GATE 2025 counselling dates have been announced by IISc Bangalore on the official Common Offers Acceptance Portal (COAP). Candidates who have qualified for the GATE result 2025 as released on Mar 19, 2025, are eligible to participate in the counselling process.

Candidates with valid score cards will be able to complete the GATE 2025 counselling registration process on the official website soon. The counselling process will comprise five main rounds. The GATE counselling seat allotment results 2025 will be made available from May 13, 2025 onwards.

The GATE counselling 2025 process will comprise registration, seat allotment, acceptance, document verification, fee payment and reporting to the college. Additional GATE counselling 2025 rounds will be conducted depending on the seat availability at the GATE participating institutes 2025 and seat acceptance rate.

GATE COAP 2025 Dates for Five Main Rounds

The following list contains crucial dates for COAP registration 2025 and round offers. The aforementioned dates have been released by the conducting body on the official website of COAP:

Note: Admission to M.Tech programmes at state universities using GATE, State universities and other private institutions will hold GATE counselling 2025 sessions for admission to M.Tech programmes following the release of the GATE results 2025. Candidates are recommended to go to the institute's specific websites to learn more.

GATE COAP 2025 Counselling Dates for Additional Rounds

GATE COAP 2025 counselling additional rounds with dates and events are mentioned below in the table.

• Spot rounds may be required of candidates, either online or offline, and may be unique to the institutes.
• There may be a few more further rounds from the participating institutes, depending on the number of openings and the date of admission.
• Additional Rounds A, B, C, and D are separate rounds that are all handled similarly to Decisive Rounds. In these rounds, the candidates will only have the alternatives of "Accept and Freeze" and "Reject."

GATE Counselling 2025 Important Dates

GATE counselling 2025 will take place in ten rounds. GATE counselling # year round-wise seat allotment will be released on the official website. The table given below displays all the dates for GATE counselling 2025:

GATE Counselling 2025: Eligibility Criteria

GATE counselling 2025 eligibility criteria as set by COAP and CCMT are mentioned below:

Note: It is not permitted to convert percentages to CGPAs or vice versa.

The degree, stream, and GATE exam combination determine a student's eligibility for a course. For some institutions, special qualifications must be met to be eligible for admission.

GATE Counselling 2025: COAP

The students must register online at the GATE COAP 2025 website to take part in the admission rounds for M. Tech courses. Some of the characteristics of the counselling process are listed below.

• All participating institutes will upload admission offer letters to GATE COAP 2025 at the same time window.
• According to GATE results and applications submitted by candidates, COAP 2025 will make admission decisions.
• A counselling process is COAP 2025. As a result, each student must submit a unique application for admission to each institute.

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COAP 2025 Admission Process

The steps involved in the COAP 2025 admission process are elaborated below:

Pre-Allocation Procedure

• Step 1: Candidates must register via COAP 2025's official website.
• Step 2: Follow the directions after carefully reading the method.
• Step 3: Input your personal information.
• Step 4: Press the Submit button.
• Step 5: To log into the site, use the information that was supplied to you via email or SMS.

Acceptance Process of Admission

• Register on the portal.
• Find institute-specific allotment information under the Seat Allotment option.
• The following three alternatives will be available for the candidates to choose from.
• Accept and Freeze: This choice should be used if the applicant is ready to accept one of the offers and isn't interested in considering an increase in preference level. Such candidates won't be taken into consideration for further COAP counselling sessions.
• Retain and Wait: This choice should be made if a candidate expresses partial approval and is open to the possibility of upgrading to higher preferences during subsequent rounds of counselling. Such applicants won't be taken into account for any additional rejected proposals in the current round. The current "Retain and Wait" option will be withdrawn if a greater preference is made.
• If a candidate is unwilling to accept any offers offered in the current round, they should choose.
• Reject and Wait: Such candidates will be given higher consideration throughout subsequent rounds of counselling.
• Complete the admissions procedure by clicking the submit button.

GATE CCMT Counseling 2025

GATE CCMT counselling 2025 programme is a centralised mechanism for M.Tech., M.Arch., M.Plan., and M.Des. admissions at prestigious universities like NITs, IIEST Shibpur, select IIITs, and GFTIs. It provides students with a shared forum and streamlines the counselling procedure:

GATE Counselling CCMT 2025 Admission Process

Below is the detailed step-by-step admission process for GATE counselling through CMMT:

Pre-Allotment Process

• Create an account on the CCMT official website.
• For OC/OB applicants, the registration cost for CCMT is INR 2200; for SC/ST/PwD candidates, it is INR 1700.
• Simply enter the truthful details.

Seat Allotment

• The seats will be distributed by the GATE 2025 rankings attained.
• Those who have been given seats must pay a seat acceptance fee of INR 20,000.
• Send a report and all supporting documentation to the reporting centre.
• Verify your documentation.

Getting Admitted To ‘Allotted Institute’

• Candidates whose documents have been confirmed successfully must pay INR 10,000 to provisorily reserve their seats.
• At the time of physical reporting, the remaining amount about the assigned institutes must be paid to the assigned institute in question.

GATE Counselling 2025: For IIT Roorkee

Candidates must go through IIT Counseling to be accepted to IIT Roorkee. The Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) offers candidates a common platform to select their first choice for admission. The students should bear the following advice in mind before signing up for COAP.

• The GATE scores and the IIT Roorkee-established eligibility requirements are used to conduct the admission processes.
• GATE score will be awarded 70% of the weight, while written tests or personal interviews will receive 30% of the weight.
• Candidates can apply for admission to research programmes (Ph.D./M.Tech.) if they have at least the second class in the following degrees:

GATE 2025 Counselling: Documents Required

When reporting to RC, students will need to bring the aforementioned documentation for the document verification process:

• Letter of provisional seat allocation.
• GATE Score Card Self-Attested Copy (2023 or 2024 or 2025)
• Photo ID as proof.
• Class X original birth certificate issued by an appropriate authority (High School) Board Certificate as evidence of birthdate.
• Class 12 grade report.
• Mark sheet from the prerequisite test (all semesters).
• Degree or provisional certificate of the category (if applicable).
• Three colourful passport-size photos
• Proof of the seat acceptance cost.
• Registration form printout with closed options.
• Transfer Certificate for Migration
• Original conduct certification from the institution's head, if applicable.
• A genuine certificate of completion of the course from the university's or institute's head, in case the result is still pending.
• Photocopies of all the original documents, all of which have been self-attested

IIT Roorkee MTech Admission Through GATE 2025

IIT Roorkee's MTech programmes are admitted through COAP counselling based on GATE scores. For applicants seeking admission into certain engineering branches, the institute also administers its entrance examination and conducts personal interviews. Exam qualifiers will need to finish the online registration process on the official IIT Roorkee website after the GATE results are made public.

IIT MTech Admission Through GATE 2025: COAP Counselling

To allocate seats, candidates seeking admission into the MTech programmes offered by IITs must take part in the GATE counselling session held through COAP 2025. Candidates must finish the online registration process on COAP's official website to be allowed to do the same. The COAP conducts four rounds of seat distribution, and the outcomes are made public after each round is completed. If the MTech seats at IITs are not filled during the first four rounds, there are two more rounds of seat allocation.

NIT, IIIT, CFTI MTech Admission Through GATE 2025: CCMT Counselling

The CCMT counselling process is used to determine admission to the MTech programmes provided at NITs, IIITs, and CFTIs based on GATE scores. Every year, the CCMT counselling conducting body is different. In due course, the organising committee for GATE 2025 counselling will be revealed. Candidates can check the seat allocation outcome on the official website after it has been announced.

GATE Counselling 2025 - Key Points

• The organisation in charge of holding the exam—this year, IIT Kanpur—will not hold centralised GATE 2025 counselling.
• For admission to the participating institutes, candidates must take part in COAP and CCMT counselling.
• In contrast to CCMT counselling 2025, which is held for admissions to NITs, IIITs, and GFITs, COAP is held for admission to IITs based on GATE scores.
• Although GATE 2025 scores are used as the primary criterion for admission, several institutes additionally use written exams or interviews to narrow the field of applicants.

Other Universities Accepting GATE Scores

There are several other universities that use GATE scores as a parameter to allot seats for candidates in postgraduate courses. Below listed are colleges that accept GATE scored for pursuing M.E./ M.Tech other than IIT's and NIIT's.

• Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology
• Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune
• COEP (College of Engineering, Pune)
• DAIICT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology)
• DIAT Pune
• DTU (Delhi Technical University)
• IISc Bangalore
• IITM-K (Indian Institute of Technology and Management- Kerala)
• IGDTU
• LNMIIT
• Maharashtra M.Tech Admission
• NSIT
• PEC (Punjab Engineering College)
• PTU
• RGIPT (Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum and Technology)
• RGUKT Hyderabad
• Thapar University
• University of Hyderabad

Note: Candidates who have taken admissions to these institutes separately can be sought later. Different universities will release their own eligibility criteria for admission.