Four seat types, four price realities.
The quota you target changes who allots your seat and what you pay. Each example fee below is read from an official document and marked verified where we hold the source.
Government
₹1,628 – ₹60,000 / yr
MCC (15% AIQ) + your state authority (85%)
AIIMS New Delhi: ₹1,628/yr — verified vs the official prospectus. ✓
The most subsidised seats in world medicine — won by rank, not budget. Watch for state service bonds.
Govt seat in a private college
≈ ₹1.5L / yr
State quota (e.g. KEA in Karnataka)
Karnataka 2024-25: ₹1,54,321/yr, uniform — verified vs the official KEA fee table. ✓
The least-known bargain: a government-priced seat inside a private campus.
Private quota
≈ ₹8 – 22L / yr
State authority (private/management rounds)
Verified KEA 2024-25: St John’s ₹8.1L · KIMS ₹12.0L · BGS ₹22.2L per year. ✓
Varies wildly by college and state; fee-regulating authorities cap part of it.
Deemed / Management / NRI
≈ ₹13 – 45L+ / yr
100% through MCC (deemed); state rounds (mgmt/NRI)
Verified KEA “Others” quota 2024-25: ₹30.1L – ₹45.4L per year. ✓
NRI fees are often set in USD. Demand the full multi-year schedule in writing.
Plus central / ESIC / minority seats: central institutes (AIIMS-style intake), ESIC beneficiary seats, and minority-institution quotas, each with their own rules. See indicative bands on the fees page.
Every government seat splits 15 / 85.
15% of government seats go to the central All India Quota (run by the MCC); the other 85% stay with your state authority. Register for both — they run in parallel.
Who the 15% is actually reserved for.
Within the All India Quota, seats are split by category before rank ever decides. These percentages apply WITHIN the AIQ only — your state’s 85% quota runs its own reservation lists, which differ state to state.
The seat pool, split by who owns the college.
The 15/85 rule shapes government seats — but most MBBS seats sit outside government colleges entirely. This is the live 2025-26 pool, grouped by the NMC management type. Bar widths are proportional to each type’s official seat count.
Widths ∝ official 2025-26 seats · 1,26,725 seats total.Open the full college directory →
NMC seat matrix (13 Oct 2025) official PDF ↗
Two rules that quietly rewrite who’s eligible.
Beyond the headline quotas sit a handful of rules that decide real allotments — especially in deemed universities and for NRI / OCI candidates. Each is drawn straight from the MCC bulletin.
Deemed universities carry no SC/ST/OBC/EWS reservation.
Per the Supreme Court order of 12 Dec 2022 (Dar-Us-Slam), the MCC runs all four rounds for 100% of deemed-university seats — but those seats have no category reservation at all. Certain deemed universities may hold Jain or Muslim minority seats; verify per university, and note unfilled minority seats convert to unreserved.
OCI cardholders sit at par with Indian citizens.
NRI seats exist in deemed universities and at AMU; unfilled NRI seats convert (in AIQ to unreserved; in deemed, after Round 3, to private-deemed unreserved). OCI cardholders are treated at par with Indian citizens — eligible for both General and NRI seats (per SC Anushka Rengunthwar, 03.02.2023). The bulletin does not specify NRI sponsor documentation — that is set by each university or state prospectus, so confirm it there.
Six quotas the MCC also touches.
The MCC bulletin lists special-category routes that rarely make it into coaching talks — yet for the right candidate, each is a real extra door. One line each; confirm the exact terms in the current bulletin before you count on one.
DU / Delhi quota
LHMC, UCMS & MAMC contribute 15% to AIQ; the rest — including the internal quota — is allotted via MCC.
Delhi central institutes
VMMC & SJH and ABVIMS & RML — NCT-Delhi candidates are eligible for the 85% state-quota portion.
ESIC — Insured Persons
A domicile-free ‘Ward of IP’ quota; needs the ESIC ‘Ward of Insured Person’ certificate.
AMU
Open + NRI + internal seats; internal is reserved for AMU candidates, and only PwD 5% applies on the open seats.
BHU
100% open and domicile-free, run with central reservation throughout.
AFMC
MCC registers candidates only — AFMC runs its own separate counselling and selection.
How to choose the right quota for you.
Lead with your rank, then your budget
A rank that reaches a government seat (AIQ or state) almost always wins on cost and value. Target those first.
Use domicile where you have it
The 85% state quota is usually less competitive for in-state candidates — don’t leave it unused.
Treat deemed / management / NRI as budget-led
They open up many more seats but at several lakh to tens of lakh per year — model the full course cost, not just one year.
Get the complete fee schedule in writing — for all years.
Ask for the full schedule (tuition, hostel, mess, caution deposit, exam fees) across every year, and ask about any service bond. Confirm the seat is allotted through the official counselling process — never via an “agent guarantee”. No one can guarantee a government seat; allotment is purely by rank and category.
Next steps.
Fee intelligence
Verified fee bands per seat type, with bonds, deposits and stipends — sourced and dated.
College predictor
See which seat types your rank can realistically reach against verified AIQ closing ranks.
NEET counselling
AIQ vs state quota, the round structure, and where students lose seats they could have had.
Seat-type questions, answered.
Which seat type is cheapest?
Government seats (AIQ or state quota) by a wide margin — often a few thousand to ₹50,000 a year, versus several lakh to tens of lakh per year for deemed, management and NRI seats. They are also the most competitive, which is why rank leads every honest seat-type decision.
What is the difference between a deemed and a private college?
Deemed universities hold university status and are counselled centrally by the MCC; state private colleges are counselled by the state (or consortiums like COMED-K). Both run management and NRI sub-quotas — the practical differences are who allots the seat, the fee structure, and which notification governs you.
Who can take an NRI-quota seat?
Rules vary by state and institution, but generally an NRI candidate or one sponsored by a close NRI relative, with documentation to prove it (status, relationship, funds). It is the costliest band and the most paperwork-heavy — verify the exact sponsorship definition in the current counselling notification before counting on it.
Should I use my home-state domicile?
Almost always yes. The 85% state quota is usually less competitive for in-state candidates than the all-India pool, and your domicile costs nothing to use. Register for your state counselling alongside AIQ — many students win their best seat there.
Which seat type fits your rank & budget?
A senior counsellor will walk you through your real options.