IIT Kharagpur announces it will become the first Indian Institute of Technology to offer National Medical Commission (NMC)-accredited postgraduate medical degree programmes. The MD courses are planned to begin with the 2026–27 academic session at the Dr. B. C. Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre.
Across outlets, the programmes are described as covering six medical specialisations: General Medicine, Radiology, Physiology, Pathology, Community Medicine and Biochemistry. The institute plans to offer 12 seats total, with two seats in each discipline. Admissions are to be handled through NEET-PG 2026 counselling, with the programmes to be considered in Round 2, according to the counselling process and schedule.
Some coverage also frames the move as an interdisciplinary expansion connecting clinical training with engineering, research and technology. While all sources emphasise IIT Kharagpur’s “first” status and the course structure, the additional background on how the programmes fit into an IIT ecosystem is more prominent in some reports than in others.
