IIT Indore Admission Through GATE: M.Tech CSE, MS (Research) and PhD

IIT Indore gives its address as Simrol, Khandwa Road, Indore 453552, Madhya Pradesh. Its PG admission cell is in Abhinandan Bhavan on the Simrol campus, and that campus is where new students report and where the CSE department holds its PhD selection.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering was set up in July 2009 and runs the B.Tech, the M.Tech, the MS (Research) and the PhD in CSE. It is the unit that matters most for a GATE DA or GATE CS candidate. IIT Indore has no separate M.Tech titled data science or AI in the 2026-27 brochure. A DA score is still useful in three other M.Tech specialisations run by the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, covered below.

The 2026-27 PG brochure and the institute's eligibility page name the GATE papers for every programme. These are the ones that list DA.

Programme (2026-27)	Unit	Admissible GATE papers
M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (2 years)	Computer Science and Engineering	DA, CS
M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (3 years)	Computer Science and Engineering	DA, CS
M.Tech in Communication and Signal Processing	Electrical Engineering	DA, CS, EC, IN, MA
M.Tech in VLSI Design and Nanoelectronics	Electrical Engineering	DA, CS, EC, EE, IN, PH
M.Tech in Space Engineering	Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering	DA, CS, AE, EC, EE, GE, IN, PH, MA, XE
MS (Research) in Computer Science and Engineering	Computer Science and Engineering	DA, CS
MS (Research) in Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering	DA, CS, EE, EC, IN

The paper is only half the rule. For the CSE M.Tech you also need a four-year bachelor's degree in CSE, IT, ECE, electronics or electrical engineering, or in one of 24 related branches the brochure lists in an annexure (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Computer Science and Business Systems, Information Science and Engineering and others). "First division" means 60% or a CPI of 6.0 for UR, EWS and OBC-NCL candidates and 55% or 5.5 for SC, ST and PwD candidates. An M.Sc. route is not listed for the CSE M.Tech, though Space Engineering accepts some M.Sc. degrees. GATE scorecards from 2024, 2025 or 2026 were accepted in the 2026 cycle.

IIT Indore admits GATE candidates under the Teaching Assistantship (TA) category. The category rules for 2026 set out the sequence: apply on the IIT Indore portal, register on COAP 2026, wait for the institute's shortlist, and accept the offer on COAP. No separate call letters were sent, and offers were made strictly in order of merit within the category you chose on the form. IIT graduates with a CPI of 8.0 or more could apply without GATE and were shortlisted on CPI.

Step	2026-27 cycle
Online application opened	27 March 2026
TA category closed	24 April 2026
Fee	Rs. 800 (UR, OBC-NCL, EWS), Rs. 400 (SC, ST, PwD, female), per programme
Reporting and registration	24 July 2026 (tentative)

The brochure marks Space Engineering for selection by personal interview. It does not list a written test or interview for the CSE M.Tech, so for that programme your GATE score and the COAP rounds decide. Sponsored, defence and institute-staff applicants are exempt from GATE and do not use COAP.

The 3-year M.Tech in CSE is a separate advertisement under the Institute Teaching Assistantship (ITA) category. The 2026 notice took GATE DA or CS with the same degree rules, opened on 2 April, closed on 22 May 2026 and listed a tentative interview date of 15 June 2026.

After COAP Round 10, IIT Indore issued a spot round notice on 16 July 2026 for TA-category M.Tech seats. It was open to candidates shortlisted earlier who had no COAP offer, and to fresh applicants, but not to anyone who had accepted a COAP offer at IIT Indore or another IIT. As of 15 July, the CSE M.Tech had 3 vacant seats: 1 UR and 2 SC.

The notice printed a minimum qualifying GATE score for each programme, with "NA" where it did not apply:

M.Tech (spot round 2026)	UR	EWS	OBC-NCL	SC	ST
Computer Science and Engineering	763	NA	NA	320	NA
Communication and Signal Processing	574	NA	535	NA	NA
VLSI Design and Nanoelectronics	NA	664	NA	510	255

Applications closed at 23:59 on 20 July 2026, and selection was in person on 27 July at 10:00, the day before classes began. The notice said no travel or accommodation allowance would be paid. The fee was Rs. 300, or Rs. 150 for SC, ST, PwD and female candidates.

IIT Indore published a round-by-round GATE cut-off table for COAP 2025, giving the maximum and minimum GATE score of candidates offered seats in each round and category. The minimum scores for the two CSE programmes, exactly as printed:

CSE programme, COAP 2025	General	EWS	OBC-NCL	SC	ST
M.Tech, Round-01 minimum	806	767	752	678	643
M.Tech, Round-10 minimum	754	735	704	-	-
MS (Research), Round-01 minimum	688	660	656	460	393

In this table a dash means the seat was filled or there was no sanctioned seat. The last MS (Research) CSE figure is a General minimum of 622 in Round-09. The table does not say which GATE paper each score came from, and both programmes admit DA and CS. These are GATE scores out of 1000 for one year, not a promise for 2027.

The 2026-27 brochure says MS (Research) selection is based on GATE performance and an interview of shortlisted applicants, and the MS eligibility page lists GATE DA or CS for CSE. The CSE department's MS page still mentions only a GATE score in CSE/IT and says applications are generally invited in March or April. Go by the institute brochure, and write to pc-mscse@iiti.ac.in if in doubt.

PhD admission runs on a separate portal, phdapply.iiti.ac.in, with each department posting its own advertisement on the engineering PhD page. The CSE advertisement of 7 October 2026 covers the spring semester of 2026-27.

• A four-year B.Tech or B.S. in CSE, IT, electronics or electrical, or a master's in those fields or an M.Sc. in Mathematics, with GATE DA or CS qualifies for the TA category. Master's holders may use UGC-NET instead.
• Applications closed on 26 October 2026, with referee letters due by 28 October.
• The written test and interview were on 12 November 2026 in the CSE department, with 13 November kept for overflow interviews. Attendance was in person and no TA/DA was paid.
• The fee was Rs. 100. Documents went as one PDF to admission-cse@iiti.ac.in.

Per the institute PhD rules, IIT B.Tech graduates with a CPI of 8.5 or more can apply without GATE.

The M.Tech dates page already shows tentative 2027 dates: applications from 27 March 2027, TA closing on 21 April 2027 and reporting on 23 July 2027, with test and result dates to be announced. Treat these as provisional until the 2027 brochure appears.

1. Decide between DA and CS early. Both open the CSE M.Tech and MS (Research), so choose on which syllabus suits you using how to prepare for GATE DA 2027 or how to prepare for GATE CSE 2027.
2. Work through previous papers and practice tests, and keep exam dates from GATE 2027 in view.
3. Apply separately, with a separate fee, for each programme you want, then register on COAP and respond in every round.
4. Budget for one trip if you aim at MS (Research), the PhD or a spot round. The M.Tech CSE offer itself came through COAP in 2026.

Contacts from the 2026-27 brochure: pc-mtcse@iiti.ac.in for the CSE M.Tech and mtechadmission@iiti.ac.in for the PG admission cell. Other IITs that admit GATE DA candidates include IIT Bombay and IIT Hyderabad, and the full list is on institutes.