Best FMGE Pass Rate Universities — Ranked From NBEMS's Own Numbers

How this ranking works — and why most “best FMGE” lists mislead

A pass rate is a fraction, and its stability depends entirely on the bottom number. One extra pass moves a 60-candidate cohort by about 1.7 percentage points; it moves a 600-candidate cohort by less than 0.2. So instead of one ranking that lets tiny cohorts float to the top, this page keeps three separate views:

The 2024 ranking — cohorts of 100 or more

Every cell reads passed of appeared from the NBEMS 2024 report. Lifetime combines every report we hold for that university, so it shows whether 2024 was typical or a spike.

The 2024 national average across all countries was 25.80% — 20,382 of 79,000 candidates. A row above that line is genuinely above average; the top of this table is roughly double it. The table-topper's full record, every year since 2019 with denominators, is in the Orenburg FMGE deep-dive.

Cohorts of 30–99 — including the famous 80%

Georgian American University's 80.33% is the number most often quoted as “the best FMGE pass rate”, and it is real — 49 of 61 candidates passed in 2024. It sits here rather than in the headline table because 61 candidates is a third of the cohort size the top table requires, and rates this size move more between years. Strong signal, wider error bars.

Cohorts under 30 are not ranked anywhere on this page. The best tracked example of why: RUDN passed 10 of 22 in 2024 — 45.45%, which would place fourth in the headline table, computed on a group smaller than a tutorial batch.

The lifetime top 10 — the most stable measure there is

A single year can spike. Lifetime figures combine every NBEMS report we hold — for most universities that is 2015 through 2025 — restricted here to universities with at least 500 lifetime candidates, so every rate below rests on a genuinely large denominator.

Georgia holds 4 of these 10 positions. Remember what a lifetime rate describes: cohorts who enrolled six or more years before each report year — it is a record, not a promise.

A high pass rate is not a recognition status

Before you pay anyone anything, check three things per university, all free: its listing in the World Directory of Medical Schools, its NBEMS record on this page, and whether any NMC alert names it. Then verify the degree itself is NMC-compliant under FMGL-2021 — 54 months of study, a 12-month internship at the same institution, English medium, and a licence to practise in that country. We walk through the whole thing, with every NMC notice that names a foreign university, in the NMC approval explainer.

Scope, sources, and what this ranking cannot tell you

• ›What is covered: We track 45 universities across the destinations Indian students most commonly choose — not all 600-plus institutions in the NBEMS reports. A university missing from this page is not a judgement on it; check the source PDF directly.
• ›How each figure was checked: Every row was verified arithmetically before use — passed cannot exceed appeared, and passed ÷ appeared must reproduce the percentage NBEMS printed. Rows that failed were dropped, not estimated.
• ›What a rate reflects: The whole cohort that sat the exam, including repeaters — not the quality of your preparation. A strong university with weak personal preparation still fails FMGE.
• ›What it lags: A 2024 pass rate describes students who enrolled around 2018. Teaching, intake quality and medium of instruction can all have changed since.

The complete university-wise tables — every year since 2015, every country, the 2025 gender split, and the country-wise totals — are on our FMGE pass rates hub, with a CSV download and a link to every source PDF. The reports themselves are public:

• ›NBEMS Institute-wise FMGE Performance Report — 2025
• ›NBEMS Institute-wise FMGE Performance Report — 2024
• ›NBEMS Institute-wise FMGE Performance Report — 2023