Admission To Post-Graduate Programmes
Unlike undergraduate admissions in India, candidates must apply individually to each institute after the institute has published its MTech notification (published usually in march itself)
Some institutions specify GATE qualification as mandatory even for admission of self-financing students to postgraduate programmes. GATE qualified candidates are also eligible for the award of Junior Research Fellowship in CSIR Laboratories and CSIR sponsored projects. Top rank holders in some GATE papers are entitled to apply for “Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship” awarded by CSIR. Some government organizations prescribe GATE qualification as a requirement for applying to the post of a Scientist/ Engineer.
In recent years, various academicians have recognized GATE as being one of the toughest exams in its category. Moreover it has strikingly similar toughness like Joint Entrance Examination held for students entering IIT for undergraduate engineering courses. Many universities like National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and some technical universities in Germany, do identify GATE score card as a parameter for judging the quality of the candidates for admission into their Masters and PhD Programmes.
Some prestigious Management Institutes Like NITIE,Mumbai offers Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering on the basis of GATE score
Most Indian institutes do not specify cut-off marks for previous years. So there is a general confusion in terms of selecting institutes and specializations. But in the recent years IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati have been specifying last year cut-off mark list. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has a very detailed website on Post Graduate (PG) activities and admissions where students can find the relevant information on cut-off marks etc. Typically the Indian Institute of Science and Indian Institutes of Technology are the most selective followed by National Institutes of Technology and others. Even within the top institutes, the selection criteria varies widely across departments and programs depending on expertise areas.
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