IIT Kharagpur to offer PG medical courses from 2026-27

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has become the first IIT in the country to introduce National Medical Commission-accredited postgraduate medical courses, offering six MD specialisations from the 2026-27 academic session. The institute will offer a total of 12 seats at its Dr B C Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre, with two seats in each specialisation, According to a statement, issued by the Ministry of Education on Thursday,the six disciplines are General Medicine, Radiology, Physiology, Pathology, Community Medicine and Biochemistry.
Admissions for the academic session 2026–27 will take place through the NEET-PG online counselling process, with the programmes available for consideration in Round 2, in accordance with the official counselling schedule, eligibility requirements and seat matrix, the statement read. The inaugural cohort will have the distinction of becoming the first generation of postgraduate medical students in the history of India's IIT system.
Modern medicine is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Artificial intelligence is redefining diagnostics, advanced imaging is revealing disease in unprecedented detail, biomedical engineering is creating new therapeutic possibilities, and digital technologies are extending healthcare beyond traditional hospital boundaries. However, medical education and technological research have often evolved along separate institutional pathways. IIT Kharagpur's new postgraduate medical programmes represent an ambitious step towards bringing these worlds together.
Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Director, IIT Kharagpur, stated that “India's first IIT is now taking a historic step towards shaping the future of medical education. Our vision is not simply to train specialist doctors, but to create an ecosystem where clinical excellence meets engineering ingenuity, artificial intelligence and translational research.The future of medicine will increasingly belong to those who can connect deep clinical understanding with scientific discovery and technological innovation. IIT Kharagpur is uniquely positioned to nurture this convergence. We want to shape the future of medicine, not merely follow it.”