Health sciences colleges in Karnataka
Who is actually allowed to teach these courses — from the affiliating university and the statutory regulator, not from a listings site.
In short
2,517 colleges across 13 health-sciences streams, transcribed from the Karnataka State Nursing Council, RGUHS affiliation notifications and the Pharmacy Council of India’s approved list — with 1,26,197 sanctioned seats where the regulator publishes an intake. Most are the colleges the KEA 2026-27 fees apply to — the GNM diploma, post-basic B.Sc and postgraduate M.Sc lists are not priced by that sheet, and say so.
Nursing (B.Sc)
670 colleges · 45,605 sanctioned seats
Nursing diploma (GNM)
674 colleges · 39,670 sanctioned seats
Nursing, post-basic (PB B.Sc)
214 colleges · 9,770 sanctioned seats
Nursing, postgraduate (M.Sc)
251 colleges · 5,458 sanctioned seats
Physiotherapy (BPT)
169 colleges · 8,600 sanctioned seats
Allied Health Sciences (B.Sc AHS)
276 colleges
Ayurveda (BAMS)
95 colleges · 7,049 sanctioned seats
Homoeopathy (BHMS)
17 colleges · 1,285 sanctioned seats
Naturopathy & Yoga (BNYS)
11 colleges · 750 sanctioned seats
Unani (BUMS)
5 colleges · 240 sanctioned seats
Pharmacy (B.Pharm)
93 colleges · 7,080 sanctioned seats
Nursing auxiliary (ANM)
23 colleges · 690 sanctioned seats
Nursing speciality courses
19 colleges
Medical (MBBS)
58 colleges · 8,195 sanctioned seats · 2025-26
What these lists are. An affiliation or approval list names the colleges a university or regulator permits to run a course, with the intake it sanctions. That is not the same as a KEA seat matrix: sanctioned intake is the college’s total permitted admissions, while a seat matrix says how many of those seats go through government counselling. Where a college appears here but not in KEA’s counselling documents, both facts are true.
On the nursing lists. All three come from the Karnataka State Nursing Council, and its numbering has gaps of its own: the B.Sc list runs to 671 but skips 525, and the GNM list runs to 675 but skips 414 — so those hold 670 and 674 institutions, not 671 and 675. The post-basic list leaves the intake cell blank for five of its institutions. Every one of these was checked against the printed page before being recorded, and the parser refuses to publish any other missing serial or unexplained blank. The ANM list is the council’s own from 2018-19 — it has published no newer one — and its page says so plainly.