COAP 2026 Dates OUT: Ongoing, Check Counselling and Decision Making Schedule
Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) 2026 ( COAP )
COAP 2026 Round 7 additional rounds for college allotment offers
20 Jun '26 - 23 Jun '26
COAP 2026 Dates OUT: IIT Roorkee completed conducting main COAP counselling rounds. The dates for counselling has been released. Now, IIT Roorkee started conducting additional counselling round process. These COAP counselling rounds are treated as independent decisive rounds.
Candidates who have qualified in GATE exam are eligible for COAP counselling 2026. Candidates with valid GATE 2026/2025/2024 scorecard are eligible for counselling. Read below to know more about COAP 2026 counselling dates.
- COAP 2026 Exam Dates & Schedule
- COAP Round-Wise Counselling Release Date
- COAP 2026 Registration Dates
- COAP 2026 Main Rounds
- COAP 2026 Additional Rounds
COAP 2026 Exam Dates & Schedule
Take a look at the table below for the complete schedule of COAP 2026 exam
| Dates | Upcoming Exam Dates |
|---|---|
| 20 Jun ' 26 - 23 Jun ' 26 | COAP 2026 Round 7 additional rounds for college allotment offers ONGOING |
| 27 Jun ' 26 - 01 Jul ' 26 | COAP 2026 Round 8 additional rounds for college allotment offers |
| 03 Jul ' 26 - 05 Jul ' 26 | COAP 2026 Round 9 additional rounds for college allotment offers |
| 08 Jul ' 26 - 10 Jul ' 26 | COAP 2026 Round 10 additional rounds for college allotment offers |
| Dates | Past Exam Dates |
|---|---|
| 13 Jun ' 26 - 17 Jun ' 26 | COAP 2026 Round 6 additional rounds of college allotment offers |
| 05 Jun ' 26 - 10 Jun ' 26 | COAP 2026 Main Round 5- registration, and selection of the college |
| 31 May ' 26 - 03 Jun ' 26 | COAP 2026 Main Round 4- registration, and selection of the college |
COAP Round-Wise Counselling Release Date
IIT Roorkee has released schedule for GATE COAP counselling 2026. A total of 10 COAP counselling rounds is being held. To register for COAP 2026, qualifying for GATE is compulsory. Candidates must register at respective IITs and COAP portal as well to participate in counselling. Since, counselling is done in several rounds, candidates are advised to keep checking portal for updates and notifications.
The main rounds of counselling is now over. The COAP 2026 additional round is scheduled from June 13 onwards. Incase, any candidate does not want to take admission to IITs then they have an alternate option to participate in CCMT. The CCMT GATE counselling offers admission to NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs.
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Commonly asked questions
GATE scorecard 2026 is valid for three years, which means the scorecard can be used till March 31, 2029. Candidates can download their scorecard using their enrollment ID and password. It can be used for MTech, PhD, Research work admissions and PSU recruitment.
Candidates must do any of the following activity/decision during GATE COAP choice filling -
Accept and Freeze
Retain and Wait
Reject and Wait
COAP 2026 Registration Dates
COAP GATE counselling is done online at the portal. Candidates who have qualified in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, can participate in counselling. The students who want to get admission at IIT have to register. It is advised to go through instructions carefully and check GATE 2026 admission cutoff for IITs before registering. Only GATE-qualified candidates are eligible for GATE 2026 counselling process. Read below to know more.
The COAP 2026 registration process has been completed. Only applicants who have completed their registration can participate in the willingness activity held for each COAP counselling 2026 round.
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Commonly asked questions
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 platform to perform all counselling activities starting from candidate registration to choice filling, locking, seat allotment and reporting to the allotted institute.
GATE counselling 2026 will be conducted by COAP and CCMT, which will be done by respective IITs and IISc on rotational basis.
- Through COAP, students will be offered admission to IITs
- Through CCMT, students will be offered admission to NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs.
This year, IIT Roorkee is conducting COAP counselling 2026. The dates have been released. COAP registrations are ongoing.
COAP 2026 Main Rounds
The COAP is conducted in 5 main and 5 additional rounds. Qualified candidates can participate in the counselling. Check option availability details below -
Main rounds in COAP
| Round No |
Options available to candidates |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Accept & Freeze |
Retain & Wait |
Reject & Wait |
|
| 1 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| 2 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| 3 |
Yes |
Yes/ No* |
Yes |
| 4 |
Yes |
Yes/ No* |
Yes |
| 5 |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
What are main rounds in COAP mean?
During the COAP main round counselling, students have the option to "accept and freeze" or "retain and wait" or "reject and wait." However, retain and wait option can be used twice on the same offer, usually for the same programme from the same institute. Students must note that if there is no action taken during the deadline, then the offer will be automatically rejected. The COAP round 5 is the final round/decisive round. In this round, only "accept or freeze" or reject option is available.
COAP GATE Counselling 2026
The COAP GATE counselling is conducted every year by IITs and IISc on a rotational basis. Students who want to take admission at IITs must register in order to participate in the counselling. In 2025, 23+ IITs participated in the counselling including the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Candaites with valid GATE scorecard are eligible to participate in the counselling process. All the activities were held online only, and were mandatory to perform.
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Commonly asked questions
The GATE counselling is conducted online by CCMT and COAP. Authorities announced GATE results 2026 on March 19. Qualified candidates can participate in counselling. COAP is done IIT and IISc admission and CCMT for NITs and other institutions.
The GATE counselling process starts after the announcement of results. The GATE counselling is conducted by COAP and CCMT. The COAP (Common Offer Acceptance Portal) is the counselling portal that offers admission to IITs.
While CCMT (Centralised Counselling for MTech/M.Arch/M.Plan) is the counselling portal that offers admission to NITs, IIITs, and other GFTIs.
COAP and CCMT 2026 counselling dates are now available for all rounds.
COAP 2026 Additional Rounds
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 rounds will depend on the availability of the seats during the counselling rounds. Candidates can check the cutoff of the respective IITs by visiting their official website. Candidates are advised to keep checking the website by logging at COAP portal.
This year, COAP 2026 will have 5 additional rounds of counselling.
| Round No |
Options available to candidates |
|
|---|---|---|
| Accept & Freeze |
Reject & Wait |
|
| 6 |
Yes |
Yes |
| 7 |
Yes |
Yes |
| 8 |
Yes |
Yes |
| 9 |
Yes |
Yes |
| **10 |
Yes |
Yes |
**Only for those institutes that would like to continue beyond Round 9. *Only if there are no more additional rounds.
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GATE 2026 CSE cutoff (category-wise) can be checked here -
General | OBC-NCL EWS | SC/ST and PwD |
30 | 27 | 20 |
The cutoff is the minimum mark that is required for all candidates to qualify for the exam. IIT Guwahati announced GATE result 2026 on March 19.
Candidates who have passed GATE exam can download scorecard. The validity of GATE exam scorecard is three years. It is now available at GOAPS portal. Candidates use their enrollment ID and password to download.
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Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered a month ago
Candidates must do any of the following activity/decision during GATE COAP choice filling -
Accept and Freeze
Retain and Wait
Reject and Wait
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered a month ago
IISc Bangalore GATE cutoff 2026 for the ECE course for the General AI category was 650 in round 1. For the OBC AI category, the round 1 cutoff for the same course was 600. This difference in the score says that the competiton for the General AI category was higher than the OBC AI quota.
To know the
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
IISc Banglore GATE COAP cutoff 2026 was declared for admission to the M.Tech course for various All India categories up to Round 1. For the General AI category, the round 1 cutoff ranged from 480 to 800, wherein M.Tech. in Instrumentation Systems and M.Tech. in Microelectronics and VLSI Design were
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
Yes, you can get a seat at IISc Banglore with a GATE score of 542, if you belong to the General AI category. Students can refer to the table beow to know which courses are available with this score based on the IISc Banglore GATE cutoff 2026 for round 1.
| Course | Round 1 |
|---|---|
| M.Tech. in Instrumentation Systems | 480 |
| M.Des. in Product Design and Manufacturing | 500 |
| M.Tech. in Smart Manufacturing | 500 |
| M.Tech. in Chemical Engineering | 525 |
For the OBC AI category, the courses availble
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
IISc Bangalore GATE COAP cutoff 2026 was released for admission to the M.Tech course and its various branches for several All India categories.
For the General AI category, the round 1 cutoff ranged from 480 to 800, wherein MTech in Instrumentation Systems and MTech in Microelectronics and VLSI Desi
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
IIT Bombay GATE cutoff 2026 was released till round 1 for admission to the M.Tech course for various All India categories.
For the General AI category, the round 1 cutoff ranged from 325 to 650. Hence, a score of at least 325 is required to be eligible for admission in the first round. Students can
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
Yes, you can get a seat at IIT Bombay for the M.Tech programme with a COAP cutoff of 442 if you belong to the General AI category.
General AI category students can refer to the table below to know which courses are up for grabs with a score of 442 based on the IIT Bombay GATE COAP cutoff 2026 for ro
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month 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 a month 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 months 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
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What are the decision options available during COAP Choice Filling?