Ahmedabad: After four rounds of NEET-PG counselling held over nearly two months, as many as 48 postgraduate medical seats in private colleges across Gujarat remain vacant, despite MD and MS courses being highly sought after.

The vacancy has emerged this year in courses like radiology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, surgery and gynaecology. This is considered one of the highest numbers of vacant PG seats in recent years, according to medical experts.

Providing a reason behind the vacancy, medical experts highlighted that the primary reason behind PG seats remaining vacant in private medical colleges is the high fees charged by these institutions.

As per TOI news report, PG courses such as radiology charge as high as Rs 61 lakh, dermatology for Rs 47 lakh, orthopaedics for 45 lakh, gynaecology for Rs 45 lakh, paediatrics for Rs 44 lakh, surgery for Rs 44 lakh and emergency medicine for Rs 28 lakh.

Speaking to the Daily, officials said, "All the seats are in privately run medical colleges. The details of vacant seats under the all-India quota in Gujarat will be released soon. The state's admission committee has already completed four rounds of admission, and the admission process was officially declared over on Feb 28."

The dean of a prominent medical college in Gujarat told TOI on condition of anonymity that "The overall pool has about 1,200 seats in govt-run medical colleges across the country. The vacancies have been recorded in private institutions, and high fees could be one of the reasons."

Another major reason behind the vacancies is the late addition of seats at various government and private medical colleges after the second round of counselling, following directions from the National Medical Commission.

Source: Medical Dialogues - March 18,2026