MSc Nursing 2025 in Tamil Nadu- Check out counselling schedule, guidelines, seat matrix here

Tamil Nadu- The Tamil Nadu medical education department (TN Health) has announced the tentative online Round 1 counselling schedule for M.Sc. Nursing admissions for the 2025-26 academic session.

Registration, payment, choice filling, and locking will begin on 15th September 2025 at 12 noon and close on 17th September 2025 at 5 PM for all candidates from General Rank 001 to 285.

The final allotment results will be published on 19th September, and students must download their provisional allotment orders between 19th and 22nd September, reporting to their allotted colleges by 22nd September at 5 PM. The counselling process will be conducted strictly online, with detailed guidelines and procedures available on the official website.

Tentative online round 1 counselling schedule for M.Sc.,(Nursing) course 2025-2026 session

* GR – GENERAL RANK

INSTRUCTIONS:-

♦ All candidates participating by online counselling for M.Sc., Nursing Course will have to remit a non-refundable amount of Rs. 500/- through online as processing fee, via Debit Card /Credit Card /Net Banking/UPI.

♦ Candidates should be vigil while choice filling.

♦ Seat Matrix for the Course will be available on websites.

♦ Selection committee does not take responsibility of Connectivity error.

♦ Admission to M.Sc., Nursing course shall be made by the ONLINE COUNSELLING on the basis of rank by applying the rule of reservation. The detailed online counselling procedures are available in Annexure.

♦ Option once given during the online counselling cannot be changed later. Request for change of Branch / College, from one to another is not permitted after an option has been exercised at the time of admission.

♦ A candidate who has taken a seat and not joined the course, he / she is not eligible to the subsequent rounds of online counselling.

♦ Candidates selected for admission should give a self-declaration form at the time of the reporting to the concerned College that he / she is liable for forfeiture of selection / admission if suppression of facts, mis- interpretation is found at any time during or after the admission to the course.

♦ Candidates should pay the tuition fee and then download their provisional allotment order and join the course in the concerned Colleges on or before the date and time specified in the allotment order.

♦ REPORTING: The candidates should produce their original certificates in person at the time of joining in their selected Colleges along with the scanned copy of original certificates to the concerned Colleges.

♦Selected candidates shall pay an amount of Rs.5000/- for Govt. Colleges and Rs. 75,000/- for Self-financing college through ONLINE via Debit Card /Credit Card /Net Banking for taking the allotment order towards Tuition Fee. The Tuition Fee is Non –refundable, if the candidate discontinues or does not join the course.

♦ If a seat is allotted to a candidate, he/she should produce the following documents required for verification by the College authorities:

1. Original B.Sc. (Nursing) Degree certificate or provisional pass certificate from the concerned university to which the college is affiliated.

2. First Year to Final B.Sc. (Nursing) Mark sheets issued by the competent authorities.

3. Provisional / Permanent / Additional Registration Certificate for B.Sc Nursing from Tamil Nadu Nursing Council.

4. Fee Receipt issued by the Nursing Council for Registration of B.Sc(N) Course (if applicable).

5. Experience certificate for 1 year for regular B.Sc.,(N) candidates after the date of above fee receipt.

6. Experience Certificate for 1 Year from the date of registration for Post Basic B.Sc.,(N) candidates either before B.Sc.,(N) or after passing B.Sc.,(N).

7. Community Certificate, if applicable.

8. Nativity Certificate, if applicable.

9. Evidence for date of birth (H.Sc / S.S.L.C. / College relieving / Extract from Service Register).

10. Copy of Posting Order for service Candidates.

11. Eligibility Certificate issued by the Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, for candidates graduated through other universities.

♦ If you do not report to the Head of the Institution to which you are allotted on or before the time and date specified, your selection and / or admission will be cancelled without any further notice.

♦ For allotment in Self Financing Institution, the head of the concerned institution should ensure that only the fees approved by the fee Committee with respect to the allotted institution is collected.

♦ In case the fee has not yet been finalised, the allotted candidate and the Head of Institution can mutually sign an undertaking that they would abide by the decision of the fee Committee with reference to fee structure.

♦ Request for re-allotment / Transfer of college will not be considered.

♦ Don’t share your Login ID, password and OTP with other.

M.sc.(nursing) Provisional rank list for eligible candidates 2025 - 2026 session : https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/13092025065847-300914.pdf

Online Counselling Procedure

♦ The date of commencement of counseling, choice filling and locking is as shown in the screen and the candidate has to login to enter the counseling process.

♦ After successful login (By entering his/her Login Id and password which were created by the candidate during the application process), the candidate is redirected to the next Step.

♦ After locking his/her options the application status will be changed as “Locked”. The candidate has to pay the processing fee through online before the choices entry process.

♦ Login

♦ Candidate has to login by using his/ her User ID/email ID and password to participate in the counselling.

♦ After Successful login, the page redirects to the payment portal. After payment, the candidate will be redirected to the Choices entry.

♦ Filling of Choices

♦ After Successful payment, there are options for adding or Removing of the choices.

♦ Mode of Payment (Payment for Choice filling and locking) will be online only.

♦ Schedule for payment given in home page.

♦ The candidate has to select his/her preference of choices by selecting the College and specialities. Seats will be shown for their respective Community (OC / BC/ BCM/ MBC/DNC/ SC/ SCA/ ST).

♦ Candidates can move or remove their choice if they wish. Priority order can be changed according to their choices. Candidate can add, move or remove their option before locking their choices.

♦ Locking of choices

♦ Candidates are instructed to view their choices carefully before locking.

♦ Once choices are locked, the candidates will not be allowed to Add, Edit and delete their options. After Locking of their choices they will be enabled to download their choices only.

♦ There are two confirmations before locking their choices and OTP will be sent to their registered mobile Number (Which was entered during the application Process). After locking, the candidate has to take a print out of his/her choices which were locked by him/her. If the candidate does not lock his/her options within the stipulated time, the system will automatically lock his/her options.

♦ Allotment of seats

♦ The allotment process will run by the rank order and availability of seats following the rule of reservations. The allotment of seat will be done based on higher order of preferences made by the candidate. Seats will be allotted after the last date of entry of the choices. The list of allotted candidates will be published in the official websites.

♦ Download of allotment order

♦ Tuition Fee for the admission is given in Prospectus. After successful payment of Tuition fee, the candidate has to login (by entering his/her User ID/email ID and password) to download his/her provisional allotment order.

♦ Reporting to the institution

♦ After downloading the provisional allotment order, the candidate has to report to the allotted college and produce their original certificates in person at the time of joining in their selected Colleges.

To view the official notice click here: https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/13092025081436-300904.pdf

The Directorate of Medical Education, Tamil Nadu (TN Health) has further released the seat matrix for MSc Nursing courses in both self-financing and government colleges across the state for the academic year 2025.