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541 GATE CS - 58 CCMT Choices Draft. Looking for feedback on Tier B/C order and recent reordering.
Hi everyone,
I cleared GATE CS 2026 with a score of 541 (General, All India). I am looking to pursue an M.Tech in CS/AI/Data Science fields and have put together a definitive list of 58 choices for CCMT.
My strategy is divided into Tier A (Aspirational), Tier B (Moderate Sweet Spot), and Tier C (Selective Safeties over my current entry-level corporate backup).
I recently made 3 major reordering based on initial reviews and want to verify if they are correct from a ground-reality/placement perspective:
- NIT Hamirpur CSE (#31) moved above MANIT Bhopal AI/InfoSec.
- NIT Jalandhar CSE (#32) moved above NIT Hamirpur AI.
- SVNIT Surat CSE (#27) pushed higher above IIIT Tiruchirappalli.
Here is my full ordered list of 58 choices:
- NIT Tiruchirappalli — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Warangal — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Calicut — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Karnataka, Surathkal — Computer Science & Engineering
- IIIT Allahabad — M.Tech IT – AI & Machine Learning
- NIT Warangal — CS & Information Security
- NIT Calicut — CSE (Information Security)
- NIT Karnataka, Surathkal — CSE (Information Security)
- MNNIT Allahabad — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Karnataka, Surathkal — Computational & Data Science
- ABV-IIITM Gwalior — Computer Science & Engineering
- MNIT Jaipur — Computer Science & Engineering
- VNIT Nagpur — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Rourkela — Information Security
- ABV-IIITM Gwalior — Information Technology
- NIT Delhi — Computer Science & Engineering
- IIIT Allahabad — M.Tech IT – Software Engg & Automation
- ABV-IIITM Gwalior — Information & Cyber Security
- NIT Rourkela — Software Engineering
- NIT Tiruchirappalli — Data Analytics
- IIIT Lucknow — Computer Science
- NIT Delhi — AI & Data Science
- IIIT Allahabad — M.Tech IT – Data Engineering
- NIT Durgapur — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Durgapur — AI & Data Science
- ABV-IIITM Gwalior — Autonomous Systems & Machine Intelligence
- SVNIT Surat — Computer Science & Engineering
- IIIT Allahabad — M.Tech IT – Robotics & AI
- NIT Jamshedpur — Computer Science & Engineering
- SVNIT Surat — Data Science
- NIT Hamirpur — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Jalandhar — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Hamirpur — CSE (Artificial Intelligence)
- MANIT Bhopal — Artificial Intelligence
- MANIT Bhopal — Information Security
- NIT Jamshedpur — Artificial Intelligence
- NIT Jamshedpur — Data Science and Engineering
- NIT Jalandhar — CSE (Information Security)
- NIT Jalandhar — Artificial Intelligence
- NIT Jalandhar — Data Science & Engineering
- IIITDM Jabalpur — AI & Machine Learning
- IIITDM Jabalpur — Data Science
- NIT Raipur — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Raipur — AI & Data Science
- NIT Raipur — Information Technology
- IIIT Tiruchirappalli — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Patna — Cyber Security
- NIT Patna — Data Science & Engineering
- IIITDM Kancheepuram — CSE – Data Science & AI
- IIIT Pune — Computer Science & Engineering
- IIIT Kurnool — Computer Science & Engineering
- NIT Goa — Computer Science & Engineering
- IIIT Kurnool — AI & Data Science
- IIIT Bhopal — M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence
- IIIT Vadodara (GN Campus) — Data Science
- IIIT Bhopal — M.Tech in Data Science
- IIIT Kota — CSE – AI & Data Science
- IIIT Una — CSE – Data Science / Cyber Security
Specific questions I need help with:
- Are there any glaring order mistakes where a significantly worse college/branch is placed above a better one?
- Does IIIT Lucknow at #21 make sense given its placement trajectory versus the choices right below it?
- Are my safeties (51–58) genuinely better options than taking an entry-level IT corporate baseline role?
Any insight on current campus life, placements, or corrections to this order would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
u/Individual_Travel397 — 7 days ago