AIAPGET AACCC Counselling: Rounds, Seat Matrix, Fees and Exit Rules

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.