GATE 2027 in Ranchi: IIT Kharagpur Zone and the Jharkhand Split

The official exam-city page lists five Jharkhand cities, and it does not keep them together.

City on the list	Zone
Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh	IIT Kharagpur
Dhanbad, Bokaro Steel City	IIT Guwahati

This is the single fact a Ranchi student most needs before filling the form. Bokaro and Dhanbad feel like natural back-ups from Ranchi, and the form will not let you add them. All six of your choices have to come from one zone. Ranchi appears once on the list, simply as "Ranchi".

The other rules: the list is tentative, GATE may add or remove a city, and it may allot you a city that is not among your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Being in the IIT Kharagpur zone puts Ranchi with all eight Odisha cities, eight West Bengal cities including Kolkata, Howrah and Kharagpur-Midnapur, the three Chhattisgarh cities, and nine in Andhra Pradesh.

What it cuts you off from is the IIT Guwahati zone: Dhanbad and Bokaro Steel City, all four Bihar cities (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur, Purnea), and the West Bengal cities of Asansol, Durgapur, Burdwan, Kalyani and Siliguri. Varanasi and the rest of Uttar Pradesh are in other zones again.

So a form that starts with Ranchi can include Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh, Rourkela or Kolkata, and cannot include Dhanbad, Bokaro Steel City, Asansol or Patna. If you try to mix them, decide on the zone first and rebuild the list.

Jharkhand gives you three choices in our zone. The other three come from Odisha, West Bengal or Chhattisgarh. One sensible order:

1. Ranchi
2. Jamshedpur
3. Hazaribagh
4. Rourkela
5. Kolkata
6. Raipur, Sambalpur or Kharagpur-Midnapur, whichever you can reach and stay in

Reorder the back-ups around the places where you have family or friends. A bed for the night before matters more than distance on a map. If your home is in Jamshedpur, it may make sense to put Jamshedpur first and Ranchi second. The Kolkata, Raipur and Bhubaneswar pages cover nearby cities in the same zone.

The split matters most if your family is in Dhanbad or Bokaro and you study in Ranchi, or the other way round. You cannot have both on one form, so the question is simply where you will be on the exam weekends: 6 and 7, 13 and 14, or 20 and 21 February 2027.

• In Ranchi, Jamshedpur or Hazaribagh: an IIT Kharagpur list, as above.
• At home in Dhanbad or Bokaro: an IIT Guwahati list that starts there and can add Asansol, Durgapur and the Bihar cities. The Patna page covers that zone.
• In a hostel in Lucknow, Kanpur or Varanasi: see the Lucknow page for the IIT Kanpur zone.

Registration for GATE 2027 closed with the special window on 16 October 2026. The data correction window is shown as TBA on the official dates page, so do not count on changing cities until GATE announces it.

Ranchi's coordinating institute is IIT Kharagpur, not IIT Guwahati, even though Dhanbad's is. The contact as listed: IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, gateonline@adm.iitkgp.ac.in, 03222-282091 and 03222-282095. Write from your registered email ID and quote your enrolment ID.

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

The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card, whose date is still TBA, names the exact centre and reporting time. Ranchi's centres need not be near your part of town, so find yours on a map the day the admit card comes out and plan from where you will sleep. If you are allotted Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh or Rourkela and live in Ranchi, travel the day before.

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

Take the printed admit card, the original photo ID you gave in the form, and whatever else the admit card asks for. Its instructions are final. Results are due on 19 March 2027.

The Jharkhand institute with a GATEiit page is IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, in Dhanbad. Dhanbad is an IIT Guwahati-zone exam city, but that has nothing to do with admission. You can write GATE in Ranchi and apply to IIT (ISM) all the same, because the exam city plays no part in who gets in.

In Ranchi itself, IIIT Ranchi is at the ARTTC BSNL Campus, Getlatu, on Hazaribagh Road, per its contact page. IIIT Ranchi has no GATEiit page yet, so check its own site for any GATE-based admissions. NIT Jamshedpur, in Jamshedpur, has a GATEiit page that sets out its CCMT routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Pages that set out GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates at institutes in nearby states: IIT Kharagpur and NIT Durgapur in West Bengal, NIT Rourkela and IIT Bhubaneswar in Odisha, and IIT Patna and NIT Patna in Bihar. The full list is on /institutes.

GATEiit is online and free. It has no centre, office or classroom in Ranchi or anywhere else.

Start on your paper's page. GATE DA is Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; GATE CSE is Computer Science and Information Technology. Each has the syllabus and the link to that paper's WhatsApp group.

Then solve previous papers on /pyq and topic-wise sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide give a plan, and /guides has more. Since all six exam dates fall on weekends, sit your full mocks on Saturday or Sunday mornings.

For the national view, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.