K S Hegde Medical Academy, Mangalore FAQs 2026 Admissions 2026, Courses, Fees & Cutoffs

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NEET UG 2024 MCC Deemed General category: Opening rank 59,805 (Round 1); Closing rank 1,54,283 (Round 3). 2023 closing rank was 2,24,996. Student reports confirm ~1.5 lakh rank was sufficient in 2024, ~2.5 lakh rank was sufficient in 2023. All-category (General + OBC + SC/ST) closing rank in 2024: 3,00,351. Admissions continue into mop-up rounds for higher ranks (lower scores).

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Late Justice Kumaraswamy Subbayya Hegde (1909–1990) was a highly distinguished jurist and parliamentarian — Judge of the Supreme Court of India and Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He founded the Nitte Education Trust in 1979, which today runs 20+ professional colleges under NITTE University. KSHEMA was named in his honour in 2009.

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NIRF 2021: #45 All India (Medical); India Today 2024: #37 (Medicine & Health Sciences); The Week 2024: #12 among Private Medical Colleges India; Outlook India 2022: #14 among Private Medical Colleges India; Edufever NEET 2024 preference: All India Management #9 / Karnataka State #20.

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KSHEMA offers 136 PG seats across 21 MD/MS specialties including high-demand clinical specialties (General Medicine 17, Anaesthesiology 16, Surgery 12, Orthopaedics 9, Paediatrics 9, OBG 6, Ophthalmology 6, ENT 8, Radio Diagnosis 8, Dermatology 5, Psychiatry 5) and basic sciences (Anatomy 4, Physiology 4, Biochemistry 3, Microbiology 3, Pathology 5, Pharmacology 5, Community Medicine 5, Forensic Medicine 4, TB & Respiratory 2). Super Specialty: MCh Urology (3 seats) via NEET SS.