File photo
This is in sharp contrast to central counselling, which left more than 800 seats in deemed universities unfilled. a late fee cut helped one private university fill more than 100 seats in the state’s final round While annual fees of up to ₹35 lakh kept students away from deemed universities. Open-category admissions closed at state rank 1,569, against 1,508 in 2025. The corresponding score rose to 571 out of 720 from 533. BC admissions closed at rank 3,682, against 3,381, with scores rising to 532 from 506. BCM admissions reached rank 4,495, against 3,770, while the score rose to 520 from 502. In self-financing colleges, where annual tuition for govt-quota students is up to ₹4.50 lakh, open-category admissions reached rank 4,894, against 4,466 last year. The BC closing rank moved to 7,963 from 7,888. BCM showed a larger shift, reaching 9,375 from 7,299, while MBC remained almost unchanged at 8,689, against 8,688. The BC closing rank nearly doubled to 17,888 from 8,986. MBC admissions reached 16,484, against 9,713, while BCM reached 12,300, against 8,483. Open-category admissions closed at 8,122, against 7,185. At Sri Venkateswaraa Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, the prescribed annual tuition for govt-quota students was ₹5.40 lakh, but the institution announced that it would charge ₹20 lakh, said student counsellor Manickavel Arumugam. “After three rounds, the college had more than 130 vacant seats. It then reduced the annual tuition to ₹7.40 lakh for govt-quota seats and ₹16.40 lakh for management-quota seats.
“Fee is one of the key factors in admissions,” he said. All seats were allotted,” he said. Chennai: The state selection committee allotted every MBBS seat under its counselling process by the end of the stray round. Closing ranks showed that in govt colleges, admissions reached further down the state merit list in the open, BC and BCM categories, even though the corresponding NEET scores rose. The largest shifts came in private universities.
SC, SCA and ST admissions closed at better ranks than last year.