IIT Jammu Admission Through GATE: CSE M.Tech with DA or CS, and PhD

IIT Jammu's main campus is at Jagti, on NH-44, under PO Nagrota, Jammu 181221, the address printed in the institute's Career Development Services brochure. It is a long way from Hyderabad, Chennai or Bengaluru, so check flight or train options to Jammu before you commit to joining.

For a GATE DA or CS taker, the programme to look at is the M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, run by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The 2026-27 advertisement lists eleven full-time regular (offline) M.Tech programmes, and this is the only one in computing. That list has no separate M.Tech in AI or data science.

Two other programmes take a GATE CS score but not DA. The M.Tech in Chemical Engineering with Specialization in Sustainable Energy Engineering with AI lists CS among twelve papers, and the M.Tech in Biosciences and Bioengineering with Specialization in Medical Devices lists CS among sixteen. Both expect a degree in their own fields, so read the degree list before applying.

The 2026-27 advertisement sets these minimums for the M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering:

• A B.Tech, B.E., M.Sc. or four-year BS in Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mathematics or Statistics.
• A valid GATE score card with at least 300 (200 for SC/ST), in one of five papers: Computer Science and Engineering (CS), Electronics Engineering (EC), Mathematics (MA), Statistics (ST) and Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DA).
• 60% aggregate or CGPA 6.0 for General candidates, with a 5% relaxation for SC, ST, OBC-NCL, PwD and EWS.

AMIE and Grad IETE holders may also be considered, but they must complete 24 credits set by the department in addition to holding a valid GATE score.

DA candidates should note that this is new. The 2025-26 CSE shortlist named only CS, EC, MA and ST as GATE disciplines. The 2026-27 shortlist added DA, so a GATE DA score counted for this M.Tech for the first time in that cycle. Check the 2027-28 advertisement when it appears, because the list could change again.

The advertisement is dated 23 March 2026. The sequence it lays out:

1. Register on COAP 2026. The COAP registration number is mandatory on IIT Jammu's form.
2. Apply on the SARAL portal (saral.iitjammu.ac.in/pgapplication) between 26 March and 14 April 2026. One form lets you pick at most two specialisations. The application fee was Rs. 300 per department for General, Gen-EWS and OBC candidates and Rs. 200 for SC, ST and PwD.
3. Enter your Class 10, Class 12 and degree percentages to two decimal places. If you have a CGPA, convert it using your board's or university's formula and upload that formula.
4. The department publishes a shortlist. For CSE it came out on 23 April 2026, with appeals by email to dpgc.cse@iitjammu.ac.in and pgoffice.acad@iitjammu.ac.in until 11 am the next day.
5. Offers are made through COAP.

The advertisement says the final selection may include a written test, an interview or school marks, with at least 70% weight on GATE. For 2026-27 the Stage II selection criteria for CSE were 70% GATE score, 15% Class 10 and 15% Class 12, with the interview column marked NA. So in that cycle, CSE applicants were ranked on GATE and school marks, with no interview. Three civil engineering programmes used a 30% interview instead.

IIT Jammu published two sets of numbers for the CSE M.Tech in 2026. The shortlisting criterion is the GATE score you needed to reach the next round. The last-candidate table is the GATE score of the last candidate offered a seat after the COAP rounds.

Category	Shortlisting GATE score	Last offered after COAP rounds
General	500	629
EWS	500	601
OBC-NCL	425	617
SC	380	419
ST	340	399
PwD	300	309

The shortlist also required 60% in graduation for General and EWS and 55% for the other categories. Neither table splits scores by GATE paper, so a DA score and a CS score sit in the same list.

The note under the last-candidate table says the final merit list gives 70% weight to GATE and 30% to academic performance or interview. A last-offer GATE score therefore does not mark a hard line: someone below it with strong Class 10 and 12 marks could rank above someone with a higher GATE score. For comparison, the 2025-26 shortlist asked for 550 (General and EWS), 490 (OBC-NCL) and 390 (SC, ST, PwD).

The 2026-27 seat matrix gave the CSE M.Tech 34 seats: 14 General, 3 EWS, 9 OBC-NCL, 5 SC and 3 ST, with PwD reservation applied horizontally. That was the largest intake of the eleven programmes, out of 200 in all.

Seats left after COAP went to a spot round. In 2026 the form was open from 13 to 18 July on the SARAL portal, and applicants had to report in person at IIT Jammu on 20 July 2026 between 9 am and 1 pm with original documents. Selection was on GATE merit among those who turned up, subject to vacant seats in each category. Ties were broken by the more recent GATE year, then Class 12 marks, then Class 10 marks. The institute fee, including hostel and mess, had to be paid immediately by those selected. Travelling from the south for a spot round with no guaranteed vacancy is a real cost, so watch the vacancy notice first.

PhD admission runs on the institute's own portal (saral.iitjammu.ac.in/phdapplication), not COAP. The January 2026-27 session advertisement, dated 9 October 2026, covered eleven departments including Computer Science and Engineering, with applications from 9 October to 2 November 2026. The CSE research areas in the research areas file were cryptology and quantum technology, LLMs for code generation and security analysis, AI and ML assisted network and 5G ORAN security, computer vision with quantum machine learning, and computer architecture with GPU systems and AI accelerators.

Eligibility in that call included a B.Tech or B.E. with an exceptional academic record and a valid GATE score in the eligible paper, or a master's in engineering, or a science master's with GATE, NET or an equivalent. B.Tech graduates of NITs, IITs, IIITs, IISERs and IISc with CGPA 8.0 may be exempt from GATE. Departments can restrict how many applicants they call, and test or interview schedules go out by email.

An earlier July 2026 call in the Department of Interdisciplinary Programmes listed AI and Data Analytics and Cyber Physical Systems and IoT among six areas, open from 5 to 19 June 2026.

The 2026 dates give a working calendar: advertisement in late March, applications until mid-April, shortlist in late April, COAP offers after that, spot round in July. Keep your COAP login and your GATE score card ready by March 2027, and watch the PG admissions page.

If you are taking GATE 2027, IIT Jammu looks at the GATE score out of 1000, judged against the category shortlist and then a 70:15:15 merit list if the Stage II pattern repeats. Your school marks also count at Stage II, so they are worth checking against your certificates now. Prepare with the GATE DA plan or the GATE CSE plan and test yourself on previous year questions.

For queries, the advertisement gives pgoffice.acad@iitjammu.ac.in and 0191-2570633. The same email and number appear on the PhD calls.