GATE 2025 Counselling - Registration, Documents, Seat Allotment, Fees, Procedure and Online Reporting

GATE Counselling 2025

GATE counselling 2025 will likely begin in March 2025. GATE 2025 counselling dates will be released soon by the end of March 2025. Students who passed the GATE exam in 2025, 2024, and 2023 will be eligible to take part in the GATE counselling. The GATE 2025 counselling is done via CCMT or COAP. GATE counselling for IIT and IISc Bangalore is done through COAP (Centralized Online Admission Process). Thee GATE admission process for NIT, IIIT, and GFTI is done via CCMT ( Centralized Counselling for M.Tech). The GATE counselling process includes various stages like registration, choice filling, seat allotment, document verification, fee payment, reporting etc. During the GATE choice filling, students have to provide the name of their preferred courses and colleges they wish to get admission. Based on that, and other factors like seat availability, student category, student performance, etc the GATE seat allotment 2025 will be released.

Students who will be allotted seats have to make a decision whether to freeze, float, or slide it. Students have to pay the fees and complete college reporting to confirm their admission to the allotted college. There will be various rounds of GATE counselling 2025. IIT Roorkee will release the GATE 2025 result and GATE 2025 cutoff on March 19, 2025. Those who score the GATE qualifying marks will be eligible to take part in the GATE admission process. GATE scorecard will be available from March 28 to December 31, 2025. 

How Will GATE 2025 Counselling be Held?

There is no centralized counselling for GATE 2025. The GATE 2025 counselling is carried out individually through COAP and the CCMT. You have register for the GATE counselling process via COAP or CCMT depending upon your preferred M.Tech college. The GATE admission process 2025 will be done the following two admission/counselling portals:

COAP Counselling 2025: The Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) is responsible for managing the admission process for MTech courses offered by IITs. 

CCMT Counselling 2025: Centralized Counselling for MTech (CCMT) is conducted for admission to MTech programs offered by NITs, IIITs, GFTIs, and CFTIs.

GATE 2025 Counselling Dates

The GATE 2025 counselling dates will be released following the publication of the GATE result. The GATE counselling 2025 for COAP is expected to begin in March 2025 after the declaration of the GATE result. We will update the GATE 2025 counselling dates below once its been released by the authorities. 

GATE COAP Counselling 2025 Dates 

Note: Post the declaration of the GATE result, state universities, and other private institutes conduct GATE counselling for admission into M.Tech programmes. students are advised to follow the respective websites of the institutes to find out more information.

GATE CCMT Counseling Dates 2025

GATE Counselling 2025: Eligibility Criteria

You can check out the eligibility criteria of GATE counselling 2025 as mentioned in the table below.

*Note: Percentage conversion to CGPA or vice versa is not allowed. The course eligibility depends upon the combination of degree, streams and GATE exam. Special eligibility is required to become eligible for admission into some institutes.

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GATE COAP Counselling 2025

GATE counselling for IIT and IISc Bangalore is conducted through COAP. To get M.Tech admission in IITs, you will have to register through the COAP (short for Common Offer Acceptance Portal), which is a common platform for students to apply for their preferred IITs. Students seeking M.Tech admissions in any of the participating Institutes of COAP and who have a valid GATE score (2025, 2024, 2023) can register at COAP.

Students must understand that GATE COAP is not an application portal for IIT admission for MTech programs. Along with registering for COAP, you should submit separate applications to your preferred IITs and PSUs too by visiting their official website. IITs and PSUs use COAP as a gateway to upload their offers according to their selection criteria. You must register for COAP before submitting an application to any PSU or IIT, as applying to an MTech program at any participating institution requires a COAP 2025 registration number. 

GATE Admission Process at COAP

The GATE admission process through COAP will be held as follows:

Register at COAP: The COAP registration process is conducted online. You must register online via the official COAP portal. The offers made by IITs and PSUs will only available to students who have registered with COAP.

Apply to IITs and PSUs: You should submit separate applications to the your preferred IITs and PSUs. You have to provide your COAP registration number when applying to the IITs or PSUs.

Offer rounds: The COAP offers will be released round-wise. If you have received any offers, they will show up in the COAP Dashboard when the offer round at COAP begins on time.

Choose an offer: After selecting your preferred offer, click "Accept and Freeze," "Retain and Wait," or "Reject all above and wait." Then, click "OK" to confirm. If you choose "Reject all above and wait," all offers will be turned down. Once you are happy with the offer you got, click "Freeze Decision" to submit your final choice.

Visit the institute/PSU official website for final admission: Following the selection and finalization of an offer at COAP, you must go to the official website of the IIT/PSU where you accepted the offer and finish the admissions procedure.

How to Register for COAP 2025 Counselling?

To register for the COAP 2025 counselling, follow the steps given below. 

Step 1: COAP 2025 Registration

Go to the COAP 2025 Application Portal. To start a new registration, click Register. For new registrations:

• Enter information about the GATE Paper(s) and click Register Now.
• You can add a row for more GATE papers.
• Registering in COAP requires at least one GATE Paper registration number.
• You may add additional GATE Papers after registering.

Step 2: COAP 2025 Login and Dashboard

• After successfully registering, log in using your COAP ID and password.
• Click Dashboard to access application details for all institutes and registered GATE paper(s) in COAP.

Step 3: Add more GATE papers, if applicable.

• Students can add rows for further GATE papers by clicking student Details under the login page.
• You can also delete any more rows for GATE Papers.

Step 4: Final Submission

• Go through the details provided and click on Final Submit.
• Data cannot be changed once you click Final Submit.

GATE CCMT Counselling 2025

GATE admission process for NITs, IIITs, CFTIs and GFTIs is done through the CCMT counselling at ccmt.admissions.nic.i/. CCMT counselling process includes registration, choice filling, seat allotment, documents verification, fee payment, etc. CCMT counselling 2025 will include 3 main rounds and additional rounds. You can apply for all the 30 NITs and 9 CFTIs through GATE CCMT Counselling. The seat matrix will be released on the CCMT official website. Check the GATE admission process for NITs, GFTIs, IIITs and CFTIs, below. 

GATE Admission Process Through CCMT 2025

The GATE admission process through CCMT 2025 counselling will be done as per the following process:

Stage 1: Registration

GATE registration is the first step in the counselling process. To take part in the CCMT counselling rounds, all the qualified students will have to first register themselves, failing which they will not be allowed to participate in the GATE 2025 counselling procedure. After registering, students will have to fill in their correct details to proceed further.

Stage 2: Choice Filling and Locking

After successful registration, the next step that follows is choice filling and locking. Here, students will have to make the choices regarding the courses. It is advisable for the students, to fill the most preferred choice on the top. After filling the choices, students will have to lock their choices by using the choice locking option.

Note: No modifications shall be made in the choices after locking the same.

Stage 3: Seat Allotment

This is the most important stage of the GATE 2025 counselling process. Here, students will be allotted seats on the basis of the choices filled by the students, their rank, and the availability of seats at that rank. After each round of GATE seat allotment, GATE admission cutoff will be released. Those who score equal to or higher than GATE cutoff will have a higher chance of admission. Students will have the option of freeze, float and slide after seat allotment. 

Stage 4: Reporting

Those who accepts the seats will have to complete reporting and document verification at the nodal centre. Once you paid your fees, your seat will be confirmed at the participating colleges. 

How to Register for CCMT 2025 Counselling?

Follow the steps given below to register for the CCMT 2025 counselling. 

Step 1: Visit the GATE counselling official website. 

Step 2: The students have to click on the ‘CCMT 2025: Online registration, Fee payment and Choice filling’ link in the Current Events section.

Step 3: For logging in, the students have to enter their GATE registration ID.

Step 4: The students then must fill all the text boxes with relevant details such as basic information, Institutes and courses.

Step 5: The students have to pay the registration fee online for completion of CCMT 2025 registration.

Documents Required for GATE 2025 Counselling

Given below are the list of some of the documents required for the GATE counselling process:

• GATE admit card 2025

• GATE scorecard

• Date of Birth Certificate

• Provisional seat allotment letter

• Class 12th mark sheet

• Photo ID proof

• Passport-size photograph (coloured)

• Seat acceptance fee proof

• Mark sheet of qualifying examination (all semester).

• Degree/Provisional Certificate

• Printout of the Registration form & locked choices.

• Category Certificate (if valid)

Financial Assistance for GATE 2025

Except for the M.Mgt students, all the other students will be eligible for a scholarship from UGC/CSIR/DBT/ICMR/DAE(NBHM)/AICTE on the basis of their entry mode. MHRD scholarships can be availed some IISc students provided they fulfil the MHRD scholarship eligibility criteria. The meritorious students can avail several scholarships offered by top Business tycoons and Indian & Multinational agencies.