GATE Counselling

The chances of geting a good seat in the top engineering colleges in the CCMT spot round counselling depends on various factors, such as your GATE scores and how they alling with your desired course/programme. In the spot round, all the participating colleges submit the number of vacant seats in the respective courses. Candidates need to register and submit their choices during the process. 

GATE CCMT Counselling 2025 has been started and it is expected to be conducted till six rounds of seat allotment resutls by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management Gwalior. Further GATE CCMT Spot Round can also be conducted for Private Unaided Engineering Colleges.

The COAP registration is completly free. Candidates can register for COAP using their GATE scores without paying in fees. The mode of the registration is online and must be completed within the specific deadline. The GATE COAP Round 1 counselling starts from May 17. Candidates can check the schedule below -

Once the COAP registration is completed, candidates will be receive a COAP ID, which candidates can use it to apply in the participating institutes, such as IITs, NITs, and GFTIs. During the counselling rounds, candidates can access the COAP counselling to accept, reject, and freeze their options. In the final round, candidates will have to make the final decision in the selection of the college for admission.

The GATE COAP is mainly conducted in five rounds, during which students can accept or reject the offers from the participating institutes. Optional rounds are available from Round 6 to 10. These rounds are treated as independent decisive rounds, where candidates can only accept, freeze, or reject. The GATE COAP Round I registration starts from May 17. Candidates are advised to go through all the instructions and guidelines before registering for the GATE counselling. 

Yes, it is possible to get M.Tech admissions with low GATE scores. However, it depends on certain factors, such as category, low cutoff drops in spot-counselling rounds. If you are aiming for NITs, then newly established NITs can be a good option. 

There are two types of GATE counselling that offer admission to M.Tech courses and programmes -

• COAP - it is a portal through which that offers M.Tech admission at IITs and IISc Bangalore
• CCMT - is a portal through which candidates have to register for M.Tech admission at NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs. 

You can get admission in NIT but you may have to compromise with the place or the branch or both of them. 

The GATE 2025 seat matrix is not released yet. The details will be announced at the time of GATE counselling. However, last year (in GATE 2024), there were a total of 12,000 seats available for M.Tech admissions.