Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad

Osmania Medical College is a Telangana government medical college in Koti, Hyderabad. It grew from the Hyderabad Medical School, opened in 1846 at the British Residency under Dr William Campbell Maclean after the Nizam ordered a school of Western medicine; teaching was at first in Urdu and later switched to English. Its superintendent Dr Edward Lawrie presided over the Hyderabad Chloroform Commission of 1889, and after the seventh Nizam founded Osmania University in 1919, a Hyderabad Medical College followed the next year. The college is affiliated to the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences, Warangal.

The college admits 250 MBBS students a year, 37 through the All India Quota and 213 through the state quota, and trains them across ten affiliated hospitals, among them Osmania General Hospital, Niloufer Hospital and the Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital. It also runs MD and MS, DM and MCh, and B.Sc allied health courses. MBBS seats are filled on NEET-UG scores through MCC and university counselling, and postgraduate seats through NEET-PG and NEET-SS. In NIRF 2025 it is ranked 48th in the medical category.