Foundation University Medical College

Foundation University Medical College (FUMC) is a private medical college in Rawalpindi. The National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) admits its students through centralized merit lists. ⁴⁵ Applicants sit the NUMS entry test before NUMS ranks them. Our record marks the college a constituent member of NUMS.

Our record dates the college to 2001. It gives FUMC 150 MBBS seats and an estimated fee of Rs. 1,700,000 for the session. A separate admissions directory also lists 150 MBBS seats. ² The regulator caps the 2025-26 fee at Rs. 1.89 million. ² Our record gives the MBBS course a five-year duration.

FUMC belongs to the health-sciences arm of Foundation University Islamabad. ¹ The Fauji Foundation founded the university as an affiliated project, and the medical college sits next to its teaching hospital. ¹² Wikipedia calls the Fauji Foundation the largest welfare organization in Pakistan. ¹

Clinical teaching runs at Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi. ¹² Our record gives that hospital 850 beds. Its own site lists 837 beds. ⁶ The hospital site counts 36 medical specialties beside those beds. ⁶

Our record dates FUMC to 2001. The Foundation University charter follows Ordinance No. LXXXVIII of 2002, and the Fauji Foundation runs the university as an affiliated project. ¹ One admissions directory records 2000 as the founding year. ⁷ A second directory records 2002 as the founding year, which matches the charter ordinance. ²

Foundation University Islamabad groups its schools under two streams. The health-sciences stream holds the Foundation University School of Health Sciences. ¹ The second stream covers the non-medical schools of the university. ¹ The two streams therefore split the medical side from the rest. ¹

The health-sciences stream bundles the medical college with dentistry, pharmacy and nursing colleges. ¹ It also holds the university secretariat and Fauji Foundation Hospital as the teaching hospital of FUMC. ¹ The stream therefore groups four professional colleges around one teaching hospital. ¹ The four colleges of that stream share one university charter. ¹

Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi calls itself the first and oldest hospital of the foundation. The hospital counts 62 years of service and 36 medical specialties. ⁶ Our record describes the hospital as an advanced multi-specialty tertiary care complex. The outpatient department keeps a weekday window from 8:00 AM to 2:30 PM. ⁶

NUMS handles the admission route. Its MDCAT 2026 notice for session 2026-27 lists Foundation University Medical College among the colleges it admits. ³ The university runs a centralized admissions hub for MBBS and BDS. ⁴ The hub therefore carries the whole application flow for the college. ⁴

NUMS publishes open-merit lists for its private affiliated medical colleges. The session 2025-26 MBBS list follows that route. ⁵ Every applicant meets the same test and the same aggregate before the list forms. The list order follows the aggregate that every applicant shares. ⁸

Wikipedia records a 2015 HEC ranking in the fifth round. It places Foundation University at 45 in the general category. ¹ The university page therefore carries both the charter and the ranking record. ¹

NUMS admits students to its private colleges on open merit and runs a separate foreign seat route. The centralized admission notice for 2026-27 defines those two categories. ⁹

The NUMS weightage runs 50% for the NUMS entry test, 40% for FSc or HSSC and 10% for SSC. ⁸ The MDCAT mark scale moved from 210 to 200 and then to 180 across these years. Compare sessions with care, because the same percentage does not mean the same raw score in every row. NUMS applies that weightage to every private affiliated college on its list. ⁸

Fauji Foundation Hospital Rawalpindi serves as the teaching hospital of FUMC. ¹ It stands next to the campus, so students walk between lecture halls and wards. ² Our record gives the hospital 850 beds. The hospital site lists 837 beds. ⁶ The site runs an emergency service around the clock. ⁶

The hospital site counts 36 medical specialties. ⁶ It records about 1,562 outpatient visits per day. ⁶ The facility calls itself the first and largest hospital of the Fauji Foundation. ⁶ The site also lists CT, MRI and mammography services for diagnostics. ⁶

The hospital sits on Jhelum Road in Rawalpindi. ⁶ Our record states that clinical training takes place at this hospital across the medical and surgical sub-specialties. The site names cardiology, orthopaedics, nephrology, ENT and paediatric surgery among its departments. ⁶

Students rotate through the specialty departments during their clinical years. The ward load gives exposure to medicine, surgery and allied fields under supervision. Both site figures describe one campus hospital complex. The hospital therefore carries both routine and specialist work for every batch.

The campus lies in Rawalpindi beside its teaching hospital. ² Our campus record lists the hospital, the Foundation University School of Health Sciences, an advanced simulation lab, student hostels and a central digital library. The health-sciences stream names the medical, dental, pharmacy and nursing colleges on that campus. ¹

Separate hostels for male and female students sit on campus. ² The simulation lab supports skills practice before students reach the wards. The digital library carries the reading load outside class hours. The hospital keeps its own OPD complex and emergency building beside the grounds. ⁶

The health-sciences school shares the campus with the medical college. ¹ The teaching hospital stands at the edge of the same grounds, so clinical days start close to the hostels. ² The university secretariat also sits inside that stream on the same university. ¹

The college directory lists the telephone as 051 5788171 and the website as fui.edu.pk. ⁷ The university domain did not load on the day of this research. The hospital answers on 051 5788150-65 for queries beside the campus. ⁶

Our record marks the MBBS programme as PMDC recognised and CPSP accredited. It also lists the programme in the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools and marks it ECFMG eligible.

Wikipedia records accreditations for the Foundation University health-sciences stream from HEC, PMC, PNC, NBEAC, NCEAC and NTC. ¹ Wikipedia also records HEC recognition for the university as a whole. ¹ The college follows the NUMS admission route for its MBBS intake. ³⁴ NUMS runs the test that gates every seat. ³

Our record marks the college recognition status as active. The NUMS final merit list for session 2025-26 carries the college name for MBBS open merit. ⁵ The PMDC fee cap for that session sits at Rs. 1.89 million. ²

FUMC runs a residential route with separate male and female hostels on campus. ² Our campus record lists student hostels among the facilities of the college. The hostels keep out-of-city students inside the same compound as their classes. ²

Daily study draws on the central digital library and the simulation lab in our campus record. The teaching hospital stands next door. ² Practical rehearsal in the lab feeds straight into ward work. The campus therefore keeps study, practice and ward work inside one compound.

Classmates arrive through one NUMS merit list, so a batch mixes students from across the country. ⁵ The shared campus keeps hostels, classes and hospital visits inside one compound. The university stream beside the college adds dentistry, pharmacy and nursing students to campus life. ¹