Maharashtra pharmacy admissions 2026: The State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell, Maharashtra, has completed four rounds of the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) for first-year B.Pharmacy and Pharm.D. courses for the 2026-27 academic year. According to the official press release issued on October 28, 2026, a total of 29,040 students have secured admission across the state’s pharmacy colleges.Admissions for the remaining seats are being conducted at the institutional level, with October 29, 2026, marking the final day of the process. The release reports 14,877 vacant seats available in this round, excluding additional seats reserved under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Tuition Fee Waiver Scheme (TFWS) categories.Four CAP rounds fill over 29,000 seatsThe admission process covers the first year of the four-year, full-time B.Pharmacy degree and the six-year, full-time Pharm.D. degree. Across 528 pharmacy colleges in Maharashtra, 47,192 seats were available for the courses.The CET Cell reported the following admissions across the four CAP rounds:
| CAP round | Students admitted |
| First round | 16,734 |
| Second round | 7,432 |
| Third round | 2,960 |
| Fourth round | 1,914 |
| Total | 29,040 |
The first round recorded the highest number of admissions, followed by the second, third and fourth rounds.Institutional round closes on October 29The institutional-level admission process began on October 25 and concludes on October 29, 2026. Colleges are conducting admissions against 14,877 vacant seats remaining after the four CAP rounds.The release also identifies 1,990 seats under the management quota as available for admission through the institutional round.EWS and TFWS seats excludedA further 3,275 seats are classified as additional seats and are not available through the institutional round. These comprise 2,866 seats under the EWS category and 409 seats under the TFWS category.According to the CET Cell, these seats are filled during the Centralised Admission Process rounds and are counted separately from the vacant seats available for institutional-level admissions.The Maharashtra CET Cell issued the announcement through its public relations office in Mumbai, confirming October 29 as the deadline for institutional-level admissions to the two pharmacy programmes for the 2026-27 academic year.
