Ayurved Mahavidyalaya and Seth R V Ayurved Hospital, Mumbai

Ayurved Mahavidyalaya and Seth R. V. Ayurved Hospital, Mumbai, or Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Sion Mumbai, is one of the premier institutions for Ayurveda Education and Health Care. The affiliated college was established in 1954 and located near Sion Railway Station in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

This institute has been given approval by the Central Council for Indian Medicine, New Delhi, and offers up various courses on Ayurved. All the activities at college are spread over a 5. 899-acre campus and include a total student intake of 445, with a faculty strength of 47. The institution offers specialised education in various branches of Ayurveda in 15 courses at three degree levels.

A multi-speciality hospital, fully functioning to address the health needs of every stratum of society, is also available at the college for cross-pathy treatments. That also reflects in the excellent infrastructure of the college. It has separate hostel accommodations for boys and girls. Boys' and girls' hostels form part of the property, indicating a very decent living inside the premises of the institution.

Academic resources include well-equipped departmental laboratories, a very comprehensive library, and modern IT infrastructure. Extracurricular activities are supplemented with a phase-wise sports facility and an auditorium for conducting activities and seminars. There is a canteen on campus that meets the dietary requirements of both the students and the staff. Ayurved Mahavidyalaya and Seth R. V.

Ayurved Hospital has a total of 15 courses for full-time undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral courses in Ayurveda. The flagship programme of the institute is the Bachelor's in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery with an annual intake of 60 students. The institute offers various MD programmes regarding specialised fields in Ayurveda, besides offering a Ph. D. programme for advanced research.

The total course-wise intake approved is 445 students, which speaks volumes about the institute's commitment to quality education even at the expense of optimum manageability in terms of the class strength. Admission at Ayurved Mahavidyalaya and Seth R. V. Ayurved Hospital is strictly based upon the Merit arrived after the Panchmaitrication of the same.

For the under graduate programmes like BAMS , the entry is generally based upon marks secured in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). Postgraduate admissions to MD and MS courses are based upon merit obtained in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test PG (NE.

For MD courses in Samhita, Siddhant, Rasashastra, and Bhaishajya Kalpana, and Kayachikitsa, the selection is done exclusively on the basis of merit indexed together from a written test worth 100 marks.