Sushrutha Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore

Sushrutha Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital, of 2002 nature, is an affiliated college located in Bengaluru of Karnataka. It is a co-educational school that focused on Ayurvedic studies and services and is located on a large area of land of one hundred acres. It is recognised by the Central Council for Indian Medicine (CCIM) thus making it follow quality standards in offering the Ayurvedic courses.

This medical College admits 500 students every year for its courses while employing a total of 44 faculty members, further enhancing eleven fold learning environment for students who wish to pursue Ayurveda. At present the college is having only one course The Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery BAMS for one hundred students annually sanctioned.

Sushrutha Ayurvedic Medical College is affiliated to the college Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. Sushrutha Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital has different facilities within it that can improve learning environment and health of students.

The college library has a rich collection of 15000 books, videos and other digital sources required for teaching and learning AYUSH curriculum to the students. In its capacity as a digital library, it provides online journals and reprographic so that information can be easily accessed.

To train them practically the college has its own, well-equipped laboratories for different departments and an herbal garden with more than 200 species of ayurvedic plants. This garden is very useful in their education and researchers’ works among the student fraternity. The campus also houses a health centre with first aid station, sporting infrastructure and an auditorium for meetings and lectures.

To cater the need of the students in technological aspect, college offers IT infrastructure facilities. Sushrutha Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital presented only one full time programme, known as Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) . This rich and detailed programme takes six years and supplies the student with extensive knowledge and practical experience of Ayurvedic system of medicine.

To perform this programme , the college has an approved intake of one hundred (100) seats for this programme and which makes a total student population of five hundred (500). Graduation data might not be specific to the latest year but the existence of a single focused professional programme of the institution indicates its committed direction to Ayurvedic education.

The admission process in the Sushrutha Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital depends mostly on the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). Prospective students must meet the NEET eligibility criteria, with specific cut-off marks for different categories: General ( 134), OBC ( 107) and SC & ST ( 107).

This process of streamlining makes sure that students that have been admitted will have a good grounding in the sciences, which are very pertinent if they intend to study Ayurveda. Respectable college level affirmative steps have been taken in admission policy where the college follows the national norms of medical education.

Although general scholarships information is not given, the general policy that the institution follows seems to favour scholarship-based admissions .