NORCET Vacancy: Seats by Category, Institute, Cycle | NPrep

NORCET 11 was advertised with 2,218 Nursing Officer posts across 27 institutes, according to Annexure V of AIIMS Notice 103/2026: 899 UR, 599 OBC, 323 SC, 157 ST and 240 EWS. Later addenda added AIIMS Madurai and Rishikesh posts. In past cycles AIIMS allotted 1,939 seats (NORCET 8), 3,243 (NORCET 9) and 2,438 (NORCET 10).

Updated 2 November 2026. NORCET 11 vacancies are from Annexure V of AIIMS Notice 103/2026 (24 July 2026) and NORCET-11 Addenda 35, 37 and 38/2026. Seats allotted are NPrep's count from the AIIMS seat allocation results for NORCET 8, 9 and 10. The NORCET 12 notice month is an NPrep projection.

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NORCET vacancy at a glance

Item	Value	Source
NORCET 11 posts in the notice	2,218 across 27 institutes	Notice 103/2026, Annexure V
Largest employer	ESIC, New Delhi: 523 posts	Annexure V
Largest AIIMS	AIIMS Deoghar: 223 posts	Annexure V
Changes after the notice	AIIMS Madurai and Rishikesh added, Bhopal and Mangalagiri finalised, KSCH withdrawn	Addenda 35, 37 and 38/2026
Gender split at AIIMS	80% of seats for women, 20% for men	Notice 103/2026
Seats allotted in NORCET 10	2,438 across 28 institutes	Result Notification 190/2026
NORCET 12 vacancies	Not announced yet	Due with the NORCET 12 notice

How many vacancies are there in NORCET 11?

Category	Posts	Share
UR	899	40.5%
OBC (NCL)	599	27.0%
SC	323	14.6%
ST	157	7.1%
EWS	240	10.8%
Total	2,218	100%

PwBD posts are not extra. Annexure V says they are included in the total and "applied horizontally across different categories", so a PwBD seat is also a UR, OBC, SC, ST or EWS seat.

What is the NORCET 11 seat matrix by institute?

These are the totals from Annexure V of Notice 103/2026, largest first. Each row's categories add up to its total, and the columns add up to AIIMS's category totals.

Institute	UR	OBC	SC	ST	EWS	Total
ESIC, New Delhi	210	140	80	40	53	523
AIIMS Deoghar	84	58	38	20	23	223
AIIMS Patna	75	60	31	16	19	201
AIIMS Bhubaneswar	72	68	32	7	18	197
AIIMS Guwahati	91	47	20	8	22	188
AIIMS New Delhi	45	44	17	7	8	121
AIIMS Bilaspur	36	27	13	6	7	89
AIIMS Raebareli	41	14	13	5	8	81
AIIMS Avantipora	27	22	13	5	8	75
AIIMS Gorakhpur	27	10	11	5	8	61
AIIMS Raipur	40	1	9	4	6	60
AIIMS Kalyani	16	23	10	2	2	53
AIIMS Nagpur	23	13	1	5	6	48
AIIMS Bathinda	26	9	5	3	4	47
JIPMER, Puducherry	19	4	3	5	8	39
AIIMS Rishikesh	2	18	3	5	10	38
RHTC Hospital	16	9	5	3	3	36
AIIMS Mangalagiri	14	6	3	3	6	32
Dr. RML Hospital	3	6	5	3	14	31
AIIMS Vijaypur, Jammu	9	11	4	2	3	29
AIIMS Bhopal	7	3	1	0	1	12
AIIMS Rewari	6	2	1	0	1	10
NITRD	3	0	1	2	1	7
CAPFIMS, Maidan Garhi	2	0	2	1	1	6
SJH Hospital	3	1	1	0	0	5
CIP, Ranchi	2	1	1	0	0	4
KSCH Hospital	0	2	0	0	0	2
Total	899	599	323	157	240	2,218

Category shares vary a lot by institute. AIIMS Raipur has 40 UR posts but 1 OBC post; AIIMS Rishikesh had 2 UR posts in the notice. Check your own category's column, not the institute's total.

What changed after the NORCET 11 notice?

Addendum	Date	Change	In the notice	After the addendum
No. 35/2026	19 August 2026	AIIMS Madurai joins NORCET 11	Not listed	30 posts
No. 35/2026	19 August 2026	KSCH Hospital no longer participating	2	Nil
No. 37/2026	31 August 2026	AIIMS Rishikesh vacancies added	38	50 more added
No. 38/2026	14 September 2026	AIIMS Bhopal final vacancy position	12	50
No. 38/2026	14 September 2026	AIIMS Mangalagiri final vacancy position	32	52

AIIMS has not published a revised grand total, and each addendum calls its numbers tentative. The final count shows in the NORCET 11 seat allocation result. For how these changes affect choice filling, read NORCET 11 choice filling and seat allotment.

How many seats were allotted in past NORCET cycles?

The advertised number is a ceiling. The seat allocation result shows how many posts were actually filled through NORCET. NPrep counted every row of the last three allocation results:

Cycle	Seats allotted	Institutes	Candidates ranked in Stage II	Ranked per seat	Allocation result
NORCET 8	1,939	23	8,575	4.4	Result Notification 69/2025
NORCET 9	3,243	27	13,996	4.3	Result Notification 251/2025
NORCET 10	2,438	28	13,963	5.7	Result Notification 190/2026

For NORCET 10's advertised institute-wise vacancies, see our NORCET 10 vacancy breakdown.

Why do NORCET seats change so much between cycles?

Each institute reports its own vacancies every cycle, so the mix moves even when the total looks similar:

Institute	NORCET 8 allotted	NORCET 9 allotted	NORCET 10 allotted	NORCET 11 notice
AIIMS New Delhi	595	309	264	121
ESIC, New Delhi	Not listed	802	216	523
CAPFIMS, Maidan Garhi	288	144	22	6
AIIMS Patna	279	12	159	201
AIIMS Deoghar	62	58	74	223

An institute that was huge last cycle can be small this cycle. Base your choices on the current notice and its addenda, not on last year's seat counts. Our participating institutes guide lists every institute's past allotments.

How do vacancies affect the NORCET cut-off?

Under Notice 103/2026, AIIMS calls 5 times the seats in each category to Stage II, plus all qualified PwBD candidates and anyone tied with the last candidate called. So the number of seats in your category sets how many candidates get past Stage I.

In NORCET 11, AIIMS called 12,638 candidates to Stage II. The lowest percentile called in each category, from Result Notification 276/2026:

Category	Stage I percentile needed to be called
UR	95.16
OBC	86.91
SC	84.19
EWS	82.24
ST	79.71

Fewer seats in a category means fewer calls and a higher Stage I cut-off. See the full trend in NORCET cut-off by category.

How are NORCET seats split between women and men?

At the participating AIIMS, 80% of seats are reserved for women and 20% for men under Notice 103/2026. The addenda repeat the rule, citing a decision of the 4th CIB meeting on 27 July 2019. Annexure V lists female and male posts separately for each AIIMS. Read NORCET for male candidates for what this means for your choices.

When will NORCET 12 vacancies be announced?

With the NORCET 12 notice, as an annexure, the way Notice 103/2026 carried NORCET 11's. AIIMS has not published it yet. Its last two notices came 46 and 50 days before Stage I, so with NORCET 12 Stage I on 10 April 2027, NPrep projects the notice in late February 2027. Expect institutes to add or revise posts through addenda after that, as they did in NORCET 11.

FAQs

How many vacancies are in NORCET 11?

2,218 posts in Annexure V of AIIMS Notice 103/2026: 899 UR, 599 OBC, 323 SC, 157 ST and 240 EWS. Addenda 35, 37 and 38/2026 later added or revised posts at AIIMS Madurai, Rishikesh, Bhopal and Mangalagiri.

Which institute has the most NORCET vacancies?

In NORCET 11, ESIC New Delhi has the most, with 523 posts. AIIMS Deoghar has the most of any AIIMS, with 223, followed by AIIMS Patna with 201.

How many seats were filled in NORCET 10?

AIIMS allotted 2,438 seats across 28 institutes in the NORCET 10 seat allocation result, Result Notification 190/2026, dated 14 June 2026.

Are NORCET vacancies final?

No. The notice says the number of posts is tentative and can change, and institutes can declare vacancies later. In NORCET 11, three addenda changed the seat position after the notice.

How many vacancies will NORCET 12 have?

AIIMS has not announced them. They will be listed in the NORCET 12 notice, which NPrep expects in late February 2027 based on the last two cycles.

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