The student's anonymous post on Reddit, published a month earlier, has sparked widespread debate online about the quality of education at TMA.
"Teachers barely speak English"
“I’m a first-year Indian medical student admitted to Tashkent Medical Academy (TMA) in February 2025. Honestly, I thought this university was trustworthy — low tuition fees, a foreign-based medical and surgical bachelor’s program, and a promising environment. I was wrong. The quality of education here is absolutely terrible, especially for international students like us.
First of all, the teachers can barely speak English. I’m not exaggerating — at times it feels like they’re reading from Google Translate. How can we possibly learn medicine if we can’t even understand the lectures? We're forced to take four hours of English classes. Bro, I didn’t come here to learn the alphabet — I came to learn anatomy!”
"Anatomy class is a joke"
“There’s a one-hour-and-20-minute anatomy class, and even that’s pitiful. They don’t actually teach anything. Sure, professors show up, but they just point to the textbook and say ‘this is the topic, learn it yourselves,’ and then leave. Sometimes, classes are cancelled at the last minute. They tell us, ‘the class will be online,’ but surprise — there’s no online class at all. We mostly study on our own, while they collect their salaries and disappear at will.”
Complaints about the dean and dormitory
“And then there’s the dean. The man’s nuts. He constantly harasses us about shaving our beards. I get it — maybe it’s some ‘ministry rule’ or whatever — but come on, man, my beard isn’t stopping me from passing exams. As for solving student issues? Forget it. He walks around pretending to be important while the dormitory is falling apart — especially the one for Indian students. It’s in disgusting condition.
Toilets are cleaned once a month at best, mold is everywhere, pipes are leaking — you name it. Every two months someone gets measles, and their genius solution is to randomly vaccinate us like we’re livestock. Hygiene here is a myth.”
"Exams are a circus"
“The education is so bad I don’t even know where to start. Even when teachers bother showing up, they just read from slides or tell us to study on our own. How are we supposed to become good doctors if no one actually teaches us anything?
