IIIT Lucknow Admission Through GATE: M.Tech CS via CCMT and PhD

Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow (IIIT Lucknow) is at Chak Ganjaria, C. G. City, Lucknow 226002, Uttar Pradesh. Its Reach Us page places it a couple of kilometres from the international cricket stadium in the Gomti Nagar extension. Its PhD brochure describes it as an Institute of National Importance set up by an Act of Parliament under the PPP mode.

A GATE taker has one door. The institute's M.Tech (CS) page lists a single M.Tech in Computer Science with two specialisations:

• Data Science
• Artificial Intelligence

That makes the choice simple compared with institutes that offer six or seven M.Tech streams. CCMT lists the programme as "Computer Science" under the Department of Computer Science, and that is the name you will see when filling choices. The same page links the M.Tech course structure, the fee structure and the withdrawal and refund policy.

If you plan to write GATE from Lucknow or nearby, the Lucknow exam city page covers the centres.

CCMT's 2026 seat mapping placed IIIT Lucknow's "Computer Science" programme in Group 1 and mapped exactly two GATE papers to it: DA and CS. No other paper was accepted, so an EC or MA score will not get you a seat here.

The qualifying degrees are a named list rather than "any discipline". CCMT 2026 accepted MCA and 59 named B.E./B.Tech. branches for both papers. They include Computer Science and Engineering and its AI, data science and cyber security variants, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Information Technology, Information Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. M.Sc. degrees and the B.S. in Data Science and Applications were not on the list, so check your exact branch name against the mapping before you count on a seat.

A DA taker and a CS taker compete for the same seats on GATE score. Preparation pages: GATE DA and GATE CSE.

CCMT's Maximum and Minimum GATE Score report prints, for each round, the highest and lowest GATE score (out of 1000) among candidates allotted the programme. The figures below are copied exactly as printed for "Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow", programme "Computer Science". CCMT does not split them by paper, so DA and CS allottees share one set of numbers. Round 1 prints the group as "G1"; later rounds print "Group 1".

OPEN category, every 2026 round

Round	OPEN max	OPEN min
Round 1	636	609
Round 2	607	589
Round 3	589	579
Special Round 1	617	552
Special Round 2	552	544
National Spot Round	568	533

By category, Round 1 and the National Spot Round

Category	Round 1 (max / min)	National Spot Round (max / min)
OPEN	636 / 609	568 / 533
EWS	606 / 581	482 / 463
OBC-NCL	605 / 564	496 / 468
SC	499 / 426	400 / 359
ST	385 / 316	274 / 244

The OPEN minimum fell from 609 in Round 1 to 533 in the National Spot Round. Special Round 1 printed a higher OPEN maximum (617) than Rounds 2 and 3. The cut-off data stored with this page keeps Round 1 and the National Spot Round for every category. Treat all of this as a record of 2026 allotments, not a promise for 2027.

The CCMT 2026 schedule opened registration and choice filling on 15 May 2026 and closed choice locking at 5:30 PM on 8 June. Round 1 seats were announced on 12 June and Round 2 on 22 June, with further rounds up to the National Spot Round. After each allotment you pay the seat acceptance fee, upload documents and choose freeze, float or slide.

IIIT Lucknow's admission details for the 2026 batch, updated on 7 August 2026, set physical reporting for the M.Tech on 10 August 2026, from 9:45 am to 5:30 pm, as does its CCMT admission page. Before reporting you pay the balance semester fee online, quoting your GATE registration number as the enrolment number. The document list includes the CCMT 2026 provisional seat allotment letter, the CCMT advance fee receipt, a valid GATE scorecard and an APAAR ID.

Fees in 2026: the first-semester institute fee without hostel was Rs 1,46,000. After the advance paid to CCMT, the balance was Rs 1,06,000 for GEN, OBC and GEN-EWS candidates and Rs 1,31,000 for SC, ST and PwD candidates. Hostel and mess were extra. The same document says first-year boys are housed outside the campus and that hostel accommodation is optional.

PhD admission does not go through CCMT. The institute advertises it on its PhD page; the latest round is the January 2027 session. Per the advertisement, forms opened on 26 October 2026 and closed on 20 November 2026, the interview shortlist is due on 30 November by 5 pm, and written tests and/or personal interviews are planned for 11 and 12 January 2027. You apply online, with a separate form and fee for each discipline. The fee is Rs 1,500 for General and OBC applicants and Rs 1,000 for SC, ST and PwD.

The information brochure lists three categories, and none of them receives financial support from the institute:

1. Self-financed full-time research scholar: a relevant master's degree with at least 60% throughout Class 10, Class 12, graduation and post-graduation (5% relaxation for SC, ST and PH), or an external fellowship such as CSIR or UGC.
2. Working professional, sponsored by the employer.
3. Aspiring Students in Higher Academics (ASHA), for fresh B.Tech graduates of CFTIs, IITs, NITs and IIITs with at least 8.5 CGPA or 80%, who must hold GATE marks or grades (cut-off set by IIIT Lucknow) in Computer Science, EE, EC, Ch.E, ME or a related field.

Computer science and IT research areas listed for this session include deep learning, computer vision, NLP, federated learning, blockchain and IoT. Queries go to phdadmissions@iiitl.ac.in.

With one M.Tech and two papers mapped, your GATE 2027 score is almost the whole story. Start with GATE 2027, the DA preparation guide or the CSE preparation guide, and practise on past papers.

When CCMT 2027 opens, check that your B.Tech branch still appears in IIIT Lucknow's seat mapping, since the list is branch by branch. Use the 2026 table only as a rough guide to where the programme sat.

If you are also weighing other CCMT institutes in Uttar Pradesh, IIIT Allahabad and MNNIT Allahabad have their own pages. General queries go to contact@iiitl.ac.in.