IIIT Una Admission Through GATE: M.Tech Data Science/Cyber Security and PhD

Indian Institute of Information Technology Una came into existence in the 2014-15 academic year and is an Institution of National Importance under the IIIT (PPP) Act, 2017. It is organised into schools rather than departments: the School of Computing runs B.Tech CSE, CSE (Cyber Security) and CSE (Data Science), the M.Tech below and a PhD, and the School of Electronics runs ECE, an M.Tech in Microelectronics and VLSI Design and a PhD.

The How to Reach page gives the permanent campus as Vill. Saloh, Teh. Haroli, Distt. Una, Himachal Pradesh 177209, and every 2026 admission notice carries the Saloh address. Teaching, the walk-in tests and reporting all happen there. The M.Tech brochure places the campus about 10 km from Una's main bus stand and about 16 km from Una railway station (UHL), with trains to Delhi via Chandigarh. The nearest airport is Chandigarh, about 120 km away, and Una is about 350 km from Delhi. The campus has three hostels for around 800 students.

For a student from the south, that means a long trip, usually by air to Chandigarh and then by road. The Chandigarh, Hamirpur and Mandi city pages cover the region.

The programme started in 2024-25 and has an intake of 30. Half are "with Stipend through CCMT" (15 seats) and half are self-financed or non-stipendiary (15 seats), as the PG seat matrix lists them. CCMT prints the programme as "Computer Science & Engineering with Specialization in Data Science/Cyber Security".

In the CCMT 2026 seat mapping, its Group 1 took both GATE DA and GATE CS, but only with computing degrees. Both papers were open to B.E./B.Tech graduates in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science and Business Systems and the CSE specialisations (Artificial Intelligence, AI and Machine Learning, Data Science, Cyber Security, IoT, Networks), among others. With a DA score, B.Tech degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and Data Science and Artificial Intelligence were also accepted. MCA and M.Sc were not on the list.

The PG admissions page adds the institute's own floor: Mathematics at 10+2, a B.E./B.Tech in CSE/IT disciplines with 60% or CGPA 6.5, and no pending backlog. If the final result is awaited, you need 60% or 6.5 up to the pre-final semester.

The School of Electronics' M.Tech, which CCMT prints as "M. Tech. Microelectronics and VLSI Design", was mapped to GATE EC only.

The CCMT 2026 report prints the maximum and minimum GATE score of allotted candidates by round and category. For this programme, the Round 1 rows and the last round in which each category had a row, as printed:

Category	Round 1 max	Round 1 min	Last round with a row	Max	Min
OPEN	508	491	National Spot Round	438	411
EWS	462	462	National Spot Round	389	389
OBC-NCL	484	476	National Spot Round	375	375
SC	373	361	Special Round 2	320	320
ST	286	286	Round 1 only	-	-

Scores are out of 1000. DA and CS takers share Group 1, so the report does not separate scores by paper. The OPEN minimum fell from 491 in Round 1 to 411 in the National Spot Round. ST appears only in Round 1, with a single score printed as both maximum and minimum. The report shows the group as "G1" in Round 1 and "Group 1" afterwards. These are one year's numbers and can move in 2027.

IIIT Una fills its self-sponsored M.Tech seats itself. The notice of 15 July 2026 (a scanned document) offered 15 seats in Computer Science and Engineering (UR 6, OBC 4, SC 2, ST 1, EWS 2) and 10 in Microelectronics and VLSI Design, with no institute scholarship. Seats still vacant after CCMT 2026 were to be filled through the same walk-in, held at the institute on 10 August 2026. The application processing fee was ₹1,000.

The rules matter for a GATE taker:

• Eligibility was a B.E./B.Tech in CSE/IT disciplines with 60% or CGPA 6.5, no backlog, and 60% or CGPA 6.5 in both Class X and XII.
• Merit gave 15% weight to Class X, 15% to Class XII, 30% to the B.E./B.Tech and 40% to the institute written test.
• GATE-qualified candidates were exempt from the test, with GATE performance taking the 40% share; if they also sat the test, the better of the two counted.
• The test had 50 MCQs in one hour with no negative marking, on a syllabus annexed to the notice that follows the GATE CS paper.

A second round notice of 1 September 2026 offered 4 more CSE seats (OBC 1, ST 1, EWS 2) at a walk-in on 14 September 2026. So a DA or CS score that misses the CCMT cut still counts here, but only with a computing degree and good school marks.

The fee structure for the 2026-27 batch (scanned) lists ₹70,007 for the first semester and ₹65,007 for each of the next three. Tuition is ₹32,340 a semester; the rest covers academic, electricity and internet, maintenance and infrastructure charges, with a refundable ₹5,000 security in the first semester. Hostel comes to ₹49,050 a semester, made up of a ₹22,800 mess advance (adjusted on actual use) and ₹26,250 for hostel services. The non-stipendiary notice quotes the same ₹70,007 first-semester fee, irrespective of category.

A notice of 4 August 2026 asked everyone admitted to the M.Tech or M.Sc, through CCMT, CCMN or the institute test, to report on campus for document verification on 18 and 19 August 2026 with originals and one set of photocopies.

The odd semester 2026-27 PhD call, dated 15 June 2026 and scanned, offered the School of Computing seven full-time places (four stipendiary, three non-stipendiary) and two part-time ones. Its themes include large language models, data science and applied AI systems; cyber security, privacy and trustworthy AI; intelligent cyber-physical systems; digital health; and sustainable computing.

A B.Tech/B.E. applicant needs 60% or CGPA 6.0 (55% or 5.5 for SC/ST/PwD) and a GATE, CSIR/UGC-NET or similar national qualification. M.Tech/M.E. holders need the same marks and no exam. B.Tech graduates of centrally funded technical institutes with CGPA 7.5 are exempt from GATE. Selection used a 50-question written test on the GATE CSE and ECE syllabus for the School of Computing, plus an interview; GATE/NET-qualified applicants may be exempted from the test. Stipendiary scholars get ₹37,000 a month plus HRA, with a possible rise to ₹42,000 after two years, and are assigned teaching load.

The 2026 schedule closed applications on 15 July and set the test and interview for 27 July, with applications through iiituadm.samarth.edu.in. A Visvesvaraya PhD call of 19 October 2026 added one full-time and one part-time place in the School of Computing. Watch the PhD admissions page for the next call.

Una is a GATE 2027 exam city in the IIT Roorkee zone on the tentative city list, but most southern candidates will write near home and travel only to report. Points to carry from 2026:

• Degree first: both CCMT and the walk-in route wanted a computing B.E./B.Tech.
• Two chances: CCMT for stipend seats, then the institute walk-in for the rest.
• School marks count: the walk-in merit list weighed Class X and XII.
• Recheck in 2027: CCMT sets mappings and seats afresh each cycle.

Teachers from AICTE-approved institutions have a separate route through the AICTE QIP, for which IIIT Una registered applicants from 2 March to 30 April 2026. For PG queries the admissions page lists coordinator.pg@iiitu.ac.in. Prepare with the GATE DA page, the GATE CSE page, previous year questions and topic tests. Nearby, see NIT Hamirpur and IIT Mandi, or browse the institutes page.