GATE COAP 2025 - Registration, Admit Card, Eligibility, Result, Seat Allotment

GATE COAP 2025 - Registration, Admit Card, Eligibility, Result, Seat Allotment

Edited By Team Careers360 | Updated on Aug 28, 2024 03:43 PM IST | #GATE

GATE COAP 2025: IISc Bangalore will release the official information brochure for GATE 2025 COAP on the official website. The GATE COAP 2025 registration link will be activated in March 2025. Candidates with valid GATE scores for the years 2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022 are eligible to register for COAP 2025. The Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) and Centralised Counselling for M.Tech/ M.Des (CCMT) will be conducted for counselling based on GATE scores. IIT aspirants must register at COAP for admission to M.Tech courses apart from applying at the respective institutes. CCMT counselling is held for admission to NITs and IIITs. IIT Roorkee will announce the GATE 2025 result on March 19, 2025 in online mode.

GATE 2025 COAP is a portal where candidates can check the results and seat allotment for admission into PG engineering programs at participating IITs and IISc Bangalore. Eligible candidates with valid GATE scores from 2022, 2023, or 2024 can participate in the GATE COAP 2025 counselling. During counselling, candidates must register and fill in their choice of programmes and institutes. IIT Roorkee will conduct the GATE 2025 on February 1, 2, 15 and 16, 2025. Read this article to know more about GATE COAP 2025.

GATE COAP Important Dates 2025

Events

GATE COAP Important Dates

GATE COAP registration 2025

March 2025

COAP Seat Allotment Round 1

May 2025

COAP Seat Allotment Round 2

May 2025

COAP Seat Allotment Round 3

May 2025

COAP Seat Allotment Round 4

June 2025

COAP Seat Allotment Round 5

June 2025

COAP Seat Allotment Round for additional round - rounds 6

June 2025

COAP Seat Allotment Round for additional round - round 7June 2025
COAP Seat Allotment Round for additional round - round 8June 2025
COAP Seat Allotment Round for additional round - round 9June 2025
COAP Seat Allotment Round for additional round - round 10June 2025

What is COAP

Common Offer Acceptance Portal, commonly known as COAP is a portal where all the participating IITs and IISc Bangalore publish the result of seat allotment. For admission in M.Tech courses in any of the participating IITs or ISc Bangalore, candidates having a valid GATE 2025 score are required to register online at the COAP portal along with the institute. Admission to M.Tech courses at NITs and GFTIs is through the CCMT portal. Using the COAP portal, candidates will have to check their seat allotment status and accept/ reject the seat.

GATE COAP 2025 Eligibility Criteria

There are certain conditions and requirements that every applicant needs to fulfil to be eligible for admission. Candidates check eligibility criteria at the COAP 2025 official website. Applications of candidates who do not meet the eligibility conditions are liable to be rejected. Candidates are advised to check the eligibility criteria of GATE 2025 COAP before applying.

GATE COAP Eligibility Criteria 2025

  • Candidates should have a valid GATE score from the years 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025 to apply for COAP.
  • Candidates having more than one valid GATE score will have to enter the highest score during registration, however, details about other scores will also be required.
  • Having a GATE score of 2025 in more than one paper must provide details about all the scores.
  • Candidates must fulfil the eligibility criteria specified by the institute to which they are applying.
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GATE COAP 2025 Registration

Candidates seeking admission will open COAP 2025 registration on the GATE COAP portal. COAP login will be created soon after completing the registration process. Candidates will be able to check the detailed procedure to fill GATE COAP application form 2025 for reference purposes.

GATE COAP Registration Process

  • In the first step, candidates have to register online by providing the basic candidate details and GATE qualification.
  • Upon successful registration, candidates will receive login information by email and password details on their mobile phones.
  • Login using the COAP login ID and password and verify the details entered while registering.
  • In the next step, apply to the institutes in which admission is desired from the institute's official website.
  • Check allotment status after the seat allotment round.
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Steps to check admission offers through the GATE COAP 2025 portal

Candidates can check the admissions offered by the participating institutes on the GATE COAP portal. To check the COAP counselling 2025 status, candidates must log into the COAP login using valid credentials. Candidates should check the following steps to know how to check the COAP seat allotment result 2025.

  • Visit the GATE COAP 2025 portal.
  • Log in using a valid ID and password.
  • Click on the “Seat Allotment” button.
  • The institute-wise allotment of seats for every institute’s status in which applied will be reflected on the screen.
  • Candidates have to confirm the seat allotment with options from “Accept and Freeze”, “Retain and Wait”, “Reject and Wait” and “Reject”.

GATE COAP Admission offers

How to accept seat allotment through GATE COAP 2025?

Once the seat allotment is done during COAP counselling 2025, candidates will have to confirm the seat allotment with options from “Accept and Freeze”, “Retain and Wait”, “Reject and Wait” and “Reject”. Candidates who have not been allotted any seat will have to wait for subsequent rounds for the allotment.

  • Accept and Freeze - Candidates should select this option when they wish to accept the allotted seat and do not want upgradation in any subsequent rounds of seat allotment. Such candidates will not be considered for any seat allotment or upgrading offers in any subsequent rounds of admission.
  • Retain and Wait - This option should be selected when candidates wish to accept the allotted seat but at the same time, also want to be considered for upgrading in subsequent seat allotment rounds. Such candidates will not be considered for the other rejected offers in the current round. Also, if any higher preferred offer is made in the next round then the existing 'Retain and Wait' offer will get cancelled.
  • Reject and Wait - Candidates should select this option when they do not want to accept any of the allotted seats but wish to be considered for subsequent rounds of seat allotment.
  • Reject - This option implies the final round of COAP whereas the “Reject and Wait” option would imply “Reject” as there will be no further rounds of seat allotment. Candidates should select this option when they do not want to accept any seat offered during GATE COAP 2025.

GATE COAP Seat Allotment Options

Rounds

Available Options

Accept and Freeze

Retain and Wait

Reject and Wait

Round 1

Yes

Yes

Yes

Round 2

Yes

Yes

Yes

Round 3

Yes

Yes/No

Yes

Round 4

Yes

Yes/No

Yes

Round 5

Yes

No

Yes

Online Additional Rounds

Round A

Yes

No

Yes

Round B

Yes

No

Yes

Round C

Yes

No

Yes

Round D

Yes

No

Yes**

* No, if the candidates have already used Retain & Wait on the same offer twice. The same offer refers to the program “XYZ” of a particular Institute “ABC”.

**Candidates may have to follow spot rounds either online or offline and it could be specific to the institutes. Depending on the vacancy status and admission date, there could be a few more extra rounds from the participating institutes.

GATE COAP 2025 Important Instructions

  • After COAP 2025 registration with a qualified GATE Number is done, candidates have to add the additional qualified GATE Registration Number when they log into the portal for the 1st time.
  • After your registration is over, the user ID will be sent to your registered email address and an SMS will be sent to your registered mobile number. Moreover, passwords will be sent by email and mobile may take some time because of the network issue of the service provider. Please wait for some time in case you don't receive the password.
  • If you have multiple qualified GATE registration numbers and you are not able to add the qualified GATE registration numbers of previous years in COAP, it may happen because there is a mismatch of information (Name and Date of Birth) in different GATE years. Please check your name and date of birth on all the GATE admit cards of different years, please write to us elaborately about the issue and include the name, date of birth and registration number year-wise in the email.
  • Please wait for a couple of working days to resolve your problems.

COAP 2025 List of participating institutes

Candidates who complete the COAP registration 2025 will be eligible to be considered for admission into the following participating institutions:

GATE COAP Participating Institutes

  • IISc Bangalore
  • IIT Bhilai
  • IIT Bhubaneswar
  • IIT BHU
  • IIT Dharwad
  • IIT Delhi
  • IIT Goa
  • IIT Jammu
  • IIT Indore
  • IIT Kanpur
  • IIT Jodhpur
  • IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
  • IIT Hyderabad
  • IIT Kharagpur
  • IIT Guwahati
  • IIT Mandi
  • IIT Tirupati
  • IIT Madras
  • IIT Palakkad
  • IIT Patna
  • IIT Bombay
  • IIT Roorkee
  • IIT Ropar
  • IIT Gandhinagar

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. What is COAP?

COAP is a common platform for candidates where participating institutes publish the seat allotment result and students make the choice for admission into an M.Tech. Programme in the institutes. COAP is not a portal for applying for M.Tech. admission. Candidates have to apply separately to respective Institute for M.Tech. admission. Admission Offers will be uploaded by the participating Institutes in a common time window on COAP.

2. Is it necessary for a candidate to register at COAP?

Yes. Candidates who apply for admission into an M.Tech. Programme in any of the participating institutes have to register for COAP as they will receive admission offers via COAP only. 

To access and make a decision on the allotted seats made by participating Institute, each candidate should register and visit COAP. Without registering at COAP, the candidate will not be able to access the offers on COAP.

3. Can I apply for M.Tech. / Job to participating Institutes / PSUs through COAP?

No. COAP is not an M.Tech. Admission / Job Application Portal. Every candidate should apply separately to respective Institute(s) for M.Tech. admission.

4. Who can register for Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP)?

Candidates seeking M.Tech admissions in any of the participating Institutes of COAP and who have a valid GATE 2025 score or from the year 2024/2023/2022 can register for COAP.

5. How will I know the status of any offers?

You can check the offer status, during the scheduled dates, by logging in to COAP (Common Offers Admission Portal) using your login id and password, sent to you by email/SMS after your registration at COAP.

6. I have more than one valid GATE scorecards for the same paper. Which score card shall I use?

It is advisable to register with the highest GATE Score. During registration, you will also provide valid GATE score details for the remaining years. You will register only once but registration details will include all other GATE scores of the last three years. Failing to do so will result in disqualification.

7. I have two or three valid GATE scorecards for two or three different papers. Can I use all the scores?

You will register only once. Subsequently, when you login COAP for the first time, you will provide all three/ two GATE scores (different papers) in one registration form. For example: if you have GATE Scores for EC and CS papers, then you can register with any one of the GATE paper score (EC or CS). And include the remaining GATE paper score when you login to COAP for the first time.

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BHEL, IOCL, ONGC, SAIL, NTPC, HPCL, PGCIL, BARC and many more PSUs recruitment ate available for students who qualify gate exam followed by interview.

Also some government colleges Offering Teaching Positions Following the GATE Exam.you can apply for it too.

Gate exam let you in for positions in government organizations such as DRDO,

BARC, ISRO etc.

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There are various private institutes in India which offer Data Science and Machine Learning courses with great placement opportunities, although make sure you look at the course content, duration of the course and then decide which one best suit your requirement and then go ahead with it.you can consider these colleges;


Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD)

Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology (SCIT)

Wellingkar Institute of Management

NL Dalmia

NMIMS Mumbai

Goa institute of management

These are good universities which doesn't required Gate you can consider. They provide 2 years full-time programs m.tech in data science .You can get admission through CAT, XAT, MAT, etc. They require an aptitude test followed by interviews


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Candidates who are currently studying in the last year of any undergraduate degree program or who have completed any government approved degree program in Engineering/ Technology/ Science/ Architecture/ Humanities are eligible to appear for GATE 2024.if you are planning to get into m.plan in housing some universities may require GATE scores for admission, while others may allow direct admission and other state conducts their own exam like TANCET.

To know more about M.Plan you can read: https://www.careers360.com/courses/m-plan-master-of-planning

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The status of applications usually takes a pretty long time to reflect on online portals.


Here's what you can do:


Scan the Portal Regularly: Check the portal regularly and see if anything has been updated. Sometimes it might take a couple of days for the system to compute the changes.

Contact Helpdesk: You can contact the helpdesk of eGATE 2025 or concerned departments. They can let you know the status of the application and what exactly should be done to make the process smooth.

Upload and Clear Documents: Confirm all required documents are uploaded clearly.

If still nothing results from these steps, contacting the relevant authorities head-on to seek clarification and assistance is advisable.

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