Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences (KoIMS), Madikeri — MBBS Admission 2026

KoIMS Madikeri MBBS Admission 2026 — Complete Guide

Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences (KoIMS), established in 2016, is a Government of Karnataka medical college in Madikeri — the district headquarters of Kodagu (Coorg) — affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru, and recognised by the National Medical Commission (NMC). Its clinical training is delivered through the college's own attached teaching hospital in Madikeri, which NMC's institutional disclosure records at 650 beds, 16 of them emergency beds. For Karnataka aspirants who want a government MBBS seat at an affordable fee in a calmer, scenic setting, KoIMS is a worthwhile target.

For 2026 applicants, admission is purely on NEET-UG merit across 150 MBBS seats: 128 form the Karnataka state quota filled by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA), and 22 form the All-India Quota filled by the MCC. In the KEA UGNEET 2025 Round-1 final seat allotment, the General-Merit (govt-quota) seat closed at All-India Rank 46,802 (opened 19,455; official KEA Round-1 final-allotment record); the separate AIQ 15% via MCC is governed by its own ranks. Confirm the latest category-wise closing ranks on the KEA portal. The fee is ₹64,350 per year for the Karnataka government (KEA state) seat under the KEA Medical College-wise Fee Structure 2026-27 (Government Orders MED 218 and MED 213 RGU 2026), and the same source lists no private, management or NRI slab for this government college — strong value. MBBS runs 4.5 academic years plus a one-year internship, so that annual figure is not simply multiplied to reach a course total; confirm the seat matrix officially.

📊 Key Highlights — KoIMS Madikeri

🏥 Where the 150 KoIMS seats actually go

📌 In one line: 150 sanctioned MBBS seats split 128 / 22 — 128 filled by KEA on Karnataka domicile, 22 filled by the MCC from the All-India merit list, and nothing else.

Official source: the 150 total is from the National Medical Commission / MARB "MBBS Seat Matrix as on 29-10-2025" (Public Notice N-15029/09/2025-UGMEB), row 241 — Karnataka, Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences, Kodagu, Govt., 150 and 150. The 22 AIQ seats are from the Medical Counselling Committee "Seat Matrix for NEET-UG Counselling 2026" (Ref. U-12021/02/2026-MEC, dated 5 August 2026), which lists institute 200175 with TotalSeat 150 and Seats 22. The two agree: 150 − 22 = 128, and the KEA UGNEET-2026 first-round mock allotment list of 17 August 2026 independently allots exactly 128 seats under course code M077MG. Three separate authorities, one number.

Beyond MBBS, the college's own website carries admission sections for PG (MD/MS) and B.Sc Nursing; the current PG seat matrix is published by KEA each cycle and is not listed here. Source: kimskodagu.karnataka.gov.in admissions menu, captured 23 August 2026.

💰 KoIMS Madikeri Fee Structure 2026

The MBBS course fee at a Karnataka government medical college is set by the state, not by the college, and KEA publishes it college-by-college each cycle. The figures below are the KEA 2026-27 fees for KoIMS Madikeri (college code M077). They are per year — the source states the fees are in Indian rupees for one year. Fees are re-notified each cycle, so check the academic year beside any figure you compare this against:

📌 In one line: KoIMS Madikeri charges ₹64,350 per year for its Government-quota MBBS seat (KEA, 2026-27), and the KEA fee schedule lists no private, management or NRI tier at this government college.

Includes / excludes: the figures above are the KEA-regulated MBBS course fee for the Government-quota seat, per year. Excludes hostel, mess, caution deposit, university and examination charges, and anything else the college separately notifies; a college-published fee structure may carry heads the KEA schedule does not. Official source: Karnataka Examinations Authority, "Medical College-wise Fee Structure 2026-27 (MBBS)", Government Orders MED 218 RGU 2026 and MED 213 RGU 2026, captured 17 August 2026.

🎯 KoIMS cut-off — MCC All-India Quota, Round 1 (provisional), 2026

📌 In one line: in the first All-India Quota round of 2026 the last open-category candidate admitted to KoIMS held All-India Rank 13,482 — but that is the toughest rank of the cycle, not the final one.

Official source: Medical Counselling Committee, "Provisional NEET-UG Counselling Seats Allotment 2026 — Round 1", published 21 August 2026; institute string "Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences, Kodagu, Madikeri." Evidence note: this is Round 1 and it is marked provisional. All 22 AIQ seats went in Round 1, which is why the figures look tight.

🏆 Why Choose KoIMS Madikeri?

• Government college — a Government of Karnataka medical college affiliated to RGUHS.
• Low fee — ₹64,350 per year for the Government-quota seat (KEA 2026-27), with no private, management or NRI slab at this government college.
• Teaching hospital — clinical training at the college's own 650-bed teaching hospital in Madikeri.
• Scenic hill-district setting — Madikeri (Coorg), a calm, green environment for focused study.
• Pure NEET merit — no management/NRI quota in the KEA data.
• RGUHS degree — a recognised MBBS from a respected health-sciences university.

📝 Eligibility — what is specific to KoIMS

The national floor is the same at every MBBS college in India: a valid NEET-UG 2026 score, Class 12 with Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and 17 years of age as on 31 December 2026. It is set out in full on our NEET 2026 guide. Two conditions are specific to this college:

1. Karnataka eligibility decides which of two pools you are in. 128 seats are state-quota (KEA) and need Karnataka domicile/eligibility under KEA rules; the other 22 are All-India Quota (MCC) and need none.
2. The rank you need is not one number. In MCC Round 1 of 2026 the All-India Quota seats here closed at rank 13,482 (open) and 15,124 (OBC). The Karnataka state-quota ranks are a separate list and generally reach far deeper — see the cut-off section below.

📝 Applying to KoIMS: the two portals

📌 In one line: there is no application form on the KoIMS website — you reach this college only by naming it in a counselling portal, and which portal depends on which of the two seat pools you are eligible for.

• Karnataka state quota (128 seats) — register with the Karnataka Examinations Authority, clear KEA document verification, then enter M077 (course code M077MG) in option entry. KEA's allotment lists identify colleges by code, not by name, so M077 is the string to look for.
• All-India Quota (22 seats) — register with the MCC at mcc.nic.in, where this college appears as institute code 200175, "Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences, Kodagu".

You may register for both. The rounds run on separate calendars and an allotment in one does not carry over to the other.

🎓 After the degree

KoIMS graduates hold an RGUHS-awarded MBBS and, because the attached hospital is the district's own 650-bed teaching hospital rather than a referral centre, they finish the clinical years having managed undifferentiated first-contact cases themselves. From there the usual routes are NEET-PG for MD/MS, the Karnataka government health services, and corporate hospitals.

Evidence note: KoIMS publishes no placement or NEET-PG outcome table, and neither does NMC. We are not printing one. Any site quoting a KoIMS "placement percentage" is quoting itself.

🩺 Which counselling route applies to KoIMS

📌 In one line: KoIMS has exactly two routes and no third — 128 seats through the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) on Karnataka domicile and reservation rules, and 22 seats through the MCC All-India Quota, open to any NEET-UG candidate in India regardless of state.

There is no deemed-university route here and no management or NRI seat, because KEA publishes no such fee tier for this college. How AIQ, state quota and deemed counselling differ in general is covered in full on our NEET-UG counselling: AIQ vs state quota guide.

ℹ️ Anti-tout note: every seat at KoIMS is filled on NEET-UG merit through the official MCC and KEA portals. Anyone offering a KoIMS seat for money is running a scam — there is no seat for them to sell.

📚 Where KoIMS students do their clinical postings

The MBBS syllabus is the NMC competency-based curriculum and is identical at every Indian medical college — 4.5 academic years plus a one-year compulsory rotating internship; the phase-by-phase breakdown is on our MBBS admission guide. What differs between colleges is where you spend the clinical years.

At KoIMS that is the college's own attached teaching hospital, which NMC's institutional disclosure records as 650 beds with 16 emergency beds, registered on the national health facility register on 6 May 2023 and running the NIC eHospital HMIS. For a 150-seat college that is roughly 4.3 beds per MBBS student, which is what a district-headquarters case-mix looks like in practice: general medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics, trauma from the ghat roads, and the vector-borne and occupational cases typical of a plantation district.

Official source: National Medical Commission, MSMER institutional pro-forma, "Associated Hospital Details" for Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences, Kodagu (msmer.nmc.org.in/public/performaAdminHospitalDetails/kimskod), captured 23 August 2026. Anti-inference note: a bed count is a capacity figure, not a promise of how many of those beds are occupied on the day you are posted.

✅ What KoIMS declares to NMC — including what it does not yet have

Every medical college files an institutional pro-forma with the National Medical Commission, and NMC publishes it. It is the one place a college has to answer awkward questions on the record. This is what KoIMS's filing says:

Official source: National Medical Commission, MSMER institutional pro-forma, "College Details" for Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences, Kodagu (msmer.nmc.org.in/public/performaAdminCollegeDetails/kimskod), captured 23 August 2026. Reading note: these are the college's own declarations to the regulator, not an inspection result. We print the "No" rows as well as the "Yes" rows, because a page that prints only the flattering ones is not telling you anything.

📍 What Madikeri is actually like as a place to do MBBS

KoIMS sits in Madikeri, the headquarters of Kodagu district, at pincode 571201 — a hill town, not a metro suburb. Three practical consequences a prospectus will not spell out:

• Housing is the college's problem, not the market's. Madikeri has very little student rental stock. KoIMS declares to NMC that it can accommodate 75% of its students — which is why that declaration matters more here than it would in Bengaluru.
• The case-mix is a district's, not a referral centre's. A 650-bed district teaching hospital sees undifferentiated first-contact medicine: obstetrics, paediatrics, road trauma off the ghat sections, and the vector-borne and occupational presentations of a coffee-and-pepper plantation belt. You will see fewer rare tertiary referrals and far more of the medicine most Indian doctors actually practise.
• Getting there takes planning. Madikeri has no railway station and no airport; access is by road from Mysuru or Mangaluru. Budget for that when you plan visits home, and check it before you rank KoIMS above a college on a rail line.

🎓 Paying for a KoIMS seat

📌 In one line: at ₹64,350 a year the KEA course fee is not usually what a KoIMS family borrows for — hostel, mess and living costs in Madikeri are, and those are billed by the college outside the KEA figure.

Central and state post-matric scholarships, Karnataka fee-reimbursement and freeship/EWS concessions all apply here as at any government medical college; the schemes and the loan mechanics are set out on our Karnataka MBBS admission guide. Ask the KoIMS office for the current hostel and mess tariff before you budget — KEA does not publish it and no third party can quote it for them.

📋 The two documents that decide a KoIMS state seat

The standard NEET-UG counselling file — scorecard, Class 10 and 12 mark sheets, transfer and migration certificates, category certificate, photo ID — is the same everywhere and is listed in full on our documents required for counselling checklist. Two of them do the actual work at KoIMS:

• Karnataka eligibility / nativity proof. 128 of the 150 seats are Karnataka state-quota seats. Without KEA-accepted Karnataka eligibility you are competing only for the 22 All-India Quota seats, which in MCC Round 1 of 2026 closed at All-India Rank 13,482 in the open category — a materially harder target than the state route.
• The KEA verification slip. Karnataka runs its own document verification ahead of option entry; the acknowledgement from that step, not the NEET scorecard, is what lets you fill KoIMS as a choice at all.

🚀 Is KoIMS the right target for your rank?

Yes, if you hold Karnataka eligibility and a rank that reaches the KEA government-quota list: ₹64,350 a year with no management tier above it is close to the cheapest medical education available anywhere, and the clinical exposure at a 650-bed district teaching hospital is real.

Think harder, if you are coming through the All-India Quota. There are 22 such seats, they all went in Round 1 of 2026, and the open category closed at rank 13,482 — at that rank you have other options, and KoIMS's declared gaps (no skill lab yet; a blood-bank licence whose stated validity has lapsed) are worth weighing against them.

Two things to confirm before you accept: the hostel and mess tariff, which KEA does not publish and which is the real cost driver here, and the service-bond clause in the current KEA brochure. For help ordering your KEA choices around your actual rank, talk to our counselling desk — the call is free.

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