Higher Education - Rangpur, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh
To meet the growing needs of modern medicine the government established a medical college in Dhap, Rangpur (on the property of Pandit family of Rangpur) in 1970 with a 500-bed teaching hospital. The first batch of 50 students were admitted to Rangpur Medical College, affiliated with Rajshahi University, in 1971. Currently, the yearly intake has been increased to more than two hundreds. 43rd batch is doing intern duty. And most recent batch of 2020 is 49th.