With the aim of ensuring transparency and standardization in private medical education, the Maharashtra Fee Regulating Authority (FRA) has issued a revised MBBS fee structure for private medical colleges throughout the State for the academic session 2025-26. These revised fees affect 11 of the 24 private medical colleges in the State of Maharashtra. These revisions stem from regular assessments by the FRA based on an assessment of each institution's infrastructure, academic output, hospital facilities, and financial documentation.
What is FRA?
FRA stands for Fee Regulating Authority. It is a government organization responsible for monitoring and approving the fee structure from private professional colleges including medical colleges. FRA is responsible for ensuring that the college fees are fair, reasonable and correlate with the actual expenses incurred by the college. FRA's main objective is keeping students and their parents from getting overcharged and to also ensure that fee systems are transparent.
Maharashtra Private Medical Colleges MBBS Fee Structure (2025–26)
This is revised fees for MBBS courses in 11 private medical colleges in Maharashtra for the academic year 2025-26. The fee structure has been revised and approved by the Fee Regulating Authority (FRA), Maharashtra.
| S. No. | Medical College Name | Revised MBBS Fee (2025–26) |
| 1 | SMBT Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Nashik | ₹13,00,000 |
| 2 | Vedanta Institute of Medical Sciences, Dahanu, Palghar | ₹15,57,000 |
| 3 | BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical College, Chiplun (Ratnagiri) | ₹11,65,000 |
| 4 | Prakash Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Islampur, Sangli | ₹8,51,000 |
| 5 | Ashwini Rural Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Solapur | ₹10,33,000 |
| 6 | NY Tasgaonkar Institute of Medical Science, Karjat (Raigad) | ₹6,22,000 |
| 7 | Rajendra Gode Medical College, Amravati | ₹7,11,000 |
| 8 | SSPM Medical College, Sindhudurg | ₹7,64,000 |
| 9 | Bharatratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College and Hospital, Pune | ₹7,50,000 |
| 10 | Parbhani Medical College, Parbhani | ₹7,54,000 |
| 11 | Padmashri Dr. Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil Medical College, Ahmednagar | ₹13,00,000 |
MBBS Fee Hike at 7 Private Medical Colleges
The FRA allowed tuition fee increases at seven private medical colleges. Despite mostly being modest increases of ₹14,000 or so, but some have increases totaling over ₹1 lakh. The stated justification for fee increases goes something like better facilities, number of teaching hospitals, improved lab facilities, greater clinical exposure for students, better recruiting of faculty, etc. Here are some of the largest changes that will occur:
• SMBT Institute of Medical Sciences, Nashik: Increased fee from ₹12.42 lakh to ₹13 lakh.
• Ashwini Rural Medical College, Solapur: Increased fee from ₹9.86 lakh to ₹10.33 lakh.
• Padmashri Dr. Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil Medical College, Ahmednagar: Increased fee from ₹12.10 lakh to ₹13 lakh.
• BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical College, Chiplun: Increased fee from ₹10.59 lakh to ₹11.65 lakh.
• SSPM Medical College, Sindhudurg: Increased fee from ₹7.50 lakh to ₹7.64 lakh.
• Prakash Institute of Medical Sciences, Sangli: Increased minimally fee from ₹7.63 lakh to ₹8.51 lakh.
• Bharatratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College, Pune: Increased fee from ₹7 lakh to ₹7.5 lakh.
These increases are said to correlate with improvements in the college infrastructure, hospital facilities, quality of clinical exposure, and teaching.
MBBS Fee Slashed at 2 Private Medical Colleges
In a positive development for students, the FRA has cut the MBBS fees at two private colleges, one of which was the most expensive medical college in the state.
• Vedanta Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS), Palghar: Fees reduced from ₹17.03 lakh to ₹15.57 lakh — a decrease of 8.57%
• NY Tasgaonkar Institute of Medical Sciences, Karjat (Raigad): Fees reduced from ₹7.9 lakh to ₹6.22 lakh — a decrease of 21%.
NY Tasgaonkar's fee cut is one of the highest percentages in Maharashtra, and will provide more affordable options for middle-income families.
No Change in MBBS Fee at 2 Colleges
Two colleges will not be changing their fee structure for the 2025–26 academic session. Both have kept the infrastructure and methods of affordability the same, so will continue to charge the same fees.
• Rajendra Gode Medical College, Amravati: ₹7.11 lakh
• Parbhani Medical College, Parbhani: ₹7.54 lakh
These colleges give students the chance to have lower cost options without taking away from the basics of medical education.
Impact on students and parents
The Maharashtra FRA decision by the Maharashtra FRA is critical, particularly for students involved in NEET UG 2025 counselling. This kind of decision gives students more visibility for financial planning before they make a selection in colleges during the admission process.
• Students looking at a reasonable rate can look at the colleges NY Tasgaonkar Karjat and Rajendra Gode Medical College
• Students looking at candidates that provide additional positives like infrastructure and clinical exposure to justify the inflated prices, could look a higher tier colleges like VIMS Palghar.
At the end of the day, Universities are private and can expand and grow. However, Universities should not be bringing on illegal fees if there is no justification to the increase.
For medical aspirants, the Maharashtra FRA decision regarding the MBBS fee structure for 2025 provides them with opportunities and challenges. Some colleges have reduced fees, some under pressure have increased fees while some have maintained the same but all of them provide a massive scale of choice for students based on academic objectives and/or budget.
The NEET UG 2025 counselling is likely to take place soon, candidates should refer to this MBBS fee structure as they decide their college preferences in order to provide meaningful consideration to their decisions and to build their strategies.
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