Uttar Pradesh Adds 950 MBBS and 271 PG Medical Seats for 2025-26
Uttar Pradesh has approved 950 new MBBS seats and 271 PG seats for 2025–26 to expand medical education and strengthen healthcare services. Of these, 200 MBBS seats are in government colleges and 750 in private colleges, taking the total MBBS capacity in the state to nearly 12,800 seats.
Sheetal Gaur1 Nov, 2025
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Uttar Pradesh has approved an increase of 950 MBBS seats and 271 postgraduate (PG) seats in medical colleges for the 2025 26 academic year. The move aims to strengthen the state’s healthcare system and expand medical training capacity.
Of the 950 new MBBS seats, 200 are in three government medical colleges and 750 in 12 private colleges. Autonomous State Medical College, Amethi, has gained 100 MBBS seats, while ESIC Medical College, Noida, and ESIC Medical College, Varanasi, have each received 50. With this addition, government colleges now offer 5,450 MBBS seats and private colleges 7,350, bringing the total to about 12,800 seats.
Postgraduate Training Expanded
Postgraduate training has also expanded, with 271 new MD and MS seats, 233 in government colleges and 38 at Narayan Medical College, Kanpur, in the private sector. The total PG capacity now stands at 2,137 seats in government colleges and 2,160 in private institutions.
The increase in both MBBS and PG seats is part of the state’s plan to improve healthcare delivery and address doctor shortages in urban and rural areas, while making medical education more widely available to students across Uttar Pradesh.
MBBS is an undergraduate medical degree required to become a doctor. In India, admission to this course is based on the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), a nationwide entrance examination. Students are allotted seats in government or private medical colleges according to their NEET rank. As the number of applicants has grown each year, competition has become tougher and the cut-off marks have increased significantly.
NEET UG is Held Once Every Year
NEET UG is held once every year for more than 66,000 MBBS and BDS seats. The National Testing Agency has been conducting the exam since 2019. Before that, it was organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education from 2013 to 2018.
The exam duration is three hours, and it is conducted in multiple languages, including English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.