MNS B.Sc Nursing Seats 2026: 220 Seats in Six Army Colleges, Listed

The Army's B.Sc (Nursing) course is not run in one place. It is taught in six Colleges of Nursing attached to military hospitals in Pune, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Lucknow and Bangalore, affiliated to five universities (Pune and Mumbai share one), and the 2026 advertisement counts 220 seats across them. This guide lists every college with its seats and university, shows the commissioning dates the Army itself printed for the last two batches, and says plainly what the notice does not tell you: there is no category-wise seat matrix.

AFMS BSc (Nursing) Course advertisement 2026, paras 1 and 6.

Each college awards a degree through the university it is affiliated to, and that university sets the academic calendar. The 2026 advertisement says so directly: "the commencement and completion of course depend on their respective affiliated University norms". Two of the six colleges, AFMC Pune and INHS Asvini in Mumbai, share Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, which makes it the largest single affiliating body by seats.

The 2026 advertisement prints the date of commissioning for the batches enrolled in 2020 and 2021 at each college, under the heading "the past 2 academic year". Parents often assume a four-year course means a fixed date. The table shows that the date depends on the college and its university. It also shows why the notice explains that "the date of commission determines the date of seniority in service among all candidates who have joined the course in the same year".

Read the table as history, not as a promise. The notice itself warns that "the academic schedule of the respective universities is subject to change in the future". What the table does establish is that the same four-year course ended between roughly three and a half and five years after the start, depending on the college and the batch.

The Army's 2026 shortlist for screening held about 2,200 reference numbers across 13 screening days from 20 August to 5 September 2026 (we counted 2,172 by OCR; one academy reports 2,208). Against 220 seats that is about ten shortlisted candidates per seat, by our arithmetic. Shortlisting is only the first filter: the ToGIGE, the Psychological Assessment and Interview and the medical board all follow, and "no seats will be kept vacant for candidates when offered admission if they fail to report on the date and time". Why the number of seats matters more than any single mark is explained in the cut-off guide.