Khyber Medical University (KMU) manages admission to KP public medical and dental colleges. It publishes final merit lists. These lists show the scores of candidates called for seats.
This page turns KMU’s official 2025-26 lists (dated 12 December 2025) into simple charts. Closing scores come from the listed candidates. We calculate the totals and comparisons and explain their limits below.
Read this first: what these numbers mean
Two words to know before the charts:
- Aggregate — your admission score. It is not your MDCAT marks. It is 50% MDCAT + 40% FSc + 10% Matric (set by PMDC). Our aggregate calculator works it out from your three results.
- Called — placed high enough on a list to be invited for a seat.
The closing number is the lowest aggregate called in that group. It is not the closing merit for one college. KMU’s lists do not show a college for each candidate, so we cannot calculate college-level closing merit from them.
Open merit: the main number
To be called on open merit in 2025-26, you needed an aggregate of 92.30%. This was the same for MBBS and BDS. The highest aggregate was 97.70%. Open-merit candidates were therefore between about 92% and 98%.
Dashed line: open-merit cutoff (92.3%)
Self-finance also had high merit
General Self Finance closed at 92.22% for MBBS and 92.00% for BDS. These figures were only slightly below the 92.30% open-merit figure. The KIMS and KIDS lists were also in the same range.
Reserved-seat categories close lower — but vary a lot
Reserved-seat categories had lower closing scores, but the figures differed greatly. Overseas Pakistanis closed at 90.74%. Some Backward Areas and ex-FATA/NMTD categories closed in the 50s and 60s.
Dashed line: open-merit cutoff (92.3%)
The Backward Areas quota does not have one closing score. Each district has a separate list. The difference between districts was more than 30 aggregate points:
A student domiciled in Kohistan needed 88.4% to be called. A student in Balakot needed 54.6%. If you apply on a backward-area or ex-FATA seat, compare your score with your own district, not the whole category.
Where would your aggregate land?
Work out your aggregate on the calculator. Then compare it with the charts. An aggregate of 92.3% reached the 2025–26 open-merit closing score. A lower score may have reached a reserved category if you qualified for it. The MDCAT makes up half of your aggregate.
The MDCAT scores behind a seat
The merit lists also show each student’s MDCAT marks. We used CNIC inside our private working data to remove duplicate candidates, then did not publish the CNICs. This left 3,959 students called for a KP public seat. We used 3,909 records from the 2025 180-mark exam for the comparison. We excluded 50 records from a different year or paper total.
These are the marks of students who were called. They are not an MDCAT cutoff. A call depends on the full aggregate, not only the MDCAT. Their MDCAT marks ranged from 70 to 178 out of 180.
“Published bands” means the 38,439 candidates in KMU's score ranges. “Called pool” means the 3,909 candidates with 2025 scores in the checked admission list.
Each percentage is a share of its own group. The published bands do not contain all 38,447 reported candidates. The 0–89 range is much wider than the others. This is a past comparison, not a prediction.
-
0–89 marks
Published bands 31.9%Called pool 0.1% -
90–99 marks
Published bands 7.3%Called pool 0.4% -
100–109 marks
Published bands 7.5%Called pool 1.5% -
110–119 marks
Published bands 8.0%Called pool 1.7% -
120–129 marks
Published bands 7.7%Called pool 2.0% -
130–139 marks
Published bands 8.1%Called pool 3.2% -
140–149 marks
Published bands 8.5%Called pool 6.2% -
150–159 marks
Published bands 9.5%Called pool 15.3% -
160–169 marks
Published bands 9.1%Called pool 47.5% -
170–180 marks
Published bands 2.3%Called pool 21.9%
The two groups look different. In the published score ranges, the biggest group scored 89 or below — about one in three students. The called students are the opposite: nearly half scored 160–169, and about one in five scored 170 or more. Very few of those called scored below 130.
The next chart shows how many students in each score range appeared on a KP public merit list.
96% of students who scored 170 or more were called. About half of the 160–169 group were called. The share was about one in six at 150–159. This comparison uses the published score-band counts. A high-scoring student who did not apply for a KP public seat still counts as “not called”.
A high MDCAT score helps because it makes up half of your aggregate. Calculate your aggregate and compare it with the correct category above.
Numbers change every year
These figures are for 2025–26. Closing scores change with the number of applicants, available seats and exam difficulty.