GATE COAP 2024: GATE Counseling Round 1 Closed! What's Next?

Candidates seeking admission to India's most prestigious institutes IITs for M.Tech/ M.E courses must participate in COAP 2024. COAP counseling rounds started on May 15, 2024, & will continue till July 11, 2024. GATE COAP 2024 will conduct counseling for postgraduate admissions and PSU job offers in 2 rounds. COAP 2024 Main rounds will be conducted from May 15 to June 10, 2024, in 5 rounds.The next 5 COAP counseling rounds will be additional. Candidates can read here all the required information:

 

GATE counseling round 1 through COAP 2024 Portal closed today May 15, 2024. The next round of GATE counseling for M.Tech admissions will open from May 20, 2024, to May 22, 2024.Common Offer Acceptance Portal commonly known as COAP serves as a common platform for all the participating institutes to fill all the M.Tech. seats and for the participating PSU's to upload their Job offers to the GATE Qualified candidates. GATE- qualified candidate seeking an opportunity either in high-paying PSU jobs or desirous of admission to IITs for M.Tech/M.E, both registers in COAP 2024. 

Candidates can check the offer status, during scheduled dates for counseling rounds, by logging in to COAP 2024 Portal using your login id and password, sent to you by email/SMS after your registration at COAP. COAP 2024 registered candidates can select any one of the options available for admission offers provided in the particular counseling round. Candidates can check here all the necessary details such as upcoming COAP counseling round dates, Counselling process, COAP Seat allocation process & more:

GATE COAP 2024: Main Rounds Counseling Dates

COAP 2024 will be conducted in five main & five additional rounds. COAP 2024 Main round counseling will be conducted from 13 May 2024 to 10 June 2024 in five different rounds. Candidates can select any one option out of three available choices namely Accept & Freeze, Retain & Wait, and Reject & Wait  But Round 5 is a Decisive round, therefore the candidates will have only 'Accept and Freeze' and 'Reject' options to select. Candidates can check the COAP Main round counseling dates here:

Round No.	Available options
	Time window for candidates to view offers and make a decision	Accept & Freeze	Retain & wait	Reject & wait
Round 1	May 13 (10:00 AM) to May 15 (09:00 AM)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Round 2	May 20 (10:00 AM) to May 22 (09:00 AM)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Round 3	May 27 (10:00 AM) to May 29 (09:00 AM)	Yes	Yes/No*	Yes
Round 4	June 02 (10:00 AM) to June 04 (09:00 AM)	Yes	Yes/No*	Yes
Round 5	June 08 (10:00 AM) to June 10 (09:00 AM)	Yes	No	Yes

GATE COAP 2024: Additional Rounds Counseling Dates

Candidates must understand that these additional rounds will be decisive in nature, So the candidates will have only 'Accept and Freeze' and 'Reject' options in additional rounds 6,  7, 8, 9 & 10. Candidates must bear this fact in mind that if they select reject & wait then they will not get the same offer in upcoming COAP 2024 counseling rounds. Candidates can check here the tentative schedule of COAP 2024 Additional rounds:

Round No.	Available options
	Time window for candidates to view offers and make a decision	Accept & Freeze	Retain & wait	Reject & wait
Round 6	June 15 (10:00 AM) to June 17 (09:00 AM)	Yes	No	Yes
Round 7	June 21 (10:00 AM) to June 23 (09:00 AM)	Yes	No	Yes
Round 8	June 27 (10:00 AM) to June 29 (09:00 AM)	Yes	No	Yes
Round 9	July 03 (10:00 AM) to July 05 (09:00 AM)	Yes	No	Yes
Round 10	July 09 (10:00 AM) to July 11 (09:00 AM)	Yes	No	Yes*

GATE COAP 2024: Offer Selection & Seat Allocation

Candidates can view the offers made to them on the COAP portal during the counseling round period. Candidates can see details of each offer and evaluate them based on their preferences, such as program specialization, career growth, etc. Candidates get three options to choose from for an offer.

Accept and Freeze:

•  if a candidate selects 'Accept & Freeze' it means he/she is willing to accept one of the available offers and does not want to be considered for upgrading to higher preferences.
• Candidates selecting this option will not be considered in the subsequent rounds of admission.

Retain and Wait:

•  if a candidate selects 'Retain & Wait' it means he/she is willing to accept one of the available offers, however, he/she wants to be considered for upgrading to higher preferences.
•  Candidates selecting this option will not be considered for the other rejected offers in the current round.
• Candidates can choose “Retain and Wait” on the same offer (same institute and same program) only twice.

Reject and Wait: 

•  if a candidate selects 'Reject & Wait' it means he/she is not willing to accept the available offer, and he/she wants to be considered for upgrading to higher preferences.
• Candidates must be aware that the same offer will not appear in the subsequent rounds as they have rejected this offer.

Candidates can refer to below given flow chart for more clarity about the COAP 2024 offer selection & counseling process:

Candidates should be aware of the fact that some participating Institutes may skip, some offer release window(s), and offers may be released in any of subsequent window(s). Further, some institutes may operate additional rounds, participating Institutes don't need to have the same number of rounds as COAP 2024.

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