Maharashtra NEET PG 2026: Check Closing State Merit List for Orthopedics

Maharashtra NEET PG 2026: The State Common Entrance Test Cell (CET Cell), Maharashtra, is conducting the MD in Orthopedics centralized postgraduate medical admissions. It will be releasing the State Merit List (SML) closing ranks for the different categories to determine how the seats will be allocated for the 50% State Quota in government, corporation, and private or deemed medical institutes. Meanwhile, to estimate the admission options, candidates can refer to previous year trends. Last year, Round 1 admission for  Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College opened at 213 and closed at 223. 

Candidates aspiring to gain admission for MS in Orthopedics need to analyze the closing ranks in the various rounds of counseling in order to assess the chances of being accepted and to comprehend the cut-off trends of the colleges as they strategize about their choice-filling process for an extremely popular branch of surgery.

Check|Maharashtra NEET PG 2026: Previous Year Closing State Merit List 

Maharashtra NEET PG 2026: Key Highlights 

Check Round 1 counselling and admission schedule shared below. It details Maharashtra NEET PG first round details released by the State Common Entrance Test Cell. 

Orthopedics Previous Year Round 1 Opening and Closing Ranks 

Candidates can check Round 1 opening and closing ranks for open category shared below. Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, leads in it. Last year the admission opened at 213 and closed at 223 rank. Check college-wise opening and closing ranks shared below. 

Orthopedics Previous Year Round 2 Opening and Closing Ranks

Check Round 2 opening and closing ranks shared below. The admission for Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, opened at 213 and closed at 224. 

Orthopedics Previous Year Round 3 Opening and Closing Ranks 

Candidates can check previous year Round 3 opening and closing ranks shared below. Seth GS Medical College, in Mumbai opened at 446 and closed at 446.

Maharashtra NEET PG 2026: Maximum Rank Movement

According to the results, there has been a major increase in the State Merit List (SML) closing ranks in private and minority medical colleges from Round 1 to Round 3 in Skin & VD. The most substantial jump is seen at Vedanta Medical College, where the ranks changed by +2,127 (from 1,886 to 4,013), followed closely by PIMS with +2,011 increase and ACPM with +1,958. This process illustrates the normalization of cut-offs with upgrading or changed preferences by better-ranked students, creating new opportunities for those with worse ranks in later stages.

Maharashtra NEET PG 2026: Minimum Rank Movement

The data shows a significant increase in the State Merit List (SML) closure ranks from Round 1 to Round 3 among well-known universities offering Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprosy (Skin and VD) subjects, indicating that competitive clinical admission marks change as new rounds of counseling pass by. GMC, Mumbai has the highest change compared to earlier rounds with +591 points increasing in rank from 381 to 972. The second position whereby the rank increment of +471 points has occurred is GMC, Sambhajinagar. Furthermore, institutions such as TNMC, IGMC, BJMC, and GSMC have increments of ranks between +120 and +324, thus demonstrating that candidates who are lower on the merit list obtain an advantage while competing with other candidates as those who scored higher move on to enter new educational establishments in order to best fit their needs.

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