MNS B.Sc Nursing Eligibility 2026: Age, Height, Weight and Marital Status

The 2026 advertisement for the Army's B.Sc (Nursing) course is short, and its eligibility rules fit on one page: a woman who is unmarried, divorced, legally separated or a widow without encumbrances, born between 1 October 2001 and 30 September 2009, with 10+2 passed in the first attempt in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English at 50% aggregate, at least 152 cm tall (147 cm from Hill and North Eastern States) and within the weight chart, with a qualified NEET (UG) 2026 score. This guide gives each rule as printed, shows how it changed from 2017 to 2026, prints the full weight chart, and ends with a checker you can run in a minute.

AFMS BSc (Nursing) Course advertisement 2026, para 3.

Many pages say "age limit 17 to 25". The notice itself does not use an age limit in 2026; it prints a window of birth dates, and every day in it, first and last, is inclusive. By our arithmetic, a candidate born on the last day of the window turns 17 on 30 September 2026, and one born on the first day turns 25 on 1 October 2026, which is where "17 to 25" comes from. The 2025 flow chart words the rule the old way, "not less than 17 years or more than 25 years of age in which year the course is due to commence", but the 2025 and 2026 advertisements both give birth dates, and a date is what the portal checks.

The notice admits four kinds of female candidate: unmarried, divorced, legally separated, or widow without encumbrances. A married candidate is not in any of the four. The notice does not define "encumbrances", so we do not either; it applies the phrase to widows in the printed sentence. "Legally separated" has been in every advertisement we read from 2017 on, so do not treat it as dropped.

Three conditions sit in one sentence. The candidate must have passed in the first attempt, with Physics, Chemistry, Biology (Botany and Zoology) and English, and with not less than 50% aggregate marks, from a statutory or recognised board, university or examining body. The notice does not say whether the aggregate is over every subject or only over those five. The 2017 advertisement was explicit that the 50% was on "PCBE", the four subjects together, and it excluded private, compartment and open-school candidates by name. The 2025 advertisement kept "as a regular student"; the 2026 text drops that phrase. We cannot say whether that changes who is accepted, which is why the checker shows a "check" line when you are unsure about the aggregate.

The minimum height for women entering the Armed Forces is 152 cm, and candidates from Hill and North Eastern States are accepted at 147 cm. The notice also says "an allowance for growth of 02 cm will be made for candidates below 18 yrs at the time of examination". It does not say what the allowance does. Our reading is a 2 cm reduction in the minimum, to 150 cm and 145 cm, but this is our interpretation: do not rely on it without confirming at screening. The notice also does not define "Hill" States.

The chart gives a minimum weight for every height from 145 to 195 cm, and a maximum weight that depends on age: below 20, 20 to 25, and above 25. Appendix AF in the 2026 advertisement and the appendix attached to the 2025 advertisement carry the same numbers in every row, by our comparison. Some examples:

Fitness is decided by a Special Medical Board at Base Hospital, Delhi Cantt, "as per the standards and criteria prescribed and amended from time to time". The advertisement reproduces only the weight chart from those standards. The rest of the Army's common medical standards (eyesight, hearing, skin, spine and so on) are in a separate document, JO/05/2025/Adm, which the advertisement cites but does not print, and we did not find it. Do not rely on a coaching page that lists vision or tattoo rules for MNS unless it names the document. Three procedural rules are in the notice itself: a candidate declared unfit may appeal by depositing Rs 40 by MRO and reporting to Army Hospital (R&R) for an Appeal Medical Board within 24 hours of the first board; she must be physically present until the board completes and declares her status; and a candidate who is not present is declared "unfit in absentia" with no later representation entertained.