GATE 2025 Counselling will be conducted separately by CCMT & COAP. Candidates can expect the counselling to be held in third week of March 2025. Mode of counselling will be online. GATE is a national level examination.
GATE candidates for IITs admissions, register on COAP & for NITs and IIITs, register CCMT counselling…
Candidates who will clear the GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) will be eligible to take part in counselling. Through this exam, students gets admissions in various PG courses offered by IITs, NITs and many other institutions.
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Here in this article, we are providing details regarding GATE CCMT/COAP Counselling 2025 including registration, participating institutions, seat matrix, last year cut off (institution wise), and admission procedure.
GATE 2025 Counselling
Counselling for GATE will he held through two types of process. GATE counselling 2025 for admission to IITs will be done through Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) and for admission to to NITs, IIITs and GFTIs based on GATE scores through CCMT (Centralized Counselling for M.Tech).
CCMT is an online admission procedure for all NITs (National Institutes of Technologies) & and several other centrally funded institutions. These institutions are IIIT Allahabad, IIITM Gwalior, IIITDM Kancheepuram, SLIET Longowal, NIFFT Ranchi, PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur, SPA Vijayawada, Central University of Rajasthan, and Institute of Technology & IIEST Shibpur.
The counselling registration will start through COAP process. Candidates must have a valid GATE 2023/ 2024/ 2025 score card. GATE 2025 COAP Counselling Registration is completely free.
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Counselling will be held in three rounds through online mode. For seat allotment, candidates first have to register for the GATE CCMT counselling 2025. During counselling registration, candidates have to fill out choices of courses/colleges according to their preferences.
On the basis of the rank, filled choices & availability of seats, the seats are allotted to the candidates.
After seat allotment, candidates have to submit a seat acceptance fee & confirm their seat. Candidates have to report at the reporting center & verify their documents. Then, candidates have to report at the allotted college & pay the admission fee.
GATE 2025 Counselling Schedule
Candidates must check this table for official counselling schedule for GATE 2025:
COAP Counselling Dates:
Round | Time window for viewing of offers & decision making by the candidates |
Round 1 | 2nd/3rd week of May 2025 |
Round 2 | 3/4th week of May 2025 |
Round 3 | 4th week of May 2025 |
Round 4 | 1st week of June 2025 |
Round 5 | 2nd week of June 2025 |
Additional Rounds:
Round No. | Time window for viewing of offers & decision making by the candidates |
Round 6 | 3rd week of June 2025 |
Round 7 | 4th week of June 2025 |
Round 8 | 4th week of June 2025 |
Round 9 | 1st week of July 2025 |
Round 10 | second week of July 2025 |
Through CCMT Counselling:
Events | Dates 2025 (Tentative) |
Online Registration & Fee Payment and Online Choice Filling | Fourth week of May 2025 |
Last date for online registration & fee payment | First week of June 2025 |
Resolution of any issue related to fee payment | Second week of June 2025 |
Last date of online choice filling | Second week of June 2025 |
Round 1 Seat allotment | Second week of June 2025 |
Payment of seat acceptance fee | June 2025 |
Online Document Verification by officers of Allotted Institute | Second week of June 2025 |
Deadline for online verification | Third week of June 2025 |
Resolution of any online query raised during online document verification | Third week of June 2025 |
2nd round of allotment | Fourth week of June 2025 |
Payment of seat acceptance fee | Last week of June 2025 |
Online Document Verification by officers of Allotted Institute | Last week of June 2025 |
Resolution of any online document | Last week of June 2025 |
3rd Round of Allotment | First week of July 2025 |
Payment of seat acceptance fee | First week of July 2025 |
Online Document Verification by officers of Allotted Institute | First week of July 2025 |
Payment of partial admission fee | Second week of July 2025 |
Online Withdrawal from the Admitted Institute | Second week of July 2025 |
GATE 2025 CCMT Counselling Process
The GATE Counselling 2025 procedure comprises three rounds that are mentioned below:
Step-1: Online Registration, Choice Filling and Locking of Choices:
In this step, candidates will have to register themselves on the CCMT website and pay the registration fees.
The fee must be paid through online mode by using SBI MOPS (i.e. Net Banking/ Credit Card/Debit Card or through e-Challan).
The registration fee will be Rs. 3000 (Rs. 2500 for SC/ST/PwD). After fee payment, candidates have to fill out their choices of programmes. Candidates are suggested to lock their filled choices during the counselling process.
Candidates must also take assistance from the Help Centers for registration and choice filling.
Step-2: Online Seat Allotment, Seat Acceptance fee deposit and Personal Reporting:
Candidates are allotted seats on the basis of choices filled and merit. After seat allotment, candidates are required to deposit the seat acceptance fees (Rs. 30,000) (Rs. 10000 for SC/ST/PwD) using SBI MOPS (Net banking/credit card/ debit card or through e-Challan).
After that, candidates have to report personally to the reporting centre as per the given schedule. Candidates have to carry their original documents for verification at the reporting center.
They have to submit self-attested photocopy of documents & Seat Acceptance Fee payment proof. After document verification & seat acceptance fee, candidates are issued a Document Verification Certificate (DVC).
Step-3: Getting Admitted to Allotted Institute:
Students whose seat are allotted will be required to complete the provisional seat confirmation process by paying the seat confirmation fee.
Any other balance fee can be paid to the respective allotted college at the time of admission. After the payment of a seat confirmation fee, candidates will be able to download the provisional seat confirmation letter from the website.
After that, students must report to the allotted college with required documents for taking final admission.
Documents Required for Counselling:
Students are required to bring the following documents for document verification process during reporting at RC:
- Provisional seat allotment letter.
- Self-Attested Copy of GATE Score Card (2023 or 2024 or 2025)
- Photo ID proof.
- Original Birth certificate issued by competent authority/Class X (High School) Board Certificate as proof of date of birth.
- 12th class mark sheet.
- Mark sheet of qualifying examination (all semester).
- Degree/Provisional Certificate
- Category certificate (if applicable).
- Three Passport size colored photograph.
- Seat acceptance fee proof.
- Printout of the Registration form & locked choices.
- Migration Certificate
- Transfer Certificate
- Original Conduct Certificate from the Head of the institution last attended.
- Original Course completion certificate from the Head of the University/Institute in case result is awaited.
- One set of self-attested photocopy of all the original documents, etc.
If you have any other queries related to GATE 2025 Counselling, you can ask us by leaving your comments below.
I Soumalya Dey Sikder from Kalyani in West Bengal want to know that how can i get the gate score card. Kindly reply.
Your’s faithfully,
Soumalya Dey Sikder.
You must contact the official authority regarding this.
Sir,from when the gate counseling will start?
Can an iit betch apply for MTech without appearing in Gate?
I couldn’t qualify GATE this year. Can I still get admission in a good college for M.TECH? If yes, then please guide me.
Sir please tell me that how special round councilng will counduct am not getting clarity about this,and is there any extra fee for special round
Hi Im having doubt. i.e want to know the validity of gate score? came to know dat 3 years as mentioned. is it same for joining PSU’s??