M.Tech After GATE GE: IIT, NIT, IIST Cut-offs 2025–2026 and Stipend

GATE Geomatics is first of all an admissions paper, and it opens more doors than its small field suggests. 39 CCMT programme groups listed GE in 2026, six of them geoinformatics programmes at NITs and IIST. IIT Bombay, IIT Roorkee, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and IIT BHU run geomatics M.Techs that take GE, and IISc accepts it for research. This guide collects the 2025–2026 figures from each institute’s own documents. Each is labelled for what it is, because a minimum to apply, a last score admitted and IIT Roorkee’s normalised marks are three different things. One fact governs all of them: no published figure is GE-only. Every closing score pools all the GATE papers a programme accepts.

CCMT 2026 seat mapping and opening/closing scores; IIT brochures. The marks equivalent is our inversion of the official score formula.

Read it against the rank tables. On the 2026 GE field a score of 360 fell in the 301–400 band (ranks 257–407) and 451 in the 401–500 band (ranks 140–246). Those are the scores that cleared the geoinformatics groups’ last CCMT rounds. A GE score in the high 300s to mid 400s, roughly 26–30 marks, reached every CCMT geoinformatics programme by the final round in 2026 (our reading; pooled figures). IIST’s first round (544) needed about 35 marks.

The other 33 GE-eligible CCMT groups are not geomatics programmes. They include transportation and water-resources engineering at NIT Warangal and MANIT, atmospheric and ocean sciences and mining at NIT Rourkela, and programmes at DIAT, NIT Trichy, VNIT, PEC and several IIITs. Most also accept CE, so a GE candidate competes with civil engineers there.

Three things stand out. IIT Bombay’s GNR floor is only 350, the general qualifying score, but it is a floor, and 30% of selection is an interview. IIT Roorkee’s Geospatial M.Tech closed at about 54–55 normalised marks for GEN, which for GE (a 100-mark paper) is about 55 marks. Only 9 GE candidates scored 50 or more in 2026, so this pooled figure was set mostly by other papers’ candidates. And IIT (ISM)’s Geomatics programme fell from 593 in round 1 to 451 by the last round, so it pays to stay in the rounds.

Two well-known names do not work the way candidates expect. IIRS Dehradun’s M.Tech in Remote Sensing and GIS (an Andhra University degree, 60 seats, fee ₹1,64,000 for the 2024–26 batch) admits through its own entrance test and interview, not GATE; GATE-qualified students there get an AICTE fellowship, amount not stated. IIT Kharagpur lists no programme that accepts the GE paper. And IIT Kanpur’s Geoinformatics M.Tech says only “GATE score”, with no paper list or cut-off published.