Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management

Latest Admission Updates (2026)

Admission to Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM), Visakhapatnam, runs through the GITAM Admission Test (GAT), which the deemed university conducts in six to seven phases across the year. Here is where things stand as of June 2026, with the most pressing deadline first.

• Most urgent (as of June 2026): Registration for the current GAT phase closes on 12 June 2026, with the test and personal interaction held on 14 June 2026 and the result declared the same day.
• Phase 4 (concluded): Application last date was 14 May 2026; the GAT exam was held on 17 May 2026 with the result on 17 May 2026. The scholarship fee-payment deadline was 24 May 2026 and the last date for admission was 30 May 2026.
• Phase 3 (concluded): Application closed 16 April 2026; exam held 19 April 2026.
• Phase 2 (concluded): Application closed 25 March 2026; exam held 28-29 March 2026.
• Phase 1 (concluded): Application closed 10 December 2025; exam held 13 December 2025.
• Registration window: GAT 2026 registration opened on 14 December 2025 at apply.gitam.edu and remains open on a rolling, phase-wise basis.
• MBBS (GIMSR): Admission to the GITAM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research is NEET-UG based, routed through the MCC deemed/management quota counselling, not through GAT.

Because GITAM keeps reopening GAT in fresh phases, missing one window does not end your chance for the 2026-2027 session. If you are reading this on or before 12 June 2026, the live phase exam on 14 June 2026 is the fastest route to a B.Tech, BBA, MBA or other GAT-based seat at the Visakhapatnam campus.

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management Admission 2026: Eligibility Criteria

The single most common question aspirants ask is whether they qualify for a specific GITAM Visakhapatnam programme before paying the application fee. The table below answers that course by course, listing the academic background, the minimum qualifying marks, and the entrance exam each programme accepts in 2026. Read it by first finding your target degree in column one, then checking that you meet both the subject requirement and the percentage threshold. GITAM treats the GAT score as its primary filter, but it also honours valid national exam scores for many programmes. Marks shown are the institute's stated minimum aggregate in the qualifying examination.

The takeaways for 2026 are clear. For B.Tech, the 60% PCM rule is firm, and CBSE/ICSE candidates should note GITAM has historically relaxed this to 55% for those boards, so confirm your board's status before applying. Professional programmes such as MBBS, B.Arch and the law degrees are gated by a separate national exam (NEET, NATA and CLAT respectively), so a GAT score alone will not secure those seats. If you are eligible, register for the live 14 June 2026 GAT phase rather than waiting, since later phases fill against shrinking seat pools.

Course-Wise Admission Status

Applicants frequently want to know which GITAM Visakhapatnam programmes are still accepting forms in mid-2026 and how the seat is ultimately decided. The table below maps each major programme to its current application status (as of June 2026), the broad seat availability, the admission mode, and the exam GITAM accepts. Use it to confirm a course is open before you start the form, and to understand whether you face a merit-list (GAT) route or a centralised national-counselling route. Status reflects the rolling GAT phase model, where most UG and PG seats remain open across phases until the final intake closes.

In short, the GAT-driven programmes (B.Tech, BBA, BCA, B.Com, MBA, the masters in science and management) are the ones you can still act on directly in June 2026. The regulated professional streams (MBBS, B.Arch) follow their own national timelines and counselling, so plan those around NEET-UG and NATA rather than GAT phases. The practical next step for any open programme is to register before 12 June 2026 and sit the 14 June 2026 GAT.

Application Fees

One point that confuses GITAM applicants is the difference between the small application fee paid to take an entrance test and the large tuition fee paid after admission. This section deals only with application/exam fees. For GAT, GITAM charges a flat, non-refundable fee that does not change by social category; for the national exams GITAM accepts (NEET-UG and JEE Main), the conducting body NTA does charge different amounts by category, which is why each category sits on its own row below. Read the Programme/Exam column first, then your category row, to find exactly what you owe in 2026. These figures are application fees only and are entirely separate from the GITAM tuition fees shown later in this guide.

The headline for 2026 is that GITAM's own GAT fee is a uniform Rs 1,200 for every category, with no SC/ST/PwD concession, because it is a private deemed university test. The category-based savings only appear on the national exams: NEET-UG drops from Rs 1,700 (General) to Rs 1,000 (SC/ST/PwD), and JEE Main from Rs 1,000 to Rs 500. The GAT fee has held steady at Rs 1,200 with no year-on-year change reported between 2025 and 2026, so budget that amount and pay it online during registration before your chosen phase closes.

Entrance Exam Requirements

This section answers exactly which test you must clear for each GITAM Visakhapatnam programme in 2026 and what score band makes you competitive here. The university's flagship test, GAT, is a 100-question, 200-mark paper with two marks per correct answer and no negative marking, split between subject questions and a critical-thinking section. The table maps each accepted exam to the programmes it feeds, the 2026 test date, and a realistic qualifying band for the Visakhapatnam campus. Use it to decide whether to rely on GAT alone or to also keep a national score (JEE Main, NEET, CAT) in hand. Read across from your exam to see the date you should be preparing for.

The practical message for 2026 is that GAT is the most flexible and frequently held route into GITAM Visakhapatnam, which is why most aspirants centre their plan on it. If you are targeting a high-demand branch like CSE or CSE (AI and ML), aim for a strong GAT rank, because the chances narrow sharply beyond the bands above. Keep your national scores ready as a backup, but for the live 14 June 2026 phase, GAT remains the single most actionable exam to register for now.

Cutoff Analysis (2024-2026)

Cutoffs tell you, more honestly than any brochure, how hard it is to get into a given GITAM programme. Because GITAM is a multi-campus deemed university, its closing-rank record spans GAT-fed seats at Visakhapatnam plus seats it fills against national and state exams, including JEE Main for B.Tech, NEET for MBBS at GIMSR, and COMEDK/KCET at the GITAM Bengaluru campus. The table compiles verified General-category closing ranks year by year from 2023 to 2025 so you can read the direction of travel. A falling closing rank means a programme is getting harder to enter; a rising one means it is easing. Match your own expected rank against the most recent column to gauge your realistic chances.

The trends carry a clear lesson for 2026 applicants. On the COMEDK route the General closing rank tightened from a 2024 spread of 18,811 to 83,900 down to 17,050 to 53,533 in 2025, meaning the better branches became distinctly more competitive year on year. MBBS at GIMSR moved the other way, with the General closing rank widening from 3,01,719 in 2023 to 4,75,650 in 2025, reflecting the high deemed-university fee that keeps the merit bar at a wider rank band. For B.Tech via JEE Main, the 2025 General closing band of 45,230 to 59,819 is the most reliable yardstick, so if your expected rank sits comfortably inside it, GITAM Visakhapatnam is a realistic target; if you are borderline, sit an additional GAT phase to improve your standing.

Counselling Process

GITAM runs counselling online through its official admission portal after each GAT phase result is declared, and it is purely merit-based, with a personal interaction stage for select programmes such as MBA. For the 2026-2027 session, the step-by-step flow for a GAT-based seat at Visakhapatnam is as follows:

1. Register and pay the GAT fee at apply.gitam.edu (Rs 1,200) and complete the application before your phase deadline (12 June 2026 for the current phase).
2. Download the GAT admit card from your candidate login a few days before the test once registration for the phase closes.
3. Appear for GAT (and the personal interaction, where required) on the scheduled date (14 June 2026 for the current phase); the result is declared the same day.
4. Receive the counselling call letter / invitation from the GITAM portal based on your GAT rank.
5. Attend online counselling and choice filling, selecting your preferred campus (Visakhapatnam), programme and branch.
6. Seat allotment is released on the portal as per merit and availability across the seven designated counselling centres.
7. Document verification follows, where you upload and verify 10th, 12th, GAT scorecard, ID and category proofs.
8. Fee payment and seat acceptance confirms admission; for scholarship candidates in Phase 4 this had to be completed by 24 May 2026, with the last date for admission 30 May 2026.

If you clear a later phase, the same sequence repeats within that phase's compressed calendar, so act quickly once your result is out. For MBBS at GIMSR the process is different: it runs through NEET-UG and MCC deemed/management-quota counselling rather than GITAM's own portal.

Important Dates (2026)

This master calendar pulls every canonical admission milestone into one place so nothing slips past you. Because GITAM operates GAT in rolling phases, several events repeat each phase; the dates below reflect the current live phase and the most recently concluded Phase 4 as reference points, all valid as of June 2026. Read the Event column first, then the Date and Status, and note that the GITAM model declares the GAT result on the same day as the exam. Where GITAM has not published a fixed calendar date for an event (it varies by phase), the status is marked accordingly rather than omitted.

The non-negotiable takeaway is the 12 June 2026 application deadline for the current phase, followed immediately by the 14 June 2026 exam and same-day result. If you miss this phase, GITAM will open another, but each successive phase competes for fewer remaining seats, so earlier is always stronger. Keep checking apply.gitam.edu for the next phase's exact dates, and contact [email protected] for any correction needs, since GITAM handles edits through the candidate login rather than a fixed public correction window.