The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has released the seat matrix for the Special Stray Vacancy Round for MBBS and Round 5 for BDS and B.Sc Nursing under NEET UG 2026 counselling. The 13-page list shows 1,219 seats across states, deemed universities, central universities, ESIC institutes and AIIMS.

Course-wise Vacancy Summary

• MBBS: 946 seats
• BDS: 207 seats
• B.Sc Nursing: 66 seats
• Total: 1,219 seats

MBBS Seats

• Tamil Nadu accounts for most of the vacancies, with 686 self-financed merit seats in deemed universities. The largest are Shri Sathya Sai Medical College (188), Meenakshi Medical College (117), Sree Balaji Medical College (82), J R Medical College (73), Bhaarath Medical College (65), ACS Medical College (51) and Vinayaka Missions Kirupananda Variyar Medical College, Salem (50).
• Puducherry deemed universities have 186 seats. These include Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute (95) and Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences (88).
• Karnataka deemed universities have 25 MBBS seats, including 15 at Chettinad Institute of Medical Education and Research, Kolar.
• Maharashtra deemed universities have 13 MBBS seats. Datta Meghe Medical College, Nagpur has the most with 4.
• Government medical college seats are limited and mostly category-specific. Examples are Nalanda Medical College, Patna (BC PwD), Government Medical College, Korba (BC PwD), Shillong Medical College (SC), Sikkim Government Medical College (BC PwD), Government Medical College, Maheshwaram, Telangana (OP) and Late Jagjivan Ram Government Medical College, Pithoragarh (OP PwD).
• Central and national institutes: AIIMS Madurai has 1 EWS PwD seat and AIIMS Rishikesh has 1 SC seat. ESIC Medical College, Joka has 1 BC PwD seat, and UCMS & GTB Hospital, Delhi has 1 Delhi University Quota seat.
• Newly added seats: The matrix includes the 1 NRI seat at HIMSR, New Delhi and the 1 OBC PwD seat at Stanley Medical College, Chennai.

BDS Seats

• Karnataka: 27 seats, including 10 NRI seats at Yenepoya Dental College and 6 at ESIC Dental College, Gulbarga.
• Maharashtra: 54 seats, mostly NRI seats at deemed universities. These include Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College, Pune (11), School of Dental Sciences, KIMSDU Karad (9) and BVDU Dental College, Navi Mumbai (8).
• Tamil Nadu: 25 seats, including 13 NRI seats at Sri Ramachandra Dental College, Chennai and 5 at Government Dental College, Pudukkottai.
• Kerala: 18 seats across the government dental colleges at Alappuzha, Thrissur, Kannur, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram, plus Amrita School of Dentistry.
• West Bengal: 10 seats, including 8 at Burdwan Dental College & Hospital.
• Other states: Delhi (8), Tripura (8), Puducherry (8), Manipur (7), Madhya Pradesh (6), Odisha (4), Jammu & Kashmir (4), Assam (4), Andhra Pradesh (3), Chhattisgarh (3), Goa (3), Haryana (3) and Uttar Pradesh (3). Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan have 2 each. Jharkhand, Punjab and Telangana have 1 each.

B.Sc Nursing Seats

• Delhi: 38 seats across Safdarjung, Ahilya Bai, Dr. RML Hospital, Florence Nightingale, LHMC and RAK colleges of nursing
• Karnataka: 17 seats at ESIC College of Nursing, Gulbarga (11) and Indiranagar, Bengaluru (6), under the ESI-IP Quota
• Uttar Pradesh: 11 seats at College of Nursing, BHU, Varanasi

MCC NEET UG Special Stray Round 2026 Seat Matrix List PDF

What candidates should do

• Check the institute-wise, quota-wise and category-wise seat matrix on mcc.nic.in before choice filling.
• Pay attention to the category and PwD tags, because many seats are limited to specific categories such as SC, ST, BC, EWS or PwD.
• Note that most Tamil Nadu and Puducherry deemed university MBBS seats are self-financed merit seats. Check the fee structure and eligibility rules before choosing them.
• Follow the MCC website for schedule updates, result announcements and any further additions to the matrix.