NIT Manipur Admission Through GATE: M.Tech CSE via CCMT, Non-GATE Seats and PhD

National Institute of Technology Manipur is at Langol, Imphal West, Manipur 795004, which its 2026 notices give as the institute address. The home page calls Langol the permanent campus and mentions a second library section at the temporary Takyel campus. On CCMT the institute is listed as "National Institute of Technology, Manipur", with a comma.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering was set up in 2010. It started the B.Tech in 2010, the PhD in 2012 and the two-year M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering in 2014. From 2026 it also offers a five-year integrated B.Tech-M.Tech with an intake of 10, and a minor in AI. The department page gives no M.Tech intake figure.

Imphal has no GATE city page on this site yet. For centres in the north-east, our Guwahati and Silchar pages cover the IIT Guwahati zone.

The CCMT 2026 seat mapping put "Computer Science & Engineering" (code XG) in one Group 1 with two GATE papers, DA and CS. The catch is that each degree was mapped to only one of them:

Qualifying B.E./B.Tech. degree	GATE paper CCMT accepted
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	DA
Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence), (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) or (Data Science)	DA
Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering and 15 other computing and IT names	CS

So a plain B.Tech CSE or IT graduate needed GATE CS, while a B.Tech AI and Data Science graduate needed GATE DA. No MCA or M.Sc. degree was on the list for this programme. Check your degree code on the mapping, since CCMT revises it each year.

One more CCMT programme took both papers: Intelligent Mechanical Systems in Mechanical Engineering mapped CS for computing B.Tech degrees and DA for AI and data science B.Tech degrees, alongside many engineering papers.

CCMT's [Maximum and Minimum GATE Score report]({'label': 'CCMT 2026: Maximum and Minimum GATE Score (allotted candidates)', 'href': 'https://admissions.nic.in/CCMT/Applicant/report/orcrreport.aspx?enc=Nm7QwHILXclJQSv2YVS+7hkjtb+BA6IrXvgE0h+kRTL3bpk/0+kbOxNpu5D9SRDa'}) lists the highest and lowest GATE score among candidates allotted a seat in each round. Below are GATE scores out of 1000, exactly as printed for "Computer Science & Engineering" at "National Institute of Technology, Manipur". DA and CS scores share one group. Round 1 prints the group as "G1" and later rounds as "Group 1".

Category	Round 1 max	Round 1 min	Last round	Last round max	Last round min
OPEN	548	495	National Spot Round	423	363
EWS	464	464	National Spot Round	331	331
OBC-NCL	466	449	National Spot Round	339	330
SC	410	410	National Spot Round	318	308
ST	294	294	Special Round 2	261	261

The ST category had no row after Special Round 2, so its last figures come from that round. No PwD rows were printed. The OPEN minimum fell from 495 in Round 1 to 363 in the National Spot Round. These numbers are for 2026 only.

The CCMT 2026 schedule opened registration and choice filling on 15 May 2026. Round 1 was announced on 12 June, Round 2 on 22 June and Round 3 on 27 June. Special Round 1 followed on 22 July, Special Round 2 on 27 July and the National Spot Round on 5 August 2026. After each round you pay the seat acceptance fee, upload documents and choose freeze, float or slide.

NIT Manipur did not take admissions online at the end. Its circular of 24 July 2026 told everyone allotted a seat through CCMT or CCMN 2026 to report physically at the institute from 11 to 13 August 2026, between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM, with all original documents. The academic session began on 14 August 2026. The circular is a scanned document.

NIT Manipur splits its M.Tech intake. Its 2026-27 admission notice, dated 20 March 2026, says 75% of the approved intake in every M.Tech and M.Sc. programme is filled through CCMT-2026 or CCMN-2026, and 25% by non-GATE candidates. Computer science and engineering is one of the listed programmes. Seats still vacant after CCMT and CCMN, expected to finish in August 2026, are filled category-wise from the non-GATE merit list. These seats carry no scholarship.

• Eligibility: 6.5 CGPA or 60% in the qualifying degree for GEN, GEN-EWS and OBC, and 6.0 CGPA or 55% for SC, ST and PwD, or as per CCMT-26.
• Categories: regular (full-time, self-sponsored), sponsored full-time with two years of experience, and part-time for employed professionals, NIT Manipur staff included.
• Dates: online applications from 20 March to 18 April 2026, offline written test and interview on 30 April 2026, and the shortlist on or before 1 May 2026.

The application fee was ₹500 for GEN and OBC and ₹250 for SC, ST, EWS and PwD. Selection weighs academic record, the written test and the interview. The notice is a scanned document, and the application portal is linked from it.

The CSE department has run a PhD since 2012. The latest CSE-specific notice on the website is a Visvesvaraya PhD advertisement, dated 22 September 2026, for one full-time seat in the July-December 2026 session, funded by MeitY. It asked for a B.Tech in CSE or IT plus a master's in CSE, IT, AI, ML or data science, each with 6.5 CGPA or 60%. A B.Tech CSE or IT graduate with 7.5 CGPA or 70% and a valid GATE score could apply directly. The advertisement does not name a GATE paper. The fellowship is ₹38,750 a month for the first two years and ₹43,750 after that. The broad areas are quantum computing with AI and ML, generative AI and large language models. Applications closed on 8 October 2026 and interviews were on 12 October. Applicants had to be Indian nationals under 30.

For regular PhD admission, the most recent notice we found is the July 2025 shortlist. It called applicants without GATE or NET to a written test and put GATE or NET holders forward for interview. No 2026 regular PhD notice was on the website when we checked, so look for the next one on the home page.

The 2026-27 PG notice names an Admission Co-ordinator (PG and PhD) at pgadmission@nitmanipur.ac.in, mobile 7005744882. The institute's phone is (0385) 2445812. CCMT itself answers allotment questions.

A plan for a 2027 applicant:

1. Check which paper your B.Tech branch is mapped to. AI and data science branches went with DA in 2026, core CSE and IT with CS. Our guides on how to prepare for GATE DA 2027 and how to prepare for GATE CSE 2027 cover each.
2. Raise your score with previous year questions and timed practice. CCMT ranks only on GATE score.
3. Register on CCMT in May and add Computer Science & Engineering at NIT Manipur to your choices.
4. Without a good score, watch for the non-GATE notice in March. In 2026 its test came in April, before CCMT opened.

Other north-east options are on our pages for IIT Guwahati and NIT Silchar.