Armed Forces Medical College, Dhaka

Armed Forces Medical College is a public medical college in Dhaka. Ulkaa lists 1999 as its founding year. It teaches the MBBS degree and is affiliated with Bangladesh University of Professionals.

Ulkaa's medical college table will publish once enough public data is available, so this college does not have an Ulkaa rank yet. Until then this page sticks to published facts, each with its year, and says plainly where a figure has not been checked against an official source. The official website is https://www.afmc.edu.bd/.

The college was founded in 1999 in Dhaka Cantonment to train medical graduates for the armed forces while also supplying doctors to the national health service. It was affiliated with the University of Dhaka until 2008 and has been affiliated with Bangladesh University of Professionals since then. The Commandant is a Major General from the Army Medical Corps.

Entry to the MBBS course at a public medical college goes through the national MBBS and BDS admission test, held once a year under the Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME) of the Ministry of Health. For the 2025-26 session the test was held on 12 December 2025. Prothom Alo reported 122,632 applicants and a pass mark of 40 out of 100, with 66.57 percent passing. Government colleges offered 5,645 seats that year, 5,100 for MBBS and 545 for BDS.

The test score alone does not decide a place. As Prothom Alo described it, the merit ranking adds the SSC GPA multiplied by 8, the HSC GPA multiplied by 12 and the test marks, with deductions for some repeat candidates. Candidates then list their preferred colleges and seats are filled by merit and preference. Results are posted on dgme.gov.bd, dghs.gov.bd and result.dghs.gov.bd.

Armed Forces Medical College is a military institution, so its admission arrangements are not the same as those of the civilian public colleges. Read the college's own circular and the current DGME notice before applying; this page does not describe its separate selection steps. Rules change between sessions, so check the current circular before you apply.

The main programme is the MBBS. Ulkaa lists 125 MBBS seats for 2025, taken from the medical college list on Wikipedia and not yet checked against the Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME) or the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC). Seat numbers are fixed each year, so treat this as a guide and confirm it in the current admission circular.

The college is affiliated with Bangladesh University of Professionals. Ulkaa records no verified bed count yet.

Students are designated medical cadets and must live in the college hostels. The programme runs in four phases covering basic sciences, para-clinical and clinical training. Ulkaa has no verified bed count for the attached hospital yet.

For a medical student the attached hospital is where clinical training happens, so the hospital's size and wards matter as much as the lecture halls.