GATE EE M.Tech Cut-offs: CCMT 2026 NIT Closing Scores and IITs

For an M.Tech at an NIT, the number that matters is the closing GATE score in CCMT, the centralised counselling. NIC publishes the opening and closing score for every programme, category and round. We extracted the 2026 and 2025 figures for every NIT programme that admits GATE EE — Power Systems, Power Electronics, drives, electric vehicles, smart grids — and added the cut-offs the IITs themselves published. This guide explains what the numbers mean and lets you check which programmes a given score cleared.

NIC CCMT 2026 data; IIT Madras and IIT Bombay cut-off PDFs.

The 2026 calendar ran from registration on 15 May–5 June to Round 1 on 12 June, Round 2 on 22 June and Round 3 on 27 June, special rounds on 22 and 27 July and the National Spot Round on 5 August, with physical reporting from 5 to 11 August. In the special rounds, unfilled seats move down programme groups within the same category; there is no de-reservation.

Closing scores moved by a few points to about 18 between years, in both directions. Power Electronics consistently closed higher than Power Systems at the same institute — by 60–90 points at NIT Trichy, NIT Warangal and NIT Surathkal — which says more about demand than difficulty. For planning, the practical reading is: a GATE EE score around 500 opened Round-1 seats at several top NITs in 2026; around 400, a wide range of NIT programmes in later rounds.

Read the IIT figures carefully. IIT Madras’s figures are the GATE scores at which it made offers; IIT Madras’s Power Systems & Power Electronics closed at 730 for GEN in 2026, against 657 in 2025. IIT Bombay’s 510 is a minimum to be considered for its written test and interview, not a closing score — its 2026 shortlist table shows up to 900 candidates called for the EE group that admits IN, EE and EC graduates. IIT Kanpur’s EE department publishes its selection rules but no numbers. For the other IITs, 2026 EE figures were not found. COAP 2026 — the common offer portal for IIT M.Tech seats — ran from 11 May to a Round 11 “Special Round” on 18 July 2026, according to IIT Roorkee’s dated offer lists (the COAP site itself could not be reached).

Put the M.Tech numbers next to the GATE score tables (see our marks-vs-score guide). On the 2026 field, a score of 500 was roughly 40 marks and a rank around 2,500; 600 was roughly 49 marks and a rank around 900; 730 was about 61 marks and a rank in the low 200s. These conversions are our approximations from the official score formula and mark distribution (see our marks-vs-score guide). So an IIT Madras EE seat in 2026 needed a top-250 performance, a Round-1 seat in Power Electronics at the leading NITs a top-1,000 one, and a wide choice of NIT programmes a top-3,000 one. Your GATE score is valid for three years, and CCMT accepts scores from the current and two previous years.