IIIT Allahabad Admission Through GATE: M.Tech IT via CCMT and PhD

Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad is at Jhalwa, on Peepalgaon Road, in Prayagraj; its admission documents give the address as Jhalwa, Allahabad 211015. Its 2026 admission information for CCMT admittees says the campus is about 7 km from Prayagraj (Allahabad) Junction and about 4 km from Bamrauli airport, and that Subedar Ganj station is about 3 km away.

The institute has four teaching departments: Information Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Applied Sciences and Management Studies. For a GATE DA or GATE CS candidate, the Department of Information Technology is the main door. In 2026 it offered seven M.Tech. IT specialisations, each also available as a Dual Degree M.Tech.-Ph.D.:

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Data Engineering
• Software Engineering and Automation
• Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
• Networks Systems and Computing
• Cyber Laws and Information Security
• Human Machine Interaction and Immersive Technologies

The 2026 seat summary shows these as renamed splits of three older groups (Machine Learning, Robotics and Human Computer Interaction; Software and Data Engineering; Network and Security), so older material will not match CCMT 2026 names.

CCMT's 2026 seat mapping placed every M.Tech. IT and Dual Degree IT programme in Group 1 and mapped both GATE DA and GATE CS to all of them. Three specialisations took other papers too: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence also accepted EC and ME, and Networks Systems and Computing and Human Machine Interaction and Immersive Technologies also accepted EC.

The qualifying degrees for the IT programmes were wider than at many NITs. CCMT listed B.E./B.Tech. in any discipline, M.Sc. in any discipline, MCA, and the 4-year B.S. in Data Science and Applications. An MCA graduate or a B.S. graduate with a DA score could therefore choose any of the seven.

Outside the IT department, CCMT 2026 also mapped DA and CS to M.Tech. Quantum Information and Technologies, M.Tech (Bioinformatics), M.Tech. Biomedical Analytics and Engineering, and the two M.Tech. ECE specialisations (Communication and Signal Processing; Microelectronics and VLSI). The Quantum Information and Technologies page lists GATE in PH, DA, CE, CH, CS, EC, EE, ME, MA, ST or XE, and 25 seats. Read each syllabus first; these are not computing degrees in the usual sense.

The how to apply page gives the 2026 sanctioned seats. Each M.Tech. IT specialisation had 16 seats through CCMT, and each Dual Degree IT specialisation had one or two.

CCMT's Maximum and Minimum GATE Score report prints, for each round, the highest and lowest GATE score among candidates allotted a seat. The figures below are GATE scores out of 1000, exactly as printed for "Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad". CCMT does not split them by paper, so DA and CS allottees sit in the same Group 1 numbers. Round 1 rows print the group as "G1"; later rounds print "Group 1".

OPEN category, M.Tech. IT

M.Tech. IT specialisation	Round 1 OPEN (max / min)	Last round OPEN (max / min)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	758 / 695	National Spot Round: 629 / 629
Data Engineering	693 / 659	National Spot Round: 610 / 609
Software Engineering and Automation	697 / 661	National Spot Round: 625 / 625
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence	683 / 645	National Spot Round: 598 / 583
Networks Systems and Computing	655 / 641	National Spot Round: 589 / 573
Cyber Laws and Information Security	735 / 636	National Spot Round: 606 / 593
Human Machine Interaction and Immersive Technologies	648 / 625	National Spot Round: 601 / 574

Round 1 minimum, other categories, M.Tech. IT

M.Tech. IT specialisation	EWS	OBC-NCL	SC	ST
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	644	648	500	430
Data Engineering	635	625	478	414
Software Engineering and Automation	651	648	496	399
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence	633	609	465	362
Networks Systems and Computing	625	613	446	419
Cyber Laws and Information Security	613	613	446	390
Human Machine Interaction and Immersive Technologies	609	607	442	313

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning had the highest Round 1 OPEN minimum, 695, and Human Machine Interaction and Immersive Technologies the lowest, 625. Data Engineering's was 659. By the National Spot Round the AIML minimum had fallen to 629. The cut-off data on this page also keeps the last round CCMT printed for each category, which differs by category.

Dual Degree M.Tech. - Ph.D. in IT, OPEN minimum

Dual Degree M.Tech. - Ph.D. in IT, specialisation	Round 1 OPEN	Last OPEN row
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	597	National Spot Round: 609
Data Engineering	577	National Spot Round: 520
Software Engineering and Automation	548	same as Round 1
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence	540	National Spot Round: 499
Networks Systems and Computing	564	National Spot Round: 494
Cyber Laws and Information Security	577	National Spot Round: 491
Human Machine Interaction and Immersive Technologies	532	Round 2: 529

With one or two seats each, a Dual Degree row often describes a single candidate. Treat all of this as a record of who was allotted in 2026, not a promise for 2027.

The CCMT 2026 schedule opened registration and choice filling on 15 May 2026 and closed choice locking on 8 June. Round 1 allotment came on 12 June, Round 2 on 22 June and Round 3 on 27 June. Special Rounds 1 and 2 were announced on 22 and 27 July, and the National Spot Round on 5 August. After each allotment you pay the seat acceptance fee, upload documents and pick freeze, float or slide.

Physical reporting happens only after the National Spot Round. IIIT Allahabad's information for 2026 admittees set reporting and admission at the campus for 9 to 11 August 2026, with the ERP portal (erp.iiita.ac.in) opening for document upload and fee payment at 9:00 AM on 9 August. You log in with your CCMT application ID and your date of birth. Reporting is at the Admission, Assessment and Award (AAA) Section in the Administration Block, and you bring originals of every document, including a valid GATE scorecard (2024, 2025 or 2026 per that list).

Fees and mess charges are paid by net banking only.

IIIT Allahabad also fills vacant M.Tech seats itself once CCMT closes. The Quantum Information and Technologies page announces "Institute Level Spot Round Admissions 2026-2027 (After Close of CCMT Admissions 2026)" and says candidates without GATE are considered for vacant seats in that round, after the CCMT rounds.

That page links an M.Tech 2026 spot round brochure, but the file would not open when this page was written, so the eligibility, dates and selection method for IT specialisations could not be checked. Treat this route as a fallback that depends on vacancies. If you hold a DA or CS score, CCMT remains the main route, and the institute's own pages say admission is primarily on GATE score.

PhD admission does not go through CCMT. The institute runs a rolling advertisement for NEP-based PhD programmes, last updated on 7 October 2026, with three cut-off dates in the 2026 cycle: 31 March, 30 June (interviews on 14 and 15 July) and 30 November 2026. You apply online for either PhD with Institute or External Fellowship or PhD (Working Professional), separately for each department.

Selection has two stages. Stage I is a two-hour computer-based screening test of 100 marks, held on the IIITA campus only: a common 50-mark section (data analysis, statistics, verbal ability, reasoning, data interpretation, probability) and a 50-mark department section. For Information Technology, the department section covers GATE-level data structures and algorithms, discrete mathematics and programming concepts. Stage II is a personal interview with a department panel on the same or next day.

GATE exemption: applicants qualified in a national exam such as GATE or NET are exempt from Stage I and go to the interview.

The eligibility page asks for at least 60% (or 6.0 CGPI) in a master's degree, or 70% (7.0 CGPI) for direct entry after a 4-year bachelor's degree. The how to apply page lists 74 institute-fellowship and 82 external-fellowship PhD seats in IT for 2026. The application fee is Rs. 500 for General, EWS and OBC applicants and Rs. 250 for SC, ST and PwD. Queries go to rds@iiita.ac.in.

GATE 2027 results will decide your CCMT rank, so the first job is the paper itself; see GATE 2027, the DA preparation guide and the CS preparation guide, and practise on past papers.

When CCMT 2027 opens, check its seat mapping again before filling choices, since the IT specialisations were renamed in 2026. Order them by what you want to study, and use the 2026 table only as a rough guide.

If you are also looking at other CCMT institutes in Prayagraj, MNNIT Allahabad has its own page. For admission queries after allotment, the AAA Section site carries the current fee structures, ordinances and admittee information.