CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITIES TIGHTEN RULES FOR INDIAN LOOKING FOR ADMISSION IN MBBS AND WILL GET THE SAME ONLY ON MERITS AS NOW LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ARRIVING WITH LIMITED SEATS AND NOW REQUIRED MINIMUM 70% MARKS FOR FIVE YEARS PROGRAM AND FURTHER INTERVIEWING AND JUDGING ENGLISH SKILLS AND DAYS ARE GONE WHEN AGENTS USED TO ARRANGE THE ADMISSION JUST FOR STUDENTS PASSING 50% AND WITHOUT ANY INTERVIEW 15TH JULY 2014 In its wake to get qualified students, the Ministry of Education (MOE), China, has unknowingly lessen the number of overall MBBS seats in all the Chinese Medical Universities. This year there has been more demand of the students applying from India to study MBBS in China. Eventually this resulted in too many applicants fighting for limited number of seats. So the Universities received double the number of applications as last year and could select the MBBS students on their merit results. So far this year, MOE has slashed 2,500 bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery (MBBS) seats on grounds of the standard of the medical university and their capability of educating qualified doctors. So many students with low grades in their 12th class have been directly rejected by the University officials. “As it is, we are short of medical seats. With MOE scrapping so many more, all the Chinese Medical Universities have upped their minimum criteria level of percentage from 50% to 70%,” said Becky Zhang, VP, China MBBS Educational Institution (CMEI). At present, the minimum criteria level for all the Indian students wish to study MBBS in China is 70% in PCB (physics, chemistry and biology). Since the shortage of seats, the University Officials have received almost ten times the applications of their allotted seats. This is the reason, each and every University is selecting students on the basis of their merit marks, interview for their English skills and first come first serve candidates. With the minimum criteria for the admission to study MBBS in China has increased to 70% for the five-year MBBS program, all the students below the 70% criteria have no choice but to choose a different field to study. All the people or any agents claim to give you admission with a criteria of 50% or 60%, kindly have a background check about this agency as well as the University, says Ms. Becky Zhang, Vice President, CMEI. She, even, added that the students below the criteria should not try to find any Medical Universities to study in China with below 70%, since that will be their waste of time and money, if they get cheated. The CMEI staff member said that this year, there would be many cases after the admissions which would be troubling the students for fake admissions and admission letter and collecting money without any firm assurance. All the aspiring students and their parents have to be very careful, this year to apply for studying MBBS in China. “It is a well-known fact that Indian students try to wait for the counseling results in India and then apply to study medicine in China. However, by the end of 2nd counseling, all the admissions to study the degree in China are occupied. All the candidates who have less marks and are very much sure that they would not get the admissions in India, start applying in China, since first week of May. These students with less percentage avail these MBBS seats in China, every year. This has completely changed since this year and many students with more than 80% marks applied directly to study MBBS in China, without waiting for the counseling results,” she said. Since all the medical universities in China are owned by the Government, there are no donations or special seats for any type of students with low grades. The Medical University are selecting the students this year, completely on merit. So if any Indian student with high grades is still waiting for the counseling results, there is an absolute possibility that they would not get admission in China as well. Most Indian students prefer China and Russia for MBBS degrees, as these options work out cheaper. The cost of an MBBS course in Russia is around $3,500-4500 a year (Rs 21 lakh to Rs 27 lakh) for the course of five years and eight months. The course costs Rs 20 lakh for six years in China. Given the Indian government’s failure to set up more medical colleges and increase the number of seats, the number of Indian students going abroad has gone up from around 5,000 in 2007 to over 14,000 at present.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:24:46 +0000
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