GATE MT M.Tech Cut-offs 2024–2026: IIT, NIT and IISc Scores, Stipend

A GATE MT score is the entry ticket to M.Tech seats in metallurgy and materials at the IITs, IISc and — through CCMT — the NITs, IIEST, IIST, DIAT and NIAMT. This guide collects every closing score those institutes published for 2024–2026 and converts the key ones into GATE MT marks on the 2026 paper. The headline: on the 2026 scale, a score just above the general qualifying mark cleared the last CCMT round in about half the metallurgy and materials programmes; IIT Kharagpur closed at 433 for general candidates (about 47 marks); and IIT Madras’s teaching-assistantship seats closed at 688 (about 69 marks, just below the 700-score band that 75 candidates reached in 2026). The stipend on an assistantship seat is ₹12,400 a month.

IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur and NIC CCMT documents; marks on the 2026 scale and the CCMT median are our arithmetic.

Institutes publish two different kinds of number, and mixing them up is the most common mistake on cut-off pages. A closing score is the score of the last candidate offered or admitted. A floor is the minimum needed just to apply or be shortlisted — IIT Bombay says its figures are “merely for applying”. IIT Roorkee publishes a third kind, normalised marks out of 100, which is not a GATE score at all. The table labels every row.

Three readings stand out. IIT Madras’s assistantship seats have become very competitive: the general close rose from 473 in 2024 to 528 in 2025 and 688 in 2026, while the same programme without an assistantship closed at 476 — the stipend is what the extra 200 points buys. IIT Kharagpur is the most reachable of the older IITs, at 358–433 for general candidates over three years. And IIT (ISM) Dhanbad’s last rounds fall below 350 — 146 to 231 — and ISM prints one figure in every category column, including UR. A score under 350 is below the general qualifying score, so such a seat can only have gone to a reserved-category candidate; a general candidate still needs at least 350. Round 1 at ISM in 2026 still needed 488.

IIT Bombay’s M.Tech brochure for 2026-27 accepts MT in every specialisation of the Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science department (MEMS) — Ceramics and Composites, Corrosion, Materials Science, Process Metallurgy, Steel Technology — and in the separate MMM programme. Candidates need a BE/BTech/BS in a recognised engineering branch (or an MSc with Bachelor-level mathematics) with 60%, first class or CPI 6.0 (55% or CPI 5.5 for SC, ST and PwD). The GATE floor is 400 for GEN and EWS, 360 for OBC and 267 for SC, ST and PwD — and it is set higher for candidates from other papers: 550 for ME, EE and EC (600 for ME in MMM). XE counts only when the degree discipline is on IIT Bombay’s list. MT is also accepted outside MEMS: Solid State Devices (EE7) at 510, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at 650, Energy Science at 600 and Climate Studies at 500. MMM waives GATE for employer-sponsored candidates with two years’ experience.

Two other IITs have eligibility quirks. IIT Kanpur’s MSE department takes MT, XE-C (Materials Science), CY or PH with 60% or CPI 6.0 but publishes no cut-off numbers. IIT Guwahati has no metallurgy M.Tech; its Materials Science and Technology programme is in the Chemical Engineering department and takes CH only.

In CCMT 2026, 138 programme groups list GATE paper MT; 40 of them are metallurgy or materials programmes (our keyword count on programme names). Across all 28 domain groups that admitted OPEN candidates (the table below shows 15 of them), the lowest OPEN closing score in any round ranged from 350 to 455 with a median of 356. Round-1 closings were higher — median 376, maximum 544. 350 is the floor because it is the general qualifying score; 356 is about 40.5 marks on the 2026 paper.

Institutes admit on the GATE score, but you prepare in marks. On the 2026 MT scale, by our arithmetic: 350 = 40 marks, 400 ≈ 44, 433 ≈ 47, 476 ≈ 51, 528 ≈ 55, 600 ≈ 61, 650 ≈ 65.5 and 688 ≈ 69. Put against the 2026 distribution, 461 of the 3,908 candidates who appeared scored 50 marks or more and 73 scored 70 marks or more. So a realistic target for most metallurgy M.Tech seats is the high 40s; IISc and IIT Madras’s assistantship seats need the top hundred or so.