King George's Medical University (KGMU) is a public medical university located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was formerly a constituent medical college of the University of Lucknow and was separated and raised to the status of a state university by an Act passed by the Government of Uttar Pradesh on 16 September 2002. It is the only government medical institution to have been awarded the NAAC A++ grade in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
The university has about 1250 undergraduate students (including 280 dental students) and 450 postgraduate students.
About 250 students a year are admitted to the four-and-a-half-year course of study for the degree of M.B.B.S.
King George's Medical College (University) was founded on the initiative of His Highness Raja Sir Tassaduq Rasul Khan, , of Jahangirabad Raj, United Provinces to commemorate the 1905 visit to India of King George V. The foundation stone was laid by King George V in 1906; the first session started in October 1911, and the hospital's construction was completed in 1913 at a total cost of â¹30 lakhs. The first batch of students qualified as doctors in 1916. The college was initially affiliated with the University of Allahabad until 1921.
The King George's Medical College, along with Canning College and Isabella Thoburn College, became the constituent institutions of the University of Lucknow in 1921. In 1983, the Government of Uttar Pradesh took over the college under The King George's Medical College and the Gandhi Memorial and Associated Hospitals (Taking Over) Act, 1983 (U.P. Act No. 10 of 1983). The takeover was repealed in 1998, and the college was re-transferred to the University of Lucknow on 28 March 1998 through U.P. Act No. 15 of 1998. It was subsequently separated from the University of Lucknow and elevated to the status of a state university in 2002.
In 2002 the Government of Uttar Pradesh, led by Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), granted university status the college and renamed it Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU), under the Uttar Pradesh Chhatrapati Shahuji Medical University Act, 2002. In August 2003 Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party (SP) replaced Mayawati and became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Two months later, in October 2003, the name of the university was changed to King George's Medical University (KGMU) by the Uttar Pradesh Chhartrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (Second Amendment) Act, 2003.
Name-changing continued. In 2007, after the BSP won the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election and Mayawati returned to office, the name of the institution reverted to CSMMU. When control returned to the SP in the 2012 election, Akhilesh Yadav's government returned the name of the university the current "King George Medical University".
Similar changes occurred for the dental faculty. The faculty was established in 1949 as a section of the ENT department; raised to a separate department in 1950, it moved to a new building in 1952. When the university was established in 2002, the dental department became the Dental College, a constituent college of the university. Two years later, under the Uttar Pradesh King George's University of Dental Science Act, 2004, the Dental College was raised to the status of a state university named the "U.P. King George's University of Dental Science". In 2007, the government reverted this decision and the U.P. King George's University of Dental Science again became simply a Faculty of Dental Sciences, as it was at the establishment of the university.
After attaining university status, it also functioned as an affiliating university for several medical colleges, including Autonomous Medical College, Bahraich, until the academic year 2021âÂÂ2022, after which the affiliated colleges were transferred to the newly established Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University.
Faculty of Medicine
M.B.B.S -- 250 seats
Faculty of Dental Science
B.D.S -- 100 seats
Faculty of Nursing
B.Sc. NursingâÂÂ120 seats
Faculty of Paramedical Science
Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT) -- 10 seats
Bachelor in Medical Laboratory Science (BMLS)-- 20 seats
Bachelor of Optometry (B. Optom) -- 10 seats
Bachelor of Radiotherapy TechnologyâÂÂ10 seats
Faculty of Medicine-
Faculty of Nursing
M.Sc. Nursing- 25 seats
Faculty of Dental Science
MDS -
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has ranked the university 50 among universities in India in 2022, 11th among medical colleges, 5th among dental colleges, and 75th overall. It was ranked fourth among government medical colleges in India in 2022 by Outlook India.
In 2025, NIRF ranked it 8th among medical colleges.
The University has a long list of its prestigious alumni who have earned name and fame throughout the country as well as in abroad. As of now, the University has given 1 Padma Vibhushan, 6 Padma Bhushan, 29 Padma Shri and 45 BC Roy awardees to the nation.