COAP

The mode of the GATE COAP 2025 counselling is online. Candidates must note that the COAP 2025 is not an application portal. It is an admission portal where candidates must choose their preferred institutes- IITs for the M.Tech and research programme.

IISc Bangalore has revised the COAP counselling dates. Candidates can check the revised GATE COAP 2025 Counselling Schedule below -

 Yes, IISc (the conducting body) has published the GATE COAP 2025 dates on the website-gate.iisc.ac.in. Registrations for GATE COAP will start from May 13, onwards. The counselling process will be conducted in different rounds, where candidates have to perform various options, such as accept and freeze, retain and wait, and reject and wait.

The official website for GATE COAP admission counselling is - gate.iisc.ac.in/coap2025. COAP stands for the Common Offers Acceptance Portal  for admission into an M.Tech. Programme in the participating academic institutes. COAP is not a portal for applying for M.Tech Admission. 

Candidates must apply separately to each institute for M.Tech admission. The GATE COAP dates have been announced on the official website - gate.iisc.ac.in. Registrations for GATE COAP Round 1 registrations will begin from May 13, 2025 (10:00 am) onwards.

IISc is the coordinating institute for GOAP 2025, and the participating institutions are- IISc Bengaluru, IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Bhilai, IIT BHU, IIT Bombay, IIT Dharwad, IIT Dharwad, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Goa, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Indore, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, IIT Jammu, IIT Jodhpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Mandi, IIT Palakkad, IIT Patna, IIT Roorkee, IIT Ropar, and IIT Tirupati. Read more about GATE 2025 COAP counselling here - https://www.shiksha.com/engineering/coap-counselling

COAP stands for Common Offer Acceptance Portal, which was initiated in 2017 to provide a common platform for registered candidates seeking admission to the M.Tech programme in participating institutes, such as IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, etc. To participate in the COAP counselling, candidates must register. 

The GATE COAP website for 2025 have been launched. The counselling dates have been released for various rounds. Registrations for GATE 2025 Round I counselling start from May 13 onwards. Candidates who have qualified with a valid GATE score can register for GATE COAP 2025. 

IIT Madras accepts GATE COAP exam scores to offer M.Tech courses to the candidates belonging to All India categories. During the IIT Madras M.Tech cutoff 2022, the cutoff score released between 432 and 877 for the General AI category candidates. For top programs such as CSE, Micro Electronics and VLSI Design, and Integrated Circuits and Systems, the General AI quota cutoff stood at 820, 831, and 877, respectively. For the same course, the category-wise cutoffs are presented in the table below: