The State Common Entrance Test Cell has issued Notice No. 11 along with a revised Group A seat matrix, both dated 25 August. Together they change which colleges you can choose in the first round, and what happens at three of them afterwards.
Three colleges will not be in the first round
The Medical Education and Drugs Department has informed the CET Cell that three private colleges have started the process of establishing themselves as private universities:
- Dr. Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundation’s Medical College, Ahilyanagar
- N.K.P. Salve Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur
- Ranjit Deshmukh Dental College and Research Centre, Nagpur
All three will not participate in the first admission round. They join a later round once the formalities for their private universities are complete. We checked the revised seat matrix against the notice, and all three are indeed absent from it.
What changes once they become private universities
This is the part that outlasts the round. Under Clause 9.3 of the NEET UG 2026 Information Brochure, three provisions then apply to these colleges:
- 40 per cent of institutional seats are reserved for candidates holding a Maharashtra Domicile Certificate.
- Fees are set by the Fee Fixation Committee constituted by the private university itself, rather than the arrangement that governs them today.
- Candidates admitted to these colleges are not eligible for any government scholarship or fee reimbursement scheme.
The third point is the one to weigh carefully. If you were counting on a state scholarship or fee reimbursement to make a private seat affordable, that support does not follow you to a college once it converts. Work out the cost without it before you rank one of these three in a later round.
The revised seat matrix
The Group A matrix published the same day covers 11,675 seats across 93 colleges. Its own printed totals reconcile exactly with the college-by-college figures, which is a good sign for a document revised mid-counselling.
| Course and college type | Colleges | Intake capacity |
|---|---|---|
| MBBS, government and aided | 42 | 5,950 |
| MBBS, private | 23 | 3,149 |
| BDS, private | 23 | 2,200 |
| BDS, government | 5 | 376 |
That is 9,099 MBBS seats and 2,576 BDS seats. Of the government MBBS intake, 950 seats go to the All India Quota and are allotted by the MCC rather than the state.
Note that intake capacity is not the same as the number of seats the state will allot to you. The AIQ share, and the institutional and minority quotas at private colleges, come out of these figures.
The final merit list is due on 26 August
The CET Cell website carries a notice that the final merit list for MBBS and BDS will be published on 26 August 2026. That is the list the first round allotment runs from.
Our Maharashtra cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type, and the predictor shows which seats your rank reaches.
Sources: State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra, Notice No. 11, ref. MED-1026/CR.No.83/NEET-UG-2026, dated 25/08/2026, signed by the Commissioner; and the Provisional Seat Matrix for MBBS/BDS Courses, Group A, printed 25/08/2026. Seat figures were computed by parsing all 93 college blocks of the matrix and reconcile exactly with its printed section totals. The 26 August merit list date is from the notice carried on the CET Cell website.