NEET PG: CEE Kerala invites applications for PG medical admissions 2026, check details

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION FEE

All candidates seeking admission to the PG Medical Degree Courses 2026 can apply online till 16 October 2026, 04:00 PM through the website of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations and remit the required fee by way of Online Payment.

After remitting the required application fee, all necessary certificates/documents as proof for various claims shall also be uploaded within the stipulated time as per clause 8 of the Prospectus. Defective and incomplete applications will be summarily rejected. No correspondence will be undertaken in this regard. Also, claims without necessary proofs will not be accepted.

Do not send printout of the application or any documents to the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations.

The in-service candidates should send the printout of the Application Acknowledgement Page along with the documents and the required service details to the Head of the department concerned, so as to reach him/her before 05:00 PM on 16 October 2026.

The Candidates seeking admission to the NRI quota seats in Self- Financing Medical Colleges, including OCI candidates in the State, shall have to upload the Certificates/documents during the submission of the online application.

Candidates will be allowed neither to include any information in the application nor to submit any certificates/documents claiming reservation or any benefits after the last date for submission of the application.

APPLICATION FEE

Application Fee for General Candidates and Service Quota candidates is Rs 1000/- and in the case of SC/ST candidates and those eligible for SC/ST benefits.is Rs.500/-. Service quota candidates will have to pay an additional amount of Rs 1000/- if they apply for a General seat also. Application fee once remitted will not be refunded.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

ACADEMIC

Applicants should be in possession of an MBBS degree or provisional MBBS pass certificate recognised by NMC (MCI) with MBBS qualification registered permanently or provisionally with NMC (MCI) or State Medical Council and who have completed one year of internship on or before 30/04/2026. Admission to such candidates will be given only after they have obtained registration with the Kerala State Medical Council/ erstwhile TravancoreCochin Medical Council (TC Medical Council).

NATIVITY

Applicants should have satisfied any of the following conditions-

1 Applicant should be an Indian Citizen of Kerala origin.

2 Only Indian citizens are eligible for admission to Professional courses unless otherwise notified. However, keeping in view the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in order dated 03.02.2023 passed in WP (Civil) 891 of 2021 in the matter of ‘Anushka Rengunthwar & Ors. Vs Union of India & Ors., the OCI cardholders will now be eligible for the rights which were provided to them earlier under the impugned notifications dated 04.03.2021. They will be treated at par with Indian citizens and will be eligible for UR (General) category seats as well as NRI seats for the purpose of counselling. PIO/OCI candidates will not be eligible for any kind of reservation.

3 Candidates who are sons/daughters of Non-Keralite parents, who have obtained an MBBS Degree from any of the Medical Colleges in the State of Kerala. But they will not be eligible for Communal/Special/Persons with Disability reservation benefits.

4 As per the judgment in WP (C ) 24607/2023 dated 07.03.2024, the Hon’ble High Court of Kerala has ordered that the Nativity clause, to the extent it disqualifies the petitioner or other Medical Officers from applying under the service quota of the Act, is invalid and unconstitutional and, therefore, declared null and void. Hence, Non-Keralite service doctors are eligible to apply under the service quota.

AGE

There is no Upper age limit for admission to PG Medical courses 2026 with the following exceptions.

1 For Medical Education service quota candidates, the upper age limit will be 49 years as on 31 st December of the year of issue of notification of CEE, by ensuring a minimum of 10 years of service after completion of the course as stipulated in the Service Quota Rules (Including the candidates IIMS, Palakkad).

2 For Health Service Quota and Insurance Medical service quota candidates, the upper age limit will be 47 years as on 31 st December of the year of issue of CEE/208/2026-TA2 I/762336/2026 notification of CEE by assuring the minimum of 10 years of service after completion of the course as stipulated in the Service Quota Rules.

QUALIFYING CRITERIA

All candidates seeking admission to Post Graduate Medical Degree courses in the State of Kerala for the academic year 2026-27 shall have to qualify the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Post Graduate Courses (NEET PG) 2026 conducted by the National Board of Examinations, New Delhi.

In order to be eligible for admission in any Post Graduate Medical courses in 2026-27, it shall be necessary for a candidate to obtain a minimum number of marks as given in the table below.

MODE OF SELECTION

The selection of the candidates shall be made from the rank list prepared by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, Kerala based on NEET PG 2026 rank list subject to satisfying the eligibility conditions.

The admission to the State quota seats in Govt. Medical Colleges and RCC (Regional Cancer Centre), Thiruvananthapuram and to the entire PG Medical (Degree) seats including Minority quota and NRI quota in Self-financing Medical colleges in the State for the year 2026-27 shall be done through a common counselling to be conducted by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations from the State rank list.

The selection and allotment of seats, including those under Service Quota, will be made by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations through a Centralised Allotment Process (CAP) as per Clause 10 of the Prospectus for admission to Medical Post Graduate Degree Courses-2026, approved by the Government of Kerala.

DATA SHEET

Candidates eligible for allotment/admission to the courses will be issued a Data Sheet, which can be downloaded from the website from the date which will be notified later.

To view the notification, click the link below