Verified 12 Jun 2026Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur · Chikkaballapur (Sathya Sai Grama, Muddenahalli)Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences, Chikballapur — Free MBBS, Fees & Cutoffs 2026
No management quota
at Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur
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.
- NEET-UG → KEA government quota (40% — 20 of 50 seats): KEA-notified fee Rs 1,41,621/yr, which the college's own regulation makes 'Free of Charge' to the student — tuition, hostel, food, books and uniform included
- NEET-UG → KEA private quota (40% — 20 seats): Rs 22,00,000/yr tuition; hostel, food, books and uniform free on all MBBS tiers; mandatory 5-year service bond is a condition for admission for all MBBS students
- NEET-UG → KEA NRI quota (15% — 7 seats): Rs 45,00,000/yr tuition; no NRI allotment took place in CET-2024 Round 2
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur fees
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur fees: MBBS · Annual tuition is ₹22L. Use the rows below to compare quota-wise amounts in one place.
| Branch | Fee |
|---|---|
| MBBS — 'Management or Other Quota' (3 seats, KEA-allotted on NEET merit; no direct admission)fee source Annual fee | ₹45,00,000 /yr |
| Branch | Fee |
|---|---|
| MBBS (free of charge to the student per the college's own regulation)fee source Annual fee | ₹1,41,621 /yr |
| Branch | Fee |
|---|---|
| MBBS — NRI (7 seats, KEA-allotted; no NRI allotment happened in CET-2024 R2)fee source Annual fee | ₹45,00,000 /yr |
| Branch | Fee |
|---|---|
| MBBS (hostel, food, books, uniform free on all tiers; mandatory 5-year service bond for all MBBS students)fee source Annual fee | ₹22,00,000 /yr |
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Programmes & intake
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)
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur NEET-UG (KEA Karnataka government/state quota) / NEET-UG (KEA private / Others quota) / NEET-PG 2025 — KEA Karnataka PG counselling (last-allotted ranks, computed from official KEA allotment lists) cutoffs
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur cutoffs for NEET-UG (KEA Karnataka government/state quota) / NEET-UG (KEA private / Others quota) / NEET-PG 2025 — KEA Karnataka PG counselling (last-allotted ranks, computed from official KEA allotment lists). category-wise opening and closing ranks are listed below. MBBS NEET-UG (KEA Karnataka government/state quota) GM (General Merit) CET-2024 R2 closing rank is 64,601.
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.
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur admissions
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Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur hostel
Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chikballapur 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
MBBS and PG financial models differ at SMSIMSR. For MBBS: government-quota seats are 'Free of Charge — including tuition fee, hostel fee, food, books, uniform etc.' per the seat matrix; on every MBBS tier, hostel, food, books and uniform are free. Every MBBS student must sign a mandatory five-year service bond as a condition for admission (per the seat matrix 'Mandatory Rules' and the 2023 prospectus: 'required, as a condition for admission, to execute a social obligation service Affidavit to serve for FIVE years'). Penalty for MBBS service-default (per 2023 prospectus): Rs 3.6 crore plus hostel costs for failure to complete the post-graduation service obligation; Rs 1.8 crore plus hostel costs for mid-course discontinuation or termination of the MBBS course. There is no separate MBBS scholarship — the free model and bond are the standard regulation. For PG (MD/MS): the Prashanthi Balamandira Trust offers a voluntary 100% scholarship to selected postgraduate students, 'covering tuition fees including fees paid to KEA, residence and boarding fees, university fees, skill lab fees and university exam fees', for 'students who are economically disadvantaged, compassionate and committed to serving the underprivileged in rural areas'. PG students who voluntarily elect the scholarship sign a three-year service bond; those who do not elect it pay the notified PG fees without any bond obligation (per the December-2025 PG scholarship agreement: 'admission is not conditional upon acceptance of any scholarship, service bond, compulsory hostel residence, or post-qualification service obligation').
Infrastructure & facilities
Labs, library, sports, hostels & campus facilities
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.
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 is not a deemed university, and it is a different institution from the deemed Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning at Puttaparthi (whose NAAC A++ grade aggregators wrongly attach to this college) and from the unrelated Sri Satya Sai University of Technology and Medical Sciences at Sehore, MP. 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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Verification & sources
This page is built from 20 verified sources. Each fact above carries inline citation to the original PDF, AICTE/NIRF disclosure, official portal, or AQAR. Counsellors re-check fee bands, intake, cutoffs, hostel notes, and admission routes before publication.
- SMSIMSR — official website (domain verified live; NMC pro-forma lists the university subpage sssuhe.ac.in/smsimsr as the college website) — SMSIMSR — official website (domain verified live; NMC pro-forma lists the university subpage sssuhe.ac.in/smsimsr as the college website)
- SMSIMSR UG admissions — KEA-only counselling for all seats incl NRI/management, eligibility, intake 50, service + hostel conditions (official) — SMSIMSR UG admissions — KEA-only counselling for all seats incl NRI/management, eligibility, intake 50, service + hostel conditions (official)
- SMSIMSR MBBS Seats Matrix & Admission Regulation 2025-26 — 20/20/7/3 quota split, free-of-charge terms per tier (official) — SMSIMSR MBBS Seats Matrix & Admission Regulation 2025-26 — 20/20/7/3 quota split, free-of-charge terms per tier (official)
- 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) — 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)
- KEA CET-2024 R2 government-quota medical cutoff — M093 GM 64,601 (official) — KEA CET-2024 R2 government-quota medical cutoff — M093 GM 64,601 (official)
- KEA CET-2024 R2 private/NRI/Others medical cutoff — M093 OPN 1,93,122, OTH 6,60,558, NRI blank (official) — KEA CET-2024 R2 private/NRI/Others medical cutoff — M093 OPN 1,93,122, OTH 6,60,558, NRI blank (official)
- KEA NEET-PG 2025 MD/MS non-inservice Round-2 FINAL allotment list — SMSIMSR rows under course codes M71xx (official) — KEA NEET-PG 2025 MD/MS non-inservice Round-2 FINAL allotment list — SMSIMSR rows under course codes M71xx (official)
- 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) — 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 PG fee structure AY 2025-26 (dated 01-12-2025) — per-subject govt/private/NRI-management tiers (official) — SMSIMSR PG fee structure AY 2025-26 (dated 01-12-2025) — per-subject govt/private/NRI-management tiers (official)
- SMSIMSR PG seat matrix 2025-26 — 45 seats across 16 specialities; split Govt 15 / Private 18 / NRI 7 / Management 5 (official) — SMSIMSR PG seat matrix 2025-26 — 45 seats across 16 specialities; split Govt 15 / Private 18 / NRI 7 / Management 5 (official)
- Prashanthi Balamandira Trust 100% scholarship offer + service-bond terms; 360-bed hospital; 50-seat intake (official) — Prashanthi Balamandira Trust 100% scholarship offer + service-bond terms; 360-bed hospital; 50-seat intake (official)
- Voluntary Scholarship Election, Service Bond, Waiver and Indemnity Agreement (Dec 2025) — admission not conditional on scholarship/bond (official) — Voluntary Scholarship Election, Service Bond, Waiver and Indemnity Agreement (Dec 2025) — admission not conditional on scholarship/bond (official)
- NMC/MARB revised Letter of Permission dated 27.04.2023 — 50 MBBS seats for AY 2023-24, common-counselling condition (official, college-hosted) — NMC/MARB revised Letter of Permission dated 27.04.2023 — 50 MBBS seats for AY 2023-24, common-counselling condition (official, college-hosted)
- NMC msmer 2025-26 pro-forma — LOP date 2023-04-27, university SSSUHE, competent authority Director, 75% accommodation (official) — NMC msmer 2025-26 pro-forma — LOP date 2023-04-27, university SSSUHE, competent authority Director, 75% accommodation (official)
- NMC final UG seat matrix 03-12-2025 — SMSIMSR 50 seats AY 2024-25 and 2025-26 (official) — NMC final UG seat matrix 03-12-2025 — SMSIMSR 50 seats AY 2024-25 and 2025-26 (official)
- NMC PG seat matrix 30-01-2026 — SMSIMSR 16 MD/MS rows totalling 45 seats (official) — NMC PG seat matrix 30-01-2026 — SMSIMSR 16 MD/MS rows totalling 45 seats (official)
- PIB (PMO) release, 25 March 2023 — PM inaugurates SMSIMSR; 'medical education and quality medical care - completely free of cost - to all' (official) — PIB (PMO) release, 25 March 2023 — PM inaugurates SMSIMSR; 'medical education and quality medical care - completely free of cost - to all' (official)
- SSSUHE — SMSIMSR page: 'India's First Free Medical College (In Rural - For Rural)', constituent-college status (official) — SSSUHE — SMSIMSR page: 'India's First Free Medical College (In Rural - For Rural)', constituent-college status (official)
- SSSUHE accreditation/ranking status — university 'gearing up' for NIRF and NAAC, i.e. neither exists yet (official) — SSSUHE accreditation/ranking status — university 'gearing up' for NIRF and NAAC, i.e. neither exists yet (official)
- SMSIMSR NMC disclosure — SSSUHE is a State Private University under Karnataka State Act 17 of 2018; VC and Registrar named (official) — SMSIMSR NMC disclosure — SSSUHE is a State Private University under Karnataka State Act 17 of 2018; VC and Registrar named (official)
Amrit Ashu
Lead Admission Counsellor. RV College of Engineering 2017 graduate, guiding students for admissions in Bangalore since 2017. Page-level fee facts are checked against official disclosures, college admissions-office discussions, and admissions verified at the same fee levels.
