KNRUHS MBBS/BDS 2026-27 Competent Authority Quota: Provisional Merit List Breakdown

Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Telangana, released the provisional merit list for MBBS/BDS admissions under the Competent Authority Quota for the Academic Year 2026-27 on 24 August 2026, alongside a separate list of candidates found ineligible after document verification. Here’s a data-driven look at what the two lists show — and what candidates need to do next.

The Headline Numbers

• 19,279 candidates in total registered for verification under this quota
• 18,469 candidates cleared verification and made it to the provisional merit list
• 810 candidates were declared ineligible (about 4.2% of all registrants)
• The merit list runs to 378 pages, ranked purely by NEET UG 2026 score, from the topper down to a score of 177

In other words, roughly 19 out of every 20 applicants who registered for this quota successfully cleared document verification — a relatively high clearance rate that suggests most candidates came prepared with the right paperwork.

Who’s on the Merit List: A Demographic Snapshot

Breaking down the 18,469 verified candidates:

By gender:

• Female candidates: 13,536 (73.3%)
• Male candidates: 4,933 (26.7%)

Women make up nearly three-quarters of the merit list — a striking figure that reflects a broader, well-documented trend of rising female representation in NEET UG medical admissions across India.

By category: Click on the Category to Download the List of Candidates in PDF Format

Category	Candidates	Share
OC (Open Category)	3,493	18.9%
BCB	2,750	14.9%
BCE	2,591	14.0%
BCD	2,399	13.0%
SC2	2,059	11.1%
ST	2,032	11.0%
SC3	1,499	8.1%
BCA	1,267	6.9%
BCC	262	1.4%
SC1	117	0.6%

Other markers:

• EWS-flagged candidates: 1,116 (6.0%)
• Minority (MSM) candidates: 3,358 (18.2%) — a sizeable share, concentrated heavily in the OC and BCE categories

Score Range: From Topper to Cut-off

The merit list spans an enormous NEET UG 2026 score range — from 693 at rank 1 (the university topper for this quota) down to 177 at the bottom of the list, corresponding to an all-India NEET rank of roughly 11.9 lakh. This wide spread reflects how deep the Competent Authority Quota list runs to accommodate seats across every category, including reserved and vertical categories where cut-off scores are naturally lower.

Why Were 810 Candidates Declared Ineligible?

This is the part that will matter most to affected families. The rejection list breaks down as follows:

Reason for ineligibility	Candidates	Share
Non-local status (not eligible as a Telangana local)	555	68.5%
Missing 9th/10th/Inter study or bonafide certificates	115	14.2%
Certificates not uploaded properly	31	3.8%
SSC memo / date-of-birth proof issues	21	2.6%
4-year residence certificate not submitted	6	0.7%
NEET rank card / low score issues	6	0.7%
Caste certificate issues	4	0.5%
Other/miscellaneous	69	8.5%

Non-local status is, by far, the single biggest reason candidates were struck off — accounting for more than two-thirds of all rejections. Since this is a state quota, only candidates who meet Telangana’s “local” eligibility criteria (typically based on years of schooling within the state) qualify, and a large chunk of applicants simply didn’t meet that bar.

The second-biggest reason is a paperwork problem, not an eligibility problem: 115 candidates failed to submit their 9th, 10th, or Intermediate study/bonafide certificates, which are used to verify local status and residency history. Combined with the “certificates not uploaded properly” and “SSC memo” categories, document and upload issues account for roughly one in every five rejections — meaning a meaningful share of these candidates might actually be eligible but were tripped up by incomplete or improperly submitted paperwork.

Interestingly, among the 810 ineligible candidates, 235 had claimed local (OU) status but were rejected — mostly for certificate gaps — while 572 were straightforwardly marked non-local (NL).

The demographic pattern in the ineligible list roughly mirrors the merit list itself: 565 female and 242 male candidates were affected, and OC category candidates account for 488 of the 810 rejections (about 60%) — again broadly proportionate to OC’s overall share of applicants.

What Happens Next

KNRUHS has built in a grievance redressal window before finalizing the list:

• Grievance deadline: 12:00 Noon, 26 August 2026
• How to file: Email supporting documents to knrugadmission@gmail.com
• Grievances received after the deadline will not be considered
• The final merit list will be notified only after all grievances are addressed
• Special category lists — PWD (Persons with Disabilities), CAP (Children of Ex-Servicemen & Service Personnel), and SCCL (Singareni Collieries Company Limited) — will be released separately
• Once finalized, the seat matrix and web-options notification will follow on the KNRUHS website

Takeaway for Candidates

If your name appears on the ineligible list, don’t assume it’s final. With document/upload issues responsible for a meaningful chunk of rejections, it’s worth checking the specific remark against your name carefully — many of these are fixable within the grievance window if you can produce the missing certificate before the noon deadline on 26 August. For everyone else, the provisional ranks are exactly that: provisional, until the university publishes the final list following the grievance resolution process.

Data compiled from the official KNRUHS provisional merit list and ineligible candidates list, both dated 24 August 2026.