What can you get at NEET-MDS rank 500?

Last updated 5 Oct 2026 · Reviewed by Dr. Rajiv Marechal

This page looks at the latest complete season of MCC NEET-MDS counselling. For each MDS branch, it counts the dental college courses whose final closing rank (the NEET-MDS rank of the last person who got that seat) for the open category (UR) was 500 or later. That means an open-category candidate at NEET-MDS rank 500 would have been in range for them.

In short: at rank 500, 25 All India Quota courses at government colleges and 249 paid-seat courses at deemed universities across 9 branches closed at or after your rank. The most options were in Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry.

Please note. These are open-category (UR) figures only, from the latest complete season’s final closing ranks (Round 1, 2 and 3; stray rounds left out). Reserved categories (OBC, EWS, SC, ST) usually reach further on All India Quota seats; deemed university seats have no category reservation and are paid seats, with much higher fees than a government college seat. State quota seats are not counted here. A past closing rank is not a promise for this year. The exact list for your category and rank is in MDS options and the full MDS report.

Branch	All India Quota courses in range	Deemed courses in range
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology	13	18
Oral Medicine and Radiology	9	22
Public Health Dentistry	3	11
Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics	0	34
Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics	0	34
Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry	0	33
Periodontology	0	33
Prosthodontics and Crown and Bridge	0	33
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	0	31

A “course” is one MDS branch at one college (for example MDS Orthodontics at one college). Click a branch to see its closing rank college by college.

Figures: latest complete counselling on record (MCC 2025). This season (2026) is not counted until its rounds are over.

See the exact list for your rank and category. From MCC results since 2019, with the state counsellings beside them.

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