JENPAS UG Closing Rank 2026 vs 2025: Government Nursing and Allied Seats

WBJEEB publishes no cut-off score and no public rank list for JENPAS(UG). What it does publish, on its counselling portal, is an opening and closing rank report for every institute, course, category and round. This guide turns the 2026 and 2025 reports into the tables a student actually needs: how far down the merit list each government nursing college went, how that compares with last year, and what rank reached the government allied seats. Every figure below is copied or aggregated from those two official reports; where we have done arithmetic, we say so.

WBJEEB opening and closing rank report 2026 (our reading).

The bulletin says admission to every course except BHA is on the General Merit Rank (GMR) from Paper-I, and that "sequencing order for counselling/allotment of seat/admission will be based on GMR only (not on category ranks)". Category ranks are printed on the rank card "for information only". So when the report says SC seats at a college closed at 2,936, that is a GMR of 2,936 — compare it with the General Merit Rank on your own card, not your SC rank. BHA is the exception: its seats go on the BHA Merit Rank (BMR) from Paper-II, a separate list, so BHA ranks cannot be compared with anything else here.

A later round lists only the seats filled in that round — seats vacated by candidates who upgraded or did not report. That is why a Round-2 or Round-3 close can be tighter than Round 1 (Kharagpur went 3,008 → 1,668 → 2,063). For planning, Round 1 is the like-for-like comparison: it is the first pass over a full seat matrix in both years.

There are 25 government nursing colleges in the 2026 seat matrix with 1,715 seats between them, all for women. The table lists them in order of the 2026 Round-1 open close.

Two things stand out. First, the order hardly changes: the Kolkata medical-college nursing schools — SSKM, Medical College, NRS, R.G. Kar and CNMCH — fill first in both years, followed by Burdwan, COM & Sagore Dutta and I.D. & B.G. Second, every government college closed at a deeper rank in 2026 than in 2025 in Round 1. SSKM went from 109 to 176; the last government college in Round 1 went from 1,907 (Kalimpong) to 3,069 (Tamluk). That is our reading of the two reports. The Board publishes no count of ranked candidates, so we cannot say why; a larger field in 2026, or 2025's late October exam, are possible explanations, not established facts. Either way, a 2025 rank is not a safe guide to 2027 — the 2026 column is the more recent evidence.

Reserved-category candidates are allotted on the same General Merit Rank, so their closing ranks run deeper. In 2026 the OBC column is a single class (see the OBC section below).

Read across a row and the gap is large: at SSKM the open seats closed at 176 but ST seats at 3,693; at Tamluk the open close was 3,069 and ST was 15,620. EWS closes in 2026 were deeper than OBC closes at every one of the 25 colleges — for example 2,064 against 991 at CNMCH — even though government colleges have more EWS seats than OBC seats (the seat-matrix guide has the split). So the gap reflects how many candidates of each category ranked high, which the Board does not publish.

Nine government institutions offer allied health seats in 2026, 753 seats in all, open to men and women. Their open closing ranks are below. BHA uses the BHA Merit Rank.

The tightest government allied closes in 2026 were BAOTT at IPGMER (235) and BPT at IPGMER (338), then BMLS at the School of Tropical Medicine (357). The 142 for optometry at Medical College, Kolkata in Round 3 is a single late allotment to a high rank, not a signal that the course is harder than nursing at SSKM — its Round-1 close was 987.

Private colleges make up most of the depth. Allied closes ran past 42,000 (BMLS, BEMT, BPA). In 2025 the deepest allotment anywhere was 29,586. For nursing, the Round-1 open closes break down like this — our figures from the 2026 report:

The 2025 report uses different course names — BMLT, B.Sc Critical Care Technology, B.Sc Operation Theatre Technology, B.Sc Physician Assistant, BVSO — from the 2026 matrix (BMLS, BEMT, BAOTT, BPA, BOPTM). The Board has not published a mapping between the two lists, so we do not claim which 2025 course became which 2026 course. Compare nursing year on year; for allied courses, use the 2026 figures.

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.

Three rules decide how far a rank travels. Candidates were advised to fill at least 20 choices. After an allotment, a candidate chooses Yes (upgradation — stay in for a better choice) or No (take the seat and complete admission). And vacant reserved seats are never de-reserved in any round, which is why some SC, ST and EWS buckets show a dash in later rounds while open seats keep moving. A candidate who withdraws in the permitted window gets the acceptance fee back 60 to 90 days after all rounds end, and leaves counselling.

A realistic target uses the 2026 Round-1 column and a margin, because the 2025 → 2026 shift shows how much a year can move. If you want a government nursing seat in Kolkata, the 2026 open Round-1 closes of 176 to 696 are the bar; for any government nursing seat, 3,069. If you are open to private nursing, eight in ten private colleges closed between 10,734 and 24,588 in 2026 Round 1 (our figures). The rank you need maps to a score only through the rank card: WBJEEB publishes no score-to-rank table, so any "marks vs rank" chart online is someone's estimate.