MD Dermatology Colleges in Karnataka via NEET PG 2026: Fees, 2025 Cutoffs & Seat Guide

Karnataka is one of the strongest states for MD Dermatology, with government, private, and deemed universities admitting through NEET PG 2026. As of this writing, NEET PG 2026 has been conducted (August 30, 2026) and the internship completion cut-off is set at September 30, 2026, but the official 2026 seat matrix and closing ranks from KEA and MCC are not yet published. This guide uses verified 2026 exam facts where they exist, and clearly labelled 2025 reference-cycle data everywhere else, so you can plan your MD Dermatology admission in Karnataka without mistaking last year’s numbers for this year’s.

Karnataka’s MD Dermatology Colleges: Government, Private & Deemed

Karnataka’s dermatology seats sit under two separate counselling systems that never share a common pool:

• KEA (Karnataka Examinations Authority) runs Karnataka’s state counselling — 50% state quota seats in government colleges, plus 100% of seats in Karnataka’s private (non-deemed) medical colleges.
• MCC (Medical Counselling Committee) runs 50% All India Quota (AIQ) seats in government colleges nationwide, plus 100% of seats in every deemed university.

The colleges listed below are the major, commonly cited MD Dermatology providers in Karnataka. However, this list is illustrative rather than exhaustive. In addition, several smaller private colleges, including JJM Medical College Davangere, Adichunchanagiri Institute Mandya, MVJ Medical College, Basaveshwara Medical College Chitradurga, KVG Medical College Sullia, S. Nijalingappa Medical College Bagalkot, Khaja Bande Navaz Institute Gulbarga, SDM College Dharwad, and Kanachur Institute Mangaluru, have offered MD Dermatology seats in recent cycles. Therefore, the NMC-approved intake for 2026 will determine the final list of participating colleges.

College-Wise List

Bengaluru and Mangaluru have the highest concentration of dermatology colleges in Karnataka. Verify the current MD Dermatology intake and counselling authority on KEA and MCC before finalising your choices.

MD Dermatology Fees in Karnataka: Category-Wise, Not a Single Number

This is the section where most aggregator articles oversimplify. Karnataka’s private and government-quota-in-private-college fees are not one flat number — KEA fee schedules run on distinct categories, commonly referred to as G (Government quota), P (Private quota), and Q/Management/NRI quota, and each category can differ by lakhs even within the same college.

Government medical colleges (2025 reference-cycle fee)

This ₹1,24,150 figure comes from Karnataka’s state-regulated PG fee schedule for government clinical seats — it is a state/KEA-fixed fee, not an NMC-mandated fee. Confirm the applicable 2026-27 figure once KEA publishes its updated fee notification.

Private colleges under KEA (category-wise, 2025 reference cycle)

Private college fees split sharply by category:

• Government-quota (G) seats within private colleges have historically been priced close to ₹7.8 lakh per year.
• Private-quota (P) seats at the same colleges run considerably higher — commonly cited around ₹13–14 lakh per year.
• Management/NRI-linked (Q) seats can run into several tens of lakhs per year depending on the institution.

Don’t rely on a single “private college fee” figure for MD Dermatology fees in Karnataka private colleges — always check which quota category (G/P/Q) a seat falls under before comparing costs across colleges.

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Deemed universities (fees vary; verify institution-specific notification)

Deemed university tuition is set by each university independently and is cleared through MCC, not KEA, so it can change year to year without a state-wide pattern. Where two figures could each be correct depending on the exact seat category or year, the table flags that rather than picking one number arbitrarily. Management or NRI-linked seats at several of these universities can push the total 3-year course cost well beyond ₹1 crore — always ask for the annual figure and the full-course figure separately, since aggregator sites frequently mix the two.

MD Dermatology Seats in Karnataka

Aggregator sites currently disagree on Karnataka’s total MD Dermatology seat count, with figures ranging from roughly 100 to 220+. However, you cannot apply a simple “50% state + 50% AIQ” split to each college to calculate the statewide total, because quota division reallocates a college’s existing intake rather than doubling it.

Therefore, until KEA and MCC publish their confirmed 2026 seat matrices, treat any single statewide seat number, including figures published elsewhere, as indicative rather than final. Instead, check the college-wise seat matrix that KEA and MCC publish for each counselling round. This approach gives you the actual intake relevant to your choices and helps you assess your chances more accurately.

NEET PG Dermatology Cutoff Karnataka: 2025 Reference-Cycle Closing Ranks

Important: NEET PG 2026 counselling has not started, so no 2026 closing ranks exist yet. Everything below is 2025 closing-rank data from the last completed KEA/MCC cycle, useful only as a directional reference for building your 2026 choice list — not as a prediction. Wondering how your raw NEET PG 2026 score is likely to translate into a rank before you compare it against these ranges? Our guide on NEET PG marks vs rank walks through the normalization logic NBEMS uses.

Government colleges (2025 AIQ/state-quota reference)

Government MD Dermatology seats closed at very different ranks depending on the college, category, and round in 2025 — for example, Bangalore Medical College’s AIQ Round 1 general-category seat closed around Rank 4,512, Mandya around Rank 2,738, and Hassan around Rank 6,046, while some other government colleges and later rounds closed well beyond Rank 20,000. The honest summary: several government seats closed within the top 10,000 in 2025, but some categories and rounds extended considerably further, so the rank you need depends heavily on the specific college, category, quota, and round — not on one statewide number.

Private colleges (2025 KEA reference — category matters enormously)

Private-college closing ranks swing dramatically by category. In 2025 data, for instance, one college’s General Merit dermatology seat closed in the low hundreds while its NRI-category seat for the same course closed near Rank 48,000 in the same cycle — a gap of nearly 50,000 ranks at a single institution. 

Deemed universities (2025 MCC reference)

KMC Manipal led the deemed segment in 2025, closing its general-category Round 1 seat near Rank 5,000–6,000, with KMC Mangalore and K.S. Hegde Medical Academy close behind. Mid-tier deemed colleges — JSS Mysuru, JNMC Belagavi, Sri Siddhartha Tumakuru — closed roughly between Rank 13,000 and Rank 22,000 in 2025. Management and NRI-category seats at colleges like Rajarajeswari and Sri Devaraj Urs Kolar extended well beyond Rank 80,000, and in some stray-round allotments past Rank 1,00,000, reflecting their considerably higher fee brackets

Popular MD Dermatology Colleges in Karnataka (Indicative Shortlist)

This is an editorial shortlist based on commonly cited factors — clinical/patient volume, faculty strength, and research output — not an official NMC or KEA ranking.

Government tertiary-care institutions such as BMCRI and Mysore Medical College generally provide strong clinical-exposure opportunities because of their hospital patient loads, although each hospital would need to report exact patient-volume figures for a direct comparison. KMC Manipal and St. John’s also have established academic reputations, while several deemed universities in Mangaluru provide well-equipped private-sector clinical training.

Government MD Dermatology colleges in Karnataka

Bangalore Medical College, Mysore Medical College, Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences, Hassan Institute, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences Hubballi, Shimoga Institute, Vijayanagar Institute Ballari, Raichur Institute, Belagavi Institute, and Gadag Institute are among Karnataka’s government colleges offering MD Dermatology, each priced at the state-regulated government fee.

Deemed MD Dermatology colleges in Karnataka

Deemed universities commonly offer MD Dermatology through institutions such as KMC Manipal, KMC Mangalore, K.S. Hegde Medical Academy, JSS Medical College Mysuru, Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College Kolar, Sri Siddhartha Medical College Tumakuru, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Belagavi, Yenepoya Medical College, and BM Patil Medical College Vijayapura. However, since approvals get reconfirmed every year, you should always confirm each university’s current MD Dermatology intake against NMC’s course-approval records and that year’s MCC deemed-seat matrix.

MD Dermatology Eligibility Karnataka

• A recognized MBBS degree from an NMC-approved medical college.
• Valid, permanent registration with the NMC or a State Medical Council at the time of counselling.
• Completion of the 12-month compulsory rotating internship before the NBEMS-notified deadline — for NEET PG 2026, that deadline is September 30, 2026.
• A qualifying NEET PG 2026 score; there is no separate entrance test for dermatology.
• For Karnataka’s Government-quota (G) seats, candidates must meet Karnataka’s domicile/reservation eligibility clause as defined in that year’s KEA information bulletin.
• For Private-quota (P) seats, Karnataka runs an “Open State” policy — candidates from any state can apply, but non-Karnataka candidates are not entitled to Karnataka’s reservation benefits.
• For deemed university (MCC) seats, there is no domicile restriction, since these are All-India seats — though this applies specifically to deemed-university seats, not to every seat MCC processes (MCC also manages AIQ seats within state government colleges, which carry their own quota rules).
• Reserved-category candidates need valid caste, EWS, or PwBD certificates in the prescribed format to claim category relaxation.

Meeting these criteria only qualifies you for counselling — your actual seat still depends on where your NEET PG 2026 rank lands against that year’s confirmed cutoff.

MD Dermatology Admission Karnataka: How the Process Works

1. Registration on the KEA portal (cetonline.karnataka.gov.in) for state-quota/private seats, or the MCC portal (mcc.nic.in) for AIQ and deemed-university seats — register separately on both if you’re eligible for both.
2. Document upload and verification — NEET PG scorecard, MBBS degree, internship completion certificate, and category certificates where applicable. KEA typically requires in-person document verification at designated Karnataka centres.
3. Choice filling and locking, ranking every dermatology college and seat category you’re willing to join.
4. Seat allotment, generated on rank, category, and locked choices.
5. Reporting and fee payment at the allotted college within the notified window to confirm the seat.
6. Subsequent rounds — the exact number and naming of later rounds (Round 2, and any mop-up or stray-vacancy rounds) will be set by KEA and MCC in their 2026 schedules; don’t assume the 2025 round structure repeats exactly.

For a state-by-state breakdown of which authority handles which quota, see our guide to NEET PG counselling authorities.

NEET PG 2026 timeline — confirmed facts

NEET PG 2026 was conducted on August 30, 2026, and NBEMS has set the internship completion cut-off at September 30, 2026. The detailed KEA and MCC dermatology-specific seat matrices and round-wise counselling schedules for 2026 will be published only after the NEET PG 2026 result and merit list are released — check the official KEA and MCC portals directly rather than relying on a previous year’s dates.

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FAQs

Q1. How many MD Dermatology colleges are there in Karnataka?
The exact number for 2026 isn’t confirmed yet — current secondary sources disagree, ranging from roughly 37 to 47 colleges.

Q2. What is the fee range for MD Dermatology fees in Karnataka private colleges?
It depends entirely on the quota category. Government-quota (G) seats within private colleges have historically been priced near ₹7.8 lakh a year, while private-quota (P) seats at the same colleges can run ₹13–14 lakh or more. 

Q3. Which are the best MD Dermatology and Venereology colleges in Karnataka?
Bangalore Medical College, KMC Manipal, St. John’s Medical College, Mysore Medical College, and K.S. Hegde Medical Academy are commonly cited among the stronger choices, based on clinical exposure and reputation.

Q4. What NEET PG rank is needed for a government MD Dermatology college in Karnataka?
In the 2025 reference cycle, several government seats closed within the top 10,000 ranks, but some colleges, categories, and rounds extended well beyond that.

Q5. Do I need a separate entrance exam for MD Dermatology admission in Karnataka?
No, A qualifying NEET PG 2026 score is the only entrance requirement; KEA and MCC counselling then allot seats purely on rank, category, and locked choices.

Conclusion

Overall, Karnataka offers a genuinely wide spread of MD Dermatology options across government, private, and deemed categories. However, the exact 2026 college count, seat matrix, and cutoffs are still pending official release from KEA and MCC. Therefore, use this guide’s verified facts and clearly labelled 2025 reference data to shape your early planning. Once NEET PG 2026 counselling begins, confirm every number against the official portals. In addition, make sure your college choices match your rank, budget, and category before locking them. Finally, if you need help building a realistic college list, talk to a Career Plan B counsellor today.