Rangaraya Medical College

Rangaraya Medical College in Kakinada has trained doctors for coastal Andhra Pradesh since 1958, beginning under private philanthropic management before being taken over by the state government — so it now offers the government-college package: NEET-based admission, low fees, and degrees through the state's university of health sciences. NAAC has graded it A. Its teaching hospital is the main government referral centre for the Kakinada region, giving students the heavy, varied patient load — general medicine, surgery, obstetrics, tropical and occupational illness from the port and agricultural belt — that private colleges struggle to match. MBBS is the core, with established postgraduate departments in medicine and surgery and a nursing school alongside. Kakinada is a mid-sized, inexpensive port city. It suits students who prioritise clinical volume and public-sector economics over metropolitan campus life.