GATE COAP 2021 Registration Started, Check Important dates here
Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) 2026 ( COAP )
COAP 2026 registration starts (Round 1)
11 May '26 - 13 May '26
IIT Delhi has started GATE COAP 2021 registrations on the official portal i.e. coap.iitd.ac.in from March 25. Read below to know the details.
GATE COAP 2021: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has started GATE COAP 2021 registrations on the official portal i.e. coap.iitd.ac.in from March 25. The authorities will conduct the COAP 2021 counselling from May 13.
Common Offer Acceptance Portal or (COAP) is the centralised counselling procedure conducted for admission to PG Engineering programmes offered by the IITs and IISc Bangalore. Candidates with valid GATE score from the year 2019, 2020 or 2021 will be eligible to participate in GATE COAP counselling 2021.
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After registering on the portal, candidates will need to fill in their choice of programmes and institutes. On the official COAP 2021 portal, candidates will be able to check the seat allotment result done by the GATE participating institutes. There will be a total of five main rounds and four additional rounds for COAP counselling. GATE 2021 was conducted on February 6, 7, 13 and 14 and the result was announced on March 19.
GATE COAP 2021 Important dates
Students who have qualified the GATE 2021 can check the tentative schedule of COAP 2021 in the table below:
| Round No |
Time window for viewing of offers and making decision by a candidate |
Available Options |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accept & Freeze |
Retain & Wait |
Reject & Wait |
||
| Round-1 |
May 13 - 14, 2021 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Round-2 |
May 20 - 21, 2021 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Round-3 |
May 27 - 28, 2021 |
Yes |
Yes/ No* |
Yes |
| Round-4 |
June 03 - 04, 2021 |
Yes |
Yes/ No* |
Yes |
| Round-5 |
June 10 - 11, 2021 |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
* No, if you have already used Retain & Wait on the same offer twice. The same offer refers to the program "XYZ" of a particular Institute "ABC".
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For round 1-4 of the main rounds, candidates have all three options to select. However, candidates will not be able to choose Retain & Wait more than twice on a specific offer.
Round 5 is a Decisive Round, therefore the candidates will have only 'Accept and Freeze' and 'Reject' options to select.
Tentative dates for additional rounds
| Round No |
Time window for viewing of offers and making decision by a candidate |
Available Options |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accept & Freeze |
Retain & Wait |
Reject |
||
| Round - A |
June 17 - 18, 2021 |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Round - B |
June 24 - 25, 2021 |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Round - C |
July 01 - 02, 2021 |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Round - D |
July 08 - 09, 2021 |
Yes |
No |
Yes* |
Additional Rounds A, B, C and D are independent rounds and each one is treated like a Decisive Round. That is, the candidates will have only 'Accept and Freeze' and 'Reject' options in these rounds.
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Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 6 days ago
This year, 10,11,719 candidates registered for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, and 797434 candidates appeared for the GATE. The number of qualified students list will be available once statistical report is released.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 6 days ago
Yes, COAP is only for M.Tech and PhD admissions at IITs and IISc Bangalore. The portal also updates job offers for some PSUs. Overall, around 23+ IITs participate in GATE COAP counselling every year.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 weeks ago
| Institute Category | Specific Institutes |
| Newer/Mid-Tier IITs | IIT Patna, IIT Palakkad, IIT BHU (Varanasi), IIT Tirupati, IIT Mandi, IIT Jammu, IIT Jodhpur |
| Top-Tier NITs | NIT Trichy, NIT Warangal, NIT Surathkal, NIT Rourkela, NIT Calicut |
| Mid-Tier NITs | NIT Jamshedpur, NIT Jalandhar, NIT Patna, NIT Silchar, NIT Kurukshetra, NIT Durgapur |
| IIITs | IIIT Allahabad, IIIT Gwalior, IIIT Pune, IIIT Delhi, IIIT Lucknow, IIIT Jabalpur |
| Old IITs (Allied/Interdisciplinary) | IIT Bombay (Systems & Control), IIT Madras (Biomedical), IIT Delhi (Atmospheric Sciences), IIT Kharagpur (Quality & Reliability) |
| Other Premier Institutes | BITS Pilani (Main and Hyderabad campuses), DTU Delhi, NSUT Delhi, PEC Chandigarh |
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 weeks ago
Yes, candidates with GATE score of 400 to 500 are also eligible for COAP counselling. However, admission and selection chances completely depends on different criteria such as branch selection, competition level, category, etc.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 weeks ago
Candidates with a valid GATE scorecard of 2026/2025/2024 are eligible to participate in COAP counselling 2026
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 weeks ago
CGPA is different for each category. For General/EWS and OBC-NCL category, the required CGPA is 6.5 on a 10-point scale, which is 60%. While, for SC/ST and PwD, required CGPA is 6.0 on a 10-point scale, which is 55%.
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 2 weeks ago
The seat acceptance fee is INR 20000 usually. Candidates must pay the acceptance fee to confirm their seat for admission to IITs and IISc.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 weeks ago
IIT Roorkee is conducting COAP 2026 counselling. There are a total of 10 rounds of counselling, where GATE- qualified candidates have to perform the following actions -
Accept and freeze
Retain and wait
Reject and wait
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 weeks ago
Yes, COAP portal for GATE 2026 counselling has been launched. Currently, registrations are ongoing for IIT M.Tech admission. In addition, the counselling dates (round-wise) have been released, and will begin from May 11 onwards.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 2 months ago
COAP also called as Common Offer Acceptance Portal is a platform used for GATE qualified candidates to exercise their college acceptance choices for admission to MTech/Ph/ME programmes. The COAP is a counselling platform used by participating IITs, IISc, and PSU for job recruitments.
It is one platfo
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Contributor-Level 7
How many students qualified for GATE this year?