VJTI Mumbai Admission Through GATE: M.Tech via Maharashtra CAP and PhD

Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute describes itself as a Government of Maharashtra aided, autonomous institute. Its contact page gives the campus address as H R Mahajani Road, Matunga East, Mumbai 400019. The Mumbai city page covers the GATE exam centres in the city.

VJTI does not take part in CCMT, and it does not run a separate GATE application of its own for regular M.Tech seats. The State Common Entrance Test Cell, Maharashtra, runs one centralised admission process for first-year M.E./M.Tech across government, aided, university and private institutes in the state. VJTI appears in the CET Cell's lists as institute code 03012, "Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute(VJTI), Matunga, Mumbai". You register once on the CET Cell's M.E./M.Tech portal, fill an option form, and the CET Cell allots seats round by round.

Three M.Tech programmes sit in the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology. Its department brochure, posted in July 2025, gives these intakes:

Programme	Intake	GATE papers in VJTI's eligibility table
M.Tech Artificial Intelligence and Data Science	18	DA, CS
M.Tech Software Engineering	24	DA, CS
M.Tech Computer Engineering	25	CS

The paper column comes from VJTI's course-wise eligibility table, dated 26 July 2024, which is still the one linked from the post-graduate admission page. It is the newest such table on VJTI's site, so check the CET Cell portal's eligibility tool for the 2026 or 2027 cycle before you rely on it. In that table Computer Engineering lists only Computer Science and Information Technology (CS), so a DA-only candidate should not count on it. The table also lists DA for the Internet of Things and Electronics and Telecommunication M.Tech, alongside CS, EC, EE, IN and BM.

The degree lists are long. For the three computing programmes they cover computer, IT, electronics and telecommunication branches and the newer AI, data science, cyber security and IoT branches; match your exact degree name against the table.

The CET Cell's Admission Notice 1 for M.E./M.Tech 2026-27, dated 9 July 2026, sets the eligibility for both Maharashtra candidature and All India candidature applicants:

• A bachelor's degree in the relevant field of engineering and technology with at least 50% marks (45% for reserved categories, EWS and PwD candidates belonging to Maharashtra).
• A qualified GATE score valid for the current academic year, or non-qualified GATE marks of the current year.
• GATE-qualified candidates rank ahead of non-qualified ones, who rank ahead of those who did not take GATE.
• Sponsored seats need two years of full-time work experience; two years of experience without sponsorship makes you eligible only at institute level.

The CET Cell's 2026-27 information brochure bases All India candidature allotment for first-year M.E./M.Tech on GATE score. Its seat schedule for government and government-aided institutes splits M.E./M.Tech intake into 75% non-sponsored and 25% sponsored seats and shows no separate All India block. The reserved category columns in the cut-off lists (GSCS, GOBCS and the others) are Maharashtra categories, so if you are from Tamil Nadu, Kerala or Andhra Pradesh, compare yourself with the open column (GOPENS).

In 2026 registration opened on 9 July. The provisional schedule in Notice 1 ran to 19 July, and the final merit lists on the portal are dated 2 August 2026. Four CAP rounds followed, and the CET Cell published a cut-off list after each.

Each cell in a CET Cell cut-off list reads as a merit number followed by a figure in brackets. The footnote says the figure is the GATE/GPAT score or marks for non-sponsored candidates and graduation marks for sponsored ones. Figures above 100 can only be GATE scores. Smaller figures with decimals, such as 23.51, sit far down the merit order, and since the list does not say whether they are scores or marks, this page leaves them out.

Programme (as printed)	Round I, open column	Round II, open column
Artificial Intelligence and Data Science	480	472
Computer Engineering	480	460
Software Engineering	439	426

Software Engineering still had a non-sponsored open row in Round IV, at 392. Every value, with its category, is in the cut-off table on this page, taken from the CET Cell's Round I, II and IV lists linked from its M.E./M.Tech portal.

VJTI has also posted its own table of last admitted candidates for 2025-26. Its header says GATE Score, but it mixes three-digit values with small decimal figures in the same columns without explaining them, so this page does not use it.

Seats left after the CAP rounds go to an institute-level spot round that VJTI conducts itself under rule 13 of the CET Cell brochure. The revised 2026-27 notice set it for Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September 2026 on campus. The rules that matter:

1. Only candidates who registered on the CET Cell portal and had their application verified could apply.
2. Applications went through a Google form by 5 PM on 11 September, with a processing fee of Rs 1,300 (unreserved) or Rs 1,000 (reserved).
3. Candidates reported at 9.30 AM at the VJTI main building and were called in merit order against the vacancies at that moment; an absent candidate lost the turn.
4. A seat was confirmed only with original documents and a demand draft in favour of "Director VJTI", payable at Mumbai.

From the second session onwards, seats freed by cancellations were filled by inter-se merit without reservation. The vacancy list up to 11 September showed three seats in Computer Engineering, two in Software Engineering and one in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.

PhD admission is VJTI's own process, announced on its PhD admission page. The 2026-27 brochure lists 14 vacant seats in Computer Engineering and 6 in Computer Applications, with research areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, high performance computing, IoT, network and cyber security and blockchain.

You need a master's degree with at least 55% marks, or a 4-year bachelor's degree with at least 75%, with 5% relaxation for the categories the brochure names. The brochure says the institute may admit candidates who qualify for fellowship in UGC-NET, SET, CSIR-NET, GATE, CEED and similar national tests on the basis of an interview. Full-time scholars on the institute Teaching Assistantship-cum-Scholarship of Rs 35,000 are limited to two per department, and a master's holder must have qualified GATE to receive it.

The tentative 2026-27 dates were: applications through a Google form from 17 August to 6 September, the shortlist on 10 September, department interviews on 22 September, a centralised interview on 23 September and the merit list on 25 September 2026. Queries go to phd_admission@vjti.ac.in.

Registration, document upload and e-scrutiny on the CET Cell portal can be done from home, and the CAP option form is online. You still need to reach Mumbai to report after an allotment, and the spot round is entirely in person. For the spot round, the notice asks for original documents and the fee as a demand draft, so arrange both before you travel.

The CAP merit uses your GATE score directly, so your preparation decides most of the outcome. Start with the GATE DA or GATE CSE syllabus pages and the matching preparation guide for DA or CSE, and use the previous year papers. Dates for the next exam are on the GATE 2027 page.