IIIT Bhagalpur Admission Through GATE: M.Tech AI & Data Science via CCMT, PhD

Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhagalpur gives its address as Sabour, Bhagalpur 813210, Bihar, on its contact page. According to its about page, it is a public-private partnership IIIT owned by the Government of India (50%), the Government of Bihar (35%) and BELTRON (15%), and it began its first session on 1 August 2017. The Bihar government gave 50 acres carved out of the BCE Bhagalpur campus on the banks of the Ganga. Phase 1 of the new campus was completed in 2024, and the institute now runs fully from Sabour.

It has departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechatronics, and Basic Science and Humanities. B.Tech intake is 150 in CSE, 75 in ECE, 27 in Mathematics and Computing and 60 in Mechatronics and Automation. The about page lists M.Tech programmes in CSE (Artificial Intelligence and Data Science), ECE (VLSI and Embedded Systems) and Mechatronics (Electric Vehicle Technology), with PhD programmes in CSE, ECE, Mechatronics and Basic Science.

The CSE department started this M.Tech in 2021. It is the institute's only M.Tech built around computing, so for a GATE DA or CS taker it is the programme to look at.

The course curriculum adds up to 66 credits. The first semester has Statistical Foundation for Data Science, Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, an elective, two labs and a small capstone project. The second semester has Mathematical Foundation for Data Science, Machine Learning, Computational Intelligence, two electives, a machine learning lab and an R programming lab. The second year is Major Project I (10 credits) and Major Project II (14 credits). Electives include Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning and its Applications, Big Data and Cloud Computing, Introduction to Reinforcement Learning, Data Visualization and Introduction to Blockchain Technology. The statistics course opens with probability theory, Bayes theorem and probability distributions.

The CCMT 2026 seat mapping lists three M.Tech programmes at IIIT Bhagalpur, each with a single group:

Programme (CCMT name)	Department	GATE papers mapped
Artificial Intelligence & Data Science	Computer Science & Engineering	DA, CS
VLSI & Embedded Systems	Electronics & Communication Engineering	EC, EE, IN
Electric Vehicle Technology	Mechatronics and Automation	EE, IN, ME, PI, XE

For Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, both DA and CS were accepted for each of ten qualifying degrees: a B.E./B.Tech in any discipline, the 4-year B.S. in Data Science and Applications, MCA, and M.Sc. in Computer Science, Computer Applications, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Information Technology, Mathematics and Computing, and Software Engineering. So a mechanical or civil graduate with a GATE DA score could list this programme, which is not true of many CCMT computing programmes.

The PG syllabus page also carries syllabi for M.Tech programmes in Signal Processing and Machine Learning and in Microwave and Communication Systems, but neither appeared in the 2026 CCMT mapping. For preparation, see the GATE DA page, the DA guide for 2027 and the GATE CSE page.

The CCMT 2026 report gives the maximum and minimum GATE score of allotted candidates by round and category. These are the Round 1 rows and the last round in which each category had a row, exactly as printed:

Category	Round 1 max	Round 1 min	Last round with a row	Max	Min
OPEN	504	502	Special Round 2	457	457
EWS	495	495	Round 3	423	423
OBC-NCL	476	476	National Spot Round	366	366
SC	388	388	National Spot Round	309	309

Scores are out of 1000 and are not split by paper, so each figure may mix DA and CS candidates. In Round 1 the EWS, OBC-NCL and SC rows printed the same maximum and minimum; the OPEN row ran from 504 down to 502. The OPEN minimum fell to 480 in Round 2 and 473 in Round 3 before the last OPEN row of 457 in Special Round 2. There was no ST row in any round. The report prints the group as "G1" in Round 1 and "Group 1" afterwards, and spells the institute "Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhagalpur, Bihar".

CCMT covers only the M.Tech seats. PhD admission is run by IIIT Bhagalpur itself. The CSE department says it offers the PhD "in various specializations", and the about page lists PhD programmes in CSE, ECE, Mechatronics and Basic Science.

The institute's M.Tech and PhD Admission 2026 page, reached from the PG (M.Tech & PhD) link in the Admission menu, points to a separate admission page for the 2026 sessions. Notices, eligibility, fellowship categories and dates are posted there, so read the current notice before you apply; this page does not repeat those rules because we could not confirm them on iiitbh.ac.in itself. The contact page lists a separate PG (M.Tech & PhD) admission contact, distinct from the B.Tech admission desk at admission[AT]iiitbh.ac.in.

The institute's travel page puts Sabour railway station 2 km from the campus, with Bhagalpur Junction and Naugachia as the bigger stations; shared autos and taxis from either take about 30 to 40 minutes. The nearest airports it lists are Deoghar (134 km), Patna (235 km), Bagdogra (245 km) and Kolkata (435 km). For most readers from the south, that means a flight to Patna or Kolkata and then a train.

Bhagalpur is itself a GATE 2027 exam city in the IIT Guwahati zone on the tentative list, as is Patna. See the Patna city page for the state capital, and NIT Patna and IIT Patna for the other GATE institutes in Bihar.

A few points from the 2026 documents:

• Paper: DA and CS were treated alike for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science.
• Degree: any B.E./B.Tech qualified, so a non-CS engineer with GATE DA can list it.
• Later rounds: OPEN minimums fell through the rounds, so stay in CCMT after Round 1.
• Recheck: CCMT sets papers, degrees and groups afresh each year.

Practise with previous year questions and topic tests, and see the GATE 2027 page for exam dates. The full list of institutes is on the institutes page.