If you're allotted this seat and a better one might open the next round — do you hold it and stay in for the upgrade, or let it go?

Round 1 is a free exit — not joining costs nothing. From Round 2, not reporting to an allotted seat forfeits your ₹2 lakh security deposit. At Kasturba Medical College, 3 in 4 who took this seat kept it — of 250 allotted in 2025, 190 reported and kept it; the rest upgraded out. Across counselling last year, 6,686 students let a Round-1 seat go chasing better — and 6 in 10 of them ended the year with nothing. So name it now, in the calm: a seat you'd hold, or one you'd release. The safe way to reach higher is to report and stay in for the upgrade — you keep this while you try to move up. On result day you get hours, not days.

Where does this college go on your list — a reach you'd take, or an anchor you're glad to hold?

MCC walks your list top-down and gives you the highest seat your rank reaches — nothing below it is ever looked at. The order is the seat, not the rank. Students who took Kasturba Medical College in 2025 had placed it at a median of #20 on their list, and 34% put it at #1. Put a seat you'd settle for above one you'd choose, and it's the one you get. Name where this goes — above the seats you'd rather have, or below them as the anchor you're sure to hold.

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Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

Manipal, Karnataka · 250 MBBS seats

254 students took this seat last year. 60 gave it up to try for something better — 50 ended the year with no seat at all.

The other 10 did find a seat elsewhere — at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Univ.; Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Univ.; Jorhat Medical College and Hospital, Jorhat.

3 kept this seat and still moved up to a better one later.

The students who took it ranged from AIR 864 all the way to AIR 555,829 — the same seat, very different starting points.

General · 2025 ranks

AIR 1,036 – 43,835

Paid seat · fee

₹17.8L/yr

Deposit

₹2,00,000

Report & keep

3 in 4

After allotment: report, keep, or upgrade

They report and keep it

Of 250 who got a seat here in 2025, 190 reported and kept it — 3 in 4. Most who land here stay; the rest upgraded to a higher choice.

NRI fee

US$49,400/yrUS$147,800 across the course

2025 NRI ranks

AIR 54,284 – 559,034

typical NRI rank

~AIR 460,000where most NRI seats went in 2025

Both are required — NRI eligibility and a rank that reaches. NRI seats are a pool under MCC (not a separate counselling): you need the NRI / NRI-sponsored documents test and a rank inside the NRI close (AIR 54,284 – 559,034 in 2025). Never a fallback for a general candidate.

AIR 1 – 500 Kalam-Pai Scholarship100% program fee + 100% hostel waiver + ₹5,000/month stipend. 1 seat per campus. ₹10,000/yr

AIR 1 – 5,000 Freeship Scholarship100% program fee waiver. No hostel waiver. Pay ₹10,000/yr minimum. ₹10,000/yr

AIR 5,001 – 10,000 Scholar Scholarship50% program fee waiver. ₹890,000/yr

80% PCB in 12th. MCC Round 1 admitted only. 65% aggregate to continue. KEA/JCECEB students not eligible. · manipal.edu/scholarship (2025)

At AIR 1,036, almost everyone took an AIIMS or a top government seat. A few chose Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. Why?

Order these — the highest your list reaches is yours

At AIR ~1036, this is what actually sat on the list.

Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

Kannada + English ₹17.8L/yr bond not listed not a main city KA PG quota

AIIMS Raipur

Hindi + English ₹1,628/yr bond not listed main city IP door

AIIMS Mangalagiri

Telugu + English ₹1,628/yr bond not listed not a main city IP door

AIIMS Nagpur

Marathi + English ₹1,628/yr bond not listed main city IP door

BHU Institute of Medical Sciences, Varanasi

Hindi + English ₹13,410/yr bond not listed main city IP door

MCC gives you the highest seat your order reaches — and never shows you the one just below it. Which would you put first? — run the mock.

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Kasturba Medical College, Manipal

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