UPDATES
- The COAP basic website has been launched.
- The registraion will open soon after the GATE 2025 results are announced.
Introduction
The Common Offer Acceptance Portal or COAP was initiated in 2017 to provide a common platform for the registered candidates seeking admission to make the most preferred choice for admission into an MTech Programme in participating Institutes, or job offer from participating Public Sector Undertaking (PSUs). While eight institutes (IIT Bombay, IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Indore, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee) were involved in COAP 2017, over the years, twenty-four institutes and a PSU (NPCIL) have come together and participated in COAP for filling their M.Tech. seats or job vacancies. Every year, the GATE organizing institute of the preceding year acts as the coordinating institute for COAP.
IISc is the coordinating institute for COAP 2025, and the participating institutes are: IISc Bengaluru, IIT Bhilai, IIT Bhubaneshwar, IIT BHU, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Dharwad, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Goa, IIT Guwahati, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Indore, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, IIT Jammu, IIT Jodhpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Mandi, IIT Palakkad, IIT Patna, IIT Roorkee, IIT Ropar and IIT Tirupati.
Note:
- COAP 2025 is a portal for M.Tech. admission offer and acceptance/rejection by participating institutes and candidates, respectively.
- The candidate should apply separately to the respective Institute(s) for M.Tech. admission.
- Each participating institute will adhere to its respective selection procedures in accordance with their established norms and guidelines.
- Each candidate must register at COAP to review and select their most preferred offer, if any, from the participating institutes.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Candidates must be Indian Nationals.
- Candidate should have a valid GATE score (Qualified in GATE 2025/2024/2023)
Salient Features
- COAP refers to Common Offer Acceptance Portal, on which all Participating Institutes / PSU's will upload their offers in a common time window as specified.
- The registered candidates can access the admission /job offers by registering at COAP 2025 from all the participating institutes / PSU's where they have applied for M.Tech admissions / jobs.
- For admission into M.Tech program in any of the participating institutes or applying for a job in any participating PSU, every candidate should also apply to the corresponding Institute / PSU.
- To understand the mechanism of looking at all the available offers and making a specific choice out of the offers, the candidates are advised to read the guidelines and then register at COAP 2025.
- COAP 2025 is not an Application Portal for M.Tech admission in any participating institute. Candidates should apply separately to the respective Institute(s) for M.Tech admission / PSU for the job.
- Each participating Institute / PSU will follow the selection procedure as per the norms and guidelines of the respective Institute.
- To access and make a decision on the most preferred choice out of the offers (if any) made by participating Institute(s), each candidate should register at COAP 2025.
- COAP registration is completely free. Note that providing COAP registration number has been made mandatory by the participating institutes in their M.Tech application portals.