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Medical Schools in Nigeria

78 verified medical schools awarding a primary medical qualification in 65 cities.

Initial reconciliation completed. Every candidate from the official discovery sources has been verified, excluded, flagged as a duplicate or listed as unresolved. Not a guarantee of completeness.

Last reviewed October 13, 2026.

Medical education in Nigeria

Medical qualification structure

  • The Nigerian medical degree is the Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery; institutions approved for four-year post-baccalaureate programmes may award a Doctor of Medicine. Source: mdcn.gov.ng · verified October 13, 2026

Admissions context

  • MDCN sets an annual admission quota for each accredited medical school; the 2026 quotas total 10,370. Source: mdcn.gov.ng · verified October 13, 2026

Registration and licensing context

  • The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria approves the institutions and courses that train doctors. Source: mdcn.gov.ng · verified October 13, 2026

Verified medical schools

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How this country was researched

Research status
Initial reconciliation completed
Candidates in discovery sources
78
Verified operating or listed schools
78
Unresolved candidates
3
Excluded after checking
3

Discovery sources

Limitations: Records rest on the MDCN accredited list (September 2026); university websites were not checked, so official medical-school names, degree abbreviations (MBBS/MBChB) and languages are not recorded. City/state come from the MDCN table, whose text extraction misaligns columns; mappings were reconstructed by row order and a few (e.g. Margaret Lawrence University listed under Abuja, Mercy Medical University's ownership cell) could not be confirmed. Ownership is set only where the ownership word sits in the same cell run as the city; other rows leave it null. Universities that run medicine without MDCN accreditation are not included.

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