MBBS/BDS Merit & Admission Checker

What is this?

This portal lets a student enter their marks (or aggregate) once and see, on a single screen, every Public and Private MBBS/BDS college in the 2025-2026 session where that aggregate would have been competitive — based on each college's actual closing (minimum) and top (maximum) merit from the official college-wise selection lists. It also includes a full searchable/sortable merit-list browser, a public-vs-private comparison view, and merit charts.

How is the aggregate calculated?

The calculator uses the standard Punjab UHS-style weightage:

Matric / SSC (or equivalent) — 10% of aggregate, typically out of 1100 total marks
FSc Pre-Medical (or equivalent) — 40% of aggregate, typically out of 1200 total marks
MDCAT — 50% of aggregate, typically out of 180 total marks

Both the percentage weights and the default "out of" totals are set in config.php / index.php so they can be adjusted if UHS/PMC revises the formula for a future session, or if a board uses different total marks. The Matric/FSc/MDCAT total fields on the calculator are pre-filled with 1100 / 1200 / 180 but can be overwritten with your own board's totals. Always verify your official aggregate on the UHS portal — this tool is an estimate for planning purposes only.

How are "Strong Chance / Eligible / Borderline / Unlikely" decided?

Your aggregate is compared to each college's closing merit (the lowest aggregate actually admitted):

Strong Chance — at least 2.0 points above the closing merit
Eligible — at or above the closing merit
Borderline / Possible — up to 1.0 point below the closing merit (cut-offs commonly shift a little between lists/years)
Unlikely — more than 1.0 point below the closing merit

These margins are configurable in config.php (BORDERLINE_MARGIN, STRONG_MARGIN).

Within every chance category, results list Public-sector universities first, followed by Private-sector admission chances — government seats are the lower-cost, conventional first choice, so this ordering applies consistently on the calculator results, the merit-list browser, and the combined ranking on College Comparison.

Where does the data live?

No database server is used. All merit-list data is stored as plain CSV files under /data (public_merit.csv, private_merit.csv, bds_public_merit.csv, bds_private_merit.csv, colleges.csv, bds_colleges.csv), which PHP reads directly on each request. This keeps the "database" human-readable, easy to inspect in Excel, and trivial to update — see the README for how to regenerate these files from a new merit-list paste using data/converter.py (MBBS) or data/converter_bds.py (BDS).

Current data coverage & a known gap

All figures below are from the official 2025-2026 college-wise selection lists:

MBBS Public — Open-Merit list, 3,121 candidates, 17 colleges
MBBS Private — 4,241 candidates, 33 colleges
BDS Public — 235 candidates, 4 colleges (Dental Institute PMC Faisalabad, Fatima Jinnah Institute of Dental Sciences Lahore, de' Montmorency College of Dentistry Lahore, Nishtar Institute of Dentistry Multan)
BDS Private — final merit list, 1,070 candidates, 18 colleges (Sharif Medical & Dental College, FMH College of Medicine & Dentistry, Lahore Medical & Dental College, University College of Medicine & Dentistry, Bakhtawar Amin Medical & Dental College Multan, Rashid Latif Dental College, and 12 more across Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Sheikhupura, Lodhran and Sargodha)

A newer, more complete MBBS Public-sector list (covering additional quotas — Overseas, Disability, UDD, Reciprocal, Cholistan — and a few extra reciprocal-quota colleges) was supplied but was lost when the chat session that built this project had its context reset before the file could be saved to disk. The site is built so that dataset is a simple drop-in once it's resupplied — see the README's "Updating the Public Merit List" section. Nothing else about the site needs to change.

What about BDS?

BDS is fully wired up as its own program dimension (see config.php → $PROGRAMS) and is now active for both the Public and Private sectors — it appears automatically in the calculator, merit-list browser, comparison, and charts alongside MBBS, with the same Public-first ordering applied everywhere.

Disclaimer

This is an independent, unofficial student-help tool. It is not affiliated with the University of Health Sciences (UHS), PMDC, or any listed college, and it does not submit, store, or transmit your data anywhere — everything runs locally in your own PHP server. Always cross-check your admission status on the official UHS portal before making decisions.