NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering: Fees 2025, Course Duration, Dates, Eligibility

NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering is offered as 2 Years Full Time program. The minimum eligibility criteria for M.Tech is Graduation with 60% + GATE. The total fees for NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering in 2025 is ₹ 1.99 Lakhs for the complete course duration, which includes total tuition fees of ₹ 1.4 Lakhs. Earlier, the fees in 2024 - 2025 for M.Tech Communication Engineering was ₹ 2.04 Lakhs.

NIT Surathkal Hostel Fee is ₹ 33,790 to 35,310.

Admissions are offered based on GATE. Check NIT Surathkal Admission 2025

NIT Surathkal GATE Cutoff 2025 marks is 495 - 543 for the General category. Further, the cutoff marks is 471 - 509 for OBC category, 345 - 377 for SC category, Earlier, the GATE cutoff marks 2024 was 459 - 534 for the General category.

According to Outlook Rankings 2025 for Engineering, NIT Surathkal ranks 8 out of 25 in India. Earlier, the institute ranked 8 out of 25 institutes in India.

NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering Fees 2025

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NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering Previous Fees

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NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering Admission 2025

The minimum eligibility for admission to M.Tech Communication Engineering at NIT Surathkal is Graduation with 60% + GATE. Candidates are allotted seats based on GATE.

You can check NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering admission dates 2025 in the section below.

GATE Dates 2025

NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering Cutoff 2025

NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering Cutoff 2025 has been released. You can check the GATE cutoff marks for M.Tech Communication Engineering admissions in the section below.

NIT Surathkal M.Tech Communication Engineering Cutoff 2024

NIT Surathkal Ranking 2025

NIT Surathkal ranking 2025 has been released. You can check the agency-wise engineering ranking for NIT Surathkal in the table below.

Ranking Agency	Latest	Previous
	#8 out of 25 (2025)	#8 out of 25 (2024)
	#32 out of 160 (2025) #1st Karnataka	#31 out of 170 (2023)
	#12 out of 500 (2025) #1st Karnataka
	#13 out of 275 (2024) #4th Karnataka	#13 out of 131 (2023) #1st Karnataka
	#17 out of 300 (2024) #1st Karnataka	#12 out of 200 (2023) #1st Karnataka
	#15 out of 30 (2020) #1st Karnataka
	#4 out of 162 (2020) #1st Karnataka	#5 out of 147 (2019) #1st Karnataka

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A candidate to be eligible for the MTech program:

• Must have a valid GATE score for that respective year.
• In qualifying degree, the candidates should have passed and secured at least a 6.5 CGPA (on a 10-point scale) or 60% for GEN/GEN-EWS/OBC, whereas 6.0 CGPA (on a 10-point scale) or 55% in the case of SC/ST/PwD candidates. The above-mentioned CGPA/Percentage should be awarded by a recognized University/Institute.
• Only the primary mode of evaluation (CGPA or percentage) as mentioned in the qualifying degree certificate/mark sheet shall be considered while verifying eligibility. In case both CGPA and percentage are mentioned, then only CGPA would be considered.
• Conversion from CGPA to percentage or vice versa given by an individual Institute/university will not be allowed.
• If CGPA is on a different scale than the 10-point scale, then it would be linearly mapped to a 10-point scale.

Entrance test – GATE

National Institute of Technology, Surathkal offers M.Tech, M.Tech (Reserach), MCA and M.Sc. course at the postgraduate level.

The basic eligibility criteria for admission to M.Tech course is a B.Tech degree in the relevant discipline. Candidates are selected through a centralized counselling process (CCMT). There are total 51 seats in the program.

NOTE – M.Tech (Reserch) is offered in all the M.Tech regular specializations in addition to Rock Exacavation Technology and Managaement under Mining Department

Key Points

• The admission for M. Tech (non-scholarship), M. Tech (Sponsored Seats) and M. Tech (Research) are done by NITK Surathkal.
• There are 3 types of students status under the M.Tech (Research) program: full time Student on GATE Scholarship, full time student sponsored from industry or organization, External Registratnts –Students sponsored from industry or other organizations and 4 in M.Tech (Regular) Program which includes Internal Registrants – Sponsored/Project staff of NITK.
• External candidates and full time sponsored candidates need to produce a Sponsorship Certificate from his employer and submit it along with the application. 
• Such candidates are not entitled for Institute’s Scholarship.
• Selection for M.Tech (Research) in some of the specializations is done on the basis of at least 70% weightage to GATE score and remaining 30% weightage to academic performance in qualifying exam or/ and written aptitude test or/ and Interview.
• M.Tech (Sponsored) are selected based on the academic performance in qualifying exam or/ and written aptitude test or/ and Interview. Also, candidates must have minimum 2 years of work experience in the Sponsoring organization.

Eligibility for Other PG Courses

The process of selection of candidates vary from course to course. Likewise, MCA candidates are selected on the basis of marks obtained in NIMCET, and M.Sc. candidates are selected based on the IIT JAM score.

Note:-

• Students belonging to SC / ST/ PWD category are exempted from payment of tuition fees (Exemption is not applicable to QIP, DASA, ICCR, and MEA and External Registrants and Internal Registrants for PG & R Program).

Fees structure for Internal part-time candidates (for regular staff of the institute)

• Tuition fee – Rs 7500 per year
• Institute development contribution – Rs 10000 (1^st year)
• Alumni association – Rs 1000 (one-time payment at the time of admission)
• Convocation fee – Rs 2000 (1^st sem – Rs 1000, 2^nd sem – Rs 1000)

Hostel Rent (For Hosteller) Per Semester : -

• Hostel Rent (including water/electricity charges) Boys / Girls (Shared accommodation) : Rs 8400

Fees structure for the Self-financed category :-

• 1^st sem – Rs 2,36,840
• 2^nd sem – Rs 2,06,395
• 3^rd sem – Rs 2,00,000
• 4^th sem – Rs 2,00,000

Fees structure for the Self-financed category (Hosteller Total fee for shared accommodation) Per Semester :-

• Hostel Rent (including water/electricity charges) Boys / Girls (Shared accommodation) : Rs 8400