There has been increase in number of medical colleges in India. It made a huge growth of 102% over last decade. The number has increased from 387 which was in 2013-14 tenure to 780 which is in 2024-25 tenure, as per Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Similar kind of growth can be seen in number of seats in MBBS. It has also seen a huge growth by 130%. The rise came from 51,348 to 1,18,137 in the same period.

Few of the Union Territories and States in the country with zero medical colleges during the 2013-24 tenure, now each of them have one medical college. Telangana came from zero medical college to 65. On the other end Goa and Chandigarh have retained their single medical college. They have increased their seats for MBBS.

Karnataka also saw a growth in terms of medical college, it came from 46 to 73 in terms of number of medical college. Similar growth can be seen in Maharashtra where it came from 44 to 80 in terms of number of medical colleges.

Uttar Pradesh saw the longest jump from 30 to 86 in terms of number of medical colleges there. It also saw the grown in MBBS seats in the state. It got the number of seats from 3,749 to 12,425, whereas Maharashtra got it from 5,590 to 11,845. Similarly Tamil Nadu also saw the growth from 6,215 to 12,050.

Initially, Telangana was not having a single college but now it offers 9,040 seats for MBBS.

Rajasthan which was having 10 colleges, offering 1,750 seats in 2013-14 now offers 6,475 in 43 colleges in 2024-25 tenure.

Madhya Pradesh went from 12 colleges offering 1700 to 31 offering 5,200 seats. Chhattisgarh has made an increase from 5 colleges offering 600 seats to 16 giving 2,455 seats.

The national capital, Delhi have made an addition of three more colleges which makes it go from 7 to 10 and saw a increase in seats from 900 to 1,497.