King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth G.S. Medical College

Seth G.S. Medical College and the attached King Edward Memorial Hospital have anchored public healthcare in Mumbai since 1926. Run by the city's municipal corporation, the Parel institution pairs its MBBS programme with one of the country's busiest public hospitals, so students learn on enormous and varied patient loads from their earliest clinical postings. It holds an NIRF rank of 24 in the medical category and an A grade from NAAC, and government fees make it one of the most affordable routes into medicine in Maharashtra. Parel is central Mumbai — crowded and expensive to live around, but unmatched for clinical material and proximity to the city's medical ecosystem. It suits NEET high-scorers who want hard clinical grounding and public-service exposure over the comforts of a private campus.