GATE 2027 in Rajkot: IIT Bombay Zone, Saurashtra Options and Institutes

The official GATE 2027 exam-city page lists Rajkot under Gujarat in the zone coordinated by IIT Bombay. It is a single entry, "Rajkot". You choose it, GATE picks the centre, and the admit card gives the address.

The Rajkot district site describes the district as the central part of Saurashtra, with Morbi and Surendranagar to the north, Bhavnagar and Botad to the east, Junagadh to the south and Jamnagar to the west. Of those neighbours, only Bhavnagar is on the GATE list. If you are from Jamnagar, Junagadh, Morbi or Surendranagar, Rajkot or Bhavnagar is the realistic home choice, because your own town is not an exam city.

The ground rules are the same for everyone: six cities, all from one zone. The list is tentative; GATE can add or remove a city or allot one outside your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Every Gujarat city on the list is IIT Bombay zone, so you can fill all six without leaving the state:

1. Rajkot
2. Bhavnagar
3. Ahmedabad
4. Gandhinagar
5. Vadodara or Anand
6. Surat - Bardoli

Order them by where you could actually be on an exam morning. A student from Rajkot studying in Ahmedabad might lead with Ahmedabad and keep Rajkot second as the home option. Someone working in Mumbai can put Mumbai - Thane or Vasai - Palghar on the list, and Pune and Goa are in the same zone too.

Two Gujarat entries trip people up. Anand and Vadodara are separate choices, and Surat appears as "Surat - Bardoli". The Vadodara and Surat pages explain both, and the Ahmedabad page covers Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar.

Registration has closed, so registered candidates already have six cities on the form. The official dates page shows the paid correction window as TBA.

Gujarat itself has no zone split, which makes life easy. The traps sit just outside it:

City	Zone on the GATE 2027 list
Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, Vadodara	IIT Bombay
Mumbai - Thane, Pune, Goa	IIT Bombay
Udaipur, Jodhpur	IIT Delhi
Indore, Ujjain	IIT Delhi
Bhopal	IIT Kanpur

A Rajkot list cannot include Udaipur, Jodhpur or Indore. If you study in Rajasthan and want to write there, the whole form becomes an IIT Delhi list without Rajkot; the Udaipur page and the Jodhpur page cover that side.

The zone office for Rajkot, exactly as the official page lists it, is IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – 400 076: gateoffice@iitb.ac.in, 022-25767068 or 022-25767022. Portal and application questions go to the organising institute, IIT Madras, at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or 044-22578200. Write from your registered email ID with your enrolment ID.

The important dates page gives 4 January 2027 for the city allotment notification and 19 March 2027 for results. The admit card date is TBA, and the page says dates may change. All six exam days are Saturdays and Sundays.

Look up your centre as soon as the admit card is out and plan the route from where you will spend the previous night. A centre may be on a side of the city you rarely visit.

Coming in from elsewhere in Saurashtra? The district's how-to-reach page says Rajkot and most nearby towns are on the Western Railway broad-gauge network, and that the State Transport Corporation runs buses linking Rajkot to all the major cities and towns of Gujarat. If GATE allots you Bhavnagar or Ahmedabad instead, travel the day before.

Writing DA and CS together? The two-paper page says the second centre may differ from the first, though in the same city, so check both addresses.

Take the printed admit card, the original photo ID you used when you applied, and only what the admit card allows.

None of the institutes GATEiit covers is in Rajkot. The Gujarat ones are elsewhere in the state: IIT Gandhinagar, at Palaj, Gandhinagar according to its contact page; IIIT Vadodara, whose site describes a temporary campus at Gandhinagar; and SVNIT Surat, in Surat. Each page explains the GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Further out, IIT Bombay, which also runs our zone, is the usual next look, and the full list is at /institutes.

The exam city has nothing to do with admission. Writing in Rajkot gives no advantage at IIT Gandhinagar, and writing in Ahmedabad costs nothing at SVNIT.

GATEiit is online only. It has no centre, office or classroom in Rajkot or any other city, and everything on it is free.

Pick your paper page first: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each has the syllabus and the WhatsApp group link. DA and CS can be taken together as a two-paper combination.

After that, /pyq has previous papers and /practice has topic-wise sets. The GATE DA 2027 preparation guide and the GATE CSE 2027 preparation guide lay out a plan, and /guides goes topic by topic. Since every exam day is a weekend, keep your weekend mocks to the real slot timings.

The GATE 2027 page holds the timeline and the city overview links the other city pages.