Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka

Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College is a public medical college in Dhaka. Ulkaa lists 2006 as its founding year. It teaches the MBBS degree and is affiliated with University of Dhaka.

Ulkaa's medical college table will publish once enough public data is available, so this college does not have an Ulkaa rank yet. Until then this page sticks to published facts, each with its year, and says plainly where a figure has not been checked against an official source. The official website is https://www.shsmc.gov.bd/.

The hospital came first. It opened in 1963 as Ayub Central Hospital, in a building designed by the architect Louis I. Kahn. The government turned it into a medical college in 2005 and classes began on 6 May 2006. It was first called Begum Khaleda Zia Medical College and took its present name in 2009, after Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.

Entry to the MBBS course at a public medical college goes through the national MBBS and BDS admission test, held once a year under the Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME) of the Ministry of Health. For the 2025-26 session the test was held on 12 December 2025. Prothom Alo reported 122,632 applicants and a pass mark of 40 out of 100, with 66.57 percent passing. Government colleges offered 5,645 seats that year, 5,100 for MBBS and 545 for BDS.

The test score alone does not decide a place. As Prothom Alo described it, the merit ranking adds the SSC GPA multiplied by 8, the HSC GPA multiplied by 12 and the test marks, with deductions for some repeat candidates. Candidates then list their preferred colleges and seats are filled by merit and preference. Results are posted on dgme.gov.bd, dghs.gov.bd and result.dghs.gov.bd.

Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College fills its seats through this central system. Which seats go to which colleges is decided each year from the merit list and the preferences that candidates submit. Rules change between sessions, so check the current circular before you apply.

The main programme is the MBBS. Ulkaa lists 225 MBBS seats for 2025, taken from the medical college list on Wikipedia and not yet checked against the Directorate General of Medical Education (DGME) or the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council (BMDC). Seat numbers are fixed each year, so treat this as a guide and confirm it in the current admission circular.

The college is affiliated with University of Dhaka. Ulkaa records 1,350 hospital beds (2025).

The attached hospital is Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka. Ulkaa records 1,350 beds for 2025. Wikipedia lists about 900 enrolled students and both MBBS and BDS programmes.

For a medical student the attached hospital is where clinical training happens, so the hospital's size and wards matter as much as the lecture halls.