MDCAT merit list 2026
The 2026-27 lists are coming out. KMU published its final MBBS and BDS lists on 12 November. Jinnah Sindh Medical University published the Karachi district final MBBS list on 6 November and the BDS provisional list on 11 November. LUMHS published its final MBBS list and opened a BDS self-finance window for 12 to 20 November. UHS has its provisional lists under objection, with the final merit order due 16 November. NUMS publishes on 10 December. Merit is 50% MDCAT, 40% FSc and 10% Matric. Every official portal is linked below, checked on 14 November, and last year’s certified closing aggregates are on this page.
Where the 2026-27 lists stand
Facts checked 14 November 2026. A row with no date has not published one we could read from its own notice.
| Admitting body | Covers | Status | Next date |
|---|---|---|---|
| UHS | Punjab (public MBBS) | Provisional merit list out. The public MBBS portal moved to session 2026-27 and its complaint portal takes objections against the provisional merit list. Application sign-in is closed. Read 14 November 2026.publicmbbs.uhs.edu.pk, read 14 November 2026 | Final merit order 16 November, first college-wise selection list 17 November, per the policy notified 14 October 2026. |
| UHS | Punjab (private MBBS and BDS) | Provisional merit list out. The private MBBS portal carries the same session 2026-27 complaint portal for objections against the provisional merit list. Read 14 November 2026.privatembbs.uhs.edu.pk, read 14 November 2026 | Final merit 16 November, first selection list 18 November. |
| UHS | Punjab (public BDS) | Portal opens 15 December and closes 30 December.Punjab MBBS/BDS admission policy 2026-27 | Provisional merit 6 January 2027, final merit 9 January, first list 11 January. |
| JSMU | Sindh (Karachi district, MBBS and BDS) | Karachi district final MBBS merit list and notice published 6 November. Karachi district BDS provisional merit list published 11 November. A waiting-list notice for self finance and reciprocal seats went up 8 November. Read 14 November 2026.JSMU admissions notices, read 14 November 2026 | Sindh private medical and dental colleges opened applications on 10 November. Watch the JSMU notices page. |
| LUMHS | Sindh (LUMHS Jamshoro, Bilawal Medical College, LIMHS Thatta) | Final MBBS merit list for session 2026-27 published on the LUMHS admissions page, with provisional merit information for BDS. The MBBS self-finance (UDP) window closed 11 November. The BDS self-finance (UDP) window runs 12 to 20 November at Rs 675,000. A medical board for disabled-category MBBS applicants sits 16 November. Read 14 November 2026.LUMHS MBBS/BDS admissions page, read 14 November 2026 | BDS self-finance applications close 20 November; BDS merit lists follow. |
| BUMHS | Balochistan | No 2026-27 MBBS or BDS admission schedule published. The BUMHS homepage carries the MDCAT 2026 result, answer key and grievance notices only. Read 14 November 2026.BUMHS homepage, read 14 November 2026 | Watch the BUMHS admissions page. |
| KMU | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Final merit lists for MBBS and BDS published on the central admission portal, live 14 November 2026, with the provisional lists kept alongside.KMU Centralized Admission System merit list page, read 14 November 2026 | Category placement 16 to 21 November per the published schedule. |
| NUMS | Constituent, affiliated and armed-forces administered colleges | Open merit applications closed 11 November and the late-fee window runs to 25 November. No merit list published as of 14 November 2026.NUMS website, read 14 November 2026 | Provisional merit list 10 December, first MBBS selection list 17 December. |
| SZABMU | Federal public colleges (ICT, AJK and GB quota) | Applications closed 30 October. The session 2026-27 public portal is live and lists no merit list as of 14 November 2026.SZABMU admission portal, read 14 November 2026 | Merit lists follow the SZABMU website notices. |
| SZABMU | Islamabad private colleges | Applications open 4 November and close 27 November.SZABMU private sector admission notice, 4 November 2026 | Provisional merit 1 December, final provisional merit 7 December. |
| JAC | Azad Jammu and Kashmir | Applications open 2 November and close 16 November.AJK Joint Admission Committee notice, 2 November 2026 | Provisional merit 20 November, first selection list 6 December. |
The news desk is tracking each notice as it lands:
Open the merit list
The direct link to each admitting body's list. Every link was opened and returned a live page on 14 November 2026.
Punjab public MBBS
The provisional merit list and the objection window sit on this portal.
Punjab private MBBS and BDS
The private-sector portal runs the same provisional list and objections.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
The final MBBS and BDS merit lists, with the provisional lists kept alongside.
Sindh, Karachi district
The notices page links each merit list as it is published.
Sindh, Jamshoro and affiliated
The final MBBS merit list and the BDS self-finance window live on this page.
Constituent, affiliated and armed-forces colleges
Centralised admissions for the session; merit lists follow on the same site.
Federal public colleges
The session portal; merit lists appear here after the December dates.
Islamabad private colleges
Applications closed 27 November; the merit list follows on this portal.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
The Joint Admission Committee publishes its lists through the university site.
Balochistan
No 2026-27 schedule published yet. The admissions page carries the notices.
A university homepage can be down on list day. The body’s own admission portal is the page that carries the list, so this section links the portal, not the homepage.
Board merit calculators
The PMDC formula against each board's recorded closing aggregates, with the published lists linked where one was filed.
The four lists, in order
Every admitting body runs the same four steps. Most complaints about merit come from reading one step as another.
Provisional order of merit
Every applicant ranked by aggregate, before any seat is offered. Check your marks, your FSc percentage and your domicile here.
The usual mistake: Treating a rank here as an offer. It is a list, not a seat.
Final order of merit
The same list after objections. If a university corrects your Matric or FSc marks, this is the list that shows it.
The usual mistake: Not reading it because the provisional one looked right.
College-wise selection list
Named candidates against named colleges, made on merit and the preference order in your application.
The usual mistake: Leaving a college out of your preference list. A college you did not list cannot be offered to you.
Upgradation lists
Vacancies from candidates who declined a seat, filled from the same merit order into a higher preference.
The usual mistake: Assuming a declined seat disappears. It moves down the list, so later lists close lower.
The aggregate, and what it decides
MDCAT 50%, HSSC 40%, Matric 10%, in public and private colleges alike. The weights are the same in public and private colleges under the PM&DC regulations 2026, notified on 12 October 2026. Eligibility is separate: MDCAT passed, 55% for mbbs and 50% for bds, valid for three admission cycles, and HSSC (fsc pre-medical) or equivalent at 60% or more, with biology and chemistry and either physics or mathematics.
Worked example: Matric 92%, FSc 88%, MDCAT 160 of 180, which is 88.9%. That is 9.2 plus 35.2 plus 44.4, so the aggregate is 88.8%. The aggregate guide shows the tie-breakers each Province uses after the fourth decimal.
The college directory carries the closing aggregate recorded for each college with the year it closed. Read the final list for a college, not its first. Punjab issued thirteen selection lists in 2025-26, and the last one closed lower than the first.
What last year’s lists closed at
Certified closing merits for session 2025-26. Each figure was read from the published list and checked against the dataset.
The certified closing figures for 2025-26 are being re-verified. The college directory records each college’s merit history in the meantime.
The deadlines that cannot be moved
PM&DC closes the admission year itself. A local schedule inside these dates is the one that applies. Nothing here extends them.
- Public medical colleges
- 31 December 2026
- Private medical colleges
- 31 January 2027
- Public dental colleges
- 15 February 2027
- Private dental colleges
- 28 February 2027
Source: PM&DC regulations 2026, notified 2026-10-12. Read the regulation before you rely on a college portal’s own date.
Questions students ask about the merit list
Has the MDCAT 2026 merit list been announced?
Yes, several. Khyber Medical University published its final MBBS and BDS merit lists on 12 November, with category placement from 16 to 21 November. Jinnah Sindh Medical University published the Karachi district final MBBS merit list on 6 November and the BDS provisional list on 11 November. LUMHS published its final MBBS merit list, and its BDS self-finance window runs 12 to 20 November. UHS opened objection windows on its public and private provisional merit lists, with the final merit order due 16 November. NUMS publishes its provisional merit list on 10 December. Every date is on this page with the admitting body that published it.
Is a 2026 merit list the same as the 2026-27 merit list?
No, and that is the commonest confusion. The session 2025-26 lists were published between late 2025 and February 2026, so they are often labelled 2026. They belong to last year and are finished. The 2026-27 lists belong to the students who sat MDCAT on 20 September 2026, and the first of them published in November 2026.
How is the merit aggregate calculated?
MDCAT is 50%, HSSC (FSc Pre-Medical) is 40% and Matric is 10%. The PM&DC 2026 regulations set the same weighting for public and private colleges. Convert each score to a percentage first, then apply the weights. The calculator on this site does the arithmetic.
What MDCAT score do I need in 2026?
The minimum is 55% for MBBS, which is 99 of 180, and 50% for BDS, which is 90. Passing is not competing: in Punjab, 37,708 of 47,475 candidates who appeared reached 55% at the 2026 test. Use the previous year’s closing aggregate as a reference, not a target.
Which universities publish the merit list?
The admitting body for your domicile, not PM&DC. UHS does Punjab. JSMU, LUMHS and the other Sindh universities share Sindh. KMU does Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and BUMHS does Balochistan. SZABMU does the federal colleges plus AJK and GB. NUMS does the armed forces colleges, and the AJK Joint Admission Committee runs AJK.
Where can I open the official merit list?
Each admitting body publishes its own, and the links above were all opened and checked on 14 November 2026. UHS runs publicmbbs.uhs.edu.pk for Punjab public seats and privatembbs.uhs.edu.pk for private seats. KMU posts its MBBS and BDS lists on cas.kmu.edu.pk/list.php. JSMU links its merit lists from the notices page, and LUMHS prints its final list on the admissions page. NUMS, SZABMU and BUMHS publish on their own admission portals.
When do admissions close for 2026-27?
PM&DC sets the outer deadlines. Public medical colleges close on 31 December 2026 and private medical colleges on 31 January 2027. Public dental colleges close on 15 February 2027 and private dental colleges on 28 February 2027. A university schedule that sits inside those dates is the one that applies to you.
Where to verify it
The admitting body’s own page is the only source that decides your place. Each row above links the portal. PM&DC publishes the regulations and public notices.
Know your aggregate before the list.
Enter your Matric, FSc and MDCAT marks and see where you stand against last year’s closing aggregates. The calculator uses the published 50/40/10 formula.