GATE 2027 in Agra: Exam City, IIT Kanpur Zone and the Mathura Split

This is the one thing on this page worth remembering. The official exam-city list has "Agra" under Uttar Pradesh in the IIT Kanpur zone. It has "Mathura" under Uttar Pradesh too, but in the IIT Delhi zone, alongside Greater NOIDA, New Delhi, Gurugram and the Rajasthan cities.

GATE asks for six cities, all from one zone. So a form with Agra first and Mathura second will not work, though the Agra district administration puts Mathura only 58 km away. You have to pick a side.

For most people studying or living in Agra, the Kanpur side is the natural one. You get your own city as first choice, and Aligarh and Gwalior as close back-ups. The Delhi side makes sense only if you will be away from Agra in February, say in a Delhi hostel or at home in Mathura, and in that case Agra drops off your list entirely.

Distances below are from the Agra district administration's own description of the city. Zones are from the GATE 2027 list.

Exam city	Zone	Distance from Agra
Mathura	IIT Delhi	58 km
Gwalior	IIT Kanpur	125 km
New Delhi	IIT Delhi	206 km
Lucknow	IIT Kanpur	378 km

Aligarh, Jhansi and Kanpur are not in that table because the district page gives no figure for them, but all three are IIT Kanpur zone. So are Bareilly, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and the Madhya Pradesh cities Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Sagar and Satna.

Uttar Pradesh is split three ways. Besides Mathura and Greater NOIDA going to IIT Delhi, the western cities NOIDA, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad and Muzaffarnagar are IIT Roorkee zone. None of those can be combined with Agra either. Jaipur, which the district page lists among Agra's road and rail links, is IIT Delhi zone.

Firozabad, Hathras and Bharatpur are not exam cities at all.

A sensible order for someone based in the city:

1. Agra
2. Aligarh
3. Gwalior
4. Jhansi
5. Kanpur
6. Lucknow

Change the order to suit where you can stay the night before. If your family is in Kanpur or Lucknow, move that city up. The list is tentative, GATE may add or drop cities, and it can allot a city outside your six, so fill all six with places you could actually reach.

The Gwalior page and the Kanpur page look at the same zone from their end. If you decide on the IIT Delhi zone instead, read the Delhi page and the Jaipur page before you fill the form.

Questions about exam cities in this zone go to the coordinating institute, listed on the GATE 2027 site as:

• IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016
• gate@iitk.ac.in
• 0512-2596962, 0512-2596963

Write from the email you registered with and include your enrolment ID. Questions about the application portal or the papers go to IIT Madras, which organises GATE 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200. Writing to the IIT Delhi office will not help an Agra candidate; that office handles Mathura, not Agra.

All six exam days are Saturdays and Sundays in February 2027. You will know your city from the allotment notification on 4 January 2027. The exact centre and reporting time come on the admit card, whose release date is still TBA. Results are due on 19 March 2027.

GATE 2027 allows DA and CS as a two-paper combination. If you take both, the two papers may be at different centres, so read both admit cards separately.

Agra district covers six tehsils: Agra, Bah, Etmadpur, Fatehabad, Kheragarh and Kirawali. Only Agra is an exam city, so if you live out in Bah or Kheragarh, plan the trip into the city and leave early. The district's travel page names Agra Cantt as the main railway station among five in the city, with Idgah Bus Stand and the ISBT as the two interstate bus terminals. If you are allotted Gwalior, Aligarh or Jhansi, go the day before.

Carry the printed admit card and the original photo ID you gave in the application, plus anything else the admit card lists. Its instructions override anything written here.

GATEiit has no institute page for a campus in Agra itself. The nearest ones a DA or CSE aspirant here usually considers are in other cities:

• IIT Kanpur, at Kalyanpur in Kanpur, which is also your zone office
• ABV-IIITM Gwalior, on Morena Link Road in Gwalior
• IIIT Lucknow, in Lucknow

Each page explains that institute's GATE routes. IIT Delhi has its own page too, and the full list is on /institutes.

Your exam city has nothing to do with admission. Writing GATE in Agra gives no edge at IIT Kanpur, and writing it in Mathura gives none at IIT Delhi.

GATEiit is a free online site with no centre in Agra or anywhere else. Everything is on the web.

Start with your paper page: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each has the syllabus and a link to that paper's WhatsApp group. Past papers are on /pyq and topic-wise sets on /practice.

The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide give a week-by-week plan. Since every exam day is a weekend, sit your full mocks on Saturday or Sunday mornings to get used to the timing. For the wider picture, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.