NSUT Delhi Admission Through GATE: M.Tech by Own Counselling and PhD

Netaji Subhas University of Technology is a state university set up by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi. It began in 1983 as Delhi Institute of Technology, later became Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), and was upgraded to a university in 2018. The main campus is at Azad Hind Fauj Marg, Sector-3, Dwarka, New Delhi 110078, about 1 km from Dwarka Mor station on the Blue Line according to the 2026 M.Tech brochure.

In 2020 two more campuses were added: the East Campus at Geeta Colony (the former Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies & Research) and the West Campus at Jaffarpur (the former Ch. Brahm Prakash Government Engineering College). This matters for a DA or CS aspirant because two of the six computing M.Tech programmes run at the East Campus, not at Dwarka. Read the department name carefully when you choose.

If you are coming from the south, the Delhi city page covers the city as a GATE exam centre.

The 2026 brochure (Table 1) lists these M.Tech programmes for GATE DA and CS candidates:

Programme	Department and campus	GATE papers (2026)
M.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	Computer Science and Engineering, Main Campus	DA, CS
M.Tech. (Artificial Intelligence and Data Science)	Computer Science and Engineering, Main Campus	DA, CS
M.Tech. (CyberSecurity)	Computer Science and Engineering, Main Campus	DA, CS
M.Tech. (Information Technology)	Information Technology, Main Campus	DA, CS
M.Tech. (Artificial Intelligence)	Computer Science and Engineering, East Campus	DA, CS, EC, EE, IN
M.Tech. (Information Security)	Computer Science and Engineering, East Campus	DA, CS

The brochure says the Main Campus CSE department runs three PG programmes with 30 seats each, and that Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and Cyber Security start from 2026-27. The Cyber Security programme is offered jointly with the IT department in collaboration with National Law University Delhi. The Artificial Intelligence and Data Science programme has a healthcare specialisation, per the brochure.

GATE CS also appears for M.Tech. (Quantum Technology), together with DA, EC, EE, IN and PH, and for M.Tech. (Bioinformatics) with BT and XL. Those are not computing programmes, so check their eligibility tables before listing them.

The branch you studied matters as much as the paper. For the four Main Campus computing programmes and Information Security, the 2026 brochure asked for a B.Tech. or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology, with Artificial Intelligence added for Cyber Security and AI and Data Science. The East Campus Artificial Intelligence programme also admits electronics, electrical and instrumentation graduates.

NSUT's eligibility page in the 2026 brochure sets two channels: (a) a valid GATE score, and (b) an NSUT merit list from a written examination for candidates without GATE. Valid GATE score holders get first preference; non-GATE candidates are considered after them.

A few rules from the same pages are worth knowing:

• You need at least 60% marks or equivalent CGPA in the qualifying degree, with a 5% relaxation for SC, ST and PwD candidates. Where your university has no conversion rule, NSUT converts CGPA as (CGPA − 0.75) × 100.
• The AICTE scholarship of Rs. 12,400 per month is tied to a valid GATE score. Non-GATE admits get no AICTE scholarship.
• If an AICTE-funded seat in a reserved category finds no GATE holder, it goes to an open-category GATE holder and a matching supernumerary seat is created for non-GATE candidates.
• The written test is held in person at the Main Campus only. For all six computing programmes its syllabus is the GATE CS syllabus, not DA.

That last point matters for a GATE DA candidate. With a valid DA score you enter the GATE channel directly. If you have no valid score and plan to sit the NSUT test, prepare the GATE CS syllabus.

Everything happened on the Samarth portal, nsutadm.samarth.edu.in, with a single non-refundable registration fee of Rs. 1,500. You fill your GATE score, registration number and paper code under "National Level Admission Test (NLAT) Details", or pick "Not Applicable" if you have no GATE score. NSUT's own guideline asked candidates to register only once: course and branch preferences are taken at physical reporting for counselling, not in the form.

The tentative 2026 schedule in the brochure:

Step	GATE candidates	Non-GATE candidates
Online application	23.05.2026 to 14.06.2026	same
Written examination	not applicable	19.06.2026
First regular round	17.06.2026 to 19.06.2026	30.06.2026 to 01.07.2026
Second regular round	22.06.2026	not applicable
Third regular round	29.06.2026	not applicable
Last regular round	20.07.2026	21.07.2026
Classes begin	27.07.2026	same

Registration was reopened from 02.07.2026 to 18.07.2026 for the last regular round, and the portal published vacant-seat matrices before each round. Spot rounds may follow if seats remain. You report in person with original documents and a demand draft for the first-year fee, which the brochure gives as Rs. 1,81,500 in favour of "REGISTRAR NSUT FEE".

Table 3 of the brochure gives 30 seats each for Computer Science and Engineering, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, and Information Technology on the Main Campus, split by the reservation the brochure sets out: 15% SC, 7.5% ST, 27% OBC (non-creamy layer), 10% EWS, with 5% horizontal PwD reservation. For the East Campus programmes, Table 1 and Table 4 of the same brochure print different seat totals, so check the current matrix on the portal.

NSUT publishes vacant-seat matrices and the final list of admitted candidates, but none of the 2026 notices we read prints a GATE score cut-off or the score of the last admitted candidate. So this page quotes no NSUT GATE cut-off. Watch the portal's public notices during counselling to see which branches still have seats in your category.

Ph.D. admission is separate from M.Tech and runs on NSUT's Ph.D. registration portal (imsnsit.org), linked from the Ph.D. admission page. The admission policy NSUT adopted under UGC guidelines from December 2025 uses a two-stage process: a University Entrance Test or a UGC-CSIR NET score, followed by an interview, weighted 70% and 30%. The entrance test is two hours of MCQs, half research methodology and aptitude, half subject-specific. You need 50% in it (45% for reserved categories) to be called for interview. Holders of research fellowships such as UGC-CSIR NET JRF are exempt from the written test but must attend the interview.

GATE is not named as an admission channel in this Ph.D. policy, so a GATE DA or CS score on its own does not replace the test.

For the 2026-27 even semester, applications ran from 05.10.2026 to 30.10.2026, the written test is on 15.11.2026 at the Main Campus, and interviews are scheduled for 10.12.2026 to 15.12.2026. The brochure lists research areas in CSE as artificial intelligence, NLP and vision, computer networking, data science, educational software, software engineering and security.

Check three things. First, your B.Tech. branch against the eligibility column of Table 1, because the GATE paper alone does not make you eligible. Second, whether the programme you want is at Dwarka or at Geeta Colony. Third, the dates for your channel: GATE candidates and written-test candidates report on different days.

For questions, the M.Tech helpdesk in the 2026 brochure is 9205475084 and 9205475085 (Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 5 PM) and mtech.admissions.helpdesk2026@nsut.ac.in. For other Delhi options, see IIT Delhi, IIIT-Delhi, DTU and JNU, or the full institutes list. To prepare, start with how to prepare for GATE DA 2027 or GATE CSE 2027.