry very different obligations — the fees and bonds guide covers what sits outside the annual fee.