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No MDCAT for foreign nationals, 60 per cent marks, and seats the regulator counts: how a foreign-quota admission to a Pakistani private college actually works
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences in Taxila is a private college established in 2016, affiliated to the National University of Medical Sciences, with a hundred MBBS and fifty BDS seats a year. Like every private college in Pakistan it admits a small number of students on seats reserved for foreign nationals and overseas Pakistanis, and those seats are the ones agents most often misdescribe.
The rules are public. The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council's Admission Regulations 2025 set out who qualifies for the foreign-seat quota: a person holding foreign nationality or dual nationality, or an overseas Pakistani who completed the equivalent of higher secondary schooling abroad and lived abroad for the whole of that course. The minimum is 60 per cent marks in the equivalent examination with at least three science subjects, biology and chemistry among them. The MDCAT, the national entrance test that every local applicant must sit, does not apply to candidates seeking admission exclusively on the foreign and overseas seats. Colleges publish their own foreign-applicant pages restating these conditions, and the seats themselves are counted and notified by the regulator, not invented by the college.
Read those rules against what agents sell. "No entrance test required" is true only for genuine foreign nationals and overseas Pakistanis; a local student presented as "overseas" through a hastily obtained document is a fraud the regulator's verification will catch, and the seat will be cancelled with the fee gone. "Extra seats through our contact" cannot exist, because the foreign quota is a fixed number per college. And the quota is the same one the PMDC impersonation scam described elsewhere on this site was built on: fake letters offering "foreign-quota seats" in the regulator's own name.
What to do instead. Confirm with the college's admissions office, in writing, how many foreign seats it has for the session and what the fee for them is; confirm your eligibility against the regulation text, not against an agent's reading of it; and remember that every legitimate private college in Pakistan runs its foreign admissions through its own office under the same public rules, so there is nothing an intermediary can add except a commission and a risk.
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