GATE 2027 in Ghaziabad: IIT Roorkee Zone, NCR Split and Exam Cities

The district administration calls Ghaziabad the gateway of Uttar Pradesh because its boundary meets Delhi. For GATE, though, Ghaziabad does not go with Delhi. The official exam-city page puts the NCR names like this:

Exam city	Zone
Ghaziabad, NOIDA, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad	IIT Roorkee
New Delhi, Greater NOIDA, Gurugram, Faridabad, Mathura	IIT Delhi
Aligarh, Agra and the rest of UP	IIT Kanpur

All six of your choices must come from one zone. So a Ghaziabad form cannot carry New Delhi, even if your college is in Delhi, and it cannot carry Greater NOIDA, even though NOIDA is fine. The list is tentative, and GATE may add or remove a city or allot one outside your six.

If you have to be in Delhi in February, an IIT Delhi zone form without Ghaziabad may suit you better. The Delhi page sets that one out.

Ghaziabad district has three tehsils: Ghaziabad, Modinagar and Loni. Only Ghaziabad is an exam-city name. If you live in Modinagar or Loni, Ghaziabad is the listed city in your own district.

The district has been redrawn twice. Noida and the Dadri area went to the new Gautam Buddha Nagar district in 1997, and Hapur became a district of its own in 2011. Hapur is not on the GATE list. Gautam Buddha Nagar has two names, NOIDA and Greater NOIDA, which sit in different zones; only NOIDA can share your form.

Before 1976 Ghaziabad was a tehsil of Meerut district. Meerut, which the district site puts 46 km to the north-east, is now its own exam city in your zone.

Put the cities in the order you would most like to travel to, given where you will stay the night before. One workable order:

1. Ghaziabad
2. NOIDA
3. Meerut
4. Muzaffarnagar
5. Moradabad
6. Roorkee or Dehradun

Students from Hapur, Bulandshahr or Baghpat, none of which has an exam city, can use much the same list. If you study in Uttarakhand and will be in hostel in February, move Roorkee, Dehradun or Haldwani up. The Roorkee page and the Dehradun page cover that end of the zone.

GATE registration has closed. The last day to fix a scrutiny defect without a fee is 30 November 2026, and the paid data correction window is TBA. Until GATE opens it, your current order stands.

The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is TBA, and the centre address appears only on the admit card, so plan the route once you have it.

The district site gives some fixed points. Ghaziabad railway station (code GZB) is a junction where the lines from Delhi towards Kolkata, Moradabad and Saharanpur meet, and EMU locals link it with Delhi. The metro stretch from Dilshad Garden into Ghaziabad runs 9.4 km through Shahid Nagar, Rajbagh, Shyam Park, Mohan Nagar and Arthala to New Bus Adda. Buses leave the city for Delhi, Meerut, Aligarh, Moradabad and Lucknow. The nearest airport is Indira Gandhi International at New Delhi, around 45 km away.

If GATE allots you Meerut or Moradabad, travel the day before. On the day, carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form and anything else the admit card asks for. Its instructions override any advice here.

Exam-city questions for Ghaziabad go to the IIT Roorkee zone office, listed as IIT Roorkee, Roorkee 247 667, gate@iitr.ac.in, 01332-284531. Do not write to IIT Delhi about a Ghaziabad allotment; it handles the other zone.

Application and portal questions go to IIT Madras, the organising institute for GATE 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200. Use your registered email and quote your enrolment ID.

None of the institutes with GATEiit pages is in Ghaziabad. The nearest are in Delhi: IIT Delhi, IIIT Delhi, DTU, NSUT, NIT Delhi and JNU. IIT Roorkee in Uttarakhand runs your exam zone and has its own page too. Each page explains that institute's GATE routes.

Your zone has no bearing on admission. Writing GATE in Ghaziabad does not tie you to IIT Roorkee or shut you out of Delhi. The full set is on /institutes.

GATEiit is a free online site. It has no centre or office in Ghaziabad or anywhere else.

Begin with GATE DA or GATE CSE. Each page has the syllabus and a link to that paper's WhatsApp group. GATE 2027 allows DA and CS as a two-paper combination, so you can sit both if your preparation covers both. Past papers are on /pyq and topic-wise sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide lay out a plan, and /guides has the rest. For the national view, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.