Himachal round 1 allocation is out: 948 seats, and government MBBS closes at merit number 426

Atal Medical and Research University published the round 1 provisional seat allocation for MBBS and BDS on 27 August. It runs to 948 candidates. If anything in your entry is wrong, you have until 5 pm today to say so.

The correction window shuts at 5 pm on 28 August

Write to counselling.amruhp@gmail.com. AMRU’s notice, number AMRU/(COE)-Admission-120/2026-27(MBBS/BDS)-4856 dated 27 August 2026, asks for any discrepancy in the merit to be reported by 5 pm on 28 August 2026. Send it now if you need to; the list moves on after that.

These are Himachal merit numbers, not NEET ranks

The allocation list carries a Merit No column and no All India Rank anywhere. Every figure in this article is an AMRU merit number from the Himachal MBBS/BDS list, running from 1 to 2,736. Compare one of these against a NEET All India Rank and you will draw the wrong conclusion. Find your Himachal merit number first, then read the tables.

Where the 948 seats went

683 MBBS and 265 BDS, across eleven institutions.

College Allotments
Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College, Kumarhatti, Solan 123
Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 102
Dr Rajendra Prasad Govt Medical College, Tanda, Kangra 102
Dr Radhakrishnan Govt Medical College, Hamirpur 98
Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar Govt Medical College, Nahan 97
Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru Govt Medical College, Chamba 96
Himachal Institute of Dental Sciences, Paonta Sahib 95
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Govt Medical College, Ner Chowk 65
H.P. Government Dental College, Shimla 58
Himachal Dental College, Sundernagar 56
Bhojia Dental College and Hospital, Nalagarh 56

By admission quota: HP Quota took 738 seats, Management Quota 188, NRI Quota 22.

The government MBBS ladder, in the general pool

These are HP Quota seats allotted in the General category, which is the pool most candidates are reading for.

College Best merit no. Last merit no.
Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 1 76
Dr Rajendra Prasad GMC, Tanda 10 124
SLBS GMC, Ner Chowk 125 178
Dr Radhakrishnan GMC, Hamirpur 87 275
Dr Y.S. Parmar GMC, Nahan 209 361
Pt J.L. Nehru GMC, Chamba 281 426
Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College, Solan (private) 443 636

The whole government MBBS general band closes inside the first 426 merit numbers. Shimla, Tanda and Ner Chowk fill in the first 178. That is a tight ladder, and small merit differences decide which district you spend five years in.

Dental closes much later

Dental college Best merit no. Last merit no.
H.P. Government Dental College, Shimla 433 661
Himachal Dental College, Sundernagar 630 872
Bhojia Dental College, Nalagarh 672 1,109
Himachal Institute of Dental Sciences, Paonta Sahib 695 1,303

89 candidates who applied under HP Quota were allotted management seats

827 candidates applied under HP Quota. 738 were admitted under it. The gap is not people losing seats: management admissions rose from 97 applications to 188 allotments, and 89 of those 188 came from candidates whose applied quota was HP Quota.

All 89 sit in the four private colleges: 39 at Maharishi Markandeshwar, 22 at Himachal Dental Sundernagar, 17 at Himachal Institute of Dental Sciences, 11 at Bhojia Dental. If you applied under HP Quota, a management seat at a private college is a live outcome for you, at management fees. Check the allotted quota column on your own row before you assume otherwise.

A Supreme Court order added one seat at Chamba

The notice records, separately from the allocation table, that the National Medical Commission created a supernumerary MBBS seat at Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru Government Medical College, Chamba, and that the seat was allotted to the petitioner. AMRU cites the Supreme Court order in Civil Appeal 2026 arising out of SLP (C) No. 18686 of 2023.

Nothing on this list is settled

AMRU’s own wording: the provisional allocation is “only indicative in nature and subject to change”, candidates “cannot claim any right over the allotted seat on the basis of provisional merit”, and it “cannot be challenged before the court of law”.

The notice also warns that a reserved category or quota claim survives only if the certificate is valid, current and in the format the prospectus specifies. An outdated or wrongly formatted certificate loses you the category benefit at verification, not at allotment. Get the paperwork corrected before you report.

Our Himachal cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college and category from earlier years, and the predictor works from your NEET rank. We covered the revised round 1 schedule earlier this month.

Source: Atal Medical and Research University, Himachal Pradesh. Notice No. AMRU/(COE)-Admission-120/2026-27(MBBS/BDS)-4856 dated 27.08.2026, and the Provisional Seat Allocation of MBBS/BDS 1st Round Counselling 2026-27, released 27 August 2026. Figures here were computed by parsing all 948 rows of the allocation list.