Tirunelveli Medical College (திருநெல்வேலி மருத்துவக்கல்லூரி)
Tirunelveli Medical College (TVMC) is a government run postgraduate research institute in southern India, wholly owned and administered by the Department of Health & Family Welfare, State Government of Tamil Nadu. We are ranked among the top 50 medical institutes in India under the NIRF Ranking 2021 of the Govt of India, recognized by the National Medical Commission of India (medical programs), Nursing Council of India (nursing programs) and affiliated to the Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai. We have a bright history of 56 years of medical education, with 38 Teaching Departments, 29 postgraduate courses, 3250 student footfalls and 364 Faculty. We have a strong committed faculty who have been instrumental in the institute growing from a rural institute to an institute in partnership with national organizations and a glorious alumni in more than 16 countries. The TVMC alumni are a close-knit community of responsible global practitioners of the science, who cherish the high standards of learning and multicultural diversity of the campus. Our campus is known for the quality learning, clinical skilling, professionalism, ethics, good interpersonal and communication skills imparted to our students….”a tradition we pride” Today we have hugely invested in medical and health research and have been mentioned in many remarkable medical news nationally in the recent years. We bank on our students who drive learning and research in the campus. We are proud to be serving a five million agrarian rural community around us for the last 5 decades. We are proud of our a sprawling campus at High-grounds in the eastern end of the city of Tirunelveli, 6kms from the Railway Terminal, 4kms from the Intercity bus station and 26kms from Thoothukudi Airport. The college will celebrate its Diamond Jubilee during 2025
