IIIT Surat Admission Through GATE: M.Tech CSE (Data Science and AI) via CCMT

IIIT Surat gives its address as Kholvad Campus, Kamrej, Surat 394190, Gujarat. Its 2026 M.Tech brochure says the institute is in its own new academic facility at Kholvad in Kamrej taluka of Surat district, close to National Highway 48. The Government of Gujarat has allotted 28.71 acres for its infrastructure.

The institute was established under an Act of Parliament in 2017, after a 2016 memorandum between the President of India, the Governor of Gujarat and three industry partners: Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals, Gujarat Informatics Limited and Gujarat Gas Limited.

The institute website has a construction page saying work on a new campus began in November 2025. Phase I is a four-storey administrative and academic block and a six-storey hostel block, with completion expected by January 2027. Until then, Kholvad is where you would study.

IIIT Surat offers three M.Tech programmes: CSE with a specialisation in Data Science and AI, and ECE with specialisations in VLSI and in Defence and Space Electronics. Each is two years, a year of coursework and a year of project or thesis.

The M.Tech curriculum for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning puts Linear Algebra and Mathematical Foundations of Data Science, Applied Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing and Research Methodology in the first semester, with three electives. The second semester has Advanced Artificial Intelligence-Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Generative AI, a mini project, Advanced AI-ML Communication Systems and two more electives. Semesters three and four are project phases of 20 credits each. Electives include Agentic AI, Federated Learning, Information Retrieval, Social Network Analysis and Data Mining and Warehousing.

The CSE department was set up in 2017 and lists research in artificial intelligence, data science, computer vision, information retrieval, blockchain and security.

The CCMT 2026 seat mapping is the key document. It lists the CSE programme under two groups, and both accept only one GATE paper, CS. The qualifying degrees were B.E./B.Tech degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and their named variants (AI, AI and ML, Data Science, Cyber Security, IoT and others), plus M.Sc. in Computer Science or Computer Applications. The two group lists were nearly identical. The ECE programmes took only GATE EC.

So if you are taking only GATE DA, IIIT Surat was not open to you through CCMT in 2026, even with a CS degree. If you plan to apply here, GATE CS is the paper that counts, and the GATE CSE page and the CSE guide for 2027 are the places to start. Some candidates sit both papers; see the GATE DA page for the other one. CCMT redoes this mapping every year, so check the 2027 table before you plan around it.

The CCMT 2026 report prints the maximum and minimum GATE score of allotted candidates. These are the Round 1 rows and the last round in which each group and category had a row, exactly as printed, for "Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence":

Group	Category	Round 1 max	Round 1 min	Last round with a row	Max	Min
Group 1	OPEN	589	542	National Spot Round	449	449
Group 1	EWS	476	472	National Spot Round	402	402
Group 1	OBC-NCL	528	484	National Spot Round	426	426
Group 1	SC	400	375	National Spot Round	324	301
Group 1	ST	310	310	National Spot Round	312	312
Group 2	OPEN	540	528	National Spot Round	419	419
Group 2	OBC-NCL	472	472	National Spot Round	396	396

Scores are out of 1000, and since only CS was mapped, every figure is a GATE CS score. Group 2 had rows only for OPEN and OBC-NCL. The Group 1 OPEN minimum fell from 542 in Round 1 to 449 in the National Spot Round; Group 2 OPEN ended at 419. The report spells the institute "Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Surat" and prints the group as "G1"/"G2" in Round 1 and "Group 1"/"Group 2" afterwards.

IIIT Surat fills seats left vacant after all CCMT rounds through its own spot round. The August 2026 brochure covered GATE, non-GATE and sponsored candidates. For Data Science & AI it asked for a B.E./B.Tech in CSE, IT or a closely related computer science discipline, or an M.Sc. in Computer Science or IT, or an MCA, with 60% or 6.0 CGPA (55% or 5.5 for SC/ST/PwD). There was no application fee; you applied through an online form by 9 August 2026, with a separate application for each programme.

Selection is by interview, and departments may add a shortlisting criterion based on academic record. The 2026 schedule listed eligible candidates on 12 August, interviews on 17 August, and results and physical reporting on 18 August. The brochure states that no stipend or scholarship is given to students admitted through the spot round.

The seat matrix and the list of vacant seats after CCMT are posted as image-only PDFs (seat matrix, vacant seats), so we have not reproduced their numbers. The brochure's fee table shows a tuition fee of Rs. 56,000 a semester, with a two-year total of Rs. 2,53,000 excluding hostel.

The PhD notification for 2026-27 invited applications in Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mathematics and Computational Sciences, and Physical and Applied Sciences, in regular, external, part-time and interdisciplinary categories.

For engineering, the minimum was an M.E./M.Tech/MS (by Research) or equivalent with CGPA 6.0. A B.E./B.Tech graduate with CGPA 7.0 could be considered for direct PhD admission with a valid GATE score in the relevant discipline, a CSIR/UGC JRF or INSPIRE fellowship, or five years of professional experience. Shortlisted candidates take a written test and interview, offline.

The 2026 dates were an application deadline of 31 August, shortlisting in the second week of September, the test and interview in the third week and the selected list in the fourth week. The fee was Rs. 1,000 (Rs. 500 for SC, ST and PwD). Research areas in engineering include machine learning, AI, information security, image processing and computer vision.

Kholvad is in Kamrej taluka of Surat district, close to NH 48 according to the brochure. See the Surat city page for the city itself. On the GATE 2027 tentative list, "Surat - Bardoli" is an exam city in the IIT Bombay zone, as are Vadodara and Ahmedabad.

SVNIT Surat is the other CCMT institute in the city, and IIIT Vadodara is the other IIIT in Gujarat. Practise with previous year questions and topic tests, and see the GATE 2027 page for exam dates.