COAP 2025 Dates: Check Registration Process, Main and Additional Offer Rounds Schedule Here
Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) 2025 ( COAP )
COAP 2025 dates: Candidates who have qualified and want to participate in COAP counselling can check details here. The COAP counselling 2026 dates have been released. The registrations and counselling process are now closed. COAP allows GATE-qualified candidates to participate in counselling for IIT and IISc admission. This year, IISc Benagaluru conducted COAP counselling. Candidates with valid GATE scores - 2025, 2024, and 2023 were eligible to participate in COAP counselling.
The counselling was done in five main and five additional rounds. To participate in the admission counselling of COAP IIT, candidates had to register at the portal using their GATE registration number, paper code, score, date of birth, etc. Get complete details regarding COAP IIT counselling and seat allotment dates here.
- COAP 2025 Exam Dates & Schedule
- COAP 2025 Registration Date
- COAP 2025 Main Rounds
- COAP 2025 Additional Rounds
COAP 2025 Exam Dates & Schedule
Take a look at the table below for the complete schedule of COAP 2025 exam
| Dates | Past Exam Dates |
|---|---|
| 09 Jul ' 25 - 10 Jul ' 25 | COAP 2025 Round 10 additional rounds for college allotment offers |
| 04 Jul ' 25 - 05 Jul ' 25 | COAP 2025 Round 9 additional rounds for college allotment offers |
| 29 Jun ' 25 - 30 Jun ' 25 | COAP 2025 Round 8 additional rounds for college allotment offers |
COAP 2025 Registration Date
COAP registrations are done online on the portal - Common Offer Acceptance Portal. Candidates who have qualified GATE exam and want to get admission at IIT can apply for COAP IIT MTech counselling. The mode of counselling is online and dates will be released for each phase.
To apply, students have to visit official website and register to receive unique ID. During registration, students have to provide their details regarding Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering on COAP counselling form, which are as follows -
- Registration number of GATE paper
- Paper code
- GATE Result
- Date of Birth
Candidates must note that, no fee is charged for registration. Once verification is complete, students can login and access the dashboard for choice filling and locking within the specified COAP counselling dates. Students can either accept, hold, or reject their allotment. In case, a candidate is happy with the allotment, then they can download their COAP MTech seat allotment letter and appear for admission and document verification process.
For any updates regarding counselling, students will be informed via registered mobile or email ID.
COAP 2025 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 |
COAP 2025 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.
| 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 |
| 11 |
Yes |
Yes |
| 12 |
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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Student Forum
Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 3 weeks ago
Yes, COAP registration is mandatory for IIT Madras admissions done on the basis of GATE exam. The institute accepts GATE + COAP for both M.Tech and MA admissions. Any student choosing to register via GATE score at the institute must register on COAP portal as well.
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 4 weeks ago
The IIIT Bangalore M.Tech Cutoff 2025 has been released for admission for all categories under the All India quota. The closing cutoff in the last round for 2025 was 668 for the General AI category candidates. Whereas, in 2024, the closing cutoff in the last round was 570, indicating that the compe
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered 4 weeks ago
The IIIT Bangalore GATE COAP Cutoff 2025 has been released for admission to the M.Tech course specialisations for all categories under the All India quota. For the General AI category candidates, the last round cutoff score ranged from 555 to 668, wherein M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
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Contributor-Level 10
Answered a month ago
Candidates can check their offer status using their login ID and password obtained during COAP registration. GATE COAP offers will be displayed on given date and time only, where students have to confirm their choices.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered a month ago
The COAP counselling is done online only. For registrations, students need to keep the following details ready-
- GATE application details
- Scores secured in GATE exam
- Mobile number and email address
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered a month ago
Candidates who have qualified GATE exam will be eligible for GATE COAP counselling. The counselling offer admission to IITs. The admission counselling registration is online and is done in multiple rounds depending on seat availability.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered a month ago
GATE 2026 COAP counselling dates will be released in June/July after the announcement of results. Students who want to take admission in IITs must register through COAP for counselling.
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Contributor-Level 7
8 Institutes accepting COAP
IIT Madras - Indian Institute of Technology
Adyar, Chennai • Public
4.8IIT Kanpur - Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur • Public
IIT Dhanbad (ISM) - Indian Institute of Technology (...
Dhanbad • Public
IIT Patna - Indian Institute of Technology
Patna • Public
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