COAP 2026: Check GATE COAP Dates, Registration, Eligibility, Fees

What is GATE COAP?

COAP full form is the Common Offer Acceptance Portal, initiated in 2017. Candidates with valid GATE scores are required to register at COAP to access the offers by IITs for MTech admission or job offers from the PSUs. COAP provides the platform for the candidates to practice the choices of offers by the IITs/PSUs and allows the candidates to make informed choices.

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COAP 2026 Important Dates

Last year, the COAP 2025 round 1 started on May 17, 2025. Students were allotted seats in COAP and had to either ‘Accept and Freeze’, ‘Retain and Wait’, or ‘Reject and Wait’ for the seat allotted as per the schedule.

This year also, the COAP Seat Allotment is expected to start in May. The COAP tentative dates are given below:

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• GATE College Predictor
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GATE COAP Registration

To register for GATE COAP, you must vist the official website: gate.iisc.ac.in/coap2025. GATE COAP Registration is entirely free and is done online.

Source: GATE COAP official Website: gate.iisc.ac.in/coap2025

GATE COAP 2026 Eligibility Criteria

You must be aware of the COAP eligibility criteria. If you do not meet the eligibility conditions, you will be rejected. The eligibility requirements of COAP 2026 are:

• The candidate must be an Indian National
• Must have a valid GATE score i.e. qualified in 2026/2025/2024.
• In the case of more than one valid scorecard, you must provide the scorecard with a better score or rank.
• Must check the eligibility criteria of the respective institute before applying for it

COAP Registration Fee

You do not need to pay any registration or application fee for COAP 2026.

• GATE COAP 2026 is an online process with a zero application fee.
• Since each IIT has a unique counseling process, candidates must submit individual applications to each IIT of their choice.
• The qualification requirements for Counseling vary among institutions.

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• GATE Counselling
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COAP 2026 Options for Offers

There are multiple options once you have offers in the COAP dashboard. These options are:

Option 1 - 'Accept and Freeze'

This option should be selected if you are willing to accept one of the available offers and does not want to be considered for any other offers from other Institutes, if any. Selecting this option WILL NOT be considered in the subsequent round(s) of admission in any of the participating academic Institutes and PSUs.

Option 2 - 'Retain and Wait'

This option should be selected if you want to indicate your partial acceptance to any one of the available offers and also would like to be considered for any other offers in other institutes.

• Candidates selecting this option WILL NOT be considered for the other rejected offers in the current round.
• If any higher preferred offer is made in the next round, then the existing 'Retain and Wait' offer will be released.
• A candidate can choose “Retain and Wait” on the same offer (same institute and same program) only twice.

Option 3 - 'Reject All and Wait':

This option should be selected if the candidate is not willing to accept any of the offer(s) of admission/job in the current round.

Freeze Decision (After Selecting Option 1, 2, or 3):

Candidates can select the choices from the multiple offers and press OK to confirm. After making the final choice, candidates have to click the Freeze button to complete the decision-making.

COAP 2026 Participating Colleges

The list of all 24 participating institutes for COAP is as follows:

GATE COAP: Opening and Closing Ranks

We have provided the GATE COAP opening and closing ranks of 2025 here. You can estimate that the cut off will be on a similar level.