Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry FAQs 2026 Admissions 2026, Courses, Fees & Cutoffs

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NEET 2024 General category closing rank: approximately 11,260 for Puducherry main campus. In earlier years (2022–2023), General category closing ranks hovered around 300–400 NEET score-range. JIPMER is extremely competitive with only 249 total seats nationally.

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JIPMER uses INI-CET (not NEET PG) for most MD/MS and DM/MCh admissions — making it part of the prestigious INI group (AIIMS, PGIMER, NIMHANS). INI-CET 2025 cutoff range: 35–318 percentile across specialties. This makes JIPMER PG distinct and highly selective.

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JIPMER has partnerships with Harvard School of Public Health (faculty and research exchange, under MoU between the American Medical School and India's Ministry of Health) and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), South Korea, for telemedicine collaboration. JIPMER International School of Public Health is under development.

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Yes. JIPMER Karaikal was established in 2016 with 62 MBBS seats on a 41-acre campus at Kovilpattu, Karaikal. The campus has its own hospital, hostels (204 rooms in 8 blocks), and access to JIPMER Puducherry's central digital library content.

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General Medicine, General Surgery, Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nephrology, Urology, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Oncology (Regional Cancer Centre – since 2002), Radiotherapy (Medical Oncology), Ophthalmology, ENT, Dermatology, Psychiatry, Pulmonary Medicine, Anaesthesiology, Radiology, Community Medicine, Forensic Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Emergency & Trauma (24/7), NICU, PICU, Blood Bank, Dental (MDS programmes), Burns Unit, Plastic Surgery, CTVS, Telemedicine Centre

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2000 Beds