Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Counselling 2026: NTR UHS Process

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Counselling 2026 decides your MD, MS or PG Diploma seat in the state, and Dr NTR University of Health Sciences (Dr NTR UHS), Vijayawada, runs the entire process. NEET PG 2026 aspirants often lose seats not because of low ranks but because they miss a registration window or misread the CQ/MQ quota rules. This guide walks you through the AP NEET PG counselling 2026 process step by step, including registration, choice filling, seat matrix, allotment, documents, fees and the exact difference between Competent Authority Quota and Management Quota counselling.

What Is Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Counselling 2026?

Dr NTR University of Health Sciences conducts Andhra Pradesh NEET PG counselling for MD, MS and PG Diploma admissions across government and private medical colleges affiliated to it, plus Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), Tirupati (official prospectus for 2025-26). NBEMS conducts the NEET PG exam nationally. Dr NTR UHS then runs registration, merit list release, web options, seat allotment and college reporting for the state quota. Track drntr.uhsap.in directly for every notification — the university states plainly that it sends no individual intimations to candidates.

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Counselling 2026 Dates

NEET PG 2026 took place on August 30, 2026, after NBEMS released admit cards on August 26, 2026, following two date revisions. The AP PG Medical (MD/MS/PG Diploma) 2026-27 Competent Authority Quota registration notification had not been released as of this writing. Dr NTR UHS has, however, already issued the 2026-27 notifications for UG AYUSH courses (September 8, 2026) and MDS/PG Dental (September 2, 2026), which signals that the MD/MS PG Medical notification typically follows soon after. Separately, the AP government has already fixed the 2026-27 PG tuition fee through a fresh Government Order — see the fee section below — even though the counselling notification itself is still pending.

Disclaimer: Dr NTR UHS states in every notification that all dates are tentative and subject to change without notice. Treat the table above as a planning reference and verify live dates on drntr.uhsap.in before you act on them.

NTR University NEET PG Counselling 2026 Process

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Registration

You register separately for Competent Authority Quota and Management Quota — one application does not cover both routes (official FAQ, prospectus p.56). Registration runs entirely online. You fill personal details, upload scanned certificates, and pay the registration fee through the university portal. No printed application reaches the university until you report to your allotted college.

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Choice Filling

Once the university publishes your merit position, you log in and lock your preferred colleges and specialties. Dr NTR UHS places no cap on the number of web options you can exercise — you can select as many colleges and branches as you want, in any order. Lock only the combinations you genuinely want, since a filled choice can turn into a binding allotment.

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Merit List

The university builds your merit position from your NEET PG rank, verified certificates and category claims. It first releases a provisional merit list, then a final merit list after resolving objections. Only candidates on the final merit list proceed to web options.

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Seat Matrix

Dr NTR UHS displays the seat matrix on its website before every phase of web options open. The matrix breaks down seats by college, branch, quota and category, and the count can shift from one phase to the next because of newly sanctioned or enhanced seats, vacancies, and seat reversions. Always work from the matrix published for that specific phase rather than an earlier one.

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Seat Allotment 2026

The university allots seats strictly by merit rank, category and the choices you locked. You download the provisional allotment order after paying the university fee, then report to the allotted college with original documents by the reporting deadline in your allotment letter.

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Andhra Pradesh NEET PG CQ and MQ Counselling: What’s the Difference?

This confuses most first-time applicants, so treat this section as your reference point.

Competent Authority Quota (CQ) covers state quota seats in government colleges and 50% of seats in private un-aided non-minority colleges. The university fills CQ seats purely by NEET PG merit, subject to reservation rules.

Management Quota (MQ) covers the remaining 50% of seats in private un-aided colleges. MQ counselling still runs through Dr NTR UHS, but uses a separate application, a separate fee structure, and its own internal subcategories: S1 (25% of intake, filled by NEET PG merit), S2 (15%, for NRI/foreign/NRI-sponsored candidates) and S3 (10%, institutional preference). S1 splits further — S1A (15% of S1) is open to candidates from anywhere in India, while S1B (85% of S1) goes to local AP candidates only, per the official MQ prospectus. So while CQ is closed to non-local candidates for its 85% local-quota seats, MQ’s small S1A slice stays genuinely open nationally.

CQ and MQ university fees are different amounts — don’t assume they match. Figures above come directly from the 2025-26 official notifications; the 2026-27 registration and university fees weren’t notified as of this writing, though tuition fees have moved — see below.

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG 2026-27 Private College Fee Update

The Andhra Pradesh government notified an interim 15% fee hike for PG and super-specialty courses in private unaided medical colleges.

The revised clinical-degree tuition for 2026-27 stands at ₹5,71,320/year for Category-A (CQ), ₹11,42,640/year for Category-B (Management Quota) and ₹66,12,500/year for Category-C (NRI/Institutional Quota). 

The government has explicitly labeled this fee interim and tentative — it applies only to 2026-27 and will be superseded once the AP Higher Education Fee Regulatory and Monitoring Commission issues a final determination. This fee order predates the counselling notification itself, so treat the tuition figure as confirmed while the registration schedule stays pending.

Government medical colleges permitted from 2023-24 onward — Eluru, Machilipatnam, Nandyal, Rajahmundry and Vizianagaram — carry a further internal split that most guides skip: within their 50% state-quota share, 50% goes to Competent Authority (General Category, filled by local-area merit), 35% to Competent Authority (Self-Financing) at roughly ₹9,00,000 per year, and 15% to Competent Authority (NRI Category) at roughly ₹29,00,000 per year, per Government Order 163 dated December 5, 2025.

Andhra Pradesh also runs a local-area rule for CQ seats: 85% go to local candidates from the Andhra University or Sri Venkateswara University regions, and a 2024 government memo restricts the remaining 15% “unreserved” (APUR) seats to local candidates from these same two regions as well, per the official CQ prospectus. The same prospectus carries one exception worth knowing: a non-local candidate who holds AP domicile (termed APNL) can still claim an APUR seat, even without qualifying as “local” in the strict sense. Outside that exception, non-local candidates cannot claim the 85% local-quota CQ seats — though they can still compete for MQ’s nationally open S1A slice described above.

Eligibility for Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Counselling 2026

You need an MBBS degree from a recognised college, a valid NEET PG qualifying percentile, and internship completion by the notified cut-off date (July 31, 2025, for the 2025-26 cycle; NBEMS has set September 30, 2026, as the internship cut-off for NEET PG 2026). Foreign medical graduates additionally need FMGE clearance and permanent Medical Council registration.

Figures reflect the 2025-26 cycle from the official CQ prospectus. NBEMS revises cut-off percentiles when seats stay vacant, as it did in January 2026, lowering the general cut-off to the 7th percentile for mop-up rounds — track NBEMS notices for the 2026-27 equivalent.

In-service candidates get 15% of clinical seats and 30% of non-clinical seats within the 50% state quota, provided they complete 2 years in tribal areas, 3 years in rural areas or 6 years in urban Government service. They execute a 10-year service bond with a ₹50,00,000 penalty for default. Non-service candidates execute a lighter one-year rural service bond with a ₹40,00,000 penalty for default — read the full bond conditions before you sign, since the university treats both as legally binding.

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG CQ and MQ Counselling Rounds

In the 2025-26 cycle, Dr NTR UHS conducted four rounds: Phase-1, Phase-2, Phase-3 (Mop-Up) and a Stray Vacancy round, all subject to NMC/MCC guidelines.

 Expect the same structure for 2026-27, though the exact round dates will only get confirmed once the new CQ and MQ notifications appear. Candidates who join in Phase-1 or Phase-2 can upgrade only up to Phase-3. 

A candidate allotted a Phase-3 seat cannot participate in the Stray round even without reporting, and freshly registered non-service candidates who did not appear in earlier rounds get one shot at the Stray round only. The university applies the Meritorious Reserved Candidate (MRC) rule throughout — when a reserved-category candidate wins an open-category seat on merit, the university refills the vacated open seat from the same reserved category to protect the 50:50 open-to-category ratio. 

For a deeper breakdown of how mop-up and stray rounds work nationally, see Career Plan B’s NEET PG mop-up counselling guide.

Documents Required for Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Counselling

• NEET PG 2026 scorecard
• SSC marks memo (date of birth proof)
• Original or provisional MBBS degree certificate
• MBBS study certificate
• Compulsory rotatory internship certificate
• Temporary or permanent State Medical Council registration
• Aadhaar card with current address
• Latest caste, EWS, minority or PwBD certificate, where applicable
• Non-local candidates: 10-year study or residence certificate, or a parent’s current AP employment certificate
• MBBS transfer/migration certificate
• Annexure-IVA and IVB for in-service candidates
• Passport-size photo and specimen signature

Follow the file-format and size limit specified against each document in the university’s official upload checklist — most PDFs cap at 500 KB, but photos and signatures cap at 100 KB and certain NRI-quota documents allow up to 1,000 KB. An incomplete or incorrectly sized upload gets rejected outright.

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Cutoff and Seats

Andhra Pradesh’s PG Medical seat count changes every year as colleges gain NMC recognition, add sanctioned seats, or lose them through court orders — Dr NTR UHS publishes the confirmed number only through the live CQ and MQ seat matrices for that specific counselling year, not as a fixed annual figure. 

Closing ranks work the same way: they vary by college, branch, category and round, so read them from the college-wise and category-wise allotment list released after each phase on drntr.uhsap.in, rather than from a single statewide cutoff. Treat any third-party cutoff table, including one built from last year’s data, only as a trend indicator and not a guaranteed closing rank for 2026-27.

If you’re also weighing central seats, our AIQ NEET PG counselling guide explains how the 50% All India Quota pool works alongside your AP state quota options.

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FAQs

Q1. Who conducts NTR University NEET PG counselling 2026?
Dr NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada, conducts Andhra Pradesh NEET PG counselling 2026 for MD, MS and PG Diploma seats. NBEMS conducts the NEET PG exam separately.

Q2. What is the difference between Andhra Pradesh NEET PG CQ and MQ counselling?
CQ covers state quota seats filled purely by merit through a separate application, while MQ covers the private management quota share, split further into S1 (merit-based, with a small nationally open S1A slice), S2 (NRI) and S3 (institutional) categories, each with its own fee and document requirements.

Q3. How does Andhra Pradesh NEET PG registration and choice filling work?
You register online, get placed on the merit list, then lock unlimited web options for colleges and branches you genuinely want, since a locked choice becomes a binding allotment.

Q4. What documents does Andhra Pradesh NEET PG registration and choice filling require?
You need your NEET PG scorecard, MBBS degree, internship certificate, medical registration, Aadhaar, category certificate where applicable, and non-local study or residence proof if you studied outside AP.

Conclusion

Andhra Pradesh NEET PG Counselling 2026 rewards candidates who track drntr.uhsap.in daily and act fast once the university notifies dates. Read the CQ or MQ prospectus that applies to you, keep every document ready before registration opens, and lock web options only for colleges you would genuinely join. Talk to Career Plan B for a rank-based counselling strategy before your first round opens.