IIIT Kota Admission Through GATE: M.Tech AI and Data Science via CCMT

Indian Institute of Information Technology Kota was set up in 2013 as a public-private partnership of the Ministry of Education, the Government of Rajasthan and industry partners (Cairn India, Genpact India, National Engineering Industries and Vakrangee), and is an Institution of National Importance. For its first decade it worked out of MNIT Jaipur, its mentor institute. The 2026-27 M.Tech brochure settles the current position: the institute shifted to its permanent campus in August 2024, on 100.37 acres at Ranpur near Kota, and it continues to be mentored by MNIT Jaipur.

The address you need is SPL-269, RIICO Industrial Area, Kuber Extension, Ranpur, Kota 325003, Rajasthan. The brochure says physical reporting and classes are held at this campus, and the self-financed written test and interview were conducted there too. The site still lists an office on MNIT Jaipur's campus (Prabha Bhawan, JLN Marg) for the mentor director and registrar, so letters may carry a Jaipur address, but you will study in Kota.

The How to Reach page puts Kota Junction about 25 km from campus and Jaipur International Airport about 260 km away. If you are coming from the south, plan for a train to Kota rather than a flight. The Jaipur city page and the MNIT Jaipur page cover the mentor side.

Postgraduate teaching started in 2021 in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. For a DA or CS candidate, one programme matters. CCMT prints it as "Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science".

In the CCMT 2026 seat mapping this programme had a single Group 1 that accepted both GATE papers:

GATE paper	Qualifying degrees mapped
DA (Data Science and Artificial Intelligence)	B.E./B.Tech in any discipline, M.Sc in any discipline, integrated M.Sc, MCA
CS (Computer Science and Information Technology)	B.E./B.Tech in any discipline, M.Sc in any discipline, integrated M.Sc, MCA

That is a wide door. A mechanical or civil graduate with a good DA score, or an MCA holder with a CS score, was eligible on paper. Since DA and CS candidates sit in one group, CCMT ranks them together by GATE score for this programme.

The other M.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering with specialization in Semiconductor Technology, was mapped to GATE EC, EE, IN and PH only. Neither DA nor CS opened that one in 2026.

The CCMT 2026 report prints 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, copied as printed:

Category	Round 1 max	Round 1 min	Last round with a row	Max	Min
OPEN	573	514	National Spot Round	479	434
EWS	510	491	National Spot Round	399	399
OBC-NCL	491	453	National Spot Round	401	391
SC	369	362	National Spot Round	322	316
ST	286	286	National Spot Round	236	236

Scores are out of 1000. Because the group mixes DA and CS takers, the report does not say which paper each score came from. The OPEN minimum slid from 514 in Round 1 to 434 in the National Spot Round, which is the usual pattern once higher scorers take seats elsewhere. The report prints the group as "G1" in Round 1 and "Group 1" in later rounds.

Treat these as one year's data. Seat counts, the applicant pool and the paper mapping can all change in 2027.

For the 2026 batch, the CCMT reporting notice set physical reporting at the Ranpur campus from 5 to 11 August 2026 (tentative). Its document list includes the GATE scorecard (2024, 2025 or 2026), the provisional seat allotment letter of the final round, the Online Document Verification Certificate, proof of CCMT fee payments, the locked choices printout, a medical certificate, and OBC-NCL or EWS certificates issued on or after 1 April 2026. Institute fees are paid online only.

The 2026-27 fee structure for full-time M.Tech students sets tuition at ₹50,000 per semester for every category. The first semester totals ₹93,425, which includes one-time charges such as a refundable ₹10,000 caution deposit and a ₹10,000 admission fee. Later semesters come to ₹69,800 as printed, with the ₹800 insurance charged once a year. Hostel fees, hostel caution money and mess advance are separate, as per institute norms.

IIIT Kota fills seats that remain after CCMT through its own self-financed admission. The brochure says any unfilled seats out of the 27 approved in each department through CCMT are converted to this category. For 2026-27 it listed 14 self-financed seats in each M.Tech (OPEN 5, OPEN-PwD 1, EWS 1, SC 2, ST 1, OBC 4).

The 2026 schedule ran like this:

Step	Date
Online applications	1 to 22 June 2026
Shortlist on the website	by 29 June 2026
Written test and interview at Ranpur	14 July 2026
First selection list, fee deadline	23 July, 28 July 2026
Second selection list, fee deadline	29 July, 3 August 2026

The written test is based on the GATE syllabus, CS for the computer science programme and EC for the electronics one. The degree list matches CCMT's, and the minimum is CGPA 6.0 on 10 (5.5 for SC/ST). The application fee was ₹500.

This route costs more. The self-financed fee structure sets tuition at ₹75,000 a semester, with ₹1,18,425 for the first semester and ₹94,800 for later ones as printed. If you have a GATE DA score that falls short in CCMT, this is the realistic second chance here, but the institute's test asks CS syllabus questions, so revise the CS core as well.

The Ph.D. brochure for the odd semester 2026-27 lists five categories: full-time with institute assistantship, full-time with own fellowship (such as CSIR/UGC NET-JRF), full-time sponsored, part-time external sponsored and part-time IIIT Kota project staff. The assistantship category needs GATE, UGC-NET, another national exam or the institute's own exam, plus an interview, and pays ₹37,000 a month plus HRA.

Read the seat matrix before you apply. For 2026-27 the full-time assistantship seats were zero in Computer Science and Engineering and one in Electronics and Communication Engineering. A CSE applicant in that cycle therefore needed an own fellowship or a sponsored or part-time route.

Eligibility starts at an M.E./M.Tech with CGPA 6.0. Exceptional MCA or M.Sc (Computer Science, IT) holders need CGPA 7.0 or 70%, and a B.Tech-only applicant needs CGPA 8.0 or 80% and a recommendation by the department committee. CSE research areas listed include large language models and generative AI, deep learning, quantum computing, information security, AI-driven secure infrastructure and cloud-edge systems. Applications ran from 1 to 22 June 2026 with the written test and interview on campus on 13 July. The Ph.D. page now carries a heading for even-semester 2026-27 admission, so check it for a fresh call.

Kota is itself a GATE 2027 exam city, in the IIT Delhi zone, on the tentative city list. You will most likely write GATE nearer home and travel only for reporting. A few points from the 2026 documents:

• Paper choice: DA and CS both opened the AI and Data Science M.Tech in CCMT 2026.
• Second chance: the self-financed round tests the GATE CS syllabus.
• PhD funding: CSE had no assistantship seat in the 2026-27 odd semester.
• Recheck in 2027: CCMT sets mappings and seats afresh each cycle.

Prepare with the GATE DA page, the GATE CSE page, previous year questions and topic tests. For PG admission queries the brochure gives admission.pg@iiitkota.ac.in and 0744-2667000. Other institutes are on the institutes page.