The wait is over. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the NEET (UG) 2026 result, and 11.21 lakh students have made the cut for admission to undergraduate medical, dental, AYUSH and allied courses. Scorecards are already live at neet.nta.nic.in, and the result has landed in time to keep the counselling and admission calendar moving.
Close to 20 lakh candidates sat the exam on 21 June 2026, spread across 5,440 centres in 551 cities in India and 14 cities abroad. The paper was set in 13 languages: Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.
One number stands out. Women make up more than 58 per cent of everyone who qualified. They also cleared the exam at a better rate than men, 56.8 per cent of women who appeared qualified against 55.1 per cent of the men.
Who topped
Aryan Gupta from Punjab and Panshul Bansal from Haryana shared the top spot, each scoring 715 out of 720. Most of the high scorers are school-leavers: of the 138 candidates who crossed 690 marks, over 93 per cent took NEET (UG) for the first time and 99 per cent are aged between 17 and 19.
Here is how the marks stacked up at the top end:
| Marks | Candidates |
|---|---|
| Above 700 / 720 | 19 |
| 650 and above | 1,492 |
| 600 and above | 10,160 |
| 500 and above | 90,780 |
Every State and UT on the list
Qualified candidates came from all 36 States and Union Territories, from more than 1.7 lakh in Uttar Pradesh down to 43 in Lakshadweep. State toppers include Jigmet Yangchan Lamo (Ladakh, 530 marks), Dhruv Tripathi (Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 606 marks) and Fahmida Anees (Lakshadweep, 573 marks). The 138 top rankers are drawn from 66 cities.
Category-wise, the qualified counts are: General 2.91 lakh, OBC-NCL 5.12 lakh, SC 1.59 lakh, ST 63,716, Gen-EWS 95,026, PwBD 3,666 and PwD 303. Category-wise cut-off marks and percentiles have been put out alongside the result.
What students should do next
Counselling for the All-India Quota in MBBS and BDS runs through the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC). State quota seats are handled by the respective State authorities. Stick to the official portals only: neet.nta.nic.in and mcc.nic.in, along with your State counselling site.
A word of caution from NTA. Ignore any call, message or website promising admission, seat blocking or a score bump. NTA never asks candidates for money or login details. Anything suspicious can be flagged at neetug2026@nta.ac.in or on 011-40759000.
NEET (UG) scores are also used for B.Sc. (H) Nursing and for BVSc and AH under the 15% VCI quota. For the All-India Quota in BAMS, BUMS, BSMS and BHMS, the counselling body is AACCC.