Maharashtra MBBS Colleges, Fees and NEET Cutoffs for 2026 Candidates

For a 2026 Maharashtra MBBS applicant, the single most important planning point is this: the latest fully official state fee orders publicly visible as of 24 June 2026 are still for academic year 2025–26, while the 2026–27 counselling schedule for Maharashtra MBBS/BDS had not yet been published on the medical-admission pages I checked.

For a 2026 Maharashtra MBBS applicant, the single most important planning point is this: the latest fully official state fee orders publicly visible as of 24 June 2026 are still for academic year 2025–26, while the 2026–27 counselling schedule for Maharashtra MBBS/BDS had not yet been published on the medical-admission pages I checked. In parallel, NEET UG 2026's original 3 May 2026 exam was cancelled by NTA on 12 May 2026 following paper-leak/malpractice findings, and re-conducted in full as a fresh exam ('Re-NEET') on 21 June 2026, so final 2026 counselling timelines were still moving when this report was prepared. That means the best “current” planning baseline is: use 2025–26 official Maharashtra fee orders, use 2025 college-level cutoffs as the most relevant recent behavior signal, and then watch NTA, MCC, State CET Cell, and DMER for live 2026 notices. 

On the administration side, the prompt’s “DMER/DTE” wording needs a correction for 2026 candidates: in practice, Maharashtra MBBS admissions are run through the State Common Entrance Test Cell, under the Maharashtra admissions law; DMER hosts many medical-college notices, fee PDFs, and institute pages; MCC runs 15% AIQ for eligible government seats and 100% deemed university counselling. DTE is not the main MBBS counselling authority in Maharashtra. 

In competitiveness terms, the 2025 Maharashtra government-college open-category state-quota market ranged from Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai at AIR 1,361 / 600 marks in Round 1 to Government Medical College, Gadchiroli at AIR 42,318 / 509 in Round 1 and AIR 47,806 / 504 in Round 3. The premium deemed-college market ranged from Symbiosis Medical College for Women, Pune at AIR 47,592 / 504 to several Maharashtra deemed colleges in the 3.0–3.3 lakh AIR / 326–346 score band for Round 1 management seats, while newer or broader-market deemed options went much deeper. For private colleges, the most helpful currently indexed signals are mixed: the latest reliable counselling portal snippets clearly show KJ Somaiya at AIR 32,428 / 519 at one end and Vedantaa, Palghar reaching AIR 95,521 / 467 in one published private-state-quota view, while later institutional and NRI routes can go substantially lower. 

For money, the state is extremely bimodal. In government colleges, the 2025–26 official MBBS fee for an open-category candidate above the income threshold was ₹1,62,100 per year plus hostel rent of ₹4,000, whereas eligible scholarship categories could pay much less depending on category, income and gender. In private colleges, the latest official Maharashtra 2025–26 FRA-backed list spans roughly ₹6.215 lakh to ₹15.57 lakh total annual fee among the colleges already published, with additional colleges still pending formal fee publication at that time. In deemed universities, the currently indexed 2026 fee pages show a broad regular-seat band of about ₹10 lakh to ₹27 lakh per year, with hostel/mess usually extra and NRI pricing much higher. 

The most practical budget takeaway is straightforward. A realistic 5-year all-in government MBBS budget often lands around ₹13–15 lakh for a non-subsidized student living in hostel conditions. A realistic private-state-quota budget is commonly around ₹53–73 lakh. A realistic deemed / full-management budget is more often ₹1.2–1.47 crore, and private/deemed NRI pathways can be much higher still. 

What 2026 candidates need to know right now

The immediate 2026 reality is unusually dynamic. NTA's public notices show that NEET UG 2026 was conducted on 3 May 2026, then officially cancelled on 12 May 2026 due to integrity concerns, and fully re-conducted as Re-NEET on 21 June 2026, with admit-card and procedural notices continuing through mid-June. As of late June 2026, NTA had not announced an exact result date; independent trackers estimate late July to late August 2026. As of this report date, that means 2026 aspirants should assume that final result normalization, counselling calendars, and therefore state allotment timelines may settle later than in a normal year. 

For Maharashtra specifically, the official portals visible in June 2026 already show general 2026–27 admission infrastructure, but the medical-admission pages were still primarily showing 2025–26 MBBS notices and fee PDFs rather than a full 2026–27 MBBS brochure/schedule. That is why a 2026 candidate should monitor four places in parallel: NEET NTA for results, MCC for AIQ/deemed counselling, State CET Cell Maharashtra for official Maharashtra CAP operations, and DMER Maharashtra for medical-college and fee notices. 

The best official benchmark for how Maharashtra moves once counselling starts is still the 2025 cycle. In the revised 2025 Maharashtra MBBS/BDS Round 1 schedule, the state notified publication of the provisional merit list and seat matrix on 6 August 2025, with preference filling from 8 to 11 August 2025. That is not a 2026 date commitment, but it is the cleanest official state benchmark currently available. 

Verified college list for Maharashtra MBBS

The master list below is compiled from the official DMER medical-college page for government institutions, the NMC MBBS list / seat-matrix references as the recognition frame, and the most complete 2026 state-institute directories that were publicly indexable on the date of research. One caveat matters: the non-government college count is inconsistent across indexed portals because some very new colleges appear in institute directories before fee/cutoff pages are fully updated. I therefore flag newer colleges where fee/cutoff publication is still incomplete.

Government colleges

Source note: the 35 DMER-run government colleges and attached hospitals come directly from the official DMER institute page; the larger 43-college government view, including AIIMS Nagpur, AFMC Pune, municipal colleges, and the newest publicly indexed colleges, comes from the Maharashtra 2026 state-institute directory cross-checked against NMC references. 

Private colleges

Source note: the private college name/seat/affiliation list comes from the 2026 Maharashtra institute directory; the latest official 2025–26 private fee order comes from DMER’s FRA-backed PDF, while a separate 2026 portal page provides indicative values for colleges not present in the 2025–26 official PDF. Rows marked “not indexed” are precisely the colleges where the public fee trail is incomplete as of 24 June 2026. 

Deemed colleges

Source note: the deemed-college list, fees, seat split and 2025 management-cutoff reference points come from a Maharashtra 2026 deemed-college directory that explicitly states it is using MCC archive data for cutoffs and tracks seat-split by college. This is not a substitute for final MCC round PDFs, but it is the cleanest currently indexed college-wise deemed snapshot for 2026 planning. 

Fees analysis

The official Maharashtra government MBBS fee order for 2025–26 is uniform by state policy rather than college-specific. For an open-category male/female candidate with income above ₹8 lakh, the official chart shows ₹1,52,100 tuition + listed ancillary charges = ₹1,62,100 total per year, plus ₹4,000 hostel rent per year after allotment. For eligible SC/ST and VJ/NT candidates under the scholarship framework, the payable amount shown on the chart is ₹10,000. For the EWS / OBC / SEBC scholarship block, the chart shows ₹10,000 for female candidates and ₹86,050 for male candidates. The state also notes that other fees may be charged by the college as per college and university rules. 

The official Maharashtra 2025–26 private MBBS fee order covers the colleges whose fees had been finalized by the Fee Regulating Authority at that point. In that list, the lowest published total annual fee was Dr N. Y. Tasgaonkar at ₹6.215 lakh, while the highest published 2025–26 annual fee was Vedantaa Institute of Medical Sciences at ₹15.57 lakh. The same official PDF explicitly says that remaining colleges’ fees were not yet decided and that an ad-hoc fee of ₹8.5 lakh applied for 2025–26 where fees were pending, subject to FRA updates. 

In the deemed segment, the currently indexed 2026 pages show a much wider and much more capital-intensive market. Symbiosis Medical College for Women is the outlier at ₹10 lakh/year, Pravara’s Rural Medical College is around ₹19 lakh/year, and most of the rest of the Maharashtra deemed universe clusters around ₹22 lakh to ₹27 lakh per year. That same indexed deemed-fees page also gives a practical add-on estimate of ₹1.2–2.5 lakh/year for hostel + mess and ₹25,000–₹1,00,000 as one-time admission fee. 

Top fees table

For NRI/IQ-style pricing, the currently indexed Maharashtra private portal shows examples ranging from roughly ₹22.75 lakh up to ₹60.10 lakh per year, with KJ Somaiya, Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh, Walawalkar, SMBT and some Navale-family entries among the higher published numbers. Treat those as verification-required before payment, because NRI pages change faster than competent-authority fee sheets. 

Cutoff analysis

The most important analytical point for 2026 candidates is that college cutoffs are best interpreted through AIR plus score, not marks alone. Maharashtra’s recent cycles show how much raw marks can shift from year to year with paper difficulty and national score compression. For example, the indexed state portal summary shows Maharashtra government-college state-quota UR at AIR 33,359 / 642 in 2024, while 2025 state-open Round 3 for some new government colleges went down to around AIR 47,806 / 504. That does not mean those colleges suddenly collapsed in preference by the same magnitude; it mostly means comparing marks across years is dangerous without comparing AIR.

Official Maharashtra cutoff PDFs publish AIR and marks, not percentiles, in their legend and tables. Because of that, and because collegewise percentiles are not the standard official publication format, the most reliable planning framework for 2026 is AIR-first, marks-second. 

Government colleges cutoff comparison for 2025

The table below is the strongest fully indexed collegewise cutoff table currently available for Maharashtra government colleges: 2025 state-quota open category, Round 1 and Round 3, excluding AFMC and AIIMS because they follow special/all-India pathways. 

Deemed colleges cutoff comparison for 2025

The table below uses the currently indexed Maharashtra deemed-college round-1 management figures sourced from a page that explicitly references MCC archive data. These are not “state quota” cutoffs, because deemed colleges are filled through MCC’s all-India deemed process. 

Private colleges cutoff comparison for 2025

For private colleges, the cleanest fully indexed current table I could retrieve is expected 2025 cutoff-rank guidance, not an official final Maharashtra last-admitted PDF. I am keeping it because it is still useful strategically, but it should be treated as planning guidance only until matched against Maharashtra allotment lists. 

The big lesson from the private table is not just “what is the rank,” but how scattered the market is. In the same state, one private college may behave like a semi-premium option and another may go far deeper, especially in later rounds or non-state routes. That spread is why college-specific choice-filling matters much more in Maharashtra than broad “private college” assumptions. 

Top cutoff table

Using the currently indexed 2025 government state-quota and all-India special-college signals, the most competitive Maharashtra MBBS options still cluster around Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur. AFMC is listed separately because admission does not reduce to a simple NEET-only closing rank. 

Admission process and important dates

Maharashtra MBBS admissions sit inside a layered system. Government colleges broadly split into 15% AIQ via MCC and 85% state quota via Maharashtra CAP, while private colleges are generally handled across state quota, management/institutional quota, and NRI/IQ routes under the state system. Deemed universities are filled through MCC’s 100% deemed-university counselling, with no Maharashtra domicile restriction in the way state quota works. 

The legal and administrative base is the Maharashtra Unaided Private Professional Educational Institutions Regulation of Admissions and Fees Act, 2015, under which the State CET Cell operates. This matters for candidates because it is why fees, seat types, and CAP procedures are centrally regulated rather than college-by-college in the normal state process. 

For 2026, the dates you can say with confidence today are the NEET-side dates already on the official NTA site: original NEET UG exam on 3 May 2026 (subsequently cancelled on 12 May 2026), re-conducted exam on 21 June 2026, re-exam admit-card notice on 14 June 2026. Result expected late July–August 2026 (not yet officially dated as of this report), and post-exam documentary notices continuing into June. For Maharashtra CAP, the safe message is: check daily after results, because the state’s 2026–27 MBBS/BDS bulletin and schedule were not yet visible on the medical-admission portal when this report was written. The nearest official benchmark remains the 2025 Round 1 pattern: merit list and seat matrix on 6 August; preference filling 8–11 August. 

A practical “seat matrix” planning rule for 2026 is this:

This is exactly why a 2026 candidate should maintain two parallel choice lists: one by AIR realism and another by annual family affordability ceiling. In Maharashtra, a student can be “rank-eligible” for a seat but still be budget-ineligible for that college family. 

Budget scenarios and applicant strategy

Budget scenarios

These estimates use the latest official/credible fee baselines visible now, assume a 5-year planning horizon for ease of family budgeting, and add modest cost-of-living estimates. In practice, MBBS is 4.5 academic years plus internship, and exact payment structures vary by institution, so these are scenario models, not fee invoices. 

What the trend says

The first big trend is seat expansion at the government end. Maharashtra’s indexed 2025 government table shows many new district-based colleges now admitting at the 504–518 mark band in later rounds, which is far lower than the old “Mumbai/Pune only” expectation that parents often carry. That makes the government sector more segmented than it used to be: elite metropolitan government colleges are still brutally competitive, but newer district government colleges have materially widened the seat window. 

The second big trend is that Maharashtra’s private market is unusually non-linear. A college like KJ Somaiya can behave closer to an upper private / semi-premium option, while another college in the same state can go much deeper in later or alternate quota pathways. This means students should stop thinking “private = one bracket” and start thinking private = multiple micro-markets based on location, brand, hospital, and the specific quota route. 

The third is that deemed colleges are not all the same either. Maharashtra has one very distinctive low-fee deemed outlier in Symbiosis, one relatively cheaper high-demand deemed anchor in Pravara, and then a large group in the ₹22–27L/year bracket where brand, city and perceived PG environment begin to drive cutoffs more than just fees. 

If I had to reduce the strategy for a 2026 candidate to one sentence, it would be this: build three ladders, not one. Ladder one: elite government. Ladder two: newer government + strong private regulated. Ladder three: deemed / management / NRI only if the family cap allows it without destroying financial flexibility for PG prep later. That last clause matters because MBBS is only the first major spend cycle in medicine. 

Narration script and supporting visuals

Script-ready narration

Opening

If you are a NEET 2026 aspirant targeting Maharashtra for MBBS, this is the state to understand in layers, not in headlines. Maharashtra gives you one of India’s biggest and most diverse MBBS ecosystems: top municipal and state government colleges in Mumbai and Pune, expanding district government colleges, a large private market, and one of the country’s biggest deemed-university clusters. But for 2026 candidates, there is one twist: as of late June 2026, the official Maharashtra 2026–27 MBBS counselling schedule was still not fully published, and NEET 2026 itself had its original exam cancelled over integrity concerns and was fully re-conducted on 21 June. So the safest way to plan is to use the latest official 2025–26 fee orders and the most recent 2025 cutoffs as your baseline, then update choices when NTA, MCC, CET Cell and DMER release live notices. 

Authority and process

First, let’s fix the authority confusion. Maharashtra MBBS counselling is not run by DTE. The operational authority is the State CET Cell under the Maharashtra admissions law, while DMER hosts many medical notices and fee PDFs. MCC handles 15 percent AIQ government seats and 100 percent deemed university counselling. So if you are a Maharashtra government-college aspirant, you usually track both MCC and the state. If you are targeting deemed colleges in Maharashtra, you track MCC first. 

How many colleges

Now the scale. The public 2026 directories currently visible show 43 government-side MBBS colleges in Maharashtra if you include AIIMS Nagpur and AFMC Pune, and they show a large non-government segment made up of private and deemed colleges, with 15 deemed colleges clearly identifiable in the current Maharashtra deemed list. The exact non-government count varies slightly by indexed source because some newer colleges appear in directories before their fee and cutoff pages are fully stabilized. That is why students should always verify the newest colleges separately. 

Government fees and cutoffs

Let’s talk government economics first, because that is where the dream remains most rational financially. The official Maharashtra government fee chart for 2025–26 puts the open-category annual MBBS payment at ₹1.62 lakh plus hostel rent of ₹4,000, and scholarship-linked categories can be drastically cheaper. But the price advantage comes with fierce competition. In the 2025 state-open Round 1 table, Seth GS Medical College in Mumbai closed at AIR 1,361 with 600 marks, BJ Medical College Pune at 3,164 and 582, Lokmanya Tilak at 3,342 and 581, and Topiwala National at 4,789 and 573. So the elite Mumbai-Pune belt is still highly selective. 

Newer government colleges

But here is the real strategic shift for 2026: Maharashtra’s newer district government colleges have widened the realistic government window. By Round 3 in 2025, colleges like Gadchiroli, Bhandara, Hingoli, Washim and Buldhana were in roughly the 504 to 510 score band, while a broader lower-mid government cluster sat in the low 520s. That means a student who is not in the top urban-government bracket can still stay alive for Maharashtra government options if they rank colleges intelligently and keep district choices open. 

Private colleges

Now private colleges. Maharashtra private MBBS pricing is much more scattered than students assume. The official 2025–26 state fee order shows colleges like Dr N. Y. Tasgaonkar around ₹6.215 lakh, SSPM around ₹7.64 lakh, Terna around ₹7.9 lakh, Prakash around ₹8.51 lakh, and Vedantaa all the way up at ₹15.57 lakh. On the currently indexed 2026 fee page, KJ Somaiya is shown around ₹12 lakh, Dr Vasantrao Pawar around ₹11.96 lakh, and some colleges still do not have a clean public fee trail yet because they are new or pending. So there is no single “private Maharashtra fee.” 

Private cutoffs

Private cutoffs are equally scattered. The currently indexed planning tables show KJ Somaiya around the 51 to 52 thousand AIR band, Terna around 49 thousand, DUPMC Jalgaon around 50 thousand, but Vedantaa much deeper, and some later-round or alternate-route admissions can go far below the early-round state-quota comfort zone. In other words, private Maharashtra behaves like multiple sub-markets, not one market. 

Deemed colleges

The deemed segment is where Maharashtra becomes a national destination. There are 15 clearly indexed deemed MBBS colleges in the current Maharashtra list, and their fees mostly cluster from ₹22 lakh to ₹27 lakh per year, with two famous exceptions: Symbiosis Medical College for Women at ₹10 lakh and Pravara’s Rural Medical College at ₹19 lakh. In cutoffs, Symbiosis was the most competitive of the currently indexed Maharashtra deemed options in 2025 Round 1 management at AIR 47,592 and 504 marks, Pravara at 124,946 and 448, MGM Aurangabad around 208,996 and 401, and several D. Y. Patil, Datta Meghe, Krishna and Bharati Vidyapeeth options in the 3 to 4.4 lakh AIR band. That tells you Maharashtra deemed colleges are not one-tier either; they have a real internal hierarchy.

Budget advice

If you are building a family budget, think in bands. A government-college MBBS in Maharashtra can still be done in roughly ₹13 to ₹15 lakh over five years for a non-subsidized hostel student. A private state-quota degree often lands around ₹53 to ₹73 lakh all-in. A deemed seat is more likely to cost ₹1.2 crore to ₹1.47 crore over five years, and NRI routes can move much higher. So before counselling even opens, every student needs a clear spending ceiling. It is pointless to shortlist 30 colleges if only 7 are actually affordable. 

Closing

So the 2026 Maharashtra playbook is simple: track NTA and MCC first because the re-exam changed the clock, then watch CET Cell and DMER daily for the 2026 state brochure and CAP schedule. Build one list for elite government, one for realistic government and regulated private, and one for deemed only if the budget supports it. And when comparing years, use AIR first and score second, because raw marks move much more than students think. Maharashtra rewards applicants who combine realism with range. 

Suggested visuals

Use these visuals in the video to keep the information digestible:

A simple chart idea for the government-cutoff section:

Data gaps and assumptions

A few data limits materially affect 2026 planning, and I want them stated plainly.

The first is timing. The 2026–27 Maharashtra MBBS/BDS brochure, full seat matrix and fee orders were not yet publicly visible on the medical-admission pages I checked on 24 June 2026, so this report uses the latest available official baseline: 2025–26 government and private fee orders, plus the most recent indexed college-level 2025 cutoff behavior.

The second is publication format. Official Maharashtra cutoff PDFs publish AIR and marks, not percentile, and the biggest official PDFs are not consistently machine-readable in a collegewise way through search indexing. That is why this report is strongest on government 2025 and deemed 2025 collegewise tables, but more cautious on private 2025 collegewise cutoffs, where I had to use clearly labeled portal guidance for part of the picture. 

The third is new-college consistency. A handful of newer private colleges appear in institute directories before they appear consistently in fee and cutoff pages. I therefore flagged rows such as Malati, Sri Ramchandra Institute of Medical Sciences, and Sakhubai Narayanrao Katkade as verification-required rather than pretending that a stable fee/cutoff history already exists publicly. 

The fourth is special institutions. AIIMS Nagpur and AFMC Pune do not behave exactly like ordinary Maharashtra state-quota colleges. AIIMS is an all-India central institution, and AFMC uses an institutional selection process beyond raw NEET rank. So they belong in any serious Maharashtra discussion, but not in a simplistic apples-to-apples state-cutoff table. 

Finally, the budget table assumes a 5-year family planning horizon rather than a rigid college accounting cycle, because that is how most families think. Actual billing may be over 4.5 academic years plus internship, and some colleges change hostel/mess billing, one-time deposits, or fee escalation rules. Wherever the public source itself signaled uncertainty, I preserved that uncertainty rather than smoothing it away. 

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