GMK seats — BDS (NEET, Karnataka) 2026 Round 1
General Merit — Kannada medium. 17 seats across 17 colleges, from KEA's published matrix.
In short
KEA published 17 GMK seats across 17 colleges and 17 course rows in the BDS (NEET, Karnataka) 2026 Round 1 matrix — 0.6% of its 2,729 seats. GMK is General Merit — Kannada medium. What GMK category means.
These are not the only seats you can be allotted.
General Merit is a merit-open column, not a category column: a candidate from any category is allotted a GM seat if their rank reaches it, which is why GM closing ranks are the tightest figures on this site. So a college showing no GMK seats is not closed to a GMK candidate. Read this page as “where seats are reserved in this column”, not as a list of your only options.
Colleges holding GMK seats
| College | KEA code | GMK seats | Courses carrying them |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.J. Institute of Dental Sciences, Mangalore. | D556 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Al-Badar Rural Dental College & Hospital, Gulbarga. | D443 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences, Bangalore. | D118 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| BGS Global Institute of Dental Sciences and D Hospital, Bangalore | D673 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Dayananada Sagar Dental College, Bangalore | D111 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Government Dental College,Bangalore. | D101 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Government Dental College,Bellary | D448 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| K.V.G.Dental College, Sullia | D555 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Krishnadevaraya College of Dental Sciences, Bangalore. | D116 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Maratha Mandal Dental College, Belgaum. | D335 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| N.S.V.K. Sri.Venkateshwara Dental College, Bangalore | D120 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| PM Nadagowda Dental College, Bagalkot. | D336 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Rajarajeshwari Dental College, Bangalore. | D114 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| S.D.M. Dental College, Dharwad. | D337 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Sri.Rajiv Gandhi Dental College, Bangalore. | D113 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Subbaiah Institute of Dental Sciences, Shimoga D | D665 | 1 | BDS (1) |
| Vydehi Institute of Dental Sciences, Bangalore. | D122 | 1 | BDS (1) |
Source: KEA — Dental (BDS) Provisional Seat Matrix 2026, published 07-08-2026. The published PDF. A seat matrix is only true about the moment it was published.
Other categories in this matrix
- GMP (371)
- GM (277)
- 2AG (83)
- GMH (79)
- GMR (52)
- S2G (30)
- S1G (29)
- 3BG (28)
- 1G (23)
- 2BG (23)
- 3AG (22)
- S3G (19)
- STG (17)
- 2AR (16)
- GMRH (15)
Columns held by fewer than 10 colleges, and columns whose meaning KEA’s own abbreviations table does not state, have no page of their own — their totals are still on the full BDS (NEET, Karnataka) matrix.