M.Tech After GATE IN: CCMT 2026 Closing Scores and IIT Cut-offs

For a GATE IN candidate the M.Tech map is wider than it looks: 221 programme-groups in CCMT’s 2026 seat mapping list IN among their accepted papers (our count: 221 of the 842 institute–programme–group entries in the official CCMT 2026 seat-mapping data, as downloaded on 26 September 2026, list GATE paper IN), from core instrumentation and control to biomedical, robotics and even VLSI. CCMT ranks on the GATE score, not the paper, so an IN candidate competes on the same list as EC and EE candidates in shared groups — and four groups admit IN alone. This guide gathers the 2025 and 2026 closing scores for the programmes built around instrumentation and control, and the IIT figures that include IN.

NIC CCMT data 2026; IIT Madras cut-off PDF.

The core-IN ladder is lower than the VLSI one: the highest core-IN Round-1 close in 2026 was 597 (NIT Rourkela Electronics & Instrumentation), while shared VLSI groups that also list IN closed above 700 (table below). The top core-IN programmes did not all rise from 2025 — NIT Warangal Control & Automation fell from 574 to 499 in Round 1, and NIT Surathkal Mechatronics from 508 to 481 — while NIT Rourkela E&I rose from 534 to 597. The three core IN-only groups (NIT Trichy Industrial Automation, NIT Warangal Control & Automation Group 4, NIT Calicut Instrumentation & Control Systems Group 2) are ranked among IN candidates alone; the seat mapping also lists one non-core IN-only group, Central University of Jammu’s Electronics and Communication Engineering Group 4.

An OPEN score of about 450 cleared Round 1 at roughly half the core-IN programmes in 2026, and about 360 cleared the last round at half. In GATE IN marks that is about 47 and 40.5 on the 2026 paper, but only about 32 and 26 on the hard 2025 paper. Because CCMT accepts scores from GATE 2024, 2025 and 2026, a 2025 IN score competes directly with a 2026 one — the year you sat matters as much as your marks.

At IIT Madras, IN candidates are eligible for the Electrical department’s instrumentation, RF, IC and control streams and for two interdisciplinary programmes; the control stream (EE7, 718 GEN) and RF (EE5, 723) are the most accessible, and ICs (EE6, 901) the hardest. IIT Palakkad is the rare institute that prints a separate cut-off for each GATE paper — 632 for IN against 690 for EC in the same programme — which shows why a paper-blind score list does not always mean paper-blind selection.