GATE COAP 2025: Registration Process, Seat Allotment, MTech Cutoff, etc.

COAP full form is the Common Offer Acceptance Portal, initiated in 2017. Candidates with valid GATE scores are required to register at COAP to access the offers by IITs for MTech admission or job offers from the PSUs. COAP provides the platform for the candidates to practice the choices of offers by the IITs/PSUs and allows the candidates to make informed choices.

Every year, the GATE organizing institute of the preceding year acts as the coordinating institute for COAP. The IITs that participate in COAP are IISc Bangalore, IIT Bhilai, IIT Bhubaneshwar, IIT BHU, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Dharwad, IIT Goa, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Indore, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, IIT Jammu, IIT Jodhpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Mandi, IIT Palakkad, IIT Patna, IIT Roorkee, IIT Ropar, IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Tirupati.

Download IIT Madras COAP 2025 Round 3 offer list

Candidates can check below some important highlights of COAP:

IISc has released the GATE 2025 COAP counselling dates on its official website. Candidates can find the GATE COAP 2025 counselling schedule (round-wise) REVISED below -

Before applying for admission to the respective IIT/PSU, candidates have to register at COAP. The registration process for COAP is as follows:

Step 1: COAP 2025 Registration

The candidates have to provide various personal and GATE-related details while registering for the COAP. Along with the GATE paper and their “Date of Birth”, candidates have to provide the following details at the time of COAP registration:

• GATE Registration Number
• GATE Paper Code
• GATE Score
• Date of Birth

Step 2: Provide email address and mobile number

After validating the basic information, candidates must provide a valid working email address and mobile phone number. The details provided must be correct as they will receive login ID, password, instructions and all further communication related to COAP registrations.

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• GATE 2025 IIT Bombay Cutoff Released
• GATE 2025 IISc Bangalore Released

Step 3: Final submission

Candidates have to submit the GATE COAP 2025 registration form after carefully verifying all the details. They will not be allowed to correct any detail in their COAP registration form after final submission so every detail must be verified diligently before final submission. After final submission, the COAP login ID/registration number and password will be communicated to the candidates.

Candidates are advised to check the eligibility criteria before COAP 2025 registrations. Applications of candidates who do not meet the eligibility conditions are liable to be rejected. Therefore, all candidates must fulfil all the eligibility conditions:

• The candidate must be an Indian National
• Candidates must have a valid GATE score i.e. qualified in 2025/2024/2023.
• In the case of more than one valid scorecard, candidates must provide the scorecard with a better score or rank.
• Candidates must check the eligibility criteria of the respective institute before applying for it.

The admission process via COAP is as follows:

• Register at COAP: COAP registration is an online process. Candidates must register online on the official COAP portal according to the schedule. Only the COAP-registered candidates can access the offers by the IITs/PSUs.
• Apply to IITs/PSU: Candidates should apply separately to the respective IITs for MTech admission / PSU for the job. While applying to the respective IITs/PSUs candidates have to enter the COAP registration number.
• Rounds of offers: When the round of offers starts at COAP as per the schedule, if you have received any offers then the same will appear in the COAP Dashboard.
• Offer selection: Select the offer of your choice then press (‘Accept and Freeze’ or ‘Retain and Wait or Reject all above and wait’) and confirm it by clicking OK. All offers will be rejected when you select ‘Reject all above and wait’. Press “Freeze Decision” for final submission when you are satisfied. 
• Visit the website of the institute/PSU for admission: After the candidate has selected and finalised an offer at COAP, they have to then visit the official website of the IIT/PSU of which they have accepted the offer and complete the admission process as per their set guidelines and dates.

IITs and PSUs provide their offers to the candidates in rounds. There are around 5 main rounds of offers and 7 additional rounds of offers. The candidates can participate in each of these rounds and practice the choices of offers from their COAP dashboard. The round-wise options available for the candidates in COAP are as follows:

Main rounds in COAP

*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”.

Additional rounds in COAP

**Only for those institutes that would like to continue beyond Round 9. *Only if there are no more additional rounds.