GATE Exam

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Surjeet Kumar Singh

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Updated At : Jan 16, 2026 06:06PM IST

The GATE 2026 exam will be held across 230+ cities in India. It is divided into eight zones, including IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Roorkee, and candidates can choose up to three exam cities in the same zone while filling out the application form. The final exam centre details, including the address of the exam centre and code, will be mentioned on the GATE 2026 admit card. In 2026, 11 new cities were added to the list, which include cities like Baddi, Una, Palampur, Puttur, Bhilwara, Dausa, Hanumangarh, Nandyala, Erode, Krishnagiri, and Pollachi. This year, international exam centres were not available for the GATE 2026 exam, forcing candidates living abroad to choose an Indian city to appear for the exam.

State	Centre
Andaman and Nicobar	Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh	Ananthapuramu, Kurnool
Karnataka	Bagalkot, Ballari, Belagavi, Bengaluru (North & South), Bidar, Chikkballapur, Chikkamagaluru, Davanagere, Hassan, Hubballi/Dharwad, Kalaburagi, Kolar, Mandya, Mangaluru, Manipal, Mysuru, Shivamogga, Tumakuru
Kerala	Angamaly, Kannur, Kasaragod, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta, Payyanur, Thrissur, Vatakara, Wayanad
Telangana	Hyderabad, Medak, Nalgonda

Zone 2: IIT Bombay

State	Centre
Gujarat	Ahmedabad, Anand, Bhavnagar, Bhuj, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Mehsana, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Vapi
Maharashtra	Ahmednagar, Akola, Amravati, Aurangabad, Baramati, Bhusawal, Dhule, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Latur, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nanded, Nashik, Navi Mumbai-Thane, Panvel-Raigad, Pune, Ratnagiri, Sangamner-Loni-Shirdi, Sangli, Satara, Solapur, Vasai-Palghar, Wardha, Yavatmal
Goa	Panaji

Zone 3: IIT Delhi

State	Centre
Haryana	Faridabad, Gurugram, Hisar
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu-Samba, Srinagar, Leh
Madhya Pradesh	Indore, Ujjain
Rajasthan	Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur
Uttarakhand	Dehradun, Haldwani, Roorkee
Uttar Pradesh	Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, NOIDA

Zone 4: IIT Guwahati

State	Centre
Assam	Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Silchar, Tezpur
Manipur	Imphal
Meghalaya	Shillong
Mizoram	Aizawl
Nagaland	Dimapur
Tripura	Agartala
Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar

Zone 5: IIT Kanpur

State	Centre
Uttar Pradesh	Agra, Aligarh, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Sagar, Satna

Zone 6: IIT Khatagpur

State	Centre
Andhra Pradesh	Eluru, Kakinada-Surampalem, Rajamahendravaram (Rajahmundry), Srikakulam, Tadepalligudem, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram
Chhattisgarh	Bhilai, Bilaspur, Raipu
Jharkhand	Hazaribag, Jamshedpur, Ranchi
Odisha	Balasore, Bhubaneswar, Brahmapur, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Kakatpur (Puri), Rourkela, Sambalpur
West Bengal	Bankura, Berhampur-Murshidabad, Hooghly, Howrah, Kharagpur-Midnapur, Kolaghat, Kolkata, Suri (Birbhum)

Zone 7: IIT Madras

State	Centre
Andhra Pradesh	Chirala, Chittoor, Guntur, Kadapa, Nandyala, Nellore, Ongole, Tirupati
Kerala	Alappuzha, Aluva-Ernakulam, Attingal, Chengannur, Kanjirapally, Kollam, Kothamangalam, Kottayam, Muvattupuzha, Thiruvananthapuram
Pondicherry	Puducherry
Tamilnadu	Chennai South, Chennai West, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Dindigul, Erode, Kanyakumari-Nagercoil, Krishnagiri, Madurai, Namakkal, Pollachi, Ramanathapuram, Salem, Thanjavur, Theni, Thoothukudi, Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Vellore, Virudhunagar
Telangana	Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Kodad, Kothagudem, Nizamabad, Suryapet, Warangal

Zone 8: IIT Roorkee

State	Centre
Haryana	Ambala, Kurukshetra
Himachal Pradesh	Baddi, Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, Palampur, Shimla-Solan, Una
Punjab	Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Mohali-Chandigarh, Patiala, Pathankot
Uttarakhand	Dehradun, Haldwani, Roorkee
Uttar Pradesh	Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, NOIDA, Saharanpur

Frequently Asked Questions

The GATE 2026 exam was held across 230+ cities in India.

The exam centres were divided into eight zones: IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, and IIT Roorkee.

No, international exam centres were not available for GATE 2026. Candidates living abroad had to choose an Indian city to appear for the exam.

Yes, candidates can choose up to three exam cities within the same zone while filling out the application form.

In 2025, 11 new cities were added, including Baddi, Una, Palampur, Puttur, Bhilwara, Dausa, Hanumangarh, Nandyala, Erode, Krishnagiri, and Pollachi.