Checked 7 October 2026. AACCC had not posted the PG Information Bulletin or schedule for 2026-27 on 7 October 2026 (its PG pages said "No Documents found", last updated 6 October). Every date, fee and rule here is from the 2025-26 cycle and may change; the 2026 bulletin decides.
After AIAPGET, the seats that are not run by a state are counselled by AACCC, the Ayush Admissions Central Counseling Committee under NCISM and NCH. In the 2025-26 cycle it ran four stages for MD and MS in Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Unani and Siddha: Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 and a Stray Vacancy Round in two phases (SVR-I and SVR-II), followed by spot rounds for the few seats still empty. NTA declared the AIAPGET 2026 result on 18 September 2026 (cut-off marks and percentiles are in our marks guide). On 7 October 2026 the AACCC site carried 2026-27 notices dated 27 August, 7 September and 1 October, but its PG bulletin and schedule pages were empty, so the 2026-27 round dates are not announced. We use the 2025-26 cycle as the worked example and say so each time.
Seat counts are our additions of the seat rows printed in the 2025-26 matrices. Fees are from the 2025-26 Information Bulletin.
ProSyllabus is an independent study site. We are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the National Testing Agency, NCISM, NCH, the Ministry of Ayush or AACCC. Every rule below is quoted or summarised from their published documents, and every sum, share or bound is labelled as our own arithmetic. We print no candidate names or roll numbers.
What AACCC counsels, and what it does not
The first thing to settle is which seats are even in AACCC's hands. The Information Bulletin lists them and says the percentages are tentative, because the number of colleges in each round depends on permissions from NCISM, NCH or the university. Everything not on this list, including all state-quota seats and the all-india-quota seats of private colleges, is counselled by the state or union territory.
| Seat pool | What AACCC counsels | Reservation (bulletin) |
|---|---|---|
| Government and Government-Aided colleges of all states and UTs | 15% All India Quota | SC 15%, ST 7.5%, OBC-NCL 27%, GEN-EWS 10%, PwBD 5% |
| Banaras Hindu University, Ayurveda | 100%: 50% AIQ plus 50% institutional (the institutional half is for BHU BAMS graduates) | Central policy; AACCC applies a roster across the two halves |
| ITRA Jamnagar (Ayurveda), NIH Kolkata, NIUM Bengaluru, NRIUMSD Hyderabad, RRIUM Srinagar | 100% except nominated seats | Central policy |
| NIH Narela (Delhi), NHRIMH Kottayam, NIUM Ghaziabad, National Institute of Siddha Chennai | 100% | Central policy |
| NIA Jaipur (except nominated seats), AIIA Delhi, AIIA Goa, NEIAH Shillong (Homoeopathy), AMU Aligarh (Unani) | 50% | Central policy |
| All Deemed Universities, AYUSH PG seats | 100% | None: all seats unreserved and domicile-free; some have minority or NRI quotas |
Two lines in that table decide most surprises. First, the 15% AIQ share applies to government colleges only. The bulletin says counselling for AIQ PG seats of private ASU&H institutes is conducted by the respective State or UT authority, and that AACCC has no role in Central Government Nominee seats or foreign-quota seats. Second, deemed universities are 100% AACCC but reservation does not apply to them, which is why their seat rows in the matrix are all Open. Our state-quota guide takes the state side in detail.
Where other pages get this wrong
AACCC does not allot "all PG seats in India" after AIAPGET.
Commonly published instead: Pages that say the AACCC rank decides every Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Unani or Siddha MD or MS seat in the country.
The Information Bulletin 2025-26 gives AACCC 15% of government-college seats plus whole central institutions and deemed universities, and hands private-college AIQ seats and all state-quota seats to the state authority. NTA's own 2026 bulletin says the same: AACCC counsels AIQ seats; state authorities counsel state-quota seats on the same AIAPGET merit.
The rounds, in plain terms
All AACCC PG counselling is online, and the seat is allotted only from the choices you lock, in merit order. You register once, pay once, and fill choices afresh in each round: choices from an earlier round are treated as null and void. The table summarises the rules from the 2025-26 bulletin; the 2026 bulletin may change any of it.
| Stage | Registration and payment | Upgrade to a later round? | Free exit? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Yes, for everyone | Joined candidates can ask for upgrade to Round 2 at reporting | Yes if allotted but not joined; yes if joined, until the Round 2 final result (excluding that date) |
| Round 2 | Round 1 candidates need not register again; new candidates pay | Yes, up to Round 3 | No. An allotted candidate who does not join, or who leaves, forfeits the counselling fee |
| Round 3 | Fresh registration allowed; candidates who exited with forfeiture pay in full again | No upgrade from Round 3 to the stray round | No. An allotted candidate must join or loses the fee and becomes ineligible for any Ayush PG counselling (Central, State, UT) |
| Stray Vacancy Round, phase I | Fresh registration only here; registered candidates fill choices | None from Rounds 1, 2 or 3 | No |
| Stray Vacancy Round, phase II | None: no registration, no new choices | None | No. The choices from phase I are reused for the second allotment |
Two details trip people up. First, in 2025-26 the vacant seats of deemed universities were folded into the common stray round instead of getting a separate round, and the bulletin says there is no institute-level stray counselling. The two-phase design follows a Gujarat High Court order of 30 November 2023 quoted in the bulletin. Second, a candidate already admitted through any state or UT counselling round is ineligible for the stray round, while a candidate who is not admitted anywhere can register fresh in SVR-I.
How the 2025-26 cycle actually ran
Schedules are intentions. The table sets the dates AACCC first published (5 September 2025) against what its notices show. Dates marked "file" are the upload dates encoded in the notice file names on the AACCC archive, which is our reading, not a printed result date.
| Stage | First published schedule | What the notices show |
|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Registration 10 to 16 Sept; choices 13 to 16 Sept; result 19 Sept; reporting 20 to 26 Sept | Registration stretched to 17 Sept in the 21 Sept revision; provisional result 18 Sept; final result 19 Sept (file) |
| Round 2 | Registration 1 to 6 Oct; result 9 Oct; reporting 10 to 16 Oct | Final result published 9 Oct, then withheld on 10 Oct; revised schedules 13 Oct; revised final result 14 Oct (file) |
| Round 3 | Registration 21 to 25 Oct; result 28 Oct; reporting 29 Oct to 4 Nov | Matrices 30 Oct; result 6 Nov (file); reporting deadline extended to 15 Nov, 1 pm to 8 pm |
| SVR-I | Registration 9 to 13 Nov; result 16 Nov; reporting 17 to 24 Nov | Matrices 20 Nov; final result 26 Nov (file) |
| SVR-II | Allotment 28 to 29 Nov; result 30 Nov; reporting 1 to 8 Dec | Ayurveda provisional result 9 Dec; final result 10 Dec (file); we did not find SVR-II lists for the other streams in the archive |
| Spot rounds | Not in the first schedule | Institute-level spot rounds 17 to 22 Dec 2025; fresh registration 14 to 18 Jan 2026 with counselling to 23 Jan 2026 |
The reason for the Round 2 withdrawal is printed in AACCC's notice of 10 October 2025: non-compliance by a few participating institutes during online reporting of Round 1 meant many candidates could not fill their category seats in Round 2 choice filling, so the Round 2 final result of all four streams was withheld. By our comparison of file dates with the first schedule, the Round 3, SVR-I and SVR-II results then landed about nine or ten days after their first-published dates. Plan for slippage, not for the printed calendar. Security money came back in February 2026: AACCC's notice of 23 February says the security money of 5,587 PG candidates had been refunded.
Our sums of the seat rows. SVR-I had no published Siddha matrix in the archive. Each round lists the seats still vacant, so the counts shrink as seats fill.
Round 1 listed 1,413 seats and Round 2 listed 608, because Round 2 shows only what Round 1 left plus seats surrendered. By Round 3 the provisional matrix is down to 241, and the first stray phase to 50. Separately, AACCC publishes a "virtual" matrix that guesses at seats likely to be vacated by upgrades; we did not count those, so a candidate in Round 3 saw more seats than our table.
The 2025-26 seat matrix, stream by stream
A seat matrix row is a college, a branch, a category and a number of seats. Adding the Round 1 rows gives the table below. Ayurveda is two-thirds of all AIQ seats, and the deemed universities hold a larger share of Ayurveda than the government colleges do, which surprises most candidates who expect the 15% pool to dominate.
| Stream | AIQ Government | Central Univ. / Nat. Inst. | Deemed | Govt-Aided | Total Round 1 seats | Colleges in matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayurveda | 229 | 244 | 440 | 7 | 920 | 53 |
| Homoeopathy | 63 | 80 | 75 | 0 | 218 | 24 |
| Unani | 32 | 164 | 9 | 0 | 205 | 14 |
| Siddha | 14 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 3 |
| All four | 338 | 544 | 524 | 7 | 1,413 | not summed (a college can appear in two streams) |
Of the 1,413 Round 1 seats, only 338 (23.9%) are AIQ Government seats. Central universities and national institutes hold 544 (38.5%) and deemed universities 524 (37.1%). Unani is almost entirely central institutions (164 of 205), and Siddha has just three colleges in the Round 1 seat-matrix PDF (our count). The 33 NRI-quota seats sit inside the deemed total (our sum of the Round 1 seat-matrix PDFs).
Our sums of Round 1 seat rows per college (all branches, all pools in the matrix).
| Rank | College | Stream | Round 1 seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KLE Shri B.M. Kankanawadi Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Belagavi | Ayurveda | 100 |
| 2 | Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Ayurved, Pimpri, Pune | Ayurveda | 100 |
| 3 | ITRA, Jamnagar | Ayurveda | 84 |
| 4 | NIUM, Bengaluru | Unani | 63 |
| 5 | Bharati Vidyapeeth, College of Ayurved, Pune | Ayurveda | 62 |
| 6 | Mahatma Gandhi Ayurved College, Wardha | Ayurveda | 60 |
| 7 | National Institute of Siddha, Chennai | Siddha | 56 |
| 8 | Banaras Hindu University, Faculty of Ayurveda, Varanasi | Ayurveda | 50 |
| 9 | NIUM, Ghaziabad | Unani | 49 |
| 10 | All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi | Ayurveda | 48 |
| 11 | National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur | Ayurveda | 47 |
| 12 | Amrita School of Ayurveda, Kollam | Ayurveda | 46 |
The big numbers are mostly deemed or private-quota seats: two Maharashtra and Karnataka deemed colleges hold 100 seats each, ahead of ITRA Jamnagar with 84 and BHU with 50. A large seat count does not make a seat easy or cheap: deemed fees are set by the university, and the bulletin tells candidates to confirm fees before filling choices.
Ayurveda branches in Round 1
Branch matters as much as college. This table lists every Ayurveda branch in the Round 1 matrix by seats, with its share of the 920 Ayurveda seats (our division).
| Branch | Round 1 seats | Share of Ayurveda seats |
|---|---|---|
| Kayachikitsa | 94 | 10.2% |
| Rasashastra Evum Bhaishajya Kalpana | 88 | 9.6% |
| Shalya Tantra | 81 | 8.8% |
| Dravyaguna Vijana | 72 | 7.8% |
| Stree Roga-Prasuti Tantra | 72 | 7.8% |
| Ayurveda Samhita and Siddhanta | 67 | 7.3% |
| Kaumarabhritya | 63 | 6.8% |
| Panchakarma | 62 | 6.7% |
| Roganidana-Vikritivijnana | 54 | 5.9% |
| Swasthavritta and Yoga | 51 | 5.5% |
| Rachana Sharira | 50 | 5.4% |
| Kriya Sharira | 46 | 5.0% |
| Agada Tantra and Vidhi Vaidyaka | 44 | 4.8% |
| Shalakya-Netra Roga Chikitsa | 34 | 3.7% |
| Shalakya-Karna, Naasa & Mukha Roga | 29 | 3.2% |
| Manasaroga and Manovijnana | 7 | 0.8% |
| Rasayana and Vajikarana | 6 | 0.7% |
Kayachikitsa leads with 94 seats and Rasashastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana follows with 88. Manasaroga and Rasayana together hold 13 seats. With so few seats, a single college row there can swing a whole rank band; our closing-rank guide shows what ranks those branches closed at.
Who gets the seats: category split
| Category | Round 1 seats | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Open (unreserved) | 898 | 63.6% |
| OBC | 233 | 16.5% |
| SC | 130 | 9.2% |
| ST | 68 | 4.8% |
| EWS | 84 | 5.9% |
| of which PwD seats (inside the rows above) | 51 | 3.6% |
Because deemed seats are unreserved, the Open share of the whole matrix is far above the 50% a reservation table suggests. Read the category split for the pool you are targeting, which the explorer below does.
Seat matrix explorer (AACCC PG, 2025-26 cycle)
Pick a round, stream, seat pool, category and branch. The tool adds up the seats AACCC listed in the provisional seat matrix of that round and shows the colleges holding them. These are last year’s seats; the 2026-27 matrix is not published yet.
Our sums of the printed rows of the provisional matrices. A seat row can be listed again in a later round if it stayed vacant; do not add rounds together. “Open” is the matrix’s OP column (unreserved). PwD seats are a horizontal slice shown inside the category they belong to.
Fees and security money
The bulletin sets two payments at registration, both online. The registration fee is not refundable. The security deposit is refunded after the whole counselling ends, to the same bank account or card that paid it, unless you forfeit it. Asking your card issuer for a chargeback instead delays the refund, the bulletin warns.
| Counselling type chosen | Category | Registration fee | Security money | Paid at registration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIQ Government, Government-Aided, Central University and National Institute | UR, EWS, OBC-NCL | Rs 2,000 | Rs 20,000 | Rs 22,000 |
| AIQ Government, Government-Aided, Central University and National Institute | SC, ST, PwBD | Rs 1,000 | Rs 20,000 | Rs 21,000 |
| Deemed University (alone or with the pools above) | All categories | Rs 5,000 | Rs 50,000 | Rs 55,000 |
Counselling fee and security money calculator (2025-26 rates)
AACCC took one payment at registration: a non-refundable registration fee plus a refundable security deposit. Choose what you are registering for. The 2026-27 figures come with the 2026 bulletin, which is not out yet.
Opting for both pools means paying only the higher deemed-university amount, Rs 55,000, once. Changing from government to deemed counselling later is possible through the one-time registration unlocking facility, but the bulletin's own example shows the cost: an unreserved candidate who paid Rs 22,000, switched to deemed and paid Rs 55,000, then broke the scheme, forfeits the full Rs 77,000.
Exit rules: what costs you money and eligibility
This is the section to read twice before locking choices. The rules are strict, and they reach beyond AACCC: candidates who break them are listed as ineligible and the list is sent to state and UT counselling authorities.
| Situation | Consequence |
|---|---|
| Allotted in Round 1, do not join | Free exit. You can try Round 2 with fresh choices |
| Joined Round 1, want to leave before the Round 2 final result | Free exit until that result (excluding the result date) |
| Joined Round 1, not upgraded, leave from the Round 2 result up to 3 days before Round 3 starts | Counselling fee forfeited; you may still join Round 3 or the stray round by paying the full fee again |
| Leave a joined seat between 3 days before Round 3 and the Round 3 final result | Fee forfeited; ineligible for AACCC but still eligible for state or UT counselling |
| Leave a joined seat on or after the Round 3 final result date | Fee forfeited; ineligible for any Ayush PG counselling (Central, State, UT) that year |
| Allotted in Round 3 or either stray phase, do not join or later withdraw | Fee forfeited; ineligible for any Ayush PG counselling that year |
| Upgraded seat not joined | Fee forfeited; your earlier joined seat stands cancelled |
The 1 October 2026 notice adds the mechanics for the coming cycle: if a candidate who joined through AACCC is later allotted a state seat, an MBBS, BDS or B.Sc seat, or simply withdraws, the college must process the surrender online using its institute admin login, and a candidate who is upgraded needs an online relieving letter from the earlier college. AACCC and NCISM or NCH say they will not approve admission, resignation or relieving made offline.
What to do before the 2026-27 schedule appears
| Step | What the bulletin says | Do now |
|---|---|---|
| Registration details | Use the same mobile number and e-mail you gave NTA; AIAPGET data is pre-filled and AACCC does not edit it | Check your NTA score card details and keep the phone and mailbox active |
| Category and PwBD | The category in the NTA result database is used; benefit needs documents at reporting | Get the certificates in the central formats ready (OBC-NCL from the central list, EWS, PwBD from listed centres) |
| Internship | Only candidates who completed the 12-month internship are eligible at joining; NTA allowed internship to end by 31 October 2026 | Keep the completion certificate; admission is cancelled without it |
| Money | Rs 22,000, Rs 21,000 or Rs 55,000 by card, net banking or UPI; refund goes to the paying account | Pay from an account you will keep open for months |
| Fraud | AACCC said on 7 Sept 2026 that fabricated scorecards are being tried on the portal and will meet legal action | Register only on aaccc.gov.in and never pay an agent for a seat |
Practise it, don't just read it
Counselling is decided by rank, and rank is decided by what you score now. While AACCC finalises the 2026-27 schedule, topic quizzes are the quickest way to find a weak chapter before the next sitting or a re-attempt.
The ProSyllabus AIAPGET library has ten quizzes on eight topics: Tridosha and Prakriti Assessment, Basic Sharira Rachana Landmarks, Marma Classification and Clinical Significance, Samhita Kala and Kriya Kala, Dravyaguna: Rasa Panchaka, Agni and Ama Concepts, Srotas and Body Channels and Panchakarma Procedures. They cover Ayurveda basics only; there is nothing yet for Homoeopathy, Siddha or Unani, and these are practice quizzes, not past papers.
Frequently asked questions
How many rounds does AACCC counselling have for AIAPGET?
Four stages in the 2025-26 cycle: Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 and a Stray Vacancy Round in two phases (SVR-I with registration and choice filling, SVR-II reusing those choices). Spot rounds followed for seats still vacant. The 2026-27 bulletin was not on the AACCC portal on 7 October 2026.
When will AACCC PG counselling 2026 start?
AACCC had not published a 2026-27 PG schedule by 7 October 2026. NTA declared the AIAPGET 2026 result on 18 September 2026. Last year the first schedule was published on 5 September 2025 with registration from 10 September, and it slipped later, so treat any date you read elsewhere as unofficial until AACCC posts it.
How much does AACCC PG registration cost?
In 2025-26: Rs 22,000 for UR, EWS or OBC-NCL candidates (Rs 2,000 non-refundable plus Rs 20,000 refundable security) for government, aided, central university and national institute seats; Rs 21,000 for SC, ST or PwBD; Rs 55,000 for anyone choosing deemed universities. The 2026 figures come with the 2026 bulletin.
Can I leave a seat after joining in Round 1?
Yes, free of charge, until the Round 2 final result (excluding that date). After that, leaving a Round 1 seat that was not upgraded forfeits the counselling fee, and leaving after the Round 3 final result also makes you ineligible for any Ayush PG counselling that year.
Does AACCC counsel private college seats?
Not the all-india-quota seats of private colleges: the bulletin says the respective State or UT counselling authority conducts those. AACCC does counsel deemed universities in full, and they are domicile-free and unreserved.
Is the stray vacancy round the last chance?
It was the last AACCC online round with allotments in 2025-26, but AACCC then ran institute-level spot rounds in December 2025 and a fresh-registration spot round on 14 to 23 January 2026. Spot-round seats were few, for example five Siddha seats at NIS Chennai.
Where does my security money go if I get no seat?
It is refunded after the whole counselling ends to the same bank account or card that paid it. AACCC announced the 2025-26 refund on 23 February 2026, saying 5,587 PG candidates had been refunded. Keep that account open until then.
Sources
- official — NTA: AIAPGET page (notices, bulletin, result, answer keys), read 7 October 2026
- official — NTA: Press release 18 September 2026, results and NTA scores (appeared, category-wise cut-off percentiles, marks and qualified counts)
- official — AACCC: portal home page, last updated 6 October 2026
- official — AACCC: PG Counselling page (2026-27 notices, read 7 October 2026)
- official — AACCC: Counseling and Admissions page (types and rounds)
- official — AACCC: PG archive (all 2025-26 notices, matrices and result lists)
- official — AACCC: PG Information Bulletin, Counseling Scheme and FAQs 2025-26 (revised 10 September 2025, 70 pages)
- official — AACCC: time schedule for AACCC-PG counseling 2025-26 (first published 5 September 2025)
- official — AACCC: revised schedule 2025-26 (file dated 21 September 2025)
- official — AACCC: notice 10 October 2025 withholding the Round-2 final result
- official — AACCC: notice 15 November 2025, Round-3 reporting extended
- official — AACCC: notice 7 November 2025, seats permitted after Round-3 began go to the State or UT authority
- official — AACCC: notice 29 October 2025, NRI seats at three deemed universities converted to institutional (self-finance) seats in Round 3
- official — AACCC: tentative schedule for spot round, 17 December 2025
- official — AACCC: notice 14 January 2026, fresh registration for the PG spot round 14 to 23 January 2026
- official — AACCC: notice 23 February 2026 on refund of security money (we used the count only; the attached list carries roll numbers and is not reproduced)
- official — AACCC: notice 1 October 2026 on withdrawal, surrender and relieving letters
- official — AACCC: advisory against fraudulent registrations, 7 September 2026
official = a document published by the conducting body. reported = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.
More in this series
- AIAPGET closing rank by college, branch and category (AACCC 2025-26)
- AIAPGET marks, percentile and rank: 2026 cut-off marks and calculator
- AIAPGET answer key, recorded responses and exam pattern
- AIAPGET state quota vs all-india quota: domicile, counselling and seats
- AIAPGET rank vs college: which rank gets which college
- AIAPGET exam dates, registration and eligibility updates
- AIAPGET preparation roadmap: zero to hero study plan
- AIAPGET exam-day strategy and NTA guidelines
- AIAPGET alerts and updates
