Medical College, Kolkata

Medical College, Kolkata is a West Bengal government medical college at 88 College Street, Kolkata, affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences. It was established on 28 January 1835, after a committee set up under Governor-General Lord William Bentinck recommended a medical college to train local youths regardless of caste or creed, and its first 20 students were admitted that February. In 1836 Madhusudan Gupta, a student of the first batch, carried out a human dissection that the college records as a landmark in Indian medical teaching, and in 1883 Kadambini Ganguly became its first woman student.

The campus, about 26 acres, holds several hospital blocks, including Eden Hospital (1881-82), Ezra Hospital (1887) and the Prince of Wales Surgical Block (1911). The college teaches MBBS along with MD, MS, diploma and DM/MCh super-speciality courses. MBBS seats are filled on NEET-UG ranks through the West Bengal Medical Counselling Committee for the state quota and the Medical Counselling Committee for the All India Quota, while postgraduate and super-speciality seats go through NEET-PG and NEET-SS. In NIRF 2025 it is ranked 41st in the medical category.