Education & career news
Exams, admissions, results and career trends — written by the CareerBox editorial team.
Gujarat medical round 2: 2,212 MBBS and BDS seats still open, choices close 11 September
A total of 1,587 MBBS and 625 BDS seats went unfilled after round 1 of Gujarat’s NEET UG counselling. Choice filling for the second round runs to 4 pm on 11 September, with 16,196 candidates eligible.
Gujarat University adds campus-wide free Wi-Fi and paid on-campus internships
Students across roughly 30 departments can log on with their enrolment number, and a new “Earn While You Learn” scheme offers paid administrative, programming and clerical work on campus.
Ahmedabad gets its sixth Kendriya Vidyalaya as Gujarat’s count reaches 49
A new KV has opened at Vastral with Balvatika I–III and Classes I to V, one section each. Gujarat now has 49 Kendriya Vidyalayas out of 1,360 nationally.
Gujarat board textbooks go on sale through Amazon at printed price
The Gujarat State School Textbook Board has signed an MoU with Amazon India to sell its books online at the printed price with no delivery charge, aimed at private-school students.
Free replacement textbooks for Gujarat students whose books were damaged by rain
Students in government and grant-in-aid schools in rain-hit areas can get damaged textbooks replaced at no cost by contacting their school or District Education Officer.
St Xavier’s and Gujarat University issue rival merit lists, leaving students in limbo
St Xavier’s College declined to admit through the state’s GCAS portal and published its own merit list while Gujarat University ran its own — so students could not tell which admission would stand.
Students and colleges call for GCAS reform after 36 admission rounds in one year
Gujarat’s centralised admission portal ran 36 rounds last season and pushed admissions into November, months after Class 12 results. Principals and student bodies want the process simplified.
RTE admissions in Gujarat: over 84,000 free private-school seats for 2026-27
The 25% Right to Education quota opened with more than 84,000 seats, split across Gujarati, English, Hindi and other mediums. Parents could pick a school shift for the first time.
Fee committee rejects Ahmedabad school’s hike and orders ₹2 crore refunded to parents
St Xavier’s Loyola Hall wanted ₹39,359 a year for its primary section. The committee held the approved fee at ₹26,250 and told the school to return about ₹2 crore collected in excess.
Gujarat sets up a 13-member panel to rewrite its public university statutes
The committee, chaired by the Education Minister, will recommend amendments to the Gujarat Public University Statutes, 2024 after universities interpreted and applied them differently.
ICT tops the engineering wish-list in Gujarat’s 2026 ACPC admissions
Information & Communication Technology has overtaken plain computer engineering as the most sought-after branch in this year’s ACPC round, with the ICT seats at Dhirubhai Ambani University closing at a merit rank of 85.
Gujarat NEET UG counselling 2026: 7,500 MBBS and 1,255 BDS seats on offer
ACPUGMEC has published the seat matrix for the state’s medical and dental admissions. Round 1 choice filling ran from 24 to 27 August and round 2 registrations are open on medadmgujarat.org.
Digital Gujarat post-matric scholarships: apply before 30 September
The 2026-27 window for post-matric scholarships for SC, SEBC/OBC, EBC, NT-DNT and minority students is open until 30 September on gssp.gujarat.gov.in and digitalgujarat.gov.in.
GSEB declares Class 10 and 12 supplementary results; marksheets on gseb.org
Students who sat the June supplementary exams can now download their scorecards with their seven-digit seat number. Passing opens Class 11 admission for SSC students and undergraduate applications for HSC students.
GSHSEB calendar 2026-27: first tests from 22 October, board exams from 25 February
The board’s academic calendar gives schools 244 working days, a 21-day Diwali break from 5 November, and Class 10 and 12 board exams from 25 February to 17 March 2027.
Gujarat University’s online degrees draw 3,101 registrations for 2026-27
The university’s February cycle enrolled 343 students across six online bachelor’s and master’s programmes, more than double the previous intake, with applicants from 108 addresses abroad.
GSEB Class 12 results 2026: 84.33% pass in science, 92.71% in general stream
Girls edged boys in the science stream, English-medium students scored marginally higher than Gujarati-medium, Morbi topped the districts at 94.85% and Dahod trailed at 57.44%.
GUJCET 2026: 2.65 lakh candidates, results on 4 May and the merit list on 12 June
The state entrance test for engineering and pharmacy was held on 29 March. Scorecards carry subject-wise marks and a percentile rank that ACPC combined with Class 12 marks for its merit list.
Gujarat budget puts ₹63,184 crore into education, from smart classrooms to research parks
The 2026-27 state budget funds Mission Schools of Excellence, the Namo Lakshmi and Namo Saraswati scholarships, 16 new government colleges and a research park at L.D. College of Engineering.
Gujarat University to get a ₹10.86 crore institute for heritage, hospitality and archaeology
The state budget funds an Institute of Hospitality, Heritage Management, Archaeology and Lifelong Learning on the Ahmedabad campus, aimed at careers in tourism and the cultural sector.