Decline in GATE 2020 Application Numbers: M.Tech Fee Hike to be Blamed?

Pratyush Roy

Updated On: November 27, 2019 01:12 PM

The applications witness a drop in GATE 2020 admissions from the numbers of 2019 GATE admissions. Some suggest this to be a result of the M.Tech fee hike but the Chairman has rejected the claims saying it is normal.

GATE Application Statistics

The number of GATE 2020 candidates has come down to 8.60 lakhs from the 9.27 lakh of the previous year. However, the conducting body of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2020, the IIT Delhi had previously released a notification that they are expecting 1 million applications. Contrary to the expectations, the actual data showed that the current application numbers have dropped significantly. The decline in the numbers are being linked with the hike in the M.Tech fees in IITs n recent times.

This reason has been rejected by the GATE 2020 chairman, he says that the registration data of the last 10 years have ranged from 2.30 lakhs to 12 lakhs. 2018, 2017 and 2016 years have already seen much lower numbers in enrolments comparing to 2020 enrolments. These years had received 7.81, 7.87 and 8.18 lakh candidates, much lower than the 2019 statistics as well.

GATE 2020 Degree Wise Registrations

GATE 2020 Degree Wise Registrations

Passed Degree

Number of Candidates

B.Tech

4,32,889

B.E.

2,81,765

MCA/M.Sc/M.A.

1,06,406

B.Arch

11,658

Integrated M.E./M.Tech/Dual Degree

11,274

Integrated M.Sc/BS-MS

4,619

B.Pharm

2,166

Professional Society Exams

1,974

Post-B.Sc M.E./M.Tech Integrated

1,413

4 Year Research-based B.Sc / B.A.

645

B.Plan

317

Pharm.D/MBBS

50

Others

4,953

Conventional courses have received the highest number of applications this year as well. Most of the applications are made for Mechanical Engineering were 1,71,432 and the least applications were made under Ecology and Evolution (1,750). The newly introduced course of M.Tech in Biomedical Engineering has received 2,229 applications in total.

Men have trailed far about making the applications as 5,81,591 men made their application and 2,78,469 female candidates registered for GATE. 52 transgenders have also applied for GATE 2020.

Also Read: NEET Fails to Ensure Merit-Based Medical Admission

As many as 10,000 applications have received from the former state of Jammu and Kashmir amidst all the lockdown after amending Section 370. 5,464 applications have been received from the Jammu-Sambha region and 5,140 applied from Srinagar. IIT Delhi previously extended the GATE application time for the students of Jammu and Kashmir keeping in mind the lockdown stage of the state.

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