Delhi NEET MBBS counselling 2026: the MCC + GGSIPU split, colleges, and rounds

Who runs Delhi medical counselling

Delhi has no single counselling authority. Two bodies run it, and which one you deal with depends on the college:

• Medical Counselling Committee (MCC), under the DGHS, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, fills both the 85% Delhi quota and the 15% All-India quota for the Delhi University colleges (Lady Hardinge, Maulana Azad, UCMS), AIIMS New Delhi, Hamdard (HIMSR, a deemed university), VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital and ABVIMS & Dr. RML Hospital. For these colleges you register and fill choices on mcc.nic.in.
• Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) runs the 85% Delhi quota for three colleges it affiliates — Dr. B.S.A. Medical College, NDMC Medical College (Hindu Rao) and the Army College of Medical Sciences (ACMS). Their 15% All-India quota still goes through MCC. GGSIPU conducts this 85% counselling itself but follows the schedule of counselling and rules issued by MCC, DGHS (GGSIPU Bulletin 2026-27, §54), and registration is on the GGSIPU admissions portal (ipu.ac.in).

The authority that owns a quota is not always the body that runs the portal. The Delhi University 85% seats belong to the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS), University of Delhi, but the counselling is executed through MCC. The practical rule that matters for a candidate: DU colleges, AIIMS, Hamdard, VMMC and ABVIMS → MCC; the 85% at BSA, NDMC and ACMS → GGSIPU.

The colleges and seats

Ten MBBS colleges sit physically in Delhi:

College	MBBS seats	85% Delhi quota run by	15% AIQ
Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC)	250	MCC (DU)	MCC
Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC)	240	MCC (DU)	MCC
University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS)	170	MCC (DU)	MCC
AIIMS New Delhi	132	— (institute of national importance)	—
Hamdard (HIMSR, deemed)	150	MCC (deemed)	MCC
VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital	170	MCC	MCC
ABVIMS & Dr. RML Hospital	100	MCC	MCC
Dr. B.S.A. Medical College, Rohini	125	GGSIPU	MCC
NDMC Medical College (Hindu Rao)	60	GGSIPU	MCC
Army College of Medical Sciences (ACMS)	100	GGSIPU (army wards only)	—

Two notes that catch candidates out: LHMC admits female applicants only, and ACMS is restricted to wards of Army personnel. ACMS eligibility runs to children of serving Army personnel with 10 years’ continuous service, those retired/released/discharged after 10 years, or those drawing a regular/family/liberalised-family/disability pension (and defined step/adopted children), per the GGSIPU bulletin’s Appendix 8. Its 85% seats are not open to the general Delhi candidate.

How a seat is split: 85% Delhi, 15% All-India

Every Delhi government college divides its seats the same way the rest of the country does: 15% to the All-India Quota (open to candidates from anywhere, filled by MCC on All-India Rank) and 85% to the state — here, the Delhi quota (reserved for Delhi-domicile candidates). AIIMS and the deemed colleges sit outside this split (AIIMS fills on All-India Rank; Hamdard fills its deemed/management and minority seats).

The two pools do not overlap. A candidate eligible for both should track both: your 15% AIQ chance on mcc.nic.in and your 85% Delhi chance either on MCC (for the DU/VMMC/ABVIMS colleges) or with GGSIPU (for BSA/NDMC/ACMS).

Who counts as a Delhi candidate

There is no Delhi domicile certificate for medical admission. The 85% Delhi quota goes to candidates who studied both Class 11 and Class 12 in a recognised school within the National Capital Territory of Delhi and passed the qualifying examination from a Delhi school.

The proof is a certificate from the school Principal on the prescribed proforma, confirming the school is in NCT Delhi, affiliated to a recognised board (CBSE / CISCE / Jamia Millia / Patrachar Vidyalaya / NIOS), and that the applicant attended regular classes. The age requirement is the national one: 17 years completed on or before 31 December 2026.

Categories and reservation

Reserved-category seats in the Delhi quota use certificates issued by the Government of NCT of Delhi (SC, ST, OBC, EWS, PwBD). One trap for the 15% All-India quota: an OBC candidate must hold a central-list OBC-NCL certificate in the central format — a Delhi OBC certificate is valid for the Delhi quota but rejected for AIQ. If you intend to use both pools, get the central-list certificate as well.

Defence sub-quotas exist: the Central Pool / Government of India nominee scheme routes wards of defence and para-military personnel through the Kendriya Sainik Board and the relevant ministries (DU bulletin), and the GGSIPU stream carries its own Defence / Army-wards sub-categories (the 2023 GGSIPU lists used a Defence priority code, e.g. “DEF P-IV”).

The round structure

Both streams follow a multi-round allotment.

• MCC stream (DU colleges, AIIMS, Hamdard, VMMC, ABVIMS): the standard MCC calendar — Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, and a stray-vacancy round — published on mcc.nic.in. Registration and choice-filling open per the MCC schedule.
• GGSIPU stream (BSA, NDMC, ACMS 85%): GGSIPU conducts its own rounds on the MCC calendar. Our allotment records show three rounds across 2023–2025; the third is an Open House (offline) round, held only if seats stay vacant after Round 2, in which unfilled Delhi-region and outside-Delhi seats can be converted between the two pools (GGSIPU Bulletin §5.1).

Closing ranks in the GGSIPU 85% stream are read on the NEET All-India Rank (the lists print the AIR; the numbers look compressed only because few seats are filled). You can see the round-by-round closing ranks for all three GGSIPU colleges, across 2023–2025, on the Delhi cutoffs page.

Key dates 2026

Not yet notified. The GGSIPU 2026-27 bulletin lists the MBBS (NEET) counselling dates as “to be notified later” and defers to the MCC schedule. Both MCC and GGSIPU publish their calendars close to the cycle — check mcc.nic.in and ipu.ac.in. (This page will carry the dates once released.)

Next steps

• Check where your rank lands: Delhi cutoffs (all 10 colleges, 2023–2025).
• Estimate your colleges: college predictor.
• Carry the right papers: Delhi counselling documents.