The West Bengal Medical Counselling Committee has published its revised seat matrix for the first round of UG medical and dental counselling, printed on 25 August. We parsed the whole document, all 69 institute-and-quota columns, and every column’s category breakdown adds up exactly to its printed total.
What is on offer
| Course and quota | Institutes | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| MBBS, state quota | 40 | 4,645 |
| MBBS, private management quota | 15 | 1,806 |
| MBBS, NRI quota | 3 | 28 |
| BDS, state quota | 7 | 462 |
| BDS, private management quota | 4 | 200 |
That is 6,479 MBBS seats and 662 BDS seats, across 47 distinct institutes. By institute type the matrix carries 27 state government columns, 41 private university or institute columns, and one central government entry.
What the revision actually changed
We compared this matrix against the version published on 19 August. Exactly one thing changed, and it is worth knowing if it was on your list.
East West Institute of Medical Sciences and Research has been removed entirely, taking 100 MBBS seats out of the round: 33 from the state quota and 67 from the private management quota. No other institute was added, no seat count anywhere else moved, and the category splits are unchanged.
That accounts for the whole difference between the two documents, 7,241 seats on 19 August and 7,141 now. If you filled choices against the earlier matrix, this is the only line that has moved under you.
Read this as a counselling matrix, not a capacity list
This is the part that trips people up, so it is worth being plain about.
The matrix has columns for state quota, private management quota and NRI quota. It has no All India Quota column, because those seats are allotted by the MCC and not by the state. So the figure against a government college here is the number of seats West Bengal is filling, not the number of seats the college has.
If you compare a number from this document against a sanctioned-intake figure you found elsewhere, they will not match, and the matrix is not wrong for being smaller. A government college showing 209 seats here will have a larger total intake once the All India Quota share is added back.
Category breakdown
Each column is split across UR, EWS, OBC, SC and ST, each with a separate PwD line. The reserved shares are applied within the state quota, so a private college’s management quota column shows its seats largely undivided while its state quota column carries the full category split.
As always, compare a closing rank within your own category column. Ranks in a reserved column run deeper than the UR figure at the same college because the pool competing for those seats is smaller, which is how reservation is meant to work.
Our West Bengal cutoff pages carry closing ranks by college, category and seat type from previous years, and the predictor shows which of these seats your rank reaches.
Source: West Bengal Medical Counselling Committee, “Seat Matrix, Round No: 1”, West Bengal UG Medical and Dental Counselling 2026, printed 25/08/2026. Figures were computed by parsing all 69 columns of the matrix; each column’s category cells reconcile exactly with its printed total seats.