SLIET Longowal Admission Through GATE: M.Tech CSE, SET-VII and PhD

Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology is a deemed-to-be university under the Ministry of Education, Government of India, and awards its own M.Tech, M.Sc. and PhD degrees. Its address is Longowal 148106, District Sangrur, Punjab.

The SET-2026 brochure puts the campus about 8 km from Badbar on the Chandigarh-Bathinda highway. By road it gives Sangrur as 18 km, Ludhiana 100 km, Chandigarh 150 km and Delhi 360 km. The nearest railway stations are Sunam (16 km), Sangrur (18 km) and Dhuri (30 km), and the nearest airports are at Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Bathinda.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering started in 1991. It teaches an integrated certificate and diploma, the B.E. in CSE, the M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering and a PhD. That M.Tech is the programme a GATE CSE taker should look at. SLIET has no M.Tech in AI or data science.

In CCMT's 2026 seat mapping, SLIET's "Computer Science & Engineering" M.Tech (Group 1) accepted three papers: CS, EC and IN. GATE DA was not mapped to any SLIET programme, so a DA-only score does not reach a SLIET seat through CCMT.

With GATE CS, the mapping lists 14 qualifying B.E./B.Tech degrees:

• Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Technology
• Computer Science and Information Technology, Computer Science and Technology, Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering and Application
• Information Technology, Information Technology and Engineering, Information Technology and Mathematical Innovations
• Electronics and Communication, Electrical and Electronics, and Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

A B.Tech in AI and Data Science, an MCA or an M.Sc. is not on that list. If your degree is one of those, check CCMT's 2027 mapping before you count on SLIET. The SET-2026 brochure adds its own floor: a B.E./B.Tech in an appropriate branch with at least 60% or CGPA 6.0, or 55% or CGPA 5.5 for SC, ST, OBC (NCL) and PwD candidates.

SLIET's other 2026-27 M.Tech programmes are Chemical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, VLSI Design, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Food Engineering and Technology, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, and Welding and Fabrication. None of them took CS or DA in CCMT 2026.

The table copies the CCMT 2026 maximum and minimum GATE score report for Round 1 and for the last round in which each category had an allotment. The report prints the group as "G1" in Round 1 and "Group 1" in later rounds.

Category	Round 1 max	Round 1 min	Last round with a row	Max	Min
OPEN	484	450	National Spot Round	388	388
EWS	442	423	Special Round 1	338	338
OBC-NCL	400	392	National Spot Round	334	331
SC	356	335	National Spot Round	297	259
ST	251	242	Round 2	237	236

These are scores of candidates who were allotted, pooled across CS, EC and IN, since the report does not split them by paper. OPEN allotments fell from 450 at the bottom of Round 1 to 388 in the National Spot Round. Use them as one year's record, not as a cut-off promised for 2027.

The SET-2026 brochure describes two M.Tech routes. Route 1 is CCMT on a valid GATE score. Route 2 is SLIET's own admission on GATE or SET-VII for any seats CCMT leaves vacant, with preference to candidates who hold a valid GATE score.

For 2026 the brochure set out this schedule for Route 2:

Step	2026 date
Online registration	10 February to 20 April
SET-VII (computer-based)	9 May, 14:30 to 16:00
Result	18 May
Round I seat allotment	7 August
Spot round in physical mode	13 August
Classes begin	18 August

SET-VII is one 90-minute paper of 60 objective questions: 5 on engineering mathematics, 5 on communication and aptitude, and 50 on your branch, with a quarter mark deducted for each wrong answer. The CSE part covers the familiar GATE CS areas, from digital logic and algorithms to databases, networks and compilers.

A later spot round notification, dated 27 July 2026 and posted as a scanned page, opened online registration from 27 July to 10 August 2026 on SLIET's exam portal (slietexam.co.in). Seats went on a first-come, first-served basis, and candidates reported in person to the SET office for document verification on 14 August. It repeated the M.Tech entry rule of 60% in a relevant B.Tech (55% for SC, ST and PwD).

The 2026 PhD brochure uses the two-stage UGC process: the SLIET Entrance Test (SET-V) and then an interview with a research presentation. Candidates who qualified GATE or NET from 2022 onwards are exempt from SET-V. They still apply online and attend the interview, and they are the ones eligible for full-time seats with institute fellowship.

Selection weights differ by route:

• GATE/NET route: 70% for the presentation and research competency, 30% for the interview.
• SET-V route: at least 50% in the test (45% for reserved categories) to be called, then 70% test and 30% interview.

In the main 2026-27 cycle, applications closed on 5 August 2026 and SET-V was held on 6 August at Longowal in pen-and-paper mode, with interviews from 7 August. A second notification on 21 September 2026 reopened PhD admission for CSE, ECE, EIE and Mechanical only. Applications went by email by 27 September, with the test, interviews and results on 29 September.

The same day SLIET also advertised one full-time and one part-time seat under the Visvesvaraya PhD scheme of MeitY. Computer Science is one of the listed fields, and the full-time fellowship is Rs. 46,250 a month in the first two years and Rs. 43,750 in years three to five.

SLIET makes sense for a GATE CSE taker with a CS, IT or electronics B.Tech who wants a CCMT option in Punjab. If you are writing only GATE DA, CCMT 2026 gave you no route here, so look at institutes that mapped DA, such as PEC Chandigarh, and recheck SLIET when the 2027 mapping comes out.

1. Register for GATE 2027 in CS. Prepare with the CSE guide and previous year questions.
2. Confirm your B.Tech branch is on CCMT's 2027 list for SLIET and that you clear the 60% (or 55%) floor.
3. Register on SLIET's admission portal early in the year as a fallback. In 2026 the brochure's schedule closed registration on 20 April, its M.Tech chapter asked for the registration fee by 15 April, and Route 2 needed SET-VII or GATE.
4. Watch sliet.ac.in in July and August for spot-round notices, which need you on campus.

Other pages that may help: NIT Jalandhar, IIT Ropar, and the exam city pages for Ludhiana and Chandigarh.