Reviewed 12 Jun 2026SMSIMSR · Chikkaballapur (Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli)SMSIMSR Fees 2026-27, Courses & Admission
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur is an university in Chikkaballapur (Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli), Karnataka. Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical…
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About SMSIMSR
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur is an university in Chikkaballapur (Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli), Karnataka. Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur offers 17 programmes, 1 at undergraduate level and 16 at postgraduate level. These include MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery), MD General Medicine, MS General Surgery, MS Obstetrics & Gynaecology and MD Anaesthesia, among others. The stated sanctioned intake across these programmes totals 95 seats. There is no hostel fee at SMSIMSR — none exists to publish. On the government MBBS tier even tuition is free. The campus follows a residential gurukulam model with separate arrangements for men and women, and hostel rules (including a campus code of conduct) bind all residents. It was established by the Prashanthi Balamandira Trust as a constituent college of Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence (SSSUHE) — a State Private University established in 2019 under Karnataka State Act 17 of 2018, whose Chancellor is the institute's founder, Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai. SSSUHE states it is still 'gearing up to participate in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings and pursue accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)' — so SMSIMSR has no NIRF rank and no NAAC grade, honestly. A second teaching block's ground-breaking was performed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah per the college's teaching-hospitals page. SMSIMSR sits inside Sathya Sai Grama at Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapur district — about an hour from Bengaluru's airport — on the residential campus of Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence. The model is a 'gurukulam': every MBBS student is required to live in the institutional hostel (compulsory for all MBBS tiers per the seat matrix Mandatory Rules), which is free of charge, as are food, books and uniform; for PG students who elect the voluntary Trust scholarship, hostel is similarly free and mandatory as part of the scholarship conditions. The academic block houses a fully air-conditioned central library, three museums (anatomy, pathology and forensic medicine among the disciplines), four 120-seat lecture halls with digital smart podiums, departmental and research laboratories, a skill lab, and a 5,500 sq ft central lobby gallery. Clinical training happens at the adjacent Sri Sathya Sai Sarla Memorial Hospital — the 360-bed teaching hospital that treats every patient free of cost and anchors the institute's 'In the Rural, Of the Rural, For the Rural' mission.
SMSIMSR fees
Each amount is shown with the academic year and applicant category stated by its source.
| Programme | Year | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| All programmes Source | ₹45,00,000 |
Published by Karnataka Examinations Authority (2025-26) (reference)
Published in a state-wide schedule that does not name this college.
| Programme | Year | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| MBBS (free of charge to the student per the college's own regulation) | ₹1,41,621 Source | |
| MBBS (hostel, food, books, uniform free on all tiers; mandatory 5-year service bond for all MBBS students) | ₹22,00,000 Source | |
| MBBS — 'Management or Other Quota' (3 seats, KEA-allotted on NEET merit; no direct admission) | ₹45,00,000 Source |
SMSIMSR NEET-UG cutoffs
UG: both official KEA cut-off sets for SMSIMSR (KEA code M093) are from CET-2024 Round 2 — the latest consolidated publication; the fee notification shown elsewhere on this page is the newer 2025-26 one, so the years differ and are labelled. In the government/state list the General Merit seat closed at NEET-UG All-India rank 64,601; in KEA's separate private/Others publication the Private Open seat closed at 1,93,122 and the Others/management seat at 6,60,558, while the NRI column shows NO closing rank — KEA made no NRI allotment for M093 that round. PG: SMSIMSR's PG seats are KEA-counselled (course codes beginning M71), and the ranks shown are last-allotted NEET-PG 2025 All-India ranks computed course-by-course from KEA's official final allotment lists (Round 2 final of 24-12-2025 and the court-ordered 3rd/mop-up round final of 26-02-2026); the college has no rows in the KEA PG Round-1 final list or the stray-vacancy list, and no NRI-coded PG allotments appear. Last-allotted ranks are readings from allotment lists, not a KEA-published cutoff table. Government-quota PG allotments at SMSIMSR carried a listed course fee of Rs 7,83,108 (clinical) / Rs 2,07,027 (para-clinical) in those lists. No allotment rows exist for MD Anatomy, MD Physiology, MD Biochemistry or MD Microbiology in either round.
SMSIMSR admissions
Application steps
Documents required
No management quota
at SMSIMSR
SMSIMSR's own admission regulation states: 'All the seats, including NRI/Management quota, are allotted by merit through online counselling conducted by Karnataka Examination Authority.' A 5% 'Management or Other Quota' tier (3 of 50 MBBS seats) does exist in the college's published seat matrix at the KEA-notified Rs 45,00,000-per-year tuition (KEA code M093 — the Others/Q seat closed at NEET rank 6,60,558 in CET-2024 Round 2), but it is filled through KEA online counselling on NEET-UG merit exactly like every other seat. There is no seat outside NEET and KEA — the NMC Letter of Permission itself conditions the college on 'Admitting students through common counselling only'. The institute's stated model is the opposite of seat-selling: free medical education funded by the Prashanthi Balamandira Trust, delivered as government-quota seats (free of charge) and mandatory-service-bond-and-free-hostel regulation on all tiers for MBBS.
- NRI Quota
MBBS & other medical programmes
View 16 postgraduate programmesKept below MBBS fees, cutoffs and counselling priorities
MD General Medicine
MS General Surgery
MS Obstetrics & Gynaecology
MD Anaesthesia
MD Paediatrics
MS Orthopaedics
MD Pathology
MD Microbiology
MD Community Medicine
MD Radio Diagnosis (Radiology)
MD Anatomy
MD Physiology
MD Biochemistry
MD Pharmacology
MS Ophthalmology
MS Otorhinolaryngology (Ent)
Recognition & affiliations
College statutory NMC information page
Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence institutional page
Sri Sathya Sai Sitaram Jindal Block
Faculty — sourced details
| Year | 2024 Source |
|---|---|
| Programme code | MBBS Source |
SMSIMSR hostel
SMSIMSR hostel details are listed in this section. capacity Not published (NMC pro-forma records 75% student accommodation as 'Yes'). hostel availability for Boys and Girls. location: Inside the Sathya Sai Grama campus at Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapur. amenities include Compulsory residential (gurukulam) model, Hostel completely free of charge — all tiers, Food, books and uniform also free, On-campus at Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli.
📍 Inside the Sathya Sai Grama campus at Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapur
Scholarships — sourced details
| Fee category | Government Source |
|---|---|
| Period | per year Source |
| Fee year | 2025-26 Source |
| Component | Tuition annual Source |
| Fee set by | College Source |
| Amount (INR) | 0 Source |
| Is estimate | No Source |
| Fee category | Government seats Source |
| Fee authority | College Source |
| Includes note | Free of charge, including tuition fee, hostel fee, food, books and uniform. Source |
| Year of study | All years Source |
| Programme code | MBBS Source |
Infrastructure & facilities
Labs, library, sports, hostels & campus facilitiesSMSIMSR sits inside Sathya Sai Grama at Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapur district — about an hour from Bengaluru's airport — on the residential campus of Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence. The model is a 'gurukulam': every MBBS student is required to live in the institutional hostel (compulsory for all MBBS tiers per the seat matrix Mandatory Rules), which is free of charge, as are food, books and uniform; for PG students who elect the voluntary Trust scholarship, hostel is similarly free and mandatory as part of the scholarship conditions. The academic block houses a fully air-conditioned central library, three museums (anatomy, pathology and forensic medicine among the disciplines), four 120-seat lecture halls with digital smart podiums, departmental and research laboratories, a skill lab, and a 5,500 sq ft central lobby gallery. Clinical training happens at the adjacent Sri Sathya Sai Sarla Memorial Hospital — the 360-bed teaching hospital that treats every patient free of cost and anchors the institute's 'In the Rural, Of the Rural, For the Rural' mission.
- NMC MBBS seats: 50
SMSIMSR gallery
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Research & rankings
Centres, patents, grants & MoU partners
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (SMSIMSR) at Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli — in Chikkaballapur district, also written Chikballapur in NMC records — describes itself on its homepage as the 'World's first medical college entirely dedicated towards rural upliftment and universal healthcare', and the Government of India's own PIB release for the inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 March 2023 states that 'SMSIMSR will provide medical education and quality medical care - completely free of cost - to all'. It was established by the Prashanthi Balamandira Trust as a constituent college of Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence (SSSUHE) — a State Private University established in 2019 under Karnataka State Act 17 of 2018, whose Chancellor is the institute's founder, Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai. SSSUHE states it is still 'gearing up to participate in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings and pursue accreditation from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)' — so SMSIMSR has no NIRF rank and no NAAC grade, honestly. What it does have: an NMC Letter of Permission of 27 April 2023 for 50 MBBS seats (Permitted, not yet recognised — the first batch graduates around 2027-28), a 100% pass in the first university examination it ever faced (MBBS Phase 1, 2024: all 49 candidates passed, 39 with distinction), roughly 148 named teaching faculty on its NMC 2025-26 faculty pro-forma across 25+ departments, 45 NMC-listed PG (MD/MS) seats in 16 specialities from AY 2025-26, a 360-bed free teaching hospital (SMSIMSR holds NABH Entry-Level Hospital accreditation PEH-2026-3255 and FOGSI A+++ High-Risk Pregnancy recognition), and a service-linked free-education model unique in Indian medical education. A second teaching block's ground-breaking was performed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah per the college's teaching-hospitals page.
Leadership & faculty heads
Management, principal & heads of departments


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SMSIMSR contact details
| Address | Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli, Chikkaballapur District, Karnataka - 562101 |
|---|---|
| Website | https://smsimsr.org |
| Office bearer | Role |
|---|---|
| Dr Kanwaljeet S Anand | Director of Medical Education & Research |
| Dr. Viswanatha B | Medical Superintendent |
| Dr Raghupathi A R | Director, Chairman, Anti-Ragging Committee |
| Dr Vasudeva Upadhyaya K S | Director of Integrated Medicine, Member Secretary, Anti-Ragging Committee |
| Dr Satish Babu K N | Director – Quality & Academics, Member, Anti-Ragging Committee |
| Dr. Deepa L N | Member Secretary, Internal Complaints Committee |
| Dr Raghupathi A R | Director of Medical Education |
| Dr Vasudeva Upadhyaya K S | Medical Superintendent |
| Dr Satish Babu K N | Director – Quality & Academics |
| Dr D Hanumanth Rao Naidu | Registrar |
More details
| Established | 2023 Source |
|---|---|
| Name | Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence Source |
| Institution type | Private university Source |
| Affiliation status | Constituent Source |
| Regulator | NMC recognised-colleges list |
| Stated session | 2024-25 |
| Centralised portal | Yes Source |
| Programme code | MBBS Source |
| Name | MBBS Source |
| Study level | UG Source |
| Min age | 17 Source |
| Eligibility | 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Biotechnology and English; NEET-UG qualified Source |
| Intake year | 2024 Source |
| Stated cycle | 2025-26 Source |
| Awarding body | Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence Source |
| Approving body | NMC Source |
| Duration in years | 5.5 Source |
| Approval status | Permitted Source |
| Gender admitted | Co-educational Source |
| Section 12 status | Not applicable Source |
| Advertised intake | 50 Source |
| Internship (months) | 12 Source |
| Other eligibility | NEET-UG qualification; official college page states age must be reached by 31 December of the admission year Source |
| Sanctioned intake | 50 |
SMSIMSR FAQs
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Which university is Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences under — is it a deemed university?
What are the hostel fees at Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences?
Is Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences safe — are there anti-ragging committees?
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Verification & sources
This page cites 20 source links. Each source is linked beside the facts it supports.
- smsimsr.org — SMSIMSR — official website (domain verified live; NMC pro-forma lists the university subpage sssuhe.ac.in/smsimsr as the college website)
- smsimsr.org — SMSIMSR UG admissions — KEA-only counselling for all seats incl NRI/management, eligibility, intake 50, service + hostel conditions (official)
- smsimsr.org · pdf — SMSIMSR MBBS Seats Matrix & Admission Regulation 2025-26 — 20/20/7/3 quota split, free-of-charge terms per tier (official)
- cetonline.karnataka.gov.in · pdf — KEA Medical Fee Structure 2025-26 — code M093: Govt 1,41,621 / Private 22,00,000 / Others 45,00,000 / NRI 45,00,000 (official)
- cetonline.karnataka.gov.in · pdf — KEA CET-2024 R2 government-quota medical cutoff — M093 GM 64,601 (official)
- cetonline.karnataka.gov.in · pdf — KEA CET-2024 R2 private/NRI/Others medical cutoff — M093 OPN 1,93,122, OTH 6,60,558, NRI blank (official)
- cetonline.karnataka.gov.in · pdf — KEA NEET-PG 2025 MD/MS non-inservice Round-2 FINAL allotment list — SMSIMSR rows under course codes M71xx (official)
- cetonline.karnataka.gov.in · pdf — KEA NEET-PG 2025 MD/MS 3rd/mop-up round FINAL allotment list (26-02-2026, per Karnataka High Court orders) — SMSIMSR M71xx rows (official)
- smsimsr.org · pdf — SMSIMSR PG fee structure AY 2025-26 (dated 01-12-2025) — per-subject govt/private/NRI-management tiers (official)
- smsimsr.org · pdf — SMSIMSR PG seat matrix 2025-26 — 45 seats across 16 specialities; split Govt 15 / Private 18 / NRI 7 / Management 5 (official)
- smsimsr.org · pdf — Prashanthi Balamandira Trust 100% scholarship offer + service-bond terms; 360-bed hospital; 50-seat intake (official)
- smsimsr.org · pdf — Voluntary Scholarship Election, Service Bond, Waiver and Indemnity Agreement (Dec 2025) — admission not conditional on scholarship/bond (official)
- smsimsr.org · pdf — NMC/MARB revised Letter of Permission dated 27.04.2023 — 50 MBBS seats for AY 2023-24, common-counselling condition (official, college-hosted)
- pib.gov.in — PIB (PMO) release, 25 March 2023 — PM inaugurates SMSIMSR; 'medical education and quality medical care - completely free of cost - to all' (official)
- sssuhe.ac.in — SSSUHE — SMSIMSR page: 'India's First Free Medical College (In Rural - For Rural)', constituent-college status (official)
- sssuhe.ac.in — SSSUHE accreditation/ranking status — university 'gearing up' for NIRF and NAAC, i.e. neither exists yet (official)
- smsimsr.org — SMSIMSR NMC disclosure — SSSUHE is a State Private University under Karnataka State Act 17 of 2018; VC and Registrar named (official)
- smsimsr.org — SMSIMSR NMC examination-results disclosure — MBBS Phase 1 (2024): 49 appeared, 49 passed, 100%, 39 distinctions (official)
- smsimsr.org · pdf — SMSIMSR unit/department-wise bed occupancy — 360 allocated beds, 2025 monthly occupancy 66-75% (official)
- smsimsr.org · pdf — NABH Entry-Level (Hospital) certificate PEH-2026-3255 — valid 07-04-2026 to 06-04-2028 (official)
Amrit Ashu
Lead Admission Counsellor. RV College of Engineering 2017 graduate, guiding students for admissions in Bangalore since 2017. Every figure on this page is checked against the official disclosures and sources linked beside it; admissions-office conversations are not used as citations.
