Eligibility for Admission

1. Any person seeking admission in any undergraduate medical or dental college in Pakistan shall be eligible having fulfilled the following mandatory criteria; 

• have passed the MDCAT examination;
• obtained a Higher Secondary School certificate qualification ("HSSC") or an equivalent 12th grade qualification recognized in Pakistan and having obtained a minimum of sixty percent (60%) marks therein, or a higher percentage as may be notified by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council; and
• passed the mandatory subjects of biology and chemistry. The student may opt to qualify either physics or mathematics in the examination of the Higher Secondary School Certificate or an equivalent 12th grade qualification recognized in Paklstan: Provided that the mandatory requirement of MDCAT sha ll not a pply to students seeking admission on a special program seat predefined exclusively for foreign students and on the seats reserved for overseas Pakistanis. Such students shall qualify SAT-Il with minimum score of 550 in each subject or a foreign MCAT examination or UCAT examination with 50% marks in the subjects as prescribed in Regulation .

Provided further that a student admitted on a foreign seat shall pay the fee as a foreign student regardless of any change in status of such student d u ring the program
of study.

2. The general principle to be applied shall be that admissions to medical colleges should be concluded prior to admissions of dental colleges, and admissions to the public sector colleges are concluded prior to admissions to private colleges.

Self-finance and foreign quota seats.- 

1. Private medical and dental institutions may admit students on foreign seats quota upto fifteen percent of their total annual seats allocated by the Council purely on merit
2. No candidate shall be eligible for foreign quota seats in the public and private medical and dental institutions under sub regulations (a) unless, he holds a
3. permanent foreign nationality or is on overseas (being a Pakistani citizen permanently resident in a foreign country) Pakistani , and who has studied and passed HSSC 12th grade examination or equivalent from outside Pakistan and is a resident of a foreign country at the time of applying for admission and possess a certificate from the institution last attended to this effect.
4. Where any seat of foreign or self-finance quota remains vacant due to u nava ilability of eligible ca nd idates or otherwise, it sha ll stand transferred to open merit quota and the student shall be charged fee and charges prescribed for open merit seat. An ineligible candidate shall not be admitted against such seats.
5. The annual quota of foreign seats and self-finance shall not be carried forward to admissions of any subsequent year. Cumulative seats for foreign plus self finance seats admission in a Public medical and dental institution shall not exceed fifteen percent of total allocated seats.