GATE 2027 in Bhagalpur: IIT Guwahati Zone, Back-up Cities and Institutes

The official GATE 2027 exam-city list gives Bihar exactly four names: Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Patna and Purnea. All four are in the IIT Guwahati zone, which also covers Assam, the other north-eastern states, Sikkim, Dhanbad and Bokaro Steel City in Jharkhand, and five West Bengal cities.

Bhagalpur appears simply as "Bhagalpur". Munger, Banka and Naugachhia have no entry of their own, so a student from any of them picks from the same four Bihar names.

The rules are the same for everyone. You pick six cities, and all six must come from one zone. The list is tentative: GATE may add or remove a city, and it may allot you one outside your six if it has to. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Kolkata, Ranchi and Varanasi are the big cities many families here have ties to. None of them can go on a Bhagalpur form.

City people think of	Zone	Can it join Bhagalpur?
Patna, Muzaffarpur, Purnea	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Dhanbad, Bokaro Steel City	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Asansol, Durgapur, Burdwan, Kalyani, Siliguri	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh	IIT Kharagpur	No
Kolkata, Howrah	IIT Kharagpur	No
Varanasi, Gorakhpur	IIT Kanpur	No

Jharkhand and West Bengal are both split between zones, which is why the line looks odd on a map. The useful half for you is the IIT Guwahati half: Dhanbad and Bokaro on one side, and Siliguri and the south Bengal cities on the other.

If you will be living in Kolkata or Ranchi during the exam weeks, you need an IIT Kharagpur list built from scratch. The Kolkata, Howrah and Ranchi pages cover that. A Varanasi list is a third, separate zone; see the Varanasi page.

Start from where you will sleep the night before each paper, then fill outwards within the zone. One way to do it:

1. Bhagalpur
2. Patna
3. Purnea
4. Muzaffarpur
5. Dhanbad
6. Asansol or Durgapur, or Siliguri if you have family in the north

Swap the order if your college is elsewhere. A student at a Patna college who will be there in February should put Patna first and keep Bhagalpur second. Order matters, and listing Bhagalpur first does not guarantee Bhagalpur.

If your home is in Dhanbad or Bokaro, the Dhanbad page goes through that end of the zone. For Patna, see the Patna page. Both are compatible with Bhagalpur, so you can mix freely between them.

The zone office for Bhagalpur is IIT Guwahati. The contact as listed: Guwahati 781 039, gate@iitg.ac.in, 0361-2582751. Write from your registered email and quote your enrolment ID.

For portal, fee or paper questions, the organising institute is IIT Madras: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Step	Date
Fixing scrutiny defects (no fee)	closes 30 November 2026
Data correction window (with fee)	TBA
City allotment notification	4 January 2027
Admit card	TBA
Exams	6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 February 2027
Results	19 March 2027

Registration has closed, so any change to your cities depends on the data correction window, which the official dates page still shows as TBA.

Your admit card will give the exact centre and reporting time. Look it up on a map the same day.

If you are allotted somewhere other than Bhagalpur, rail is the usual way. The district administration's site says Bhagalpur Junction lies on the Howrah-Kiul loop line and is connected to Patna, Kolkata, Guwahati and many other cities. North of the Ganga, the Barauni-Katihar section serves Naugachhia and the other stations on that side.

For air travel, IIIT Bhagalpur's directions page lists the nearest airports as Deoghar (about 134 km), Patna (about 235 km), Bagdogra (about 245 km) and Kolkata (about 435 km). Any allotment outside Bhagalpur is a trip to make the day before, not on the morning.

If you write DA and CS together, which GATE 2027 allows, the second paper's centre may be different, though in the same city. Check both entries.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form, and anything else the admit card asks for. Its instructions are final.

IIIT Bhagalpur is the institute on your doorstep. Its own site gives the address as Sabour, Bhagalpur 813210, says it was set up in public-private partnership mode and started its first session in August 2017, and puts Sabour railway station about 2 km from the campus. Its GATEiit page explains the GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Within Bihar, IIT Patna and NIT Patna have pages too, and so does IIT (ISM) Dhanbad just across the Jharkhand border. The full list is on /institutes.

Your exam city plays no part in admission. Writing GATE in Bhagalpur gives no edge at IIIT Bhagalpur, and a student who writes in Kolkata can apply there in exactly the same way.

GATEiit is free and online only. It has no centre in Bhagalpur or anywhere else, and the site works the same on a phone in Sabour as anywhere in the country.

Begin with your paper's 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.

Then work through /pyq year by year and /practice topic by topic. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide give a week-by-week plan; /guides has more. Every exam day is a Saturday or Sunday, so sit full mocks on weekend mornings.

For other cities, see the exam-city overview and GATE 2027.