MANIT Bhopal Admission Through GATE: M.Tech AI, Computing Programmes and PhD

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology is in Bhopal itself. The address on the admission section is Link Road Number 3, near Kali Mata Mandir, Bhopal 462003, Madhya Pradesh. Admission paperwork for self-financed and sponsored seats goes to the Assistant Registrar (Academic) at the Estate Building, near Link Road No. 3.

Three academic units offer the M.Tech programmes that a GATE DA or CS candidate can reach through CCMT:

• The Centre for Artificial Intelligence, which runs the M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence.
• The Department of Computer Science & Engineering, with M.Tech programmes in Information Security, Advanced Computing and Computer Networking.
• The Department of Mathematics, Bioinformatics and Computer Applications, with Software Engineering and Blockchain.

All three also admit PhD scholars. If you want to write GATE in the city, the tentative GATE 2027 city list places Bhopal in the IIT Kanpur zone. Our Bhopal city page has more detail.

For NIT seats the CCMT seat mapping decides which GATE paper and which bachelor's degree can compete for a programme. For MANIT in 2026 it showed:

Programme	Group	GATE papers	Qualifying degrees
Artificial Intelligence	Group 1	DA, CS	26 computing branches, including AI and Data Science, AI and ML, CSE variants and IT
Artificial Intelligence	Group 2	DA (also BM, CE, EE, EC, ME)	47 branches across biotech, civil, electrical, electronics and mechanical
Advanced Computing, Information Security, Computer Networking, Blockchain	Group 1	DA, CS	34 computing and IT branches, including B.Tech in Data Science and AI
Software Engineering	Group 1	CS only	22 degrees, including MCA and M.Sc in Mathematics, Physics, IT or Mathematics and Computing

The AI programme is the one open to a DA taker from a non-computing branch, through Group 2, which competes separately from Group 1. CCMT also mapped GATE CS to Bioinformatics, Geoinformatics & Its Applications, Automation and Robotics, Smart Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering & Management, and GATE DA to Industrial Engineering & Management.

Preparing now? Start from our GATE DA page and the 2027 DA preparation guide. CS takers can use the GATE CSE page.

The CCMT 2026 brochure required a valid GATE score from 2024, 2025 or 2026 and at least 6.5 CGPA or 60% in the qualifying degree (6.0 CGPA or 55% for SC, ST and PwD). After the regular rounds it ran two Special Rounds and a National Spot Round. You apply, fill choices and pay on the CCMT portal, so MANIT has no separate M.Tech form for these seats.

Once allotted, the steps moved to MANIT:

1. The CCMT 2026 admission notice asked candidates to pay the partial admission fee on CCMT between 2 and 6 July 2026, or lose the seat.
2. The revised admission notice of 1 August 2026 then asked them to register on the MANIT ERP portal (online.manit.ac.in/admission) with the same email and mobile used on CCMT, fill the admission form and pay the balance fee.
3. Physical reporting was at the Lecture Hall Complex on 5 to 7 and 10 to 11 August 2026, and classes began on 12 August.

The first-semester institute fee for M.Tech was ₹59,500 for GEN, OBC and EWS day scholars and ₹24,500 for SC, ST and PwD. Of this, ₹40,000 (or ₹15,000) had already gone to CCMT, leaving ₹19,500 (or ₹9,500). The notice warns that hostel rooms are limited and may not be allotted to everyone.

CCMT publishes the maximum and minimum GATE score of allotted candidates for each round. The CCMT 2026 report gives these Round 1 minimum scores for MANIT's DA and CS programmes, exactly as printed (a dash means no row for that category):

Programme (CCMT name)	OPEN	EWS	OBC-NCL	SC	ST
Artificial Intelligence (Group 1)	614	605	586	434	405
Artificial Intelligence (Group 2)	562	502	490	377	–
Advanced Computing	569	548	526	415	364
Information Security	573	544	537	417	357
Computer Networking	550	529	503	399	383
Blockchain	532	520	503	405	321
Software Engineering	577	548	537	427	350

By the National Spot Round, the last round, the OPEN minimums were Artificial Intelligence (Group 1) 560, Advanced Computing 522, Information Security 512, Computer Networking 504, Blockchain 468, Software Engineering 496, and Artificial Intelligence (Group 2) 542. Scores are out of 1000 and the report does not split them by GATE paper, so a Group 1 figure mixes DA and CS candidates. The cut-off list on this page also carries the maximum scores for each row. The report has no PwD rows for these programmes in these two rounds.

After CCMT, MANIT ran its own spot round on 25 August 2026 at the Student Activity Centre. Regular seats with scholarship were filled strictly by CCMT norms and GATE merit, and the brochure says allotment was irrespective of GATE paper. Candidates had to be present in person with originals and two demand drafts: a ₹3,000 processing fee and the institute fee. The tentative vacancy table listed 3 seats in Information Security, 2 in Computer Networking, 2 in Blockchain, 1 in Software Engineering, 1 in Artificial Intelligence and none in Advanced Computing.

Separately, the 2026-27 PG brochure offered full-time M.Tech seats without fellowship, outside GATE: 5 self-financed seats in each programme (10 in Artificial Intelligence) and 2 sponsored seats. Applications closed on 1 June 2026 on online.manit.ac.in/admission, with a written test or interview tentatively on 9 June. These seats carry no stipend, so the CCMT route remains the main one for a GATE candidate.

The PhD brochure for session 2026 lists Computer Science & Engineering, the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Bioinformatics & Computer Applications among the departments offering a PhD. For the FT-Institute category, which carries the institute fellowship, you need a master's degree with 60% or 6.5 CGPA and NET or GATE, or a B.E./B.Tech with 70% or 7.5 CGPA plus a qualified GATE score. The brochure does not name specific GATE papers.

Full-time selection weights a two-hour written test at 70% and an interview at 30%. The brochure adds that GATE or NET is not mandatory, though the institute may relax the written test or interview for qualified candidates. The July 2026 cycle had forms due on 20 May and the full-time test and interview on 1 June. A Phase II round followed, with forms by email by 30 July and the test and interview on 3 August 2026; its FT-Institute seat matrix showed 9 seats in Computer Science & Engineering and 5 in the Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

Bhopal is a long trip from South India, and two steps in the 2026 cycle needed you there in person: physical reporting in August and MANIT's own spot round. A few points from the official 2026 documents:

• Use the right group: with a non-computing degree and GATE DA, Artificial Intelligence Group 2 is your MANIT option.
• Fill several MANIT choices: five programmes took DA and CS in Group 1, and their Round 1 minimums differed.
• Watch the fee deadline: the partial admission fee window on CCMT was five days in July 2026.
• Check the CCMT 2027 seat mapping: paper and degree mappings are set each year.

Practise with GATE previous year questions and topic tests. Other NIT pages are on the institutes list.