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NEET PG Cut-off Drop: Private Colleges Reap Big Rewards
7 Feb
Summary
- Private colleges secured 64% of seats filled below original NEET PG cut-off.
- 85% of clinical specialty seats for low-scorers were in private institutions.
- General category students saw the largest benefit from the cut-off reduction.
In 2023, a significant reduction of the NEET PG cut-off percentile to zero has largely benefited private medical colleges. These institutions filled about 64% of the seats that became available to students scoring below the original cut-off.
The impact was particularly striking in clinical specialties, where private colleges admitted 2,677 students, representing 85% of those who scored below the initial threshold in these sought-after programs. In contrast, government colleges admitted only 485 such students.
Tuition fees for clinical specialties are notably higher in private colleges. The policy change disproportionately benefited general category candidates, who comprised over 56% of those admitted with scores below the initial cut-off. OBC candidates made up 26%, while SC and ST candidates constituted 11% and 6%, respectively.
Analysis of admissions data, despite its incompleteness, reveals that the lowest score to gain admission was zero out of 800, achieved by a general category candidate. A total of 69 candidates scored less than 50 marks, including 39 from the general category.
Data for over 10,900 PG seats, including those in central government-funded institutions like AIIMS and JIPMER, and over 10,000 DNB seats, were not included in the consolidated list published on the National Medical Commission website.
