NMC PG Admissions List 2025-26: Check Your Name

The NMC PG admissions list is a consolidated list of every postgraduate medical admission uploaded to the NMC portal for the academic year 2025-26. It holds 52,690 students across MD, MS and PG Diploma broad speciality courses. NMC has asked every one of those students to check that their name appears on it.

If your name is missing, the fix does not run through NMC. It runs through your college. That single detail is the most important thing on this page, and it is the part most students get wrong.

What is the NMC PG admissions list?

The Post Graduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB) is the arm of the National Medical Commission (NMC) that regulates postgraduate medical education in India. After counselling closes each year, PGMEB requires every medical college to upload the details of the students it has admitted to postgraduate courses. Those uploads are then consolidated into one list published on the NMC portal.

The public notice that announced the 2025-26 list explains why it was needed. In its own words: "Some of the colleges have not uploaded the details of the students admitted to Postgraduate courses, while some colleges uploaded incomplete data. Despite issuance of various circulars and public notices, it is found that a total number of 52,690 students have been admitted for the Academic Year 2025-26, and whose details have been uploaded on the NMC Portal."

So the list is a record of what colleges reported, not a record of who was admitted. The gap between those two things is exactly why students are being asked to look.

Who needs to check the NMC PG admissions list?

The notice is specific about who it addresses. It asks "All the students studying for Postgraduate Course (MD/MS/Diploma) Broad Specialty and who have got admission for the Academic Year 2025-26" to go through the uploaded list and make sure their names appear.

Being outside the notice does not mean your admission is unrecorded. It means this particular list, and this particular instruction, are not about you.

How do you check your name?

The route to the notice is short and worth following exactly.

1. Open the What's New section of the NMC website, which is where NMC publishes its notices in date order.

2. Find the entry titled "Details of students admitted to PGMEB (MD/MS/Diploma – Broad Specialities) for the Academic Year 2025_26 – Reg", listed on 28 August 2026. The public notice on the 2025-26 PG admissions list opens as a PDF.

3. Follow the link printed inside paragraph 3 of that notice, which is where NMC points students to the consolidated list itself.

4. Search the list for your own name. The list is published as a single PDF, so the search is a find within the document rather than a search box.

Check three things, not one. Your name, your course, and your college. A name that appears against the wrong course or the wrong institution is a data error that still needs correcting, and the notice's instruction to look at names and admission details covers all three.

What if your name is missing?

The notice gives one route, and it is worth quoting in full because students regularly try to email NMC directly and lose weeks doing it. Paragraph 4 reads:

"Students admitted to the Postgraduate Medical Education (Broad Specialty) programme for the Academic Year 2025–26 whose names are not reflected in the list are advised to immediately contact the concerned Directorate of Medical Education/Counselling Authority through their respective colleges."

Three things follow from that sentence.

• The route runs through your college. The words are "through their respective colleges". Your college is the body that uploads the data, so your college is the body that has to correct it.

• The destination is your Directorate of Medical Education or your counselling authority, not NMC. For a state quota seat that is your state DME. For an All India Quota seat it is the counselling authority that allotted you.

• The instruction is to act immediately. The notice sets no deadline for students, and that is a reason to move sooner rather than later. There is no published window within which a correction is guaranteed.

What to send, and in what order

Keep a written trail from the first message, because the correction has to travel from your college to a state authority and back into a national portal.

1. Write to your college office in writing, by email rather than in person only, so there is a dated record. Address it to the office that handles PG admissions or the academic section.

2. Attach your allotment letter, your admission or joining letter, and your fee receipt. These are the documents that prove the admission happened on the date you say it did.

3. Ask the college to confirm in writing whether your details were uploaded, and if not, when they will be. The upload is done by the college through its own NMC portal login, so the college can see its own submission.

4. Ask the college to take it to the Directorate of Medical Education or the counselling authority, as the notice directs, and ask for a copy of that correspondence.

5. Keep your own copy of everything. If the correction takes months, the dated trail is what shows you raised it in time.

Whose responsibility is the upload?

The college's, and NMC has said so in writing. The earlier notice that set this exercise in motion is explicit: "the names of those students whose details are not filled in by the Colleges/Institutes within the last date of submission of data on NMC's portal will not be displayed on the NMC's website. Hence, the onus of furnishing the correct data on time lies with the College/Institute." That notice is the NMC notice on online filling of PG admission information.

The same notice records that "Data uploaded through the Student Admission Entry portal shall be the only data used for the purpose of monitoring students' admission". That is the practical reason a missing name matters. The portal record is the record NMC works from.

It is worth being clear about what this does not mean. A missing name is a reporting failure by the college, not a finding against the student. The consolidated notice attaches no penalty, no loss of eligibility and no consequence for a student whose name is absent. What it does is give you an early warning that your college has not filed your details, at a point where that is still easy to fix.

Why a national record of your admission matters

A postgraduate admission is the start of a chain of official steps: your degree, your registration with a State Medical Council or the National Medical Commission, and your right to practise in your speciality. Each step tends to ask for proof of the one before it, and the registration step in particular is set out in our guide to becoming a registered medical practitioner.

The Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023 set out how the underlying permission works. Clause 3.1 (iv) states: "Once permitted, the course for the qualification will be considered recognised and seats permitted will be considered as recognised seats for registration of the degree awarded." The recognition question therefore attaches to the course and the seat, which is another reason to check that your name sits against the right course and the right college on the list.

How this exercise unfolded

The sequence, as the notices themselves record it.

The notice is signed by C.K. Ramaswamy, Director, and carries the file number N-P050(20)/30/2025-PGMEB-NMC-Part (1).

What this does not change

Your seat, your joining date and your training are unaffected by this exercise. It is a data reconciliation between colleges and the regulator, and the notice asks students only to look and, if necessary, to raise a correction through their college.

It also does not change anything about your entitlements as a resident. Those come from the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2023, which set the leave, accommodation and stipend rules for every postgraduate student in the country. If you are still working out how the counselling rounds themselves fit together, our guide to the NEET counselling process sets out the sequence.