Telangana adds 769 PG medical seats for 2026-27

Telangana will get 769 more postgraduate (PG) medical seats for the 2026-27 academic year. The Hyderabad Mail reported this.

The Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) released the details on Friday.

It works under the National Medical Commission (NMC). The seats were approved across the country.

The seats cover government and private medical colleges under Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS).

The university is the body that will run admissions.

Key points

• Telangana gets 769 more PG medical seats for 2026-27.
• Government colleges get 300 seats, and private colleges get 469.
• The state total under KNRUHS reaches 4,185 seats.
• About 175 undergraduate (UG) seats are vacant in private colleges.

How many seats did government and private colleges get?

The Directorate of Medical Education (DME) had proposed 400 additional seats for government colleges.

The NMC approved 300 of them.

With this increase, government colleges will have 1,766 PG seats in total.

Private colleges received approval for 469 more, taking their total to 2,419.

Which colleges could offer these seats this year?

Medical colleges in Jayashankar Bhupalpally, Jagtial and other places in the state are also expected to offer PG seats this year.

Vice-chancellor Dr K. Ramesh Reddy said details of courses and seats for each college should become clear in one or two days.

What happens next for admissions and vacant seats?

KNRUHS has already issued the notification for PG admissions. It will release the merit list of eligible candidates.

Meanwhile, around 175 UG seats remain vacant in private colleges across the state.

KNRUHS has decided to fill them through a special stray vacancy round by November 16.

Sources

• hyderabadmail: Telangana adds 769 postgraduate medical seats for 2026-27