About 1,823 MBBS seats are expected to be open in the NEET UG 2026 mop-up round — 313 in government colleges (All India and central quotas) and 1,510 in deemed universities (management, NRI and minority seats). We traced every MBBS seat through MCC counselling: how many seats each college had in Round 1, how many students joined, what opened and was freed in Round 2 and Round 3, and what is left. Tap How? on any row to see the maths. Updated 5 Oct 2026.
In Round 3, management seats at several deemed universities were filled beyond MCC's published vacancies, and the difference matches, college by college, NRI seats that were still vacant. In Round 2 this did not happen at any college. Offering vacant NRI seats as management seats is an approved MCC process: deemed universities can request it and MCC approves it (for example, MCC notice of 25 Aug 2018). It is routine and says nothing about a college's quality or conduct.
Top 25 colleges by MBBS seats expected left after Round 3. Open a college to see its seat maths step by step.
| State | Government | Deemed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu | 25 | 1,028 | 1,053 |
| Puducherry | 2 | 392 | 394 |
| Maharashtra | 36 | 34 | 70 |
| Karnataka | 19 | 24 | 43 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 34 | 4 | 38 |
| Telangana | 20 | 5 | 25 |
| West Bengal | 25 | 0 | 25 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 18 | 2 | 20 |
| Kerala | 13 | 2 | 15 |
| Rajasthan | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Haryana | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Odisha | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Assam | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Punjab | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Uttarakhand | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Gujarat | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| Delhi | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Bihar | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Jharkhand | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Jammu And Kashmir | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Chhattisgarh | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Tripura | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Goa | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mizoram | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Manipur | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Chandigarh | 1 | 0 | 1 |
MCC’s official stray vacancy round seat matrix lists 3,426 MBBS seats: 2,181 at deemed universities and 1,245 at government and other colleges. Before it was published, we projected about 1,823 seats, assuming every student allotted in Round 3 would join; the official figure is higher, most likely because many did not. Always check MCC’s list on mcc.nic.in; it is final.
Because seats also open during the round. When a student who had joined a college in Round 1 gets a better college in Round 2, their old seat is freed and MCC gives it to someone else in the same round. Example: at JSS Medical College, Mysore, 63 management seats were open and 7 were freed, so 70 were filled.
Deemed universities offer NRI seats that stay empty as management seats. In Round 3, 750 empty NRI seats at deemed universities were filled as management seats in Round 3, and 271 NRI seats are still empty after Round 3 — these are likely to be offered as management seats in the mop-up.
In Round 3, MCC gave PwD seats that no PwD candidate took to candidates of the same category. We count them the same way, so an unfilled OBC-PwD seat is counted as an OBC seat.
No. It is WhiteCoatGuru’s projection from MCC’s official Round 1, Round 2 and Round 3 seat matrices and allotment results. MCC publishes the official mop-up seat matrix on mcc.nic.in, which is the final authority.
