Dear candidate........,

Well, since you have qualified the gate entrance examination , you must first of all apply for the counseling process conducted by group of IITs for getting admission into your desired college in your desired branch.

GATE 2020 Counselling

Mode of Counselling: Online

Interestingly, while IIT Delhi is the exam conducting body, it will not conduct any common

counselling for GATE 2020. The candidate instead will have to apply separately for admission to

M.Tech courses offered by various institutes based on GATE scores and ranks. In case the

candidate wants to take admission in an IIT, he/ she will have to register on COAP, and also

apply separately to the specific IIT. All offers made by participating institutes will be uploaded in

the COAP portal; registered candidates in turn can accept or reject offers on the portal.

For admission to NITs, counselling is commonly done through CCMT.

What is GATE COAP 2020?

The GATE Common Offer Acceptance (COAP) was started in 2017 by the IITs as a common

admission platform for making admission offers to candidates. So, while the candidate still

needs to apply to an IIT individually for admission, he/she will only know about any offers by

registering on the COAP portal. Also, the acceptance or rejection of offers can be made only

through COAP.

Admission to IITs is a two-step process:

1. Apply to an IIT (or IITs): The candidate has to apply to the IIT based on their GATE scores.

2. Register on COAP to view, accept or reject admission offers. Based on the applications

received by the IITs, they will make all the offers on COAP portal.

Note: COAP is not an application portal, but instead an admission portal.

CCMT:

Admissions to the postgraduate programmes will be through CCMT which is the Centralized

Counselling for M.Tech/ M.Arch/ M.Plan admissions at the NITs, and other GFTIs.

Hope this helps you out......

Best of luck:)