The National Medical Commission (NMC) has told students and parents to check that a medical college is genuine and approved before taking admission or paying any money. Its advisory, dated 5 November, follows a direction from the Supreme Court in Ayesha Jain v. Amity University, Noida. That case concerns a reported fake medical college run from a farmhouse.
NMC says some institutions offer medical and allied courses without the required approvals and use advertisements, websites, social media and agents to attract students.
Eight checks before you pay
- Is the college on NMC’s list? Check the official list of medical colleges on nmc.org.in, and that it has permission for this academic year.
- Is it approved for this year and this many seats? A college that ran last year is not automatically approved this year, and it cannot admit beyond its approved intake.
- Are the documents real? Do not rely on brochures, websites or a “Letter of Permission” the college shows you. Verify with the regulator directly.
- Did the seat come through counselling? Take seats only through MCC or your state counselling authority, and verify the allotment there.
- Do the claims match the place? A building, office or website does not prove a college is allowed to teach medicine. Be wary of claims about hospitals or training that seem too big for the set-up.
- Who are you paying? Never pay agents, personal bank accounts or middlemen.
- Which approval is it? Approval or affiliation from another body is not NMC permission to run MBBS.
- Report anything suspicious. Tell NMC through its website, and your state’s medical education department or the police. Keep the ads, receipts, messages and website details.
For nursing, pharmacy, Ayurveda and allied health courses, NMC says to check with the regulator for that course, because those fall under other bodies.
Most NEET UG 2026 counselling rounds are over, but seats offered privately after counselling are where such offers tend to appear. If anyone offers you an MBBS seat outside counselling, check it against these points first. For counselling rules and cut-offs, see the NEET counselling page on AglaSem Admission.
Source: NMC advisory No. U-15024/10/2026-UGMEB, dated 5 November 2026, on nmc.org.in.
