There are 22 government medical colleges that can accommodate around 2,811 students while 53 private medical colleges have 4,245 seats. Last year, around 40,000 candidates applied for admission. For foreign students, their GPA-7 will be equivalent to our GPA-8,” the official added.
Altogether there are 8,493 seats in all medical and dental colleges in Bangladesh.
The number is 2,811 in 22 government medical colleges while 4,245 in 53 private medical colleges.
The nine public dental colleges and medical colleges’ dental units have 567seats while 14 private dental institutes have 870 seats.
There will be no admission tests for public and private medical colleges this year as students will be enrolled on the basis of their SSC and HSC results.
This was decided at a meeting at the health ministry yesterday with Health and Family Welfare Minister AFM Ruhal Haque in the chair.
The meeting decided that the candidates must have at least a combined GPA of 8 in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) to apply for admission, said an official who attended the meeting.
According to the DGHS, there was no medical admission test before 1971 when Bangladesh won independence and it all started in the 1980s.
