TL;DR: India's NBEMS does publish college-by-college FMGE results, every year, as a PDF called Country/Institute Wise Performance in FMGE — so nobody needs to rely on an agency's table. The Philippine numbers in those reports have fallen hard: summing the institute rows gives roughly 50% in 2019, 33.7% in 2020, 37.1% in 2021, 27.0% in 2022, 14.4% in 2023 and 20.1% in 2024. For 2025, NBEMS's own country table shows 4,655 Philippines-qualified candidates at 18.99% in June and 4,864 at 18.56% in December. Individual schools ranged from about 9% to about 29% in 2025. These are appearance-based rates including repeat attempters, not graduating-class rates.
The Data Exists, and Almost Nobody Cites It
The usual line in this niche is that per-school FMGE data is not published, which is why agency comparison tables get away with whatever they like. That line is wrong.
The National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences publishes an annual report titled "Country/Institute Wise Performance in FMGE". Its FMGE page carries a section headed "Institute-wise Performance of Candidates appearing in FMGE" with year links, and editions are currently available covering 2012-14, 2015-18, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Each table has four columns: name of country, name of college/institute/university, candidates appeared, total pass, and pass percentage.
The 2025 edition goes further than earlier years. It is broken out by session — June 2025 and December 2025 — with a gender split, plus a separate country-wise table and a grand total.
Everything below comes from those PDFs. Where we have added figures together, we say so.
The archive matters as much as the recent years. The oldest two editions cover blocks rather than single years, labelled 2012-14 and 2015-18, which is why you occasionally see a Philippine school quoted with a pass rate that has no year attached to it. If a figure you are shown does not name the exact report it came from, it is not checkable, and in this niche uncheckable numbers have a habit of being flattering ones. Ask for the year, then open that year's PDF.
Philippines, Year by Year
For 2019 through 2024 the NBEMS reports print institute rows but no Philippine country total, so the figures below are our sums of every Philippine institute row in each report. For 2025, NBEMS prints the country total itself and we quote it directly.
| FMGE year | Philippine institutions listed | Appeared | Passed | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 18 | 1,463 | 734 | 50.2% (summed) |
| 2020 | 21 | 3,142 | 1,059 | 33.7% (summed) |
| 2021 | 25 | 5,443 | 2,019 | 37.1% (summed) |
| 2022 | 25 | 8,763 | 2,369 | 27.0% (summed) |
| 2023 | 24 | 9,215 | 1,326 | 14.4% (summed) |
| 2024 | 26 | 9,967 | 2,003 | 20.1% (summed) |
| 2025, June session | — | 4,655 | 884 | 18.99% (NBEMS country table) |
| 2025, December session | — | 4,864 | 903 | 18.56% (NBEMS country table) |
Two things jump out.
The volume. In 2019 fewer than 1,500 Philippines-qualified candidates sat the FMGE. By 2024 it was close to 10,000. Whatever else is true, a great many more Indian students now hold Philippine medical degrees than did six years ago.
The direction. The rate has roughly halved. The 2019 figure of about 50% is the number that still circulates in marketing material. It described a cohort one-seventh the size of today's.
How the Philippines Compares Overall
The 2025 report also prints grand totals across all countries, which lets us place the Philippines rather than just describe it.
| FMGE 2025 session | All countries appeared | All countries passed | All-country rate | Philippines rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 36,037 | 6,709 | 18.62% | 18.99% |
| December 2025 | 42,868 | 10,264 | 23.94% | 18.56% |
In June the Philippines was marginally above the global FMGE average. In December, when the overall pass rate rose by more than five points, the Philippine cohort did not move with it and finished well below average.
That is a more useful comparison than any "best countries for FMGE" ranking, because both halves come from the same document and the same candidates. It also shows why quoting a single session is misleading in either direction.
School by School, FMGE 2025
Combining both 2025 sessions for the Philippine institutions with meaningful candidate numbers. Pass counts for each session are as printed by NBEMS.
| Institution (as named by NBEMS) | Appeared 2025 | Passed | Combined rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emilio Aguinaldo College School of Medicine | 250 | 72 | 28.8% |
| Dr Francisco Q Duque Medical Foundation College of Medicine | 336 | 81 | 24.1% |
| Southwestern University School of Medicine | 60 | 14 | 23.3% |
| UV Gullas College of Medicine | 1,621 | 374 | 23.1% |
| University of Perpetual Help System DALTA Jonelta Foundation School of Medicine | 2,310 | 441 | 19.1% |
| AMA School of Medicine | 1,179 | 210 | 17.8% |
| Our Lady of Fatima University College of Medicine | 291 | 49 | 16.8% |
| Davao Medical School Foundation College of Medicine | 2,424 | 399 | 16.5% |
| University of Northern Philippines College of Medicine | 248 | 41 | 16.5% |
| Bicol Christian College of Medicine | 609 | 56 | 9.2% |
Schools with one, two or four candidates in a session also appear in the NBEMS tables, sometimes at 0% and sometimes at 100%. We have left them out because a rate computed on four people is noise, not signal. If you see a Philippine school advertised at 100%, check the appeared column in the source report before you react to it.
Note also that NBEMS sometimes lists what looks like the same institution under two names in one year — for example both "University of Perpetual Help System Dalta" and "University of Perpetual Help System Dalta Jonelta Foundation School of Medicine" appear in the 2024 report, with 86 and 2,150 candidates respectively. Read the tables carefully rather than searching for one string.
The Big Four, Traced Over Seven Years
The four schools that account for most Indian enrolment in the Philippines, as NBEMS recorded them:
| Year | Davao Medical School Foundation | UV Gullas College of Medicine | Perpetual Help (Jonelta) | AMA School of Medicine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 54.48% (848 appeared) | 53.57% (28) | 42.72% (206) | 33.33% (3) |
| 2020 | 37.03% (1,488) | 29.36% (109) | 30.71% (394) | 27.73% (119) |
| 2021 | 39.98% (1,846) | 22.57% (288) | 36.81% (747) | 39.70% (665) |
| 2022 | 29.53% (2,540) | 26.51% (1,026) | 24.24% (1,489) | 23.91% (1,125) |
| 2023 | 18.29% (2,947) | 11.76% (1,122) | 11.74% (1,516) | 12.59% (1,287) |
| 2024 | 19.58% (2,993) | 19.78% (1,375) | 21.86% (2,150) | 18.17% (1,222) |
| 2025 | 16.5% (2,424) | 23.1% (1,621) | 19.1% (2,310) | 17.8% (1,179) |
The pattern is consistent across all four: a strong start on small numbers, a collapse as intake scaled, a trough in 2023, and a partial recovery since. No school in this group has been above 30% since 2022.
What These Numbers Do Not Mean
This is the part agency tables never include, and it cuts both ways.
The appeared column is not a graduating class. It counts everyone who sat that session with that primary medical qualification, including candidates who graduated years earlier and are on their third or fifth attempt. A school with a large backlog of repeat attempters will post a lower rate than its first-attempt performance. NBEMS does not publish a first-attempt split in these reports, so nobody — including us — can honestly quote one.
A pass rate is not a causal claim about teaching. Intake selectivity, how many candidates prepare full-time in India before sitting, and how many attempt it early all move the number. Two schools with identical teaching can post different rates.
Small denominators are meaningless. Cebu Institute of Medicine appears in the 2024 report with one candidate and a 100% pass rate. That is a true statement about one person.
Year labels are not clean cohorts. NBEMS notes that these analyses cover candidates who obtained their primary medical qualification from the university at some point but qualified the FMGE in the year in question.
What the data does support is a directional judgement: passing the Indian screening exam after a Philippine degree is, on the published record, roughly a one-in-five proposition per sitting, and it has become harder rather than easier as enrolment has grown. Plan on that basis. Our guide to FMGE and NExT after a Philippine medical degree covers the exam itself, and the risks of studying MBBS in the Philippines covers what happens if it goes wrong.
Where FMGE Sits in the Rules
Clearing the screening test is one requirement among several. Under the NMC's Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations, 2021, permanent registration in India additionally requires a course of at least fifty-four months, a twelve-month internship at the same foreign medical institution, English as the medium of instruction, registration in the country that awarded the degree, and a further twelve-month supervised internship in India.
So a good FMGE result is necessary and not sufficient, and a school with a decent pass rate but a non-compliant course structure is still a dead end. Check both. Start with do you need NEET for MBBS in the Philippines for the eligibility side and NMC-recognised medical schools in the Philippines for the recognition side.
How to Check This Yourself
Do not take our table on faith, including the sums. The reports are public.
- Go to the NBEMS FMGE page on natboard.edu.in.
- Find the block headed "Institute-wise Performance of Candidates appearing in FMGE" and open the year you want.
- Scroll to PHILIPPINES in the country column. The institutions are alphabetical.
- Read the appeared figure before the percentage. It tells you whether the percentage means anything.
- Compare at least three consecutive years. One year is an anecdote.
If you are shortlisting schools, do this before you look at any comparison page, including our own list of medical schools for foreign students and the real total cost of MBBS in the Philippines. A published federal exam result is stronger evidence than anything a brochure can offer.
Sources
- FMGE examination page, including Institute-wise Performance links — National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences
- FMGE Performance Report 2025 (PDF) — NBEMS
- Country/Institute Wise Performance in FMGE 2024 (PDF) — NBEMS
- Country/Institute Wise Performance in FMGE 2023 (PDF) — NBEMS
- Country-wise and Institute-wise Performance in FMGE 2022 (PDF) — NBEMS
- Country/Institute Wise Performance in FMGE 2021 (PDF) — NBEMS
- Country/Institute Wise Performance in FMGE 2020 (PDF) — NBEMS
- FMGE examination page — the Institute-wise Performance links, including the 2019 edition, are published here
- Foreign Medical Graduate Licentiate Regulations, 2021 (Gazette PDF) — National Medical Commission
