Study MBBS at Tajik National University

No record settles it, so get it in writing before you pay. FMGL-2021 needs 54 months of study plus a separate 12-month internship at the same institution, and the internship does not count toward the 54. The World Directory lists a 5-year MBBS for citizens of India and Pakistan without saying whether the one-year internship sits inside or after it. TNU’s letter to the Embassy of India of 4 September 2024 gives 60 months of course duration and a 12-month internship, without saying where it is served. TNU’s own General Medicine programme runs six years, with internship after the diploma. If the internship is inside the five years, the study block is 48 months and fails. Ask TNU for the months of study, the months of internship and the internship institution on your admission letter.

TNU says so, but only recently. Its 2024 letter to the Embassy of India says "the medium of Instruction of the complete course is in English", its 2025 report says it opened an English-language group in its Faculty of Medicine in 2024-25 with more than 120 foreign students, and more than 80 Indian citizens enrolled that year for the first time. TNU’s own documents from 2023 describe teaching in Tajik and Russian only, and the World Directory’s 2012 start date for the English track conflicts with that. No ministry has confirmed the English medium to the Embassy, as Tajikistan’s Health Ministry did for Avicenna. Ask how much of each year is taught in English.

There is not enough of a record to give one. NBEMS’s institute-wise reports list 5 TNU candidates in all: 0 of 1 passed in 2021, 0 of 2 in 2022 and 1 of 2 in 2023. TNU has no row in the 2019, 2020 or 2024 reports or in either 2025 session. All five sat FMGE before TNU says it opened its English-medium group, so no English-medium TNU graduate has an FMGE result yet. For comparison, Avicenna passed 1,174 of 5,939 candidates across NBEMS’s 2019-2025 reports.

"NMC approved" is not a status that exists. NMC publishes no approved list of foreign universities, and the Embassy of India in Dushanbe repeats that NMC approves or recognises no foreign medical institution; no NMC notice names TNU. What decides your registration in India is whether your degree meets FMGL-2021: 54 months of study, a 12-month internship at the same institution, English medium, and a qualification that licenses you to practise in Tajikistan. For TNU two of those are unsettled. The study and internship split is not stated in any record, and the licence rests on TNU’s own letter, which says graduates can be licensed "on an equal basis with local residents"; we found no Health Ministry document confirming that for TNU. TNU is listed in the World Directory as F0008404.

Neither claim holds as written. TNU’s notice of 13 June 2025 says its programme is accredited by the World Federation for Medical Education, but WFME accredits no medical school (it recognises accrediting agencies), and the licence number the notice cites, 0003697, is TNU’s own state education licence of 1 June 2023. The World Directory record shows no ECFMG note as of 29 October 2026, and TNU’s notice itself says that update is in process. What can be shown: Tajikistan’s state accreditation of the university runs to 30 July 2029, and IAAR, an agency WFME recognises, accredited the General Medicine programme from 28 April 2023 to 27 April 2026, with no renewal in its registry so far.

They differ on the records that matter. Avicenna is a dedicated medical university that has taught medicine since 1939, with 5,939 FMGE candidates across NBEMS’s 2019-2025 reports, an ECFMG note on its World Directory record and a Health Ministry letter confirming its English medium; it publishes no fee. TNU is a national university whose medicine faculty dates from 2012 on the World Directory, with an English-medium group TNU says it opened in 2024-25 and 5 FMGE candidates in all; it publishes its fee. Both need the course-length split in writing. Read the Avicenna page alongside this one, or ask us to go through both with your NEET score.

A valid qualifying NEET score, which NMC requires for every foreign MBBS admission; the Embassy of India adds that your NEET result works as your Eligibility Certificate and that you must start the course within three years of its declaration. TNU itself asks for its nine-item document list, with your school certificate nostrified in Tajikistan first, and an admission interview; full-time study is open to applicants under 35. TNU publishes no current application window, so confirm the dates for 2027-28 with us.

It is not settled in writing yet. The World Directory lists three programmes at TNU’s Faculty of Medicine: a 5-Year MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) and a 5-Year MD (Doctor of Medicine), both for citizens of India and Pakistan and taught in English, and a 6-Year MD taught in Tajik, Russian and English. TNU’s own documents name the General Medicine qualification "Врач" (physician) in its programme and "Духтур" (doctor) in its state accreditation annex. Ask TNU to confirm in writing the title that will be printed on your diploma. For FMGE and NExT the FMGL-2021 criteria are what count: 54 months of study, a 12-month internship at the same institution, English medium, and a qualification that licenses you to practise in Tajikistan.

Dushanbe is Tajikistan’s capital and, in the Embassy of India’s words, the city where most of the country’s universities and medical institutes are located; the Embassy describes the law-and-order situation there as generally satisfactory. It asks students to take care in public places late at night and with strangers, and to bring warm clothing and winter footwear, because Tajikistan’s mountainous terrain makes the winters extremely cold. TNU’s address is 17 Rudaki Avenue, Dushanbe 734025, and its medical diagnostic and training centre is on the university’s Student Campus. The Embassy is at 48 Khusravi Dehlavi Street and asks every Indian student to register with it on arrival; its 24x7 emergency helpline is +992-935710262.