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Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) 2026 ( COAP )
COAP 2026 registration starts (Round 1)
11 May '26 - 13 May '26
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Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered a week 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 week 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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
8 Institutes accepting COAP
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