In good news for medical aspirants, the MBBS seat tally in India has crossed the 1.36 lakh mark, clocking a 7 per cent raise from 2025. As against a total of 1,28,976 MBBS seats available across 818 medical colleges in India for the academic year 2025–26, there will be 13,6939 seats available for the 2026-27 session across 823 colleges — 441 government and 382 private.Of the total seats available this year, 1,27,028 are through the renewal system and 9,911 have been added.Government medical colleges will offer 63,296 seats (61,185 renewed and 2,111 new), private medical colleges will offer 73,643 seats (65,843 renewed and 7,800 new).These details have been published by the National Medical Commission (NMC) in the much-awaited Seat Matrix for Undergraduate (MBBS) Courses for the Academic Year 2026-27.This table excludes seats in Institutes of National Importance (INIs) such as AIIMS, JIPMER PUducherry and PGI Chandigarh, bringing relief to lakhs of aspiring medical students ahead of the counselling process. Normally central colleges offer around 2900 seats together.Overall, as against last year there will be 7963 more MBBS seats available this year as per the NMC data.The NMC notice says that this year’s matrix includes 2,400 fresh MBBS seats from 25 newly established medical colleges — 400 seats across 7 new government colleges and 2,000 seats across 18 new private colleges — expanding medical education access in several states.New colleges include Alva’s Institute of Medical Sciences (Karnataka), APS Medical College (Tamil Nadu), Sikkim Government Medical College, Sido Kanhu Medical College and Hospital (Jharkhand), Sanskaram School of Medical Sciences (Haryana).States and MBBS seatsKarnataka 15,395Uttar Pradesh 14,000Tamil Nadu 13,999Maharashtra  13,099Telangana 10,250Rajasthan 8,080Gujarat 7,750Andhra 7,465Madhya Pradesh 6,020Haryana 2,960Punjab 1,850Chandigarh 200