Maharashtra NEET Counselling Cutoff 2026: MBBS & BDS Closing Ranks, Category-wise and College-wise List

The Maharashtra NEET counselling cutoff 2026 will be released by the Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER), Maharashtra, after each round of CAP seat allotment - not before it. It covers roughly 10,145 MBBS seats and 3,526 BDS seats across the state's medical and dental colleges.

Two things make Maharashtra's cutoff different from most states, and misunderstanding them costs candidates seats:

1. Maharashtra publishes cutoffs as opening and closing ranks, not marks. Your planning has to be rank-based, not score-based.

2. There are two separate cutoffs. The qualifying cutoff is the national NEET percentile set by NTA. The admission cutoff is the closing rank at which a college actually stops admitting. Clearing the first tells you almost nothing about the second.

This year's cutoff runs on Re NEET 2026 scores, since the May 3 exam was cancelled and re-conducted on June 21, 2026, with the result expected in late July.

Maharashtra NEET Cutoff 2026 - Qualifying Percentile

Before any college rank matters, you must clear the national qualifying bar.

Clearing this only makes you eligible to enter CAP counselling. A General candidate at 144 marks has qualified NEET but is nowhere near a Maharashtra government MBBS seat - which closed around rank 17,000 at its most accessible college last year.

Maharashtra NEET Counselling Cutoff for MBBS 2025 - College-wise Closing Ranks (General, Round 1)

This is the most reliable planning data you have. These are DMER's official Round 1 opening and closing ranks for the General category.

Lowest Cutoff for MBBS in Maharashtra Government College

If you're searching for the easiest government MBBS seat to secure in Maharashtra, you're really asking which college has the highest closing rank - because a higher closing rank means a lower cutoff.

Based on the 2025 Round 1 General category data, the government colleges with the lowest cutoffs were:

The pattern is geographic and consistent: the further a college sits from Mumbai and Pune, the lower its cutoff. Seth GS (KEM) Mumbai closed at rank 1,361 while Miraj closed at 17,272 - a gap of nearly 16,000 ranks for the same MBBS degree from the same state pool.

The strategic implication is blunt. If your Re NEET 2026 rank lands between 10,000 and 17,000, a Mumbai government college is out of reach, but Miraj, Nagpur, Solapur, Baramati and Aurangabad are genuinely live options — provided you actually put them in your choice list. Candidates who fill only Mumbai and Pune colleges at that rank routinely go unallotted in Round 1.

Note also that these are Round 1 figures. Closing ranks loosen further in Round 2, Mop-Up and Stray Vacancy as candidates surrender seats, so the effective lowest cutoff by the final round is typically lower still.

Maharashtra NEET Counselling Cutoff for OBC

OBC candidates in Maharashtra sit inside a more layered reservation system than in most states. Alongside OBC, Maharashtra maintains separate vertical categories for VJ (Vimukta Jati), NT-1, NT-2, NT-3 and SBC, plus horizontal reservations for women, PwD, defence and orphan candidates.

What this means for your OBC cutoff in practice:

• The OBC closing rank is generally higher (i.e. a lower cutoff) than General at the same college, giving OBC candidates meaningful cushion.

• However, because Maharashtra splits reserved seats across OBC, VJ, NT and SBC pools, the OBC pool itself is competitive — you are not competing against all reserved candidates, only against OBC ones.

• Regional sub-quotas matter. Maharashtra allocates seats across Vidarbha, Marathwada, and the Rest of Maharashtra, so the OBC closing rank at Nagpur (Vidarbha) can differ noticeably from the OBC closing rank at a Mumbai college for the same category.

• OBC candidates must produce a valid caste certificate, caste-validity certificate and non-creamy-layer certificate at verification. An expired or missing validity certificate converts your seat to the open category — a common and avoidable loss.

DMER releases the official OBC-wise closing ranks alongside each round's allotment on the CAP portal. Use those, not General category figures, to judge your chances.

Maharashtra NEET BDS Cutoff 2025 - Closing Ranks (General, Round 1)

BDS closing ranks run dramatically wider than MBBS, and the gap between government and private dental colleges is enormous.

The four government dental colleges — Mumbai, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Jalgaon — all close under rank 94,000. Every private dental college beyond that stretches well past 1.2 lakh, with several closing beyond 3 lakh.

Factors That Will Move the Maharashtra NEET Cutoff 2026

• Re NEET 2026 difficulty — a harder paper compresses scores and shifts closing ranks

• Number of Maharashtra candidates qualifying — a larger state pool tightens every rank

• Total MBBS/BDS seats available — new NMC approvals can loosen cutoffs

• Reservation category — decisive in Maharashtra given OBC, VJ, NT, SBC and regional sub-quotas

• Counselling round — cutoffs drop steadily from CAP Round 1 through Mop-Up

• Choice-filling behaviour — remember, Maharashtra requires fresh choices every round; they do not carry forward