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  • MCC Round 2 seat matrix: 11,302 seats are open, and half the vacant MBBS seats are in deemed universities

    The Medical Counselling Committee has put out the Round 2 seat matrix for NEET UG 2026 counselling. It came on 3 September, as three separate PDFs covering MBBS, BDS and B.Sc Nursing: a clear vacancy list, a virtual vacancy list, and a list of newly added seats.

    We read all three in full. Here is what they contain.

    The headline numbers

    • 11,302 seats are on the clear vacancy list.
    • 12,283 seats are on the virtual vacancy list.
    • 659 seats are new, added at 13 colleges.

    For scale, MCC’s Round 1 seat matrix carried 31,728 seats in total. So the clear vacancy list is a little over a third of the pool that Round 1 started with.

    Of the 11,302 clear vacancy seats, 9,870 are MBBS, 1,121 are BDS and 311 are B.Sc Nursing. There are 272 seats reserved for candidates with a disability.

    Clear vacancy and virtual vacancy are not the same seats

    The two numbers should never be added together.

    MCC does not define either term. It is not in the 2026 information bulletin, not in the Round 2 schedule, and not anywhere on the MCC website. So we checked the lists against MCC’s own Round 1 final allotment result instead, matching college, quota, course and category.

    The answer is clean. Every seat on the virtual vacancy list was a seat MCC allotted in Round 1. All 12,142 of the MBBS and BDS seats we could match, which is 100 per cent of them. These are seats that already have a candidate sitting on them, someone who chose to Float rather than Freeze. The seat opens up only if that candidate actually moves to a better one in Round 2.

    The clear vacancy list behaves differently. Only 83 per cent of it maps to seats Round 1 allotted. Over a thousand of those seats were never filled at all.

    Put simply: clear vacancy is what is free right now. Virtual vacancy is what may come free, and only if the upgrades happen.

    Half the vacant MBBS seats need money, not just rank

    This is the part the headline count hides. Of the 9,870 vacant MBBS seats, 4,908 sit in deemed universities. Break those down and 3,530 are self-financed merit seats and 1,317 are NRI seats. The rest are minority quota seats.

    That leaves 4,962 MBBS seats in the government, central university, AIIMS, ESIC and JIPMER pool. So a little over half the vacant MBBS seats sit outside the deemed university fee bracket.

    The same pattern shows up when you sort by college. The twelve largest single pools of vacant seats are all deemed universities. J R Medical College in Villupuram has 213 vacant seats. Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute in Puducherry has 192. Karpaga Vinayaga in Tamil Nadu has 150.

    Where the seats are

    Vacancy is heavily concentrated in the south and west.

    State Clear vacancy Of which deemed
    Tamil Nadu 2,508 1,880
    Karnataka 1,539 1,094
    Maharashtra 1,476 990
    Uttar Pradesh 625 82
    Puducherry 580 514
    Telangana 459 177
    Rajasthan 415 0

    Tamil Nadu alone holds 22 per cent of the entire clear vacancy, and three quarters of that is deemed university seats. Rajasthan, by contrast, has 415 vacant seats and not one of them is in a deemed university.

    The 659 new seats

    Thirteen colleges brought new seats into the All India Quota pool for Round 2. Two of them account for well over a third of the total: Karpaga Vinayaga Institute of Medical Sciences added 150 MBBS seats, and its dental college added 100 BDS seats.

    Four more deemed universities added 50 MBBS seats each. Aarupadai Veedu in Puducherry, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan and J R Medical College in Tamil Nadu, and Graphic Era in Dehradun.

    The government additions are smaller and spread out. Tomo Riba Institute in Arunachal Pradesh, Bongaigaon Medical College in Assam and the Autonomous State Medical College at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh each added 15 MBBS seats. Government Dental College Ahmedabad added 18 BDS seats and Government Dental College Thrissur added 7.

    The remaining 139 seats are B.Sc Nursing seats at two Delhi colleges, Florence Nightingale College of Nursing and the College of Nursing at Lady Hardinge Medical College. All 139 are marked female only.

    Round 2 dates

    From MCC’s Round 2 schedule dated 27 August:

    • Registration and payment: 3 to 8 September. Registration closes at 3:00 PM on 8 September, payment at 6:00 PM.
    • Choice filling: 3 to 9 September, open until 10:00 AM on 9 September.
    • Choice locking: 4:00 PM on 8 September to 10:00 AM on 9 September.
    • Seat allotment processing: 9 and 10 September.
    • Result: 11 September.
    • Reporting and joining: 12 to 18 September.

    All times are server time.

    What this means when you fill choices

    A candidate allotted a seat in Round 1 has three options under the MCC bulletin. Freeze means keeping the allotted seat and dropping out of upgradation. Float means giving willingness to be upgraded in the next round. Resign means giving up the seat.

    The vacancy lists sit behind that decision in a specific way. Seats on the clear vacancy list are available in Round 2 regardless of what anyone else does. Seats on the virtual vacancy list depend on a candidate ahead of you moving on, and there is no way to know in advance whether that will happen. A choice list built only on virtual vacancy seats carries that uncertainty. A choice list built only on clear vacancy seats does not, but it is also a smaller list.

    Which way to go is your decision and your family’s. We lay out what the numbers say and stop there.

    Official links

    Source: Medical Counselling Committee, Round 2 seat matrix for NEET UG 2026, published 3 September 2026, and the MCC Round 2 counselling schedule dated 27 August 2026. Seat counts in this article were read from the three MCC PDFs and reconcile exactly with the totals MCC prints in each document.

  • PDM Dental College loses recognition and will close, and Haryana will move its students

    PDM Dental College is being closed, and the students already studying there will be moved to other dental colleges in Haryana. The Directorate of Medical Education and Research has put out a public notice setting out the sequence, and it starts at the centre.

    The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, by an order dated 23 July 2026, withdrew recognition of the college under the provisions of the National Dental Commission Act, 2023, ordered the closure of PDM Dental College, and directed that its BDS and MDS students be shifted to other dental colleges in Haryana.

    The state followed. By an order dated 7 and 12 August 2026, the Haryana government withdrew the no objection certificate issued to PD Memorial Religious and Education Association, Sarai, Aurangabad, Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar, for its BDS and MDS courses.

    What happens to the students

    The state government will conduct offline counselling at Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, to adjust the affected students into other recognised dental colleges in Haryana. The date, time and detailed schedule for that counselling have not been announced yet. The directorate says they will be notified separately.

    That is the part worth watching. An adjustment counselling with no published date can be announced at short notice, and the notice itself asks candidates to keep checking the official websites rather than wait to be contacted.

    What it means if you are filling choices now

    Haryana’s BDS counselling for 2026-27 is running. A college whose recognition has been withdrawn and whose NOC has been cancelled is not a seat you can be admitted against, so PDM Dental should not be part of your preference list this season.

    The wider point matters more than this one college. Recognition can be withdrawn between the publication of a seat matrix and the round in which a seat is actually allotted, and the seat matrix is not by itself proof that a college is in good standing on the day you fill your choices. Checking the authority’s notice page before you lock a preference list costs a few minutes.

    What to do now

    • If you are an affected BDS or MDS student at PDM Dental, watch both official sites daily. The counselling date will come with little notice.
    • Keep your academic records, fee receipts and admission documents together and ready for an offline verification.
    • If you are a NEET UG 2026 candidate filling Haryana choices, leave PDM Dental out.

    Our Haryana counselling guide follows the rounds as the authority declares them, we track Haryana closing ranks by college and category, and the Round 1 registration story has the schedule this season is running on.

    Official links

    Source: Director Medical Education and Research, Haryana, Panchkula, public notice on withdrawal of recognition under the National Dental Commission Act 2023, closure of PDM Dental College and shifting of BDS and MDS students.

  • ESIC Noida and Varanasi publish MBBS fees, and the insured person quota pays a quarter of the tuition

    The two ESIC medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh have published their MBBS fee structures for 2026-27, and the figures are identical at both. The split that matters is the quota you are admitted under, not the campus you land at.

    Annual tuition is ₹24,000 for insured person quota students and ₹1,00,000 for state quota and all India quota students. Everything else on the bill is the same across all three quotas.

    What the fee is made of

    Both colleges charge four heads a year:

    • Tuition fee: ₹24,000 for insured person quota, ₹1,00,000 for state and all India quota
    • Caution deposit, refundable: ₹5,000
    • Hostel fee, charged as annual seat rent: ₹10,000
    • Hostel security deposit, refundable: ₹10,000

    That gives a total of ₹49,000 for an insured person quota student and ₹1,25,000 for a state or all India quota student, in both cases including the hostel.

    Two of those four heads come back to you. The caution deposit and the hostel security deposit, ₹15,000 between them, are refundable. And the hostel heads are optional: both colleges say students who do not want hostel facility may leave the hostel fee and hostel security out of the demand draft. Without the hostel, an insured person quota student pays ₹29,000 and a state or all India quota student pays ₹1,05,000.

    The demand drafts differ by campus

    This is the detail to get right, because the two colleges use different ESIC fund accounts and different payable cities.

    At ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Sector 24, Noida, the draft is drawn from any nationalised bank in favour of “ESIC Fund Account No.1”, payable at Noida. The Noida notice states the amount as a single draft, ₹49,000 or ₹1,25,000 depending on quota.

    At ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Pandeypur, Varanasi, the draft is drawn from any nationalised bank in favour of “ESI Fund Account No. 2”, payable at Varanasi, and Varanasi asks for an individual draft for each fee head rather than one consolidated draft.

    A draft made out to the wrong fund account, payable at the wrong city, or consolidated when the college wanted it split, is a problem you will be solving at the admission counter with a deadline running.

    Who pays which rate

    The insured person quota is reserved for the wards of workers insured under the Employees’ State Insurance scheme, which is what the four-fold difference in tuition reflects. State quota and all India quota students pay the same ₹1,00,000 tuition, so at these two colleges the counselling route you come through does not change what you are charged.

    Against private medical college tuition in Uttar Pradesh, both rates are low. That tends to put these seats in demand, so it is worth knowing the fee before you place them in a preference list rather than after an allotment.

    What to do now

    • Decide on the hostel before you get the draft made, because it changes the amount.
    • Match the fund account name and the payable city to the campus you are allotted, and check whether that campus wants one draft or one per head.
    • Keep the receipts for the caution deposit and hostel security separate. Both are refundable and you will need the proof later.

    Our Uttar Pradesh counselling guide follows the rounds, we track UP closing ranks by college and category, and the Round 1 choice filling instructions set out how and where the admission is completed. The private college fee list gives you the comparison.

    Official links

    Source: Fee structure for MBBS admission 2026-27 issued by the Dean, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Sector 24, Noida, and the Dean, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Pandeypur, Varanasi, circulated by the Directorate General of Medical Education and Training, Uttar Pradesh.

  • UP spells out its choice filling rules, and an unlocked choice list counts for nothing

    Uttar Pradesh has put out ten instructions covering choice filling and the admission process for the first round, and two of them decide whether a candidate stays in the process at all. The Directorate General of Medical Education and Training issued the notice on 3 September 2026.

    The first gate is money and paperwork together. Only candidates whose security deposit has been paid and whose documents have been verified are eligible to fill choices. Qualifying NEET UG 2026 makes you eligible for the counselling, but it does not by itself open the choice filling window.

    Locking is the whole game

    The second gate is the lock. Locking your choices after filling them is mandatory, and a candidate who does not lock is automatically excluded from the allotment process. Filling a careful preference list and leaving it unlocked produces the same outcome as filling nothing.

    Once locked, the list is final. The directorate states that no modification or change of locked choices will be permitted under any circumstances, and that it will not consider any application made in that regard. There is no appeal route here, so the list you lock is the list you are allotted against.

    The instruction on how to build that list is short and sensible: fill choices in order of your own priority, and enter only those colleges where you actually want admission. A preference you would refuse is a preference you should not enter, because an allotment against it is a real allotment with real consequences.

    Where you report depends on who runs the college

    The admission process splits by sector. Candidates allotted a government medical or dental college complete their admission at the allotted college. Candidates allotted a private medical or dental college complete it at a nodal centre nominated by the government, not at the college. The list of nodal centres is in the UP NEET UG 2026 brochure.

    This trips up candidates every year. Turning up at a private college with your documents on the reporting day is not reporting, and the nodal centre is the only place the admission can be completed.

    Private college fees go by demand draft, or the admission lapses

    Candidates allotted a private sector seat have to deposit the tuition fee fixed by the government or by the minority institution as a CTS bank draft, drawn in favour of “Director General, Medical Education and Training, U.P.” and payable at Lucknow. The draft is submitted at the designated nodal centre at the time of admission.

    The consequence of getting this wrong is spelt out: without it, the admission is treated as automatically cancelled. A draft made payable at the wrong city, or drawn in favour of the college rather than the directorate, is the kind of error that cannot be fixed at the counter.

    The directorate also tells candidates to check the fee orders themselves. Letters and government orders on the tuition fee fixed for private minority and non-minority medical and dental colleges are on the departmental websites, and the amount on your draft has to match the order that applies to your college.

    What to do now

    • Confirm your security deposit is paid and your documents are verified. Without both, the choice window is closed to you.
    • Fill choices strictly in your own order of preference, and leave out colleges you would not join.
    • Lock the list. Then check that it shows as locked.
    • If you expect a private college seat, look up the applicable tuition fee order and get the CTS draft made in favour of the Director General, Medical Education and Training, U.P., payable at Lucknow.
    • Find your nodal centre in the brochure before reporting day rather than on it.

    The government order behind this season is number I/1448377/2026 dated 1 September 2026, and it sits with the brochure on the departmental websites.

    Our Uttar Pradesh counselling guide follows the rounds, we track UP closing ranks by college and category, and you can test a rank on our college predictor before you order your list. The Round 1 registration story has the schedule, the counselling rules story covers the deposits and what exits cost, and the private college fee list has the tuition figures fixed for 2026-27.

    Official links

    Source: Office of the Director General, Medical Education and Training, Uttar Pradesh, notice number ME-3/UG-2026/1610 dated 3 September 2026, important information and instructions for first round choice filling and the admission process under UP NEET UG 2026.

  • Punjab Round 2 opens: fresh registration closes 5 September, and not joining forfeits your security

    Baba Farid University of Health Sciences has issued the second round schedule for MBBS and BDS admissions, and the first deadline lands almost immediately. Fresh application and registration runs from 3 September to 5 September 2026, up to 5:00 PM. Candidates who already registered do not need to register again.

    Giving willingness to participate in the second round runs a little longer, from 3 September to 7 September 2026, up to 5:00 PM, and it is mandatory. Willingness is not a formality here: the university says only those candidates who submit willingness along with the required security amount will be considered for the second round.

    One caveat on status. The university has issued this as a draft schedule, prepared for perusal and approval, and the document says so on its face. The registration window it sets out is already open on the BFUHS portal, so treat the dates as operative but check the portal before relying on a date further out in the calendar.

    The Round 2 schedule

    • Fresh application and registration: 3 to 5 September 2026, up to 5:00 PM
    • Giving willingness for Round 2: 3 to 7 September 2026, up to 5:00 PM
    • Tentative vacancy position on the university website: 7 September 2026
    • NRI quota physical application form: 7 and 8 September 2026
    • Sports category hard copies at the Admission Branch, Faridkot: only on 7 September 2026
    • Minority quota verification at the minority institution: 7 September 2026
    • Provisional merit list: 8 September 2026
    • Objections to the merit list, in person at Faridkot: 9 September 2026, up to 3:00 PM
    • Revised provisional merit list: 9 September 2026
    • Online choice filling: 8 to 10 September 2026, up to 5:00 PM
    • Processing of seat allotment: 11 to 12 September 2026
    • Provisional seat allotment result: 12 September 2026
    • Objections to the allotment result, in person at Faridkot: 14 September 2026, up to 4:00 PM
    • Revised provisional allotment result: 15 September 2026
    • Balance fee payment and reporting at the allotted college: 16 to 18 September 2026, up to 5:00 PM

    Objections at both stages have to be made by turning up in person at the Admission Branch in Faridkot with the relevant documents. The university states that objections received by email will not be entertained.

    Round 1 choices are wiped

    Every candidate has to submit fresh choices for Round 2. The university has put it bluntly: choices submitted during Round 1 are treated as null and void. Choices lock automatically once the deadline passes, and no request to change them afterwards will be entertained.

    That makes 10 September the real decision point of this round, not 5 September. Registration only buys you the right to be in it.

    What it costs

    Fresh applicants pay a registration fee of ₹5,000 plus 18 per cent GST of ₹900, and candidates in the SC and BC categories pay ₹2,500 plus GST of ₹450.

    The security fee depends on where you are willing to be allotted. It is ₹10,000 for government colleges only, and ₹5,000 for SC and BC candidates on the same option. For private colleges and private universities it is ₹2,00,000, and it stays ₹2,00,000 for a combined government plus private option, with no category concession on either.

    Candidates allotted a seat in Round 1 also have to submit willingness for Round 2, but their deposited security fee is adjusted and they pay only the remaining tuition amount. Anyone who has already paid tuition of more than ₹10,000 for government colleges, ₹5,000 for SC and BC candidates, or ₹2,00,000 for private universities and colleges, does not pay the security deposit again.

    Who is eligible for Round 2

    Five groups can be allotted a seat in the second round:

    • Registered candidates who got no allotment in Round 1.
    • Registered candidates whose Round 1 seat was cancelled during document verification at reporting. They are considered with a changed category, subject to seats being available in it.
    • Candidates who reported at the allotted institute in Round 1 and submitted willingness for upgradation as Yes.
    • Candidates allotted a seat in Round 1 who did not join.
    • Candidates who resigned online, within the stipulated time, from a Round 1 seat at the college.

    Two classes are shut out: candidates who became ineligible for want of adequate documents under the Punjab government and MCC eligibility criteria, and candidates who registered in neither Round 1 nor Round 2.

    The forfeiture rules are strict, and they compound

    The security deposit is refunded only if no seat is allotted in Round 2. Beyond that, every path costs money.

    A candidate allotted a Round 2 seat who does not report or join may exit, but the security deposit is not refunded. A candidate who joins can still resign within the stipulated period, and the security deposit is forfeited then too. Either way, staying in the process for Round 3 means registering fresh and depositing a fresh security amount on top of the forfeited one.

    Upgradation carries its own lock. A Round 2 seat can be upgraded in Round 3, but once you join the upgraded seat in Round 3 you cannot resign or leave it. And if you do not join an allotted or upgraded seat in Round 3, that security is forfeited as well.

    One structural point matters for anyone counting on a late opening. The university says conversion of NRI and reserved category seats to open merit happens in Round 3, and only after the eligible candidates in the relevant category have been exhausted. Seats you are hoping will spill into the open pool will not do so in this round.

    What to do now

    • If you have not registered at all, do it before 5:00 PM on 5 September. There is no second window.
    • If you are already registered, submit willingness with the security amount by 5:00 PM on 7 September. Skipping it keeps you out of the round entirely.
    • Check the tentative vacancy position on 7 September before you build your preference list.
    • Treat 10 September as the deadline that decides your seat, and submit fresh choices well before 5:00 PM.
    • Sports and NRI candidates: the physical submissions on 7 and 8 September cannot be done by email or post.

    Before you rank colleges, it helps to know where a rank like yours has landed before. We track Punjab closing ranks by college and category, our Punjab counselling guide follows the rounds, and the Round 1 allotment story has the seat numbers this round builds on. The MCC Round 2 schedule runs alongside it, which matters if you are holding an all India quota option too.

    Official links

    Source: Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Admission Branch, draft schedule for the second round of online counselling for admission to MBBS and BDS courses under NEET-UG 2026, session 2026, dated 3 September 2026.

  • Himachal extends Round 1 joining to 4 September, and rules out any further extension

    Candidates allotted a seat in Himachal Pradesh’s first round have until the end of 4 September 2026 to complete their admission. Atal Medical and Research University has extended the last date for MBBS and BDS Round 1 admission for the 2026-27 session, and has attached an unusually direct warning to it.

    The notice says that no further extension of the admission date shall be allowed beyond 4 September. Counselling authorities often leave themselves room on a joining deadline. This one has closed that room in writing.

    What the extension covers

    The extended date applies to completing the admission formalities at the allotted college for the first round of counselling, for both MBBS and BDS, for the academic session 2026-27. It is a joining extension, not a fresh allotment and not a new choice filling window.

    The notice has gone to the Director of Medical Education and Research, who chairs the Prospectus Review Committee, to the university registrar, and to the principals of all government and private medical and dental colleges in the state, so the colleges have been told to expect candidates through the extended date.

    Why the deadline is the whole story

    A candidate holding a Round 1 allotment who does not join by the stated date is treated as having given up that seat, and in most state schemes that also affects eligibility for the rounds that follow. With the authority ruling out any further extension, there is no version of this where waiting improves the outcome.

    If you are travelling to a college today, carry the full document set rather than a partial one. A verification that stalls for a missing certificate on the last permitted day is a hard problem to solve after 4 September.

    What to do now

    • Report to the allotted college and complete the admission formalities before the end of 4 September 2026.
    • Carry originals and self-attested copies of your NEET UG 2026 result, allotment letter, Class 10 and 12 certificates, identity proof, and your category and bona fide certificates where they apply.
    • Take the fee payment instrument the college requires with you rather than promising to pay later.

    Our Himachal Pradesh counselling guide follows the rounds, we track Himachal closing ranks by college and category, and the Round 1 allocation story has the seat numbers this deadline runs against.

    Official links

    Source: Atal Medical and Research University, Ner Chowk, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, notice on extension of the last date for admission to MBBS and BDS first round of counselling for the academic session 2026-27.

  • Karnataka reopens Round 1 choice entry, and choosing nothing now counts as Choice 4

    The Karnataka Examinations Authority has given candidates allotted a seat in the first round one more window to act, and it is a short one. Choice selection closes at 2:00 PM on 4 September 2026, fee payment at 4:00 PM the same day, and reporting at the allotted college at 6:00 PM on 5 September 2026.

    The notice covers both medical and dental courses, and it is aimed at one group in particular: candidates who were allotted a seat in the first round and have done nothing about it since. KEA has reopened the whole sequence for them, from selecting a choice through to walking into the college.

    The extended deadlines

    • Choice selection: up to 2:00 PM on 4 September 2026
    • Fee payment by Choice 1 candidates, and downloading the seat confirmation slip: up to 4:00 PM on 4 September 2026, during banking hours
    • Reporting at the allotted college with the seat confirmation slip, for Choice 1 candidates: up to 6:00 PM on 5 September 2026

    KEA has put the banking hours caveat in red on its own notice. Fee payment runs through the banking channel, so a payment attempted late in the window can fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the counselling portal. Paying early on 4 September is the safer route.

    Doing nothing is itself a decision

    The sting is in the last line of the notice. A candidate who fails to select an appropriate choice is treated as not interested in the first round seat and is recorded as Choice 4. Under KEA’s choice system that ends the candidate’s participation in the subsequent rounds.

    This is worth reading twice. Skipping the window is not a neutral act that parks you until round 2. It is recorded as an exit, and the exit is from the whole process, not just from the seat you were given. If you are holding a first round allotment in Karnataka and you have not touched it, the decision has to be made before 2 PM today.

    What each choice means

    Choice 1 is acceptance: you take the allotted seat, pay the fee, download the seat confirmation slip and report to the college. It is the only choice with a fee payment and a reporting deadline attached, which is why those two rows of the notice name Choice 1 specifically.

    The other choices keep you in the process on different terms, and Choice 4 is the one KEA applies by default to candidates who stay silent. If you want to remain in the running for a better seat later, the choice has to be entered actively before the deadline.

    What to do now

    • Log in and enter your choice before 2:00 PM on 4 September, even if you are undecided about the seat itself.
    • If you are taking the seat, pay the fee well before 4:00 PM and download the seat confirmation slip immediately after the payment goes through.
    • Carry the seat confirmation slip to the allotted college and report by 6:00 PM on 5 September.
    • Do not assume a further extension. KEA has already moved these dates once.

    Before you settle on a choice, it helps to see where a rank like yours has landed before. We track Karnataka closing ranks by college and category, our Karnataka counselling guide follows the rounds, and the Round 1 final allotment is the list these deadlines run against.

    Official links

    Source: Karnataka Examinations Authority notice No. ED/KEA/ADMN/CR-11/2026 dated 3 September 2026, first round of seat allotment UGNEET-2026, date extended for choice selection, fee payment and for reporting to college.

  • Gujarat NEET UG 2026: Round 2 registration closes 4 September

    Gujarat has opened Round 2 registration for MBBS and BDS admissions, and it is open only to candidates who did not register in Round 1. Online registration runs from 1 September to 4 September 2026, till 4:00 PM. The PIN must be bought by 12:00 noon on 4 September, and document verification at a help centre runs from 2 September to 12:00 noon on 5 September.

    If you already registered in Round 1, this window is not for you. Your Round 1 registration carries forward, and the Admission Committee for Professional Undergraduate Medical Educational Courses will use it for the second round.

    Round 2 dates

    • Online PIN purchase: 1 September to 4 September 2026, till 12:00 noon
    • Online registration: 1 September to 4 September 2026, till 4:00 PM
    • Help centre verification and submission of documents: 2 September to 5 September 2026, till 12:00 noon

    Help centres work Monday to Friday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and Saturday from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon. They are shut on Sundays and public holidays, which matters because 5 September is the last morning and there is no slack behind it.

    What the PIN costs

    The PIN is bought online at the committee's website and costs ₹11,000 in one payment: ₹1,000 as a non-refundable fee and ₹10,000 as a refundable security deposit.

    There is a useful exception. If you bought the ₹11,000 PIN in Round 1 but never completed registration, or registered but never turned up at a help centre for verification, you do not need to buy a new PIN. You only need to complete the help centre verification and submit your documents.

    After registering, book the help centre appointment yourself. You choose the date, time and centre while printing your registration receipt, and you carry self-attested copies of your documents to it.

    Who can apply

    You need to have passed Class 12 in the science stream, group B or AB, from a school in Gujarat affiliated to the Gujarat Board, CBSE, CISCE, Cambridge or the National Institute of Open Schooling, and to have qualified NEET UG 2026 on the All India Overall Rank. The admission rules of the Health and Family Welfare Department and of the relevant commission or council apply on top of that.

    Two categories with extra steps

    Local quota. Candidates applying for local quota seats at Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad or Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research need a certificate showing they are a resident of Ahmedabad or Surat. It has to come from the Dean of that institution, so contact the college directly, and do it alongside the online registration rather than after it.

    NRI candidates. Document verification happens only at the ACPUGMEC office at GMERS Medical College, Gandhinagar, not at a regular help centre. You also submit a demand draft of ₹10,000, non-refundable, in favour of “ACPUGMEC” and payable at Gandhinagar, as a processing fee at the time of verification.

    The committee has also restated the position on OCI card holders. Following the Supreme Court judgment of 3 February 2023 in Writ Petition (C) No. 891 of 2021, OCI card holders are eligible for the NRI, management and government quotas. Under Gujarat's own rules, though, a candidate seeking a government or management quota seat must have done Class 10 and Class 12 at schools in Gujarat and must either be born in Gujarat or hold Gujarat domicile.

    Candidates with disabilities. Book the online appointment during registration to appear before the Medical Board, and carry your disability certificate to the designated civil hospital for assessment.

    What to do now

    • Buy the PIN early. The committee itself advises using a broadband connection, because failed transactions are common at the deadline.
    • Register by 4:00 PM on 4 September, then book your help centre slot immediately.
    • Do not leave verification to 5 September. Centres close at noon that day.
    • If you paid for a PIN in Round 1 and stalled, go straight to a help centre. You do not need to pay again.

    Before you rank colleges, it helps to know where a rank like yours has landed before. We track Gujarat closing ranks by college and category, our Gujarat counselling guide follows the rounds, and you can test a rank on our college predictor.

    Official links

    Source: Admission Committee for Professional Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Educational Courses, Government of Gujarat — advertisement for second round online PIN purchase and registration for undergraduate medical and dental courses, academic year 2026-27.

  • Rajasthan govt BDS: ₹1 lakh guarantee and ₹4 lakh bond

    Students joining BDS at a government dental college in Rajasthan have to put up a bank guarantee of ₹1 lakh and sign a bond of ₹4 lakh at the time of admission. The requirement has been republished in the notifications section of the state's UG medical counselling site, so candidates weighing a government BDS seat this year should budget for it before they lock a choice.

    What the order says

    The condition comes from an order of the Rajasthan Medical Education Department, No. 6(2)ME/Group-1/2012, issued at Jaipur on 27 January 2012. It records the decisions of a meeting held on 12 January 2012, chaired by the Principal Secretary for Medical Education, and the bond appears as decision 23 in that list. It is the clause the published copy highlights.

    The reasoning is set out plainly in the order. Students who take a BDS seat in a government dental college sit the entrance test again the next year, get into MBBS, and abandon the BDS course. The seat then lies vacant for the rest of the cycle. The order says this causes a financial loss to the college and leaves the state short of dental graduates, and that to stop the practice, students admitted to BDS in a government dental college should be required to furnish a bank guarantee of ₹1 lakh and a bond of ₹4 lakh at admission.

    Why it still matters, fourteen years on

    The order is old and it predates NEET. In 2012 the entrance test it refers to was the Rajasthan Pre-Medical Test, which a common national exam later replaced. The behaviour the order was written to stop has not gone anywhere, though. A candidate who accepts BDS one year and re-attempts NEET the next for MBBS is doing exactly what the order describes, and the seat is vacated in exactly the same way.

    That is worth thinking about carefully if BDS is your fallback rather than your intention. A government dental seat in Rajasthan is cheap and hard to get, but taking one while planning a re-attempt is the situation this order is aimed at.

    Check the current figure before you commit

    One caution. The document circulating for this cycle is the 2012 order itself, not a fresh notification restating the amounts for 2026-27. The clause is the standing authority for the bond, but the sums were set fourteen years ago and states do revise these. Before you treat ₹1 lakh and ₹4 lakh as final, confirm them against this year's information booklet or with the competent authority conducting the counselling. Ask specifically what releases the bank guarantee and when.

    Counselling terms are the authority's to interpret, and ours is not the last word on them. If your reading of a clause differs from the authority's, theirs governs.

    What to do now

    • If you are considering a government BDS seat in Rajasthan, arrange the bank guarantee before reporting, not on the day.
    • Ask the college what documentation the guarantee needs and how long your bank takes to issue one.
    • Get in writing the conditions under which the bond is discharged.
    • If BDS is a placeholder while you plan another attempt at MBBS, price that plan honestly against a ₹4 lakh bond.

    Past closing ranks help you judge whether the seat is within reach at all. We track BDS closing ranks in Rajasthan alongside the MBBS closing ranks, and our Rajasthan counselling guide follows the rounds. You can check where a particular rank stands on our college predictor.

    Official links

    Source: Government of Rajasthan, Medical Education Department — order No. 6(2)ME/Group-1/2012 dated 27 January 2012, recording the decisions of the review meeting of 12 January 2012, published in the notifications section of the Rajasthan UG medical counselling site.

  • UP private MBBS and BDS fees fixed for 2026-27: full list

    Uttar Pradesh has fixed the 2026-27 tuition fees for its non-minority private medical and dental colleges. The orders were issued on 1 September 2026, the same day the state opened Round 1 of NEET UG counselling, so candidates are ranking these colleges and learning their price in the same week.

    MBBS tuition for the year runs from ₹13,60,690 at Hind Institute of Medical Sciences, Sitapur to ₹19,78,214 at Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly. BDS runs from ₹2,93,000 to ₹5,52,960. Thirty-five medical colleges and nineteen dental colleges are covered, each by its own notification.

    What the orders actually fix

    Only tuition. Every notification ends with the same clause: hostel fee, the refundable security deposit and miscellaneous fees stay at their 2025-26 levels. So the figures below are the teaching fee for the 2026-27 session and not the full amount a family will pay.

    The fees were set under the Uttar Pradesh Private Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Act, 2006. The fee fixation committee, chaired by the Principal Secretary for Medical Education, was constituted on 12 June 2024 and heard the colleges on 14 August 2026.

    These orders cover non-minority private colleges only. Minority institutions are notified separately and are not in this set.

    Fees matter more in UP than in many states, because of how the deposits work. To be considered for private medical seats at all you must deposit ₹2,00,000 as security money before choice filling, and ₹1,00,000 for private dental. Leaving a private seat after Round 3 costs you that deposit plus half the tuition you have paid. We have set out those rules in our guide to the UP NEET UG 2026 counselling order.

    Private medical colleges: MBBS tuition for 2026-27

    Listed from the lowest fee to the highest.

    # College City MBBS tuition, 2026-27
    1 Hind Institute of Medical Sciences Sitapur ₹13,60,690
    2 Saraswati Medical College Unnao ₹13,75,025
    3 National Capital Region Institute of Medical Sciences Meerut ₹14,31,460
    4 Narayana Medical College & Research Centre Kanpur ₹14,50,010
    5 S.K.S. Hospital Medical College & Research Centre Mathura ₹14,50,300
    6 United Institute of Medical Sciences Prayagraj ₹14,53,070
    7 Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences Lucknow ₹14,60,730
    8 Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences Hapur ₹14,62,816
    9 Subharti Medical College Meerut ₹14,95,975
    10 Shri Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences, Gajraula Amroha ₹15,00,250
    11 Varunarjun Medical College & Rohilkhand Hospital Shahjahanpur ₹15,06,050
    12 Rama Medical College Hospital & Research Centre Hapur ₹15,10,150
    13 Dr. K.N.S. Memorial (MAYO) Institute of Medical Sciences Barabanki ₹15,10,840
    14 G.S. Medical College & Hospital Hapur ₹15,10,880
    15 Krishna Mohan Medical College & Hospital Mathura ₹15,25,250
    16 Prasad Medical College & Hospital Unnao ₹15,99,973
    17 Radha Govind Institute of Medical Sciences Meerut ₹15,99,973
    18 Phoolan Singh Medical College, F.S. University Shikohabad ₹15,99,973
    19 Sardar Patel Institute of Medical Education & Health Sciences Lucknow ₹15,99,973
    20 Rama Medical College & Hospital Kanpur ₹16,00,460
    21 B.S. Kushwaha Institute of Medical Sciences Kanpur ₹16,04,740
    22 Shri Gorakhnath Medical College Hospital & Research Centre Gorakhpur ₹16,10,100
    23 K.D. Medical College Hospital & Research Centre Mathura ₹16,25,613
    24 School of Medical Sciences & Research (Sharda University) Greater Noida ₹16,25,910
    25 K.M.C. Medical College & Hospital Maharajganj ₹16,72,880
    26 Shri Siddh Vinayak Medical College & Hospital Sambhal ₹16,73,200
    27 Ajay Sangal Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Shamli ₹16,74,142
    28 Noida International Institute of Medical Sciences Gautam Buddh Nagar ₹17,16,784
    29 Hind Institute of Medical Sciences Barabanki ₹17,18,306
    30 Muzaffarnagar Medical College Muzaffarnagar ₹17,62,947
    31 Rajshree Medical College & Research Institute Bareilly ₹17,68,904
    32 Heritage Institute of Medical Sciences Varanasi ₹18,00,268
    33 Rohilkhand Medical College & Hospital Bareilly ₹18,72,361
    34 T.S. Mishra Medical College & Hospital, Amausi Lucknow ₹18,90,847
    35 Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences Bareilly ₹19,78,214

    Private dental colleges: BDS tuition for 2026-27

    # College City BDS tuition, 2026-27
    1 Institute of Dental Sciences Bareilly ₹2,93,000
    2 Dental College Azamgarh ₹2,93,000
    3 Purvanchal Institute of Dental Sciences Gorakhpur ₹3,05,000
    4 Chandra Dental College & Hospital Barabanki ₹3,08,000
    5 Kalka Dental College Meerut ₹3,10,000
    6 K.D. Dental College & Hospital Mathura ₹3,28,000
    7 Rama Dental College & Research Centre Kanpur ₹3,31,000
    8 Maharana Pratap Dental College & Hospital Kanpur ₹3,37,000
    9 Institute of Dental Studies & Technologies, Modinagar Ghaziabad ₹3,55,000
    10 Babu Banarasi Das College of Dental Sciences Lucknow ₹3,65,500
    11 Shri Banke Bihari Dental College & Research Centre Ghaziabad ₹3,80,000
    12 Kothiwal Dental College & Research Centre Moradabad ₹3,82,000
    13 School of Dental Sciences (Sharda University) Greater Noida ₹3,85,000
    14 Subharti Dental College & Hospital Meerut ₹4,01,000
    15 Inderprastha Dental College & Hospital Ghaziabad ₹4,01,000
    16 Saraswati Dental College & Hospital Lucknow ₹4,43,000
    17 I.T.S. Dental College Hospital & Research Centre Greater Noida ₹4,61,000
    18 Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences Lucknow ₹4,92,480
    19 I.T.S. Dental College, Hospital & Research Centre Ghaziabad ₹5,52,960

    Reading the list before you rank your choices

    Four colleges sit at exactly ₹15,99,973, which suggests a ceiling the committee applied rather than four identical costings. The spread above that line is real, though: the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive private MBBS seat in the state is more than ₹6 lakh a year.

    Two colleges appear twice under similar names in different cities. Hind Institute of Medical Sciences has separate campuses at Sitapur and Barabanki, and their fees differ by more than ₹3.5 lakh. I.T.S. runs dental colleges at both Greater Noida and Ghaziabad, and the Ghaziabad one is the most expensive BDS seat in the state. Check the city on your allotment letter, not just the name.

    Before you commit to a fee at this level, it is worth knowing what rank the college has closed at in past years. Our pages for Uttar Pradesh MBBS closing ranks and BDS closing ranks carry the history, the list of UP medical colleges has the seat counts, and you can check a specific rank against them on our college predictor. The current dates are in our report on Round 1 registration and choice filling.

    Official links

    Related: UP NEET UG 2026 Round 1 dates and the state counselling rules for 2026-27

    Source: Government of Uttar Pradesh, Medical Education Section-4 — fee fixation notifications for non-minority private medical colleges (71-4099/89/2026) and non-minority private dental colleges (71-4099/91/2026), all dated 1 September 2026.