CCMN 2026: Registration, Important Dates, Eligibility & Counselling

Applicants while filling the CCMN counselling application form, should fill the choice of instititute or programme only those in which they are certainly interested. One must refrain from casual or take-a-chance approach. 

Once a seat is allotted, students must follow the due procedure to take admission in the respective institutes. 

The document verification will be done by the verifying officers of the participating institutes only in the online mode. In case of a doubt/query regarding the documents, the Document Verifying Officer will raise a query to the candidate, against which, the
candidate can respond through her/his login. This interaction between the Document Verifying Officer and the candidate can occur multiple times till the issue is resolved. The candidate will be compulsorily required to submit her/his clarifications/documents in
response to the queries raised by the Document Verifying Officer in the stipulated time period, failing which (s)he will be treated as Not-Reported, and hence her/his seat will be cancelled and (s)he will not be considered for seat allotment in subsequent rounds.

Once a seat is allotted in CCMN counselling to the students, they need to deposit INR 15,000/- (for GEN/OBC/GEN-EWS) and INR 10,000/- (for SC/ST/PwD) towards Seat Acceptance Fee (SAF). 

After this applicants need to upload the required documents and submit their willingness as per the procedure.

This SAF amount will later be adjusted in the total fee to be deposited for the allotted institute.

While filling the application of CCMN counselling, students can choose as many choices as they wish to choose from the list of eligible PIs and programs.

The online system of choice filling has been designed in such a way that it will display only those choices to candidates for which they are eligible, as per the eligibility degree, discipline, and JAM exam score. 

The CCMN seats allotment for 2026 will be out in the second week of May 2026, tentatively. The first round of seat allotment will be released on First week of June 2026, tentatively. While the second and third round of allotment will be out in the firts week of July 2026, tentatively. 

The first round of seat allotment of CCMN will be out in the first week for June 2026, tentatively. The official dates of first round of CCMN seat allotment were released on the official notification. 

After the first allotment is done, the document verifying officer will notify the applicants to further participate in the counselling process. 

In case applicants don't get a seat in first seat allotment then can further apply for the next round of allotment. 

Applicants’ eligibility will not be verified during the CCMN application process. It will be checked during the CCMN counselling document verification process. In case a candidate does not fulfil eligibility criteria, their candidature will be cancelled and the application fee will not be refunded.

Hence one must be careful and read all the important instructions and necessary documents before filling the application form.

There will not be de-reservation of unfilled seats at all. However, in Special Round-1 (SR-1) and Special Round-2 (SR-2), the unfilled seats, if any, in the Program Groups G2, G3, etc. will be converted into the lower numbered group in the same category. In a particular round (SR-1 and SR-2), first iteration of allotment will be carried out without conversion and then the subsequent iteration will be carried out with conversion of unfilled seats related as per the following rules.
The conversion of unfilled seats will occur among the programme groups viz. from Programme group G5 to G4, G4 to G3, G3 to G2, G2 to G1. (refer section 14 “Seat and Eligibility Matrix” about details of these groups) in the same category. Programme group G5 seats will be converted to G4 group only when G5 group candidates possessing the minimum eligibility criteria are not available for G5 group seats and so on for other groups.

The application fees for CCCMN counselling varies for different category candidates. 

For the General, General-EWS and OBC category candidates is is INR 3,500 and that for the reserved category candidates it is INR 3,000.

CCMN refers to Centralized Counselling for MSc/MSc (Tech). This is a platform for the admission to NITs, CFTI, IIEST Shibpur, and SLIET Longowal.

The CCMN counselling is done on the basis of scores of the applicants in IIT JAM exam. There are multiple rounds of seat allotments in these instititues are done through CCMN.  

Applicants are advised to check the "Special Eligibility Conditions" page on the CCMN website.

Students need to examine the page attentively as the conditions of a particular programme may be on more than one row and scattered at the different parts of the page.

Candidates can also check the official website of the respective participating Institute to know further details of their programmes. 

At the time of registration applicants should write their name as filled in JAM application form. However, during document verification process candidates can give an affidavit on INR 50/- Stamp Paper stating that the two names belong to the same person and if found false at any stage then his/her seat in CCMN counselling will be cancelled.

Once a seat is allotted in CCMN counselling to the students, they need to deposit INR 15,000/- (for GEN/OBC/GEN-EWS) and INR 10,000/- (for SC/ST/PwD) towards Seat Acceptance Fee (SAF). 

After this applicants need to upload the required documents and submit their willingness as per the procedure.

This SAF amount will later be adjusted in the total fee to be deposited for the allotted institute.

The Counselling process of Regular Rounds consists of following stages excluding preregistration:
? Online Registration, Payment of Registration Fee, Choice Filling and Locking of Choices.
? Three Rounds of Counselling: Seat Allotment, Depositing Seat Acceptance Fee, Submitting Willingness, Uploading Documents, and Online Document Verification.
? Payment of Partial Admission Fee.
? Physical Reporting at the Finally Allotted Institute.

The Counselling process of Regular Rounds consists of following stages excluding preregistration:
? Online Registration, Payment of Registration Fee, Choice Filling and Locking of Choices.
? Three Rounds of Counselling: Seat Allotment, Depositing Seat Acceptance Fee, Submitting Willingness, Uploading Documents, and Online Document Verification.
? Payment of Partial Admission Fee.
? Physical Reporting at the Finally Allotted Institute.

The  organising body of CCMN 2026 has not been announced officially. The authority changes every year, for CCMN 2025 it was NIT Warangal.

No. The Registration fee of CCMN is non-refundable. If applicants do not secure the minimum marks/CGPA, their seat allotment would be cancelled even if they are provisionally admitted to a specific institute.

Hence students are advised to ensure that they are fulfilling all the necessary parameters before filling the CCMN 2026 application form. 

CCMN Application form for the counselling process will be out in the fourth week of May 2026, tentatively. Students who will appear for the IIT JAM 2026 examination and wishes to take admissions in the MSc/ MSc Tech degree porgrammes offered at NITs, IIEST Shibpur and some CFTI institutes need to fill out the CCMN 2026 online application cum counselling form.

Students are advised to read this brochure carefully and visit the CCMN website regularly for all the updates regarding the counselling process.