IISc's GATE cut-offs and offer scores, 2024–2026

IISc publishes three different GATE score figures each year, and they answer three different questions. The M.Tech cut-off is the score above which an applicant should have been called for an interview or test. The offer score is a score at which an M.Tech offer was made. The research cut-off is the score above which an applicant to the PhD or M.Tech (Research) should have been called for interview. This post sets all three side by side for the seven GATE papers IAE teaches — EC, EE, IN, CS, DA, BT and CE — for IISc's 2024, 2025 and 2026 admissions, from IISc's own reports, for a candidate with a GATE score working out where at IISc to apply. Every figure here is for the UR category; the IISc guide links a page for each paper, which gives the 2026 figures for OBC-NCL, EWS, SC, ST and PwD too, programme by programme.

Three figures, in IISc's words

IISc's cut-off reports for 2024, 2025 and 2026 each carry the same rule — the 2024 and 2025 reports word it as having “cleared the cut-off”, the 2026 reports as “a score higher than the cut-off”. The 2026 M.Tech/M.Des report reads: “Applicants who applied for M.Tech/ M.Des programmes … and has secured a score higher than the cut-off indicated, and has not received a call letter on the applicant home page/ dashboard of admission portal for interview/ written test (as applicable), may send an e-mail to admission office …”. The research reports print the same rule for the PhD and M.Tech (Research) interview (or written test, in 2024 and 2025). In other words, a cut-off is the score that should have brought a call, not the score that brought a seat. The offer figures come from separate reports, which print, for each programme and GATE paper, the lowest and highest score at which an M.Tech offer was made through the Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP), over offer rounds 1 to 5: pooled by IISc in 2024, and printed round by round in 2025 and 2026, which this post pools the same way. An offer is still not an admission, and the reports do not say how many offers each programme made. Each year below is IISc's admission year — 2026 means the reports for admission in 2026–27 — and the reports print a score for each programme and category, not the GATE year that score came from.

M.Tech: the call cut-offs, 2024–2026

Each end of a range is a programme's cut-off — or several programmes', where they tie. In 2026, the M.Tech call cut-offs for GATE EC ran from 550 (Smart Mobility and Logistics Systems) to 800 (Microelectronics and VLSI Design) across 14 programmes. Smart Mobility and Logistics Systems also printed the lowest cut-off for EE (550), CS (548), DA (630) and CE (550); for IN it was Instrumentation Systems (480), and for BT Computational and Data Sciences (690). At the top, Electronic Systems Engineering and Microelectronics and VLSI Design both printed 950 for EE, IN and CS, Electronic Systems Engineering printed 950 for DA, Product Design Development and Management (M.Des) and Quantum Technology 900 for BT, and Quantum Technology 900 for CE. So a range describes the spread of programmes, not the score one programme asks for. The lowest cut-off for each paper was higher in 2026 than in 2024 for six of the seven papers — EC, EE, IN, CS, DA and BT — and lower for CE, 550 against 600; the ranges also move because the set of programmes printing a cut-off for a paper changes from year to year. Each paper's page, linked at the end of this post, shows every programme's figure year by year.

M.Tech: the lowest score offered, 2024–2026

The offer floor is the lowest UR score at which an M.Tech offer was made, in any IISc programme, to a candidate with that GATE paper. In 2026 it was 581 for EC and 568 for CS (both in Smart Mobility and Logistics Systems), 576 for EE and 623 for IN (both in Mobility Engineering), 711 for DA (Smart Mobility and Logistics Systems), and 685 for BT and 574 for CE (both in Sustainable Technologies). A floor is the lowest offer in one programme in one year — in two programmes, for CE in 2024 — not a score that made an offer certain anywhere, and it can rest on a single offer, since the reports do not say how many offers were made. It rests on few programmes for some papers: the last column shows that BT had a UR offer in 2 to 4 programmes a year, CE in 3 to 5 and IN in 4 to 6. Because every year covers offer rounds 1 to 5, the floors can be set side by side — for EC, 568 in 2024, 643 in 2025 and 581 in 2026 — but each is one programme's lowest offer, so the movement says nothing about any single programme. Each paper's page lists every programme's lowest and highest offer.

PhD and M.Tech (Research): the interview cut-offs, 2024–2026

Research cut-offs are set department by department, and the departments counted are every department that printed a cut-off for that GATE paper — science and mathematics departments as well as engineering ones. So a range's ends can sit far from the paper's own field: in 2026, the lowest GATE EC research cut-off, 500, was printed by Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Organic Chemistry, and Solid State and Structural Chemistry, and the highest, 820, by Artificial Intelligence and by Computer Science and Automation. In 2026 the ranges were 500 to 820 across 29 departments for EC, 450 to 820 across 22 for EE, 400 to 820 across 22 for IN, 400 to 900 across 32 for CS, 500 to 900 across 33 for DA, 400 to 900 across 26 for BT and 440 to 820 across 22 for CE. More departments printed a cut-off in 2026 than in 2024 for every paper except EE (23 in 2024, 22 in 2026). A department's cut-off can stay put or move: of the departments that printed a UR cut-off for GATE EC in all three years, 5 of 16 printed the same figure each time, and the counts for the other papers are 5 of 15 for EE, 3 of 11 for IN, 5 of 16 for CS, 3 of 16 for DA, 4 of 13 for BT and 5 of 12 for CE.

Marks and scores

IISc's reports print scores, not marks, and do not say which GATE year a score came from; each GATE year has its own marks-to-score values, so no figure here stands for one year's marks. A cut-off can still be set against the score a set of marks earned in a given year: how the GATE score is calculated sets out the formula, and GATE qualifying marks has every paper's qualifying marks for 2024–2026. For M.Tech seats allotted through CCMT, the CCMT 2026 closing scores cover the same seven papers. Each paper's IISc page has every programme and department behind the ranges above: EC, EE, IN, CS, DA, BT and CE.