Low Fees, Many Seats: Many Tamil Nadu Students Fly to Medical Schools in China
By sophia on 2016-05-25

    Making a choice: Students prefer the former Soviet Union nations and China over UK, US

    In a couple of months, John Paul Varghese will realise his childhood dream of treating and healing the ill. It may have remained a dream for the 24-year-old if he had not left the country to pursue his ambition of becoming a doctor.

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    "Low marks in entrance examinations closed the doors on medical colleges in India. So I enrolled in a medical college in China in 2009," said Varghese, who grew up in Kochi and is now a final-year MBBS student at Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China.

    "When I finish my degree, I would have spent Rs 20 lakh on tuition fee over six years. The donation itself is twice as much in India," he told TOI from China. A limited number of medical seats in India, high cut-offs, competition, and the huge fees and donations charged by private medical colleges are sending students from southern India to Armenia, Georgia, China, and the Philippines, where fees are relatively low and the admission process more simple.

    Overseas educational consultants say 3,000 to 5,000 Indian students join medical universities in China every year. Of this, some 300 are from Tamil Nadu, with from Chennai. 

    Consultants in Chennai have started promoting medical courses in the Philippines too. "Students prefer the former Soviet Union nations, China and the Philippines over the UK, US, and Canada, which are expensive. Completing medical school in the US will cost between Rs 1.5 crore and Rs 3 crore. In China, a student can get a degree from a top college for Rs 36 lakh, inclusive of tuition fee, food and stay, in six years," said Paul Chellakumar, group chairman of the Chennai-based Campus Abroad.

    As a common entrance exam has been made mandatory for medical courses in India from this year (NEET), the demand for medical education abroad is likely to grow, he said. Universities abroad teach medical courses in English for international students. 

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