Admission to government and private medical colleges in India is done through the NEET exam score. You can register for the NEET UG 2024 exam on the official website exams.nta.ac.in/NEET till March 16, 2024. Earlier the last date to apply for the exam was March 9, 2024, but was later extended.
According to media reports, till March 8, 2024, more than 25 lakh students had applied for NEET UG 2024 making it the highest number of applications to date. Last year, 20.87 lakh students had applied for the medical entrance exam. This year, the number of applicants has crossed 25 lakh even before the last date. The number of NEET UG applicants is expected to increase by March 16, 2024.
So far more than 25 lakh students have applied for the examination, which is about 4.20 lakh more than last year. More than 55 per cent of the applications have been made by female students. There are a total of 1,08,940 seats in medical colleges across India. The level of competition in the NEET UG 2024 is expected to be very high and the cut-off list is determined according to the number of applicants.
NEET UG will be held on May 5, 2024. According to the NTA exam calendar, the results will be released on June 14, 2024. By passing the exam, candidates will get admission to MBBS, BDS, BAMS, BHMS, BUMS, and other undergraduate medical courses in various medical colleges across the country. As of now, Tamil Nadu has the highest number of MBBS seats.
Number of seats in state-wise government and private medical colleges:
1- Andaman Nicobar- 114 seats in 1 medical college
2- Andhra Pradesh- 6485 seats in 37 medical colleges
3- Arunachal Pradesh- 50 seats in 1 medical college.
4- Assam- 1550 seats in 5 medical colleges
5- Bihar- 2765 seats in 21 medical colleges
6- Chandigarh- 150 seats in 1 medical college.
7- Chhattisgarh- 2005 seats in 14 medical colleges
8- Dadra and Nagar Haveli- 177 seats in 1 medical college.
9- Delhi- 1497 seats in 10 medical colleges
10- Goa- 180 seats in 1 medical college
11- Gujarat- 7150 seats in 40 medical colleges
12- Haryana- 2185 seats in 15 medical colleges.
13- Himachal Pradesh – 920 seats in 8 medical colleges
14- Jammu and Kashmir- 1339 seats in 12 medical colleges.
15- Jharkhand- 980 seats in 9 medical colleges
16- Karnataka- 11745 seats in 70 medical colleges
17- Kerala- 4655 seats in 33 medical colleges
18- Madhya Pradesh- 4800 seats in 27 medical colleges
19- Maharashtra- 10845 seats in 68 medical colleges
20- Manipur- 525 seats
21- Meghalaya – 50 seats
22- Mizoram – 100 seats
23- Nagaland- 100 seats
24- Odisha- 2525 seats in 17 medical colleges
25- Puducherry- 1830 seats
26- Punjab- 1800 seats in 12 medical colleges
27- Rajasthan- 5575 seats in 35 medical colleges.
28- Sikkim – 150 seats
29- Tamil Nadu- 11650 seats in 74 medical colleges.
30- Telangana- 8490 seats in 56 medical colleges
31- Tripura- 225 seats
32- Uttar Pradesh- 9903 seats in 68 medical colleges.
33- Uttarakhand- 1150 seats in 8 medical colleges
34- West Bengal- 5275 seats in 35 medical colleges
For admission in various courses of medical college, it is necessary to appear for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test. It was advised to apply for the NEET UG 2024 exam through an Aadhaar number. However many applicants had not linked their Aadhaar-mobile number and hence many were facing problems related to OTP. A large number of applicants had thereby asked NTA to extend the registration date.