Karnataka MBBS Admission 2025-26: KEA Counselling, Cut-offs, Fees & Quotas

The Karnataka workbook contains 66 colleges, 1,692 long-form cutoff records, 220 college-route rows, and 66 official-fee rows. The figures below are historical NEET UG 2025 counselling evidence for planning; they are not a promise of a future allotment.

MBBS seats in Karnataka are not covered by one single quota or one single cutoff.

The Karnataka Examinations Authority—KEA—conducts counselling for multiple seat categories, including:

• •Government seats in government medical colleges
• •Government-quota seats in private medical colleges
• •Private seats for Karnataka candidates
• •Private Open seats accessible to candidates from across India
• •Religious and linguistic minority seats
• •NRI seats
• •Other or Q-category seats
• •Special-category seats in St. John’s Medical College

Therefore, the admission route available to a student depends on:

1. 1.NEET UG All India Rank
2. 2.Karnataka eligibility or domicile status
3. 3.Reservation category
4. 4.Rural, Kannada-medium or Kalyana Karnataka eligibility
5. 5.Minority or NRI documents
6. 6.Annual fee affordability
7. 7.The quota selected during KEA option entry

NEET UG qualification is compulsory for MBBS admission, while KEA determines the eligible seat categories and performs the Karnataka counselling process. See the official KEA UG NEET 2025 portal linked below.

A student satisfying Karnataka’s government-seat eligibility conditions may compete for:

• •Government MBBS seats in government colleges
• •Government-quota seats in private colleges
• •Karnataka reservation categories
• •Rural reservation
• •Kannada-medium reservation
• •Kalyana Karnataka or Article 371J reservation
• •GMP private seats
• •OPN private seats
• •Minority seats, when eligible
• •NRI or Other seats, when eligible

A non-Karnataka Indian student may generally compete for:

• •OPN private seats
• •Other or Q-category seats
• •Religious-minority seats, subject to minority eligibility and Karnataka priority rules
• •NRI seats, subject to valid NRI eligibility
• •Applicable St. John’s categories, where the institutional rules permit

A non-Karnataka candidate cannot normally claim:

• •Karnataka Government quota
• •Government-quota seats in private colleges
• •GMP seats
• •Karnataka SC, ST, Category 1, 2A, 2B, 3A or 3B reservation
• •Rural reservation
• •Kannada-medium reservation
• •Article 371J reservation
• •Karnataka linguistic-minority benefits

The official KEA guidelines distinguish Government, Private, NRI and Other seats and prescribe different eligibility conditions for each route. See the official KEA UG NEET 2025 portal linked below.

The fees are annual figures reproduced from the KEA 2025–26 fee data used for this analysis. Hostel, mess, refundable deposit and miscellaneous college charges may be additional. KEA’s counselling guidelines direct students to follow the officially notified fee structure for the relevant admission year. See the official KEA UG NEET 2025 portal linked below.

Government-quota seats in Karnataka private medical colleges are often described as semi-government MBBS seats.

The medical college is privately managed, but the seat:

• •is allotted by KEA;
• •follows Karnataka Government-seat eligibility;
• •carries Karnataka category reservation;
• •has a much lower fee than the college’s ordinary private seat; and
• •is usually available only to eligible Karnataka candidates.

For many private colleges, the official annual Government-quota fee was approximately:

• •₹1,53,571, or
• •₹1,56,621

A few newly structured or special institutions had different Government-quota fees.

These seats should not be shown to a non-Karnataka candidate merely because their NEET rank is within the cutoff.

GMP is a Karnataka-linked private-seat route.

A student must satisfy the applicable Karnataka eligibility conditions. The candidate is not automatically eligible merely because they are an Indian citizen or have a suitable NEET rank.

Use GMP in a predictor only when:

Karnataka GMP eligibility = verified

OPN is the principal all-India private-seat route under KEA.

A NEET-qualified Indian student from West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan or another state may compete for OPN seats.

Use:

Quota: Private OPN
Domicile required: No
Selection basis: NEET All India Rank
Reservation: No Karnataka category benefit

A non-Karnataka candidate should be compared with the OPN cutoff, not the Government, GM, GMP, SC, ST, OBC or Article 371J cutoff.

Other seats are high-fee seats filled through KEA.

They are generally accessible to NEET-qualified candidates from across India, subject to the applicable citizenship and eligibility rules. They are distinct from NRI seats.

Q-category seats may continue to very high AIRs during late vacancy rounds because:

• •the annual fee is high;
• •some students do not report;
• •a seat becomes vacant very late;
• •immediate fee payment may be required;
• •the college or location may be less preferred.

A final Q-seat rank above 10 lakh must not be presented as a normal or safe admission rank.

NRI seats require separate documentary eligibility.

Depending on the applicable route, KEA may require documents such as:

• •Candidate’s passport
• •Sponsor’s passport
• •Visa or residence permit
• •Proof of NRI status
• •Relationship certificate
• •Sponsorship affidavit
• •NRI or foreign bank documents
• •OCI or PIO documentation, where applicable
• •Candidate’s educational and NEET records

A high NEET rank alone does not make a student eligible for NRI quota. KEA publishes separate document requirements for NRI and NRI Ward candidates. See the official KEA UG NEET guidelines and NRI notices linked below.

Karnataka has a much more detailed category structure than a simple General, OBC, SC and ST system.

A college predictor must preserve the exact KEA category code. It should not automatically treat every Category 2A candidate as eligible for 2AR, 2AK, 2AH or 2ARH.

The following are the highest numerical AIRs identified within each major route after considering the available regular and late counselling rounds.

Use the official notices for the active admission year before registration, option entry, fee payment or reporting. The 2025 workbook distinguishes official final records from the Round 2 provisional fallback retained where a reliably retrievable final medical PDF was unavailable during extraction.

1. 1.Identify the seat route before looking at a cutoff.
2. 2.Verify domicile, category, minority, NRI, gender and special-category documents.
3. 3.Compare the exact fee for the active year, including deposits, hostel, mess and other charges.
4. 4.Treat the highest AIR in a table as a historical last observed allotment, not a guaranteed admission threshold.
5. 5.Recheck the current official notice immediately before registration and fee payment.