Private India, Georgia,
or Eastern Europe?

Why FMGE pass rate belongs next to the fee, not after it

Most comparisons of private India MBBS versus Georgia versus Eastern Europe lead with tuition fees, because fees are the easiest number to find. But fees alone are misleading without the FMGE pass rate sitting next to them: a cheaper degree from an institution whose graduates pass FMGE at a low rate can end up costing more in re-attempt fees, lost earning years, and coaching costs than a more expensive one with a track record of graduates clearing licensing on the first attempt. This tool puts both numbers side by side deliberately, because we've seen how often families choose on cost alone and only encounter the licensing risk after enrolling.

What about Egypt?

Egypt comes up often enough in comparison searches that we've now added it as a fourth column in the calculator above, alongside Private India, Georgia, and Eastern Europe. Commonly attended universities among Indian NEET-qualified applicants include Cairo, Alexandria, Ain Shams, Mansoura, Zagazig, Tanta, Al-Azhar, Helwan, Nahda, Suez Canal, and Kafrelsheikh — but since the Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations, 2021, eligibility no longer runs through a static NMC-approved list; it depends on whether the specific institution was listed on the WHO/WFME World Directory of Medical Schools (WDOMS) at the time of both admission and graduation. That has to be checked per-university, per-year, directly at search.wdoms.org — we are not able to confirm live WDOMS status for any specific Egyptian university from here, and neither should any consultancy claiming otherwise without showing you the search result.

On cost: education-consultancy sources commonly cite total 6-year MBBS costs in Egypt around USD 42,000–66,500, depending on university tier — in the same broad range as Eastern Europe, generally higher than Georgia. We want to be direct about the sourcing here: these figures come from consultancy websites, not from a university, embassy, or Indian regulator, and should be confirmed directly with the specific institution before being treated as reliable. That's also why the calculator shows the Egypt cost figure in USD rather than converting it to a precise rupee number — a false-precision conversion would imply a confidence in the underlying data that doesn't exist.

On FMGE outcomes, the honest answer is that reliable data barely exists: the most recent country-wise FMGE figures we could locate show only 1–2 Egypt-trained candidates sitting the exam per year (one pass out of one in one year, zero out of one and zero out of two in the following two years) — a sample far too small to describe as a "pass rate" in any meaningful sense, unlike Georgia or Eastern Europe where hundreds to thousands of candidates sit each cycle. Anyone quoting you a confident Egypt FMGE percentage is very likely extrapolating from a handful of candidates or simply making it up — we'd rather tell you the real number is not statistically meaningful than manufacture a false sense of precision, which is why the calculator shows "too few data points" instead of a rating for that row.

Written & maintained by Medi-Prep — founded and edited by a GP (MBBS, Fellowship in General Practice, Australia) and parent of a medicine applicant. Published 25 May 2026 · Updated 20 Aug 2026 · Sources & disclosure