Maharashtra MBBS and BDS Admission 2026-27 —
CAP Round 2 Open, Joining by 18 September
MAHACET's Notice No. 13, dated 5 September 2026, opens CAP Round 2 for MBBS/BDS (Group A), to fill seats left vacant after Round 1. The Round 2 seat matrix publishes 7 September, online choice/preference filling runs 8–10 September (11:59 PM), the selection list is declared 12 September, and physical joining runs 13–18 September (excluding 14 September). CAP Round 1 is complete — it was declared 30 August and joining closed 4 September. Full detail below.
Last verified · 12 September 2026 · MAHACET Notice No. 13 (5 September) still stands as the only dated notice on record; a 12 September text-message digest claims Round 2 choice filling was extended to 12 September, 10:00 AM — an apparent 2-day slip from the 10 September close stated below — but no dated CET Cell notice confirming this extension has been found
View Maharashtra MBBS Fees →The short version. MAHACET's Notice No. 13 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/UG-2026/CAP-2/MBBS-BDS/2818), dated 5 September 2026, opens CAP Round 2 for MBBS/BDS (Group A), to fill seats that remained vacant after CAP Round 1. The Round 2 seat matrix publishes 7 September, online choice/preference filling runs 8–10 September, up to 11:59 PM, and the CAP Round 2 selection list is declared 12 September. Physical joining at the allotted college, with all original documents and requisite fees by demand draft, runs 13–18 September, excluding 14 September — payment by cheque is allowed on bank holidays but must be replaced with a demand draft on the next working day, or the admission itself can be cancelled. The academic session is stated to commence 15 September 2026. This schedule is explicitly subject to change per MCC, AACCC, Central Government, State Government or court directions — the notice itself says so. CAP Round 1 is complete: under Notice No. 10 (19 August), the final merit list and seat matrix published 25 August, choice filling ran 26–29 August, Round 1 was declared 30 August, and joining ran through 4 September; Notice No. 12 (26 August) had flagged that a Bombay/Delhi High Court order restoring NTA-withheld candidates could still revise the Round 1 merit list. Separate registration with MAHACET remains mandatory for State Quota seats, even if you have already registered with MCC for the All India Quota. Unconfirmed update, 12 September: a text-message digest circulating today claims choice filling was extended to 12 September, 10:00 AM — two days past the 10 September close stated in Notice No. 13 — but no dated CET Cell notice confirming this has surfaced; treat the 8–10 September dates below as the last officially confirmed figures until one does.
CAP Round 2,
Choice Filling 8–10 September
Breaking · CAP Round 2 Notified · Notice No. 13, No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/UG-2026/CAP-2/MBBS-BDS/2818, Dated 5 September 2026
MAHACET has opened CAP Round 2 for MBBS/BDS (Group A) to fill seats left vacant after Round 1. The notice cites Notice No. 10 (19 August, under which Round 1 was completed) and the updated schedule published by the Medical Counselling Committee, New Delhi, dated 2 September 2026, as its basis.
The notice's own header reads “NEET-UG-2025” even though every date in it, and its own title, place it squarely in the 2026-27 academic year counselling that is running right now — almost certainly a carried-over typo from an earlier template, not a separate process. Treat this as Maharashtra's current Round 2 for the 2026-27 session.
| # | Activity | Date & time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Publication of Seat Matrix for CAP Round 2 | 07 September 2026 |
| 2 | Online Choice/Preference form filling process | 08 September 2026 – 10 September 2026 up to 11:59 PM, 10 Sept |
| 3 | Declaration of Selection List — CAP Round 2 | 12 September 2026 |
| 4 | Physical joining to allotted college with all original documents and requisite fees by demand draft Payment by cheque allowed on bank holidays, to be replaced by a demand draft on the next working day — failure to submit the replacement DD on that next working day can see the admission cancelled | 13 September 2026 – 18 September 2026 excluding 14 September 2026 |
| 5 | Commencement of academic session | 15 September 2026 |
Subject to change. The notice states plainly that this schedule is subject to change as per the direction of various authorities like MCC, AACCC, Central Government, State Government or the Hon’ble Court, and it advises candidates to regularly visit www.mahacet.org for notifications, updates and further instructions. This is a Group A (MBBS/BDS)-only round; Group B, Group C and any further Group A rounds are notified separately, per the pattern set in Round 1.
Update, 12 September (Unconfirmed Extension). A WhatsApp-style text digest circulating today, 12 September 2026, states: “Round 2 Choice Filling Ends Today 12.09.2026, 10:00 AM.” If accurate, this pushes the choice/preference filling deadline set by Notice No. 13 — 10 September, 11:59 PM — out by two days to 12 September, 10:00 AM, an apparent short extension. We could not find a dated CET Cell notice confirming this extension — only this secondary-channel text claim, with no notice number attached. If choice filling genuinely closes 12 September morning, the knock-on question is whether the selection list date, also stated as 12 September in Notice No. 13, itself shifts, since a same-day selection-list declaration right after a 10:00 AM filling close would be an unusually tight turnaround. Candidates should treat both the extension and any consequent selection-list shift as unconfirmed until a dated notice appears on cetcell.mahacet.org, and should not assume extra time to submit choices based on this digest alone.
Round 1, Complete,
Revised Twice, Then Declared 30 August
Round 1 · Complete · Revised Twice · Notice No. 08 (14 Aug) then Notice No. 10 (19 Aug)
Every step of the Round 1 schedule moved once already, the registration door reopened, and the State CET Cell has now confirmed everything through to joining. Notice No. 08 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/NEET-UG-2026/CAP/Revised Schedule/1990), dated 14 August 2026, states that in view of the extension granted by the Medical Counselling Committee for All India Quota counselling — MCC’s notice of 13 August 2026 — the State CET Cell extended the registration period and revised the CAP schedule accordingly. Registration, originally closing 12 August, closed 15 August at 8:00 PM. The provisional merit list moved from 15 to 18 August.
Notice No. 10 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/NEET-UG-2026/CAP/Revised Schedule/2034), dated 19 August 2026, cites both MCC's own revised schedule of 19 August and its own earlier Notice No. 08 as reference, and reopens online registration and session apply — for candidates who had not registered under Notice No. 03 or Notice No. 08 — from 20 August, 8:00 PM to 21 August, 8:00 PM. Payment of registration fees, open to these new registrants and to anyone who registered earlier without paying, runs 20 August, 8:00 PM to 21 August, 10:00 PM, with document upload to 21 August, 11:59 PM. The grievance window for the 18 August provisional merit list (19–20 August, 5:00 PM) is unchanged. Notice No. 10 then lays out every remaining step in full: online document verification and a revised registered/provisional merit list on 23 August, a second grievance window open only to newly registered candidates, to 24 August, 5:00 PM, the final merit list and seat matrix on 25 August, choice/preference filling 26–29 August, up to 5:30 PM, the CAP Round 1 declaration on 30 August, and physical joining at the allotted college 31 August to 4 September, up to 5:30 PM. These figures replace the 21/22-24/25 August dates published under Notice No. 08.
If you registered, paid or uploaded documents under the earlier schedule, nothing is lost — the same portal and the same data carry forward. Notice No. 08 confirms that all remaining instructions in Notice No. 03 stay as they are. The grievance window, open now through 20 August, 5:00 PM, is the only correction opportunity for candidates already on the provisional merit list, and it will not entertain a change without supporting documentary proof.
Eighteen Steps, Fully Confirmed —
MBBS/BDS Group A, CAP Round 1
| # | Activity | Revised date & time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Online registration and session apply (MBBS & BDS only) — closed | Extended to 15 August 2026, 8:00 PM |
| 2 | Payment of registration fees through the online payment gateway — a candidate is treated as registered only after successful payment — closed | Extended to 15 August 2026, 10:00 PM |
| 3 | Uploading colour-scanned copies of all original requisite documents on the portal — closed | Extended to 15 August 2026, 11:59 PM |
| 4 | Document verification through online mode — closed | Up to 17 August 2026 |
| 5 | Publication of registered candidate list (Group A) — due, confirm on portal | 18 August 2026 |
| 6 | Publication of provisional merit list (Group A) — due, confirm on portal | 18 August 2026 |
| 7 | Submission of grievances (candidates on the 18 Aug provisional list), with supportive document proof | 19 – 20 August 2026, up to 5:00 PM |
| 7a | Notice No. 10 — Online registration and session apply, reopened only for candidates not registered under Notice No. 03 or 08 | 20 August 2026, 8:00 PM – 21 August 2026, 8:00 PM |
| 7b | Notice No. 10 — Payment of registration fees for the above, and for anyone registered earlier without paying | 20 August 2026, 8:00 PM – 21 August 2026, 10:00 PM |
| 7c | Notice No. 10 — Uploading colour-scanned original documents, including candidates who failed to upload earlier | 20 August 2026, 8:00 PM – 21 August 2026, 11:59 PM |
| 8 | Document verification through online mode | 23 August 2026 |
| 9 | Publication of revised registered candidate list (Group A) | 23 August 2026 |
| 10 | Publication of revised provisional merit list (Group A) | 23 August 2026 |
| 11 | Submission of grievances — open only to newly registered candidates who newly uploaded and submitted documents; those given the 19–20 Aug window do not get a second chance | 24 August 2026, up to 5:00 PM |
| 12 | Publication of final merit list (Group A) | 25 August 2026 |
| 13 | Publication of seat matrix (Group A) | 25 August 2026 |
| 14 | Online choice/preference filling process (Group A) | 26 – 29 August 2026, up to 5:30 PM |
| 15 | Declaration of CAP Round 1 (Group A) | 30 August 2026 |
| 16 | Physical joining at allotted college, with originals and fee demand draft | 31 August – 4 September 2026, up to 5:30 PM |
Rows 8 through 16 are new in this update. Notice No. 10, dated 19 August, had earlier left these downstream steps unstated in the portion we had seen; the full notice text confirms them as above, replacing the 21/22-24/25 August figures Notice No. 08 published on 14 August. Treat this as the current, confirmed schedule — but this process is still explicitly subject to change per MCC, AACCC, Central or State Government, or court directions, so a quick check on cetcell.mahacet.org before you travel for joining is still worth the two minutes.
Update, 25 August: rows 8–11 have run their course on schedule — document verification and the revised registered/provisional merit list were published 23 August, as Notice No. 10 said they would be, with no reports of a further postponement. The final merit list and seat matrix (row 12–13) are due today, 25 August; check the portal for your own result as the day's updates post. No Notice No. 11 or later revision to this chain has surfaced as of this check.
Update, 26 August — the merit list may not be final yet. Notice No. 12 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/CET-2026/MBBS-BDS/Choice filing/2107, dated 26 August 2026) discloses that NTA had withheld the results of certain candidates, and that the Hon’ble High Courts of Bombay and Delhi, in recent orders, have directed those petitioner candidates’ results be declared and the candidates allowed to participate in the ongoing CAP process. The courts directed the results be shared with the CET Cell by 27 August 2026. Once received, these candidates join the process and a Revised Final Merit List will be published on the website — meaning the merit list and seat matrix figures above could still move before choice filling closes. To accommodate this, the notice confirms preference forms can be edited multiple times up to 29 August, 5:30 PM, by unlocking with an OTP sent to your registered email and mobile — so candidates can revise their choices even after a revised list is declared, right up to the deadline. Everything else in the schedule (choice filling 26–29 August, CAP Round 1 declared 30 August, joining to 4 September) stands as published.
Two clauses worth reading twice. Grievances at step 7 are only entertained with supportive document proof — no changes are made on a candidate's word alone. And at step 12, fee payment by cheque is allowed only on bank holidays, and has to be replaced with a demand draft on the very next working day; miss that replacement and the admission itself can be cancelled. This entire schedule is also explicitly subject to change per directions from MCC, AACCC, the Central or State Government, or the courts — check the portal, don't just bookmark this page.
NRI candidates had an earlier, separate deadline. Notice No. 08 required NRI candidates to register on the Foreign Candidate Registration Portal before 14 August 2026, 11:59 PM, for verification of eligibility — now closed — after which the schedule above applies to them unchanged. Eligibility criteria and the NRI registration process are set out in Notice No. 04, not in this notice.
Group A Only, for Now —
and Registration With MCC Doesn't Cover This
This schedule is for MBBS and BDS — Group A courses — only. MAHACET's own notice says the schedule for Group B and Group C courses, and the schedule for subsequent Group A rounds, will each be declared separately, in due course. Admissions cover Government, Government Aided, Municipal Corporation and Private Unaided medical and dental colleges, plus any other college the state notifies, all strictly on NEET UG 2026 merit.
The instruction most likely to catch people out. Registering with MCC for the 15% All India Quota does not register you for Maharashtra's State Quota. The notice states plainly that separate registration with the State Competent Authority — MAHACET — is mandatory for State Quota participation, regardless of your AIQ registration status. Two portals, two registrations, two sets of deadlines, and neither one substitutes for the other. MCC's own schedule, for comparison →
What the Notice Itself
Tells You to Get Right
Only NEET-qualified candidates register
MAHACET states only candidates who have qualified NEET UG 2026 for MBBS/BDS are eligible to register for this phase — check your own qualification status against the national cut-off before you begin.
Use only the official portal
Registration is only through the official online admission portal within the prescribed period. The notice doesn't name a second acceptable channel.
No proxy at physical verification
Candidates opting for physical document verification must report to their allotted centre per the notified schedule, with all original documents. The notice states plainly: no proxy allowed.
Check course eligibility before you fill the form
MAHACET's own instruction: candidates should ascertain their eligibility for the various courses before filling up the registration form — not after, when a mismatch is far harder to fix.
Government of Maharashtra, Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell, 8th Floor, New Excelsior Building, A. K. Nayak Road, Fort, Mumbai 400001. Notice No. 08, No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/NEET-UG-2026/CAP/Revised Schedule/1990, dated 14 August 2026: “Extension for Registration and Revised Schedule for admission to MBBS/BDS (Group A) courses for Academic Year 2026-27”. It supersedes the dates in Notice No. 03 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/UG-2026/MBBS-BDS/Registration/1899, dated 5 August 2026) and refers to the Medical Counselling Committee notice dated 13 August 2026. Then Notice No. 10, No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/NEET-UG-2026/CAP/Revised Schedule/2034, dated 19 August 2026, titled “Revised Schedule for admission to MBBS/BDS (Group A) courses for Academic Year 2026-27”, referring to both the MCC's revised schedule of 19 August 2026 and its own Notice No. 08, reopens registration and payment for candidates not previously registered and sets out, in full, every step from document verification (23 August) through physical joining (31 August – 4 September). Signed by or for the Commissioner, State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra State, Mumbai. Verify every date on the official CET Cell portal before you register or pay any fee — this schedule is explicitly subject to change per MCC, AACCC, Central or State Government, or court directions. Re-checked 26 August 2026: Notice No. 12 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/CET-2026/MBBS-BDS/Choice filing/2107, dated 26 August 2026) confirms the schedule above stands, but flags that Bombay and Delhi High Court orders on NTA-withheld candidate results could still revise the Final Merit List before choice filling closes 29 August. Re-checked 7 September 2026: Notice No. 13 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/UG-2026/CAP-2/MBBS-BDS/2818), dated 5 September 2026, titled “Schedule of CAP Round-2 for admission to MBBS/BDS (Group A) courses, Academic Year 2026-27”, opens CAP Round 2, referring to Notice No. 10 (19 August 2026, under which Round 1 was completed) and the updated schedule published by the Medical Counselling Committee, New Delhi, dated 2 September 2026. Signed for the Commissioner, Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test (Test) Cell, Mumbai. Unconfirmed secondary-channel claim, 12 September 2026: a WhatsApp-style text digest, not a dated CET Cell notice or notice number, states that Round 2 choice filling “Ends Today 12.09.2026, 10:00 AM” — an apparent two-day extension from the 10 September close in Notice No. 13. No image of a notice, no notice number and no corroborating dated source has been located for this claim; it is reported here only as a caveated flag, not as a verified fact, and should not be relied on in place of an official notice.
How to use this page. Every date here was checked against the official counselling authority's own website on 20 August 2026, rechecked 25 August 2026 against subsequent official reporting, rechecked 7 September 2026 against Notice No. 13, which opened CAP Round 2, and rechecked again 12 September 2026, when an unconfirmed text-message claim of a choice-filling extension surfaced with no dated notice behind it. State authorities extend and revise deadlines at short notice, sometimes with only a few hours' warning, so treat this page as a starting point and confirm the current date on the official portal before you pay any fee. Orchid Education Foundation is an independent admission guidance firm. We are not an agent of any counselling authority, we cannot influence any allotment, and no seat in India can be obtained without a valid NEET UG 2026 score.
Questions Parents Ask Us
A WhatsApp-style text digest circulating on 12 September 2026 claims that MBBS/BDS (Group A) CAP Round 2 choice/preference filling was extended to 12 September, 10:00 AM — an apparent two-day extension from the 10 September, 11:59 PM close stated in MAHACET Notice No. 13 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/UG-2026/CAP-2/MBBS-BDS/2818), dated 5 September 2026. No dated CET Cell notice confirming this extension has been found; only this secondary-channel text claim, without a notice number, is available as of 12 September 2026. If choice filling has genuinely moved to 12 September morning, it raises an open question of whether the Round 2 selection list — also dated 12 September in Notice No. 13 — shifts too, since declaring a selection list the same morning a filling window closes would be an unusually tight turnaround. Treat this claim as unconfirmed and verify directly on cetcell.mahacet.org before assuming extra time to submit or edit choices.
Notice No. 13 (No.MED-1026/CR.No.83/UG-2026/CAP-2/MBBS-BDS/2818), dated 5 September 2026, opens CAP Round 2 for MBBS/BDS (Group A) to fill seats left vacant after Round 1. The seat matrix for Round 2 publishes 7 September, online choice/preference filling runs 8 to 10 September up to 11:59 PM, and the CAP Round 2 selection list is declared 12 September. Physical joining at the allotted college, with all original documents and requisite fees by demand draft, runs 13 to 18 September, excluding 14 September; payment by cheque is allowed on bank holidays but must be replaced with a demand draft on the next working day, or the admission can be cancelled. The academic session is stated to commence 15 September 2026. This schedule is explicitly subject to change per MCC, AACCC, Central Government, State Government or court directions.
The Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test Cell, the Competent Authority for admission to undergraduate Health Science courses in the state. Notice No. 03, dated 5 August 2026, opens the Registration Schedule for the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for MBBS and BDS — classified as Group A courses — for the 2026-27 academic year, covering Government, Government Aided, Municipal Corporation, Private Unaided and other notified Medical and Dental Colleges in Maharashtra.
Online registration and session apply originally ran 6 to 12 August 2026. Notice No. 08, dated 14 August 2026, extended that window to 15 August, up to 8:00 PM; payment of registration fees closed 15 August, 10:00 PM, and uploading scanned original documents closed 15 August, 11:59 PM. Then Notice No. 10, dated 19 August 2026, reopened registration a second time — but only for candidates who had not registered under Notice No. 03 or 08 — from 20 August, 8:00 PM to 21 August, 8:00 PM, with payment (also open to earlier registrants who hadn't paid) to 21 August, 10:00 PM, and document upload to 21 August, 11:59 PM. If you already registered and paid, none of this second window applies to you.
Yes. The notice states this in its own important instructions: separate registration with the State Competent Authority is mandatory for participation in Maharashtra's State Quota counselling, irrespective of whether you've registered with MCC for All India Quota counselling. The two processes don't share data automatically — you have to do both.
You will not be considered for admission from your claimed category. The notice is explicit that failure to upload the requisite documents within the given period, in the prescribed format, is entirely the candidate's own responsibility, and it can mean cancellation of the form. Get your documents scanned in colour and ready before the window opens, not after.
31 August to 4 September 2026, up to 5:30 PM, per the confirmed schedule in Notice No. 10 (19 August), which superseded the 26-30 August window Notice No. 08 had originally set. The notice allows payment by cheque on bank holidays, to be replaced with a demand draft on the next working day — but if that replacement DD isn't submitted on that next working day, the admission itself can be cancelled. This whole schedule remains subject to change per MCC, AACCC, Central or State Government, or court directions, so confirm the current joining dates on cetcell.mahacet.org before you travel.
It may still change. Notice No. 12, dated 26 August 2026, discloses that NTA had withheld the results of certain candidates, and that the Hon’ble High Courts of Bombay and Delhi have ordered those candidates’ results declared and the candidates included in the ongoing CAP process. The courts directed the results be shared with the CET Cell by 27 August 2026, after which a Revised Final Merit List will be published. To accommodate this, preference forms can be edited multiple times up to 29 August, 5:30 PM, by unlocking with an OTP sent to your registered email and mobile — so you can revise choices even after a revised list appears. The rest of the schedule, including CAP Round 1 declaration on 30 August, is unchanged.
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