COAP 2023: 2nd Round Offers (OUT), MTech Cutoff, Participating IITs, Admission Process

COAP 2023: IIT Kharagpur has released COAP 2023 Round 1 and 2 offers on May 21 and 27 respectively. All registered candidates can check their seat allotment offers through the GATE COAP login. The round 3 seat allotment offers will be announced on June 3. 

It is compulsory to register for COAP to participate in the MTech admission and counselling process of IITs. Candidates have to view the offers and make decisions as per the given time frames. A total of five main rounds of counselling and additional six rounds will be held to fill vacant seats. Candidates accepting the seat will be required to complete the process by logging into the institute’s portal, payment of fees, and online submission of documents. Students, who do not want to accept the allotted seat, will be allowed to participate in further rounds of counselling or reject the seat and participate in further rounds of counselling. The detailed schedule for the GATE 2023 counselling through COAP can be seen on this page. Read on to know more about COAP IIT Counselling, important dates, the registration process, eligibility criteria, participating institutes, and other related information.

What is COAP?

Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) is a common platform for candidates to enter their preferred choice of engineering branch or institute for admission to an MTech Programme or job offer from participating Public Sector Units (PSUs).

In 2018, 16 IITs and IISc Bangalore participated in COAP. In 2019, 21 institutes and a PSU – Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) participated in COAP for filling their MTech seats or job vacancies. In 2020, 21 IITs and IISc Bangalore participated in GATE COAP counselling. Last year, None of the PSUs participated in this counselling for the recruitment of engineers.  Candidates aspiring for admission to postgraduate programmes offered at IITs and IISc or for job offers should register and then apply on the COAP at their respective institutes. The registration window of COAP is likely to open in March. 

Latest Updates:

• May 27: GATE COAP 2023 Second Round of Offers has been displayed. Check here: https://coap.iitkgp.ac.in/coap/
• May 21: GATE COAP 2023 1st round offer has been displayed, check here: https://coap.iitkgp.ac.in/coap/
• March 18: GATE COAP 2023 Registration has been opened. Get the link to apply online here.

COAP 2023: Key Points to Remember

Candidates can check the important points related to COAP below:

• Candidates with a valid GATE score (2020/2021/2023) are eligible to participate in COAP 2023 counselling.
• At Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) students can see their result of seat allotment made by the institute in which they have applied.
• All the participating IITs will upload admission offers in a common time window. Candidates are offered seats based on their GATE scores, GATE cut off and choices filled. IIT Kharagpur has released the GATE 2023 result on March 17. Candidates can download their scorecards by visiting the official website from March 21.
• The candidates registered on COAP 2023 can access the admission/job from all the participating institutes/PSUs
• To understand the mechanism of looking at all the available offers and making a specific choice out of the offers, the candidates are advised to read the guidelines and then complete COAP 2023 registrations.
• For admission to the MTech programme in any of the participating institutes or applying for a job in any participating PSUs, candidates should apply to the corresponding Institute/PSU
• COAP is not an Application Portal for MTech admission in any participating institute. The portal assists candidates in seat allotment. All candidates should apply separately to the respective Institute(s) for MTech admission/PSU for the job.
• To access and make a decision on the most preferred choice out of the offers (if any) made by participating Institute(s), each candidate should register at COAP.
• COAP registration 2023 is completely free. Note that providing COAP registration number has been made mandatory by the participating institutes in their M.Tech application portals.

COAP 2023 Schedule of Main Rounds of Offers

Candidates who have qualified GATE can check the schedule of main rounds below:

COAP 2023 Counselling Main Rounds: Important Points

Round 1-4 of main rounds, Candidates have all the three options to select. However, candidates will not be able to choose Retain & Wait more than twice on a specific offer.

* 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".

Round-5 is a Decisive Round, therefore the candidates will have only 'Accept and Freeze' and 'Reject' options to select.

Schedule of COAP 2023 additional rounds

Candidates who have qualified GATE can check the tentative schedule of additional rounds below:

COAP 2023 Counselling Additional Rounds: Important Points

• Additional Rounds 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 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.
• The working flowchart of the options can be seen in the following link.
• A few more Spot Rounds may be announced in due course if any vacant seats exist.

COAP 2023 Eligibility Criteria

Candidates are advised to check the eligibility criteria before COAP 2023 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 2023/2022/2021.
• 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

GATE COAP 2023 Registration Process

The candidates seeking admission in different postgraduate courses offered at IITs are required to register themselves online for GATE 2023 counselling. For registration and admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), candidates must check the notification regarding GATE COAP 2023 on the official website of the respective IIT. Counselling procedure for every IIT is different so candidates must apply for every institute separately. COAP 2023 Registration Process will involve the following steps

Online registration: Only the GATE qualified candidates can register themselves online for GATE 2023 counselling followed by the payment of counselling fee.

Online seat allotment: Once the candidate who completed his or her online registration will be allotted the seats on the basis of their GATE merit list after the various rounds of seat allotment.

Admission into Allotted Institutes: The institute will issue a provisional admission letter to candidates after verification of original documents and payment of the fee.

Click here to check the in-detail COAP 2023 registration process

COAP 2023: Seat allotment process

The Coordinating Institute for GATE COAP 2023 will provide five sets of offers. The offers will be displayed on the COAP portal only. Candidates have the following options with them after the seat allotment offers. Candidates who have not been allotted any seat will have to wait for subsequent rounds for the allotment.

A candidate can select any one (only) offer out of the available offers. Candidates will have three options as described below:

• Option 1: Accept and Freeze
• Option 2: Retain and Wait
• Option 3: Reject and Wait

COAP 2023: Accept and Freeze

The option should be chosen by a candidate only when they are confident and willing to accept one of the present offers. Moreover, candidates must opt for this option only when they are sure enough that they do not want to upgrade to higher preferences, if any, in the subsequent round(s) of seat allotment.

• After choosing this option, the candidates will not be considered in the subsequent round(s) of the seat allotment process for any of the participating academic institutes or PSUs.
• Once the candidates have selected the “Accept and Freeze” option, they would be required to click on the “Submit” button to confirm their choice.
• After confirming their choice, the candidate should visit the respective participating institute’s admission portal or PSU’s job portal and follow the procedure as per the instructions over there.

COAP 2023: Retain and Wait

The candidates should opt for this option if they are accepting one of the present offers and also would like to be considered for upgrading to their higher preferences, if any, in the subsequent round(s) of seat allotment.

• Candidates who select this option will not be considered for the other rejected offers in the current round. However, they will be considered for other higher preferences, if any, in the subsequent round(s) of admission.
• After choosing the “Retain and Wait” option, candidates need to click on the “Submit” button to confirm their choice.
• After confirming their choice, the candidate should visit the respective participating institute’s admission portal or PSU’s job portal and follow the procedure as per the instructions over there.

COAP 2023: Reject and Wait

• The candidates should select this option if they are not willing to accept any one of the offers.
• Such candidates will be considered for other higher preferences, if any, in the subsequent round(s) of admission offered in any participating academic Institutes and PSUs.
• All candidates must note that all the rounds of COAP 2023 Seat allotment do not have the facility of all the aforesaid three options. A table will be provided below for them to have an idea about the options available with different rounds.

NOTE:

• *No, if a candidate has already used “Retain & Wait” on the same offer twice. The same offer refers to the program “XYZ” of a particular Institute “ABC”.
• Round-5 is a Decisive Round, therefore the candidates will have only 'Accept and Freeze' and 'Reject' options to select.

Candidates can check the entire process for different rounds (excluding Decisive Rounds) in the flow chart below:

NOTE:

• Candidates may have to follow spot rounds either online or offline and it could be specific to the institutes.
• Depending on the vacancy status and admission date, there could be a few more extra rounds from the participating institutes.
• 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.

Candidates can check the flow chart for decisive rounds below:

COAP 2023: List of participating institutes

GATE is a national level examination that is conducted by any one of the seven IITs. The below-mentioned table represents the list of participating institutes for GATE COAP 2023: