INI-CET result January 2027: 34,236 qualify for AIIMS PG counselling

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, declared the result of the INI-CET exam for the January 2027 session on Saturday, 7 November 2026. A total of 34,236 candidates have qualified, according to the result list published on the official website, aiimsexams.ac.in. The computer-based test was held on Sunday, 1 November 2026, so the result came six days after the exam. Qualified doctors and dental graduates now move to the counselling stage, where seats in postgraduate medical courses at AIIMS and other national institutes are allotted. AIIMS has not yet announced the counselling dates.

INI-CET is the single entrance test for postgraduate medical and dental seats at a small group of Institutes of National Importance. Because one exam and one merit list cover all of these institutes, a candidate's single rank decides where, and in what subject, they can train. Each INI-CET round is tied to an academic session, and this one fills seats for the session that begins in January 2027.

For a young doctor who has just finished MBBS and internship, or a dental graduate after BDS, this result is the first filter. Being on the qualified list does not mean a seat. It only means the candidate can now enter the seat allocation process. The number of postgraduate seats at these institutes is far smaller than the number of qualified candidates, so the final rank decides which course and which institute a candidate can realistically hope for.

The list of courses also matters for students weighing their options. Besides the regular MD and MS degrees for doctors and the MDS degree for dental graduates, INI-CET admits students to six-year DM and MCh programmes, the super-speciality degrees, which run as single six-year courses. A candidate filling choices in counselling will have to decide between these paths, and the rank list shows how competitive each choice is likely to be.

The qualifying standard is set as a percentile in the AIIMS prospectus. For the general category the qualifying mark is the 50th percentile, with lower thresholds for reserved categories. Students should read the exact category figures in the official prospectus, since unofficial websites list differing numbers.

Peepals timeline: Registration for the January 2027 session opened on Wednesday, 16 September 2026, and closed on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, a window of about four weeks. The exam followed 19 days later, on Sunday, 1 November, and the result came six days after that, on Saturday, 7 November. The next step, counselling, has no date yet and will be notified on the AIIMS examinations website.

Short-term: Qualified candidates should download the result PDF from aiimsexams.ac.in, check their roll number and rank, and keep watching the website for the counselling notice. Seats are allotted through AIIMS's online seat allocation system, which works on merit, the choices a candidate fills in, and each institute's reservation rules. Education portals that track the exam describe the process as a mock round followed by regular rounds and an open round; the official notice will confirm the rounds for this session. Candidates who do not take part in counselling cannot claim a seat, whatever their rank.

Long-term: Students admitted in this cycle will start postgraduate training in the January 2027 session. For those who do not get a seat in this round, the published ranks give a clear measure of where they stand before their next attempt at a postgraduate entrance test.

Who is affected: MBBS and BDS graduates who wrote the test on 1 November, including the 34,236 who qualified; the AIIMS network, JIPMER, NIMHANS, PGIMER and SCTIMST, which will fill their January 2027 postgraduate seats from this list; and patients at these hospitals, where postgraduate residents carry much of the daily clinical work.

What to watch next: The counselling notice for the January 2027 session on aiimsexams.ac.in, which will set the registration and seat allocation dates.

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