Bangladesh has been witnessing violent clashes between students and the police in the last week. Students have been protesting ever since the High Court reinstated a quota system for government jobs, overturning a 2018 decision by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government to scrap it. In the midst of reports of police brutality and deaths of students emerging from the country, many medical students from West Bengal, who went to study in Dhaka and other areas are returning to their homeland. Recently, a student returned from Bangladesh to his hometown of Hariharpara in Murshidabad. This raises the question as to why medical students go to Bangladesh to pursue their degrees when there are good medical universities in India.
Studying at private medical colleges in India costs between Rs 50 to 60 lakh, with some institutions charging slightly more. In contrast, studying medicine in private medical colleges in Bangladesh typically costs about half of what it does in India. This cost is still approximately 150 times higher than the cost of studying at a government medical college in Bangladesh.
According to calculations from the Department of Medical College Health Education in Bangladesh, there are 4,350 seats available across 37 government medical colleges and 72 private medical colleges, which collectively offer 6,489 seats. There is the North Bengal Medical College in Bangladesh. Despite many medical students graduating, they cannot practise medicine in the country unless they have an MBBS degree from a foreign institution. To do so, they must pass an exam known as the Exit Test, and most students with foreign degrees face difficulties in passing this exam.
The pass rate for the Exit Test does not exceed 25% in any year. After completing a medical degree from Bangladesh, you cannot directly practise medicine in India. Before doing so, you must pass an exam administered by the Medical Council of India. Only after clearing this exam will you be permitted to practise medicine in India.
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