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MBBS fees increase in Tamil Nadu self-financing colleges for admissions between 2025 and 2027

MBBS fees increase in Tamil Nadu self-financing colleges for admissions between 2025 and 2027

Time of Indiaa day ago
CHENNAI: MBBS fees for 2025 under management quota in self-financing colleges will increase by Rs 1.5 lakh from 2024 to Rs 15 lakh a year, and the fee for NRIs will go up by Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 27 lakh, according to the revised fee structure released by TN Directorate of Medical Education.
The fee for students joining under the govt quota will remain unchanged, while those joining state private universities under the NRI quota will pay Rs 30 lakh — Rs 60,000 more compared to previous years.
The proceedings of the committee on the fixation of fees in respect to self-financing professional colleges, chaired by Justice Pongiappan, which sets fees for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses, released on Monday said that the prescribed fee structure will be effective for students admitted for admissions in 2025, 2026 and 2027.
Tamil Nadu
has an annual admission capacity of 11,700 MBBS seats, with 5,050 seats in govt medical colleges. There are 22 self-financing private medical colleges and four private universities. Non-minority institutions in self-financing colleges and state private universities share 65% of seats for admission under the govt quota, and minority institutions share 50% of seats. Admission to all seats in self-financing colleges and state private universities are done by the state selection committee.
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The biggest change, however, is the elimination of the 'NRI lapse' category. The NRI lapsed seats — a category created to fill in non-NRI candidates alongside the management quota in self-financing medical/dental colleges and state private universities — have been removed. The selection committee will transfer NRI seats vacant after three rounds of counselling to the common pool in the management category, allowing Indian students to take these seats at a cost that is at least 30% lower.
Until 2024, self-financing colleges were allowed to collect Rs 24.5 lakh as NRI fees. Colleges set aside 15% of the seats for the NRI category. If these seats were not filled, they were converted into NRI lapse seats, for which Rs 21.50 lakh was collected as annual tuition fee.
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