Jadavpur University Admission Through GATE: M.E. CSE, IT and PhD Routes

Jadavpur University is a state university in Kolkata. Its admission page gives two campus addresses: the main campus at 188 Raja S.C. Mallick Road, Kolkata 700032, and the Salt Lake campus at Plot No. 8, LB Block, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700106. The 2026-27 PG brochure says admission tests are held at either campus, and that original document verification and the final admission happen in person at the main campus.

The university does not use CCMT or COAP. Everything runs on the JU-FET admission portal: registration, the application form, document upload, the eligibility list, merit lists and the admission schedule. The 2026-27 brochure covers 16 departments of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET) and 10 schools of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Law and Management (FISLM). It is blunt about one thing: no individual communication is sent, so watching the portal is your job.

For a student from the south, plan on at least one trip to Kolkata. The university also notes that all its courses are non-residential and hostel seats are not guaranteed.

Table 1 of the brochure names the GATE paper only for some programmes. For the computing programmes it is explicit:

Programme	Department	GATE papers named	Degree needed (GATE category)
Computer Science & Engineering with Artificial Intelligence and Data Science	Computer Science & Engineering	DA or CS	B.E./B.Tech. in CSE or IT, or equivalent
Computer Science & Engineering with Internet of Things	Computer Science & Engineering	DA or CS	B.E./B.Tech. in CSE or IT, or equivalent
Information Technology	Information Technology	DA or CS	B.E./B.Tech. in any branch, MCA, or M.Sc. in Computer Science, IT, Data Science or AI

Information Technology is the wider door: a GATE DA holder with a B.E. in another branch, or with an M.Sc. in Data Science, fits its GATE-category rule, while the CSE specialisations need a CSE or IT bachelor's degree.

Other GATE programmes are open to computing graduates, but the brochure lists only the degrees, not the paper: Distributed & Mobile Computing (School of Mobile Computing & Communication), I.T. (Courseware Engineering) and Multimedia Technology (School of Education Technology), and the Electronics & Telecommunication specialisations such as Machine Learning and Intelligent Control and Intelligent and Embedded Computing. Ask on pgenquiry@jadavpuruniversity.in before assuming your paper counts for those.

The general rule for 2026-27 was 60% aggregate in the qualifying degree (GPA 6.75 on 10) for General and EWS candidates, with a 10% relaxation for OBC (non-creamy layer) and 25% for SC, ST and PwD candidates. Your GATE score must be valid and above the qualifying cut-off for your category; the eligibility list warns that claiming to be GATE qualified without clearing that cut-off is a false claim and gets the application cancelled.

Two rules matter if you are not from West Bengal. Reservation is available only on SC, ST, OBC, PwD or EWS certificates issued by competent authorities of West Bengal; certificates from any other state do not count. A Tamil Nadu or Andhra OBC certificate, for example, puts you in the open merit list.

Final-year students can apply. The brochure averages your results from the second year of an engineering degree to the pre-final year, and you must show the final mark sheet by 31 October 2026.

For Category A (GATE), the selection norms are short:

1. No admission test and no interview.
2. One consolidated merit list for all eligible GATE candidates, ranked on GATE score out of 1000.
3. One round of selection and admission, held in person on the scheduled date.

At the venue you are called in merit order and pick any one of the options you applied for that still has a vacancy. Your originals are checked on the spot, you fill an option form, and you pay there and then: Rs. 360 admission fee plus one semester's fee, by cash, UPI or card. Missing the slot or failing to pay ends your GATE-category candidature.

One application allows up to eight options, and each specialisation counts as a separate option. The 2026-27 application fee was Rs. 500 for one option, Rs. 1,000 for two to four, and Rs. 1,500 for more than four. Registration needs an Aadhaar number, an ABC (APAAR) ID and a Gmail address, and the fee goes through SBI e-pay only; UPI is not accepted for the application fee.

The brochure lists the semester tuition fee for GATE candidates as Rs. 2,400 for Computer Science & Engineering and Rs. 18,000 for Information Technology. Scholarships are not paid by the university: a GATE entrant to an AICTE-approved programme applies to AICTE directly.

The brochure has three other categories beside GATE and GPAT.

• Sponsored (Category B): for employees with at least one year of relevant experience after the qualifying degree, sponsored by the employer for the whole programme. For Computer Science & Engineering the brochure sets no admission test; merit is the degree percentage scaled to 90 plus one mark a year of experience, up to 10.
• Self-sponsored (Category C): a non-GATE route with a 45-minute MCQ admission test and a merit score of 50 for the degree and 50 for the test. It is closed for both Computer Science & Engineering specialisations, but open for Information Technology, where self-sponsored candidates may fill GATE and sponsored seats left vacant. The 2026 non-GATE reporting form shows this category was admitted in person in August 2026.
• Evening option: Computer Technology with specialisation in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science is a 6-semester evening M.E. listed as a non-GATE programme, with no GATE seats.

The vacant seat matrix of 27 August 2026 shows how little was left late in the cycle: Computer Science & Engineering did not appear, Information Technology had 2 EWS seats, and Computer Technology (6-Sem) had 2 Open, 1 Open-PD and 1 EWS seat. Vacant SC, ST, OBC and EWS seats are not converted to Open.

PhD admission in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology has its own notice. For Session-I (July to December 2026), Notice FET/Ph.D./July-Dec-2026/01 opened on 16 March 2026, with the Rs. 500 fee per department due by 30 March 2026 and a paper application delivered by hand or post to the Dean's office.

Eligibility includes an M.E./M.Tech. with 55%, an MCA with 65%, or a 4-year B.E./B.Tech. with 75%, with 5% relaxation for reserved categories. Candidates who qualified GATE, NET and similar national tests are exempt from the departmental Written Entrance Test (WRET); for them selection weighs the national test score at 70% and the interview at 30%. Others take the WRET (50% research methodology, 50% subject) and need 50% to qualify.

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering listed 20 vacancies for that session, in areas such as AI, ML and data science, NLP, medical image processing, IoT and quantum information processing. Electronics & Telecommunication listed 26. The notice states plainly that no institutional scholarship is offered.

Watch the JU-FET admission portal from about June. The 2026 eligibility list and the 27 August vacancy matrix suggest the M.E. cycle runs through the summer, but the brochure gives no fixed dates, so treat the portal as the only calendar. Use your eight options carefully: list both Computer Science & Engineering specialisations and Information Technology if your degree fits.

For GATE exam centres in and around the city, see the Kolkata exam city page. Nearby institutes with their own pages include IIEST Shibpur, which admits through CCMT, and IIT Kharagpur.

For preparation, start with the GATE DA 2027 guide or the GATE CSE 2027 guide, then work through previous year questions and practice sets.