SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir will have 1,750 MBBS seats across 11 medical colleges for the 2026-27 academic session, 75 more than listed in the National Medical Commission’s earlier seat matrix issued in July.
The revised figures were published by the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) on September 18, 2026, as part of the NMC’s updated national seat matrix.
The matrix shows 1,600 seats in 10 government medical colleges and 150 seats in one private medical college in J&K. Of the government-sector seats, 1,425 are renewed seats while 175 have been listed as increased intake.
No additional private-sector seats have been approved in the revised matrix. The 150 private seats are the renewed intake approved for ASCOMS Jammu.
The updated figures come ahead of the counselling process for the 2026-27 academic session. The NMC has directed medical colleges to verify their respective entries in the revised matrix and instructed counselling authorities to allow admissions only against seats approved and notified by MARB.
The commission said no counselling committee should permit admissions beyond the number of seats approved and notified by MARB. Any discrepancy or deviation in the approved seat matrix has to be referred to the board.
Nationally, the revised matrix puts the total MBBS intake at 1,40,664 seats across 839 medical colleges, compared with 1,40,214 seats across 836 colleges in the previous matrix.
Government medical colleges account for 64,121 of the total seats, including 61,185 renewed seats and 2,936 seats approved as new intake this year.
Private medical colleges account for 76,543 seats, comprising 65,843 renewed seats and 10,700 increased seats.
The revised national matrix also includes 3,850 MBBS seats across 41 newly established medical colleges. Of these, 850 seats are in 13 new government medical colleges and 3,000 seats are in 28 new private medical colleges.
The NMC said the updated matrix incorporates permissions granted for establishing new medical colleges and reflects the annual intake capacity approved through the Medical Assessment and Rating Board, the first Appellate Committee of the NMC and the second Appellate Committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The latest national intake is 450 seats higher than the previous matrix.
