The schedule for Centralized Counseling for Master of Technology i.e CCMT 2018 has been released by the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Delhi, on its official website. It is an online process for admission in postgraduate programmes M.Tech./ M.Arch./ M.Plan. /M.Des.in regional technical institutes which include 30 NIT, 4 IIITs and 10 CFTIs is scheduled to begin on 3rd April 2018.
Through this counseling process, GATE exam qualified students will get admissions in to various Post-Graduate courses offered by the National Institutes of Technologies (NITs) and several other institutes like IIITM Gwalior, PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur, IIITDM Kancheepuram, IIIT Vadodara, IIIT Allahabad, SLIET Longowal, NIFFT Ranchi, SPA Vijayawada, PEC Chandigarh, Central University of Rajasthan, University of Hyderabad, Central University of South Bihar Patna, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra and IIEST Shibpur.
According to the information given on the official website, the online registration and counselling process for centralized admission to postgraduate programmes in all the above-mentioned institutes will be starting from April 3, 2018. The applicants are advised to complete the registration process and pay the application fee on or before May 8, 2018, till 11:59 pm, as it is the last date to do the same.
CCMT 2018 Counseling will be held through online mode in three rounds. The candidates will be allotted seats on the basis of merit list (based on GATE Score) and availability of seats as per choices filled. The GATE 2018 results were announced on March 16, 2018. The CCMT 2018 counselling process will be completed until July 2018.
GATE 2018 was conducted on February 3, 4, 10 and 11 for all those who wish to join Masters and direct Doctoral programmes in engineering, technology, architecture and also for PSU direct recruitment. The final answer keys were released on March 14 and the scorecards were made available from March 20 onwards at the GOAPS portal. Below are some more details:
GATE CCMT 2018 – Important Dates
- Online Registration for CCMT 2018 Starts – Tuesday, April 03, 2018
- Last date of Online Registration and Fee Payment – Tuesday, May 08, 2018 (11:59 PM)
- Locking of Choices – May 8 to May 14, 2018. (till 11:59 PM)
- Last date of Online Choice Filling – Monday, May 14, 2018 (till 11:59 PM)
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CCMT 2018 Schedule
The candidates can check the CCMT 2018 schedule as given below to know when the various admission events will commence:
Events | Dates |
Advertisement | March 26, 2018 |
Availability of CCMT 2018 website | March 26, 2018 |
Start of Online Application | April 3, 2018 |
Last Date for Payment of Application Fee | May 8, 2018 (till 11:59 PM) |
Last Date for Online Choice Filling | May 14, 2018 |
Locking of the Filled Choices of Course and Institute | May 8 to 14, 2018 (at 11:59 PM) |
Seat Allotment – Round 1 | May 20, 2018 |
Seat Acceptance fee payment | May 21 -24, 2018 |
Seat Allotment – Round 2 | May 28, 2018 |
Seat Acceptance fee payment | May 29 – June 01, 2018 |
Seat Allotment – Round 3 | June 10, 2018 |
Seat Acceptance fee payment | June 11-14, 2018 |
Payment of Provisional Admission Confirmation Fee | June 15 to 22, 2018 |
Reporting at admitted institute & deposit institute balance fees |
June 25 to 28, 2018 |
Vacancy declaration for NSR | July 03, 2018 |
Choice Filling for National Spot Round (NSR) | July 4 – 20, 2018 |
National Spot Round Seat Allotment | July 22, 2018 |
Reporting at institutions | July 23-27, 2018 |
CCMT 2018 Admission Process
The admission process will begin with online registration. Candidates will be given choice of filling the seats and later candidate can lock the choices. Online seat allotment will be done afterwards. Once allotment of seats is done, the payment of seat acceptance fee will be processed. After the payment of the fee, the process for the seat confirmation takes place. At last, the candidates will be asked to report the allotted institutes.
The inter-se-merit of candidates with same GATE score will be based on the following criteria:
1) Candidates with GATE 2016 score will be preferred over candidates with GATE 2017/2018 Scores
2) Candidates with GATE 2017 score will be preferred over candidates with GATE 2018 Scores
3) In case of the same year of GATE Score, candidates with higher GATE marks (out of 100) will be preferred.
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Online Registration
Candidates will have to register themselves in the official CCMT website and pay the registration fees. The registration fee of Rs 2200 can be paid online using credit/debit card, net banking or through SBI MOPS. Only after the fee payment, candidates will be able to fill their choices of programmes and can lock their filled choices.
Allotment of the Institute
The seats will be allotted on the basis of merit list and choices filled. After seat allotment, candidates will have to deposit Rs 20,000 against the seat acceptance (confirmation) fees. candidates can download their provisional seat confirmation letter from the official website, after the Payment of Provisional Admission Confirmation Fee of Rs 10,000/- through Net Banking or Debit Card or Credit Card, OR through e-challan at any SBI branch and can report personally as per their respective schedule to the allotted college with required documents for taking the final admission.
Documents Required During Counseling
All the original documents along with three passport size photographs would be required at the time of counselling.
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CCMT 2018 Participating Institutes
S.No. | Institute Code and Name | Institute Code | Seat Intake |
1 | Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar | 201 | 244 |
2 | Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur | 202 | 434 |
3 | Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal | 203 | 522 |
4 | Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad | 204 | 475 |
5 | National Institute of Technology Agartala | 205 | 252 |
6 | National Institute of Technology Calicut | 206 | 443 |
7 | National Institute of Technology Delhi | 207 | 45 |
8 | National Institute of Technology Durgapur | 208 | 324 |
9 | National Institute of Technology Goa | 209 | 54 |
10 | National Institute of Technology Hamirpur | 210 | 270 |
11 | National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal | 211 | 554 |
12 | National Institute of Technology Meghalaya | 212 | 75 |
13 | National Institute of Technology Nagaland | 213 | 60 |
14 | National Institute of Technology Patna | 214 | 391 |
15 | National Institute of Technology Puducherry | 215 | 15 |
16 | National Institute of Technology Raipur | 216 | 115 |
17 | National Institute of Technology Sikkim | 217 | 24 |
18 | National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh | 218 | 120 |
19 | National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur | 219 | 256 |
20 | National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra | 220 | 458 |
21 | National Institute of Technology, Manipur | 221 | 75 |
22 | National Institute of Technology, Rourkela | 222 | 586 |
23 | National Institute of Technology, Silchar | 223 | 250 |
24 | National Institute of Technology, Srinagar | 224 | 163 |
25 | National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli | 225 | 544 |
26 | National Institute of Technology, Warangal | 226 | 550 |
27 | Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat | 227 | 340 |
28 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur | 228 | 394 |
29 | National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand | 229 | 75 |
30 | National Institute of Technology, Mizoram | 230 | 30 |
31 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management Gwalior | 301 | 120 |
32 | Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad | 302 | 139 |
33 | Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram, Chennai | 303 | 45 |
34 | Pt. Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacture Jabalpur | 304 | 112 |
35 | Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara | 308 | |
36 | National Institute of Foundry & Forge Technology, Hatia, Ranchi | 402 | 112 |
37 | Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal | 403 | 162 |
38 | School of Planning & Architecture, Vijayawada | 404 | 42 |
39 | Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, District Howrah | 405 | 304 |
40 | Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh | 406 | 38 |
41 | Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh | 407 | 226 |
42 | Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra | 416 | |
43 | University of Hyderabad | 421 | |
44 | Central University of South Bihar | 422 |
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