JENPAS UG Seat Matrix 2026: 13,265 Seats by Course, Category and College

The JENPAS(UG) seat matrix is published on WBJEEB's counselling portal just before counselling, as a long table of institutes, programmes and category columns. We added it up. In 2026 JENPAS(UG) filled 13,265 seats in 13 courses at 193 institutes; two-thirds of them were B.Sc Nursing, and four-fifths were in private colleges. Every total below is our sum of the official matrix.

WBJEEB counselling portal, seat matrix 2026 (our totals).

Course names, as the 2026 matrix spells them: BPT is physiotherapy, BOT occupational therapy, BMLS medical laboratory science, BAOTT anaesthesia and operation theatre technology, BRT respiratory technology, MMB medical microbiology, BPA physician associate, BEMT emergency medical technology, CSIC central sterilisation and infection control, BMRIT medical radiology and imaging technology, BOPTM optometry and BHA hospital administration. Pages that still say "BMLT" are using the 2025 name.

Government seats are few and concentrated: 1,715 nursing seats in 25 colleges, then 753 allied and BHA seats in nine institutions. Optometry and respiratory technology are the only courses where government seats outnumber private ones.

The matrix has no OBC-PwD or ST-PwD seats. One detail changes how to read the private row: every private allied and BHA seat — 3,652 of them — is Open, with no reserved seats. Reservation in private colleges exists only in nursing. In government colleges it applies to every course.

How a 100-seat government nursing college is split, from its row in the matrix: 52 open, 3 open-PwD, 7 OBC, 21 SC, 1 SC-PwD, 6 ST, 9 EWS, 1 EWS-PwD. The OBC share of 7 in 100 matches the 7% OBC reservation in WBJEEB's June 2026 notice — see the OBC conflict below.

Seven of the 25 have 100 seats; Kalimpong is the smallest with 30. Closing ranks for every round and category are in our closing-rank guide.

The two official documents disagree, and the later one governed counselling. The 2026 bulletin reserves seats for OBC-Category-A (More Backward) and OBC-Category-B (Backward) under the West Bengal notifications of May and June 2025, and it promised separate OBC-A and OBC-B category ranks. On 16.06.2026 — nine days after the exam — notice JEEB/Reg-67/2026 opened a portal (16–19.06.2026) for candidates to declare their OBC class "as appearing in the list notified vide Gazette Notification No. 945-BCW/MR-23/2026 dated 18.05.2026", to avail "7% reservation for OBC" — one OBC class, not two. Non-creamy-layer status follows the Backward Classes Welfare memo No. 1037(64)/Secy-BCW/MR-33/2025(Pt.V).

We print the conflict rather than resolve it: the bulletin was never corrected, the counselling portal followed the June notice, and the memo's date is given two ways. For 2027, read the new bulletin's reservation clause and the OBC certificate format it asks for before you apply. The 2026 bulletin asked for an OBC non-creamy-layer certificate issued on or after 01.04.2026.

The 2026 counselling notification, Memo WBE/EX-49 dated 05.08.2026, said a candidate allotted a seat for the first time must pay a "Seat Acceptance Fee of Rs.5,000/-". Seven days later, corrigendum WBE/EX-52 dated 12.08.2026 — the day the Round-1 result came out — called that an "inadvertent error" and fixed the fee at Rs 1,000. The 2024 and 2025 counselling notices also charged Rs 1,000. Pages that copied the original notification still print Rs 5,000.

Nothing in the 2027 matrix is known yet. The bulletin says the seat matrix "will be declared by the Dept of H&FW, Govt. of W.B." and sent to the Board by WBUHS before counselling, and that private institutions need an Indian Nursing Council suitability certificate. Several private nursing colleges were listed in 2026 with "INC Approval Pending" in their names — including the WBUHS University College of Nursing at Kalyani — so seats can appear or disappear with approvals. Use the 2026 matrix to understand the shape, and re-check the 2027 matrix when it is published.