GATE

The job opportunities after the GATE are as follows -

• Candidates can pursue MTech/MSc/PhD from IISc Bangalore, IITs, NITs, IIITs and other reputed institutes.
• Candidates can pursue a postgraduate Diploma in industrial engineering/ manufacturing management or a Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management from NITIE Mumbai. 
• Find jobs in several Maharatna and Navratna PSUs and research organisations through GATE 2026 scores, such as IOCL, BHEL, PGCIL, BARC, etc. 
• Candidates can get into the teaching field, like professor, an assistant professor, and other reputed institutes. 
• Junior Research Fellow Assistant: BARC, ISRO, DRDO, etc.
• Scientist "C" grade jobs
• Senior Research Fellow Assistant: ISRO, BARC, CSIR, etc. 
• Multinational Firms also accept GATE scores for recruitment.

At GATE XE socket 600, you stand a good chance of getting admissions into at least some IITs in the M.Tech course and specifically in interdisciplinary courses or opting under the same which considers XE, you have a better chance. Top branches at older IITs (such as CSE at IIT Video 00Bombay/Delhi) may be beyond the reach of a student, in which case, it is reasonable to consider IITs such as IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Ropar, IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Jodhpur. The specialisation you can pursue in M.Tech will include Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical, and any other field of engineering sciences specialization. As we have seen, cutoffs can differ all through the years, always refer to the details of the specific programme eligibility and previous cutoffs of your selected IIT and specialisation via COAP and websites of IITs individually in order to have the most updated (past) information, especially when it comes to 2025 data.

Yes, college GATE cutoffs may very well fall particularly in the second and subsequent phases of the centralized counselling such as COAP (IITs), and CCMT (NITs and IIITs, and GFTIs). This normally happens when seats that are given are first declined by the candidates who get admission in other institutions creating free seats which are then offered to students with low ranks in the second round. To monitor the variations, we advise you to visit twice the official COAP and CCMT websites every time a new allotment of seats is posted since they also release the entire opening and closing ranks-/scores of the different programs and category wise. Also, most of the IIT and NIT websites tend to include their respective cutoffs and websites dedicated to education usually contain these data to give historical trends.