Gujarat’s nursing and allied-health PG seats: GCAS vacancy round closes 27 September

Gujarat's vacant-seat based counselling (VSBC) for allied healthcare postgraduate programmes is open, with Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat as the coordinating university. It covers M.P.T., M.Optometry, M.Sc. (Nursing) and Post Basic B.Sc. (Nursing) at affiliated and constituent colleges of every university associated with GCAS.

The schedule

• Registration: 11:00 am on 7 September to 11:59 pm on 27 September
• Application edit and preference change: same window, 7 to 27 September
• Admission offer and confirmation: 12:00 noon on 7 September to 30 September, during university-college working hours

The registration window is genuinely open until late on 27 September, but the confirmation window is governed by college working hours — so an offer that reaches you on the evening of 29 September has to be confirmed in person the next working day, not "by the 30th" in some abstract sense. Treat 29 September as your real last date.

Why a vacancy round is worth entering

Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing and M.Sc. Nursing seats in Gujarat clear early in the regular rounds, but vacancies open up late as candidates holding multiple offers settle on one. A vacancy round is where a working nurse who missed the main calendar, or a physiotherapy graduate who was waiting on a different result, gets back in. The cost of applying is one registration fee and an evening of preference-setting.

What to keep ready

Your qualifying degree marksheets, registration with the relevant state council where the programme requires it, experience certificates for Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing, and category certificates if you are claiming reservation. Colleges verify originals before generating the offer on the portal — a missing council registration is the single most common reason an allied-health admission stalls at the counter.

CareerBox News Desk — reporting on the VSBC admission schedule 2026-27 for allied healthcare programmes issued by Gujarat Common Admission Services (GCAS), with Veer Narmad South Gujarat University as coordinating university. Official portal: gcas.gujgov.edu.in. Dates and eligibility change; confirm them on the official portal before you act.