The Indian Institute of Science and seven Indian Institutes of Technology jointly conduct Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE) for Engineering students. On behalf of National Coordination Board � GATE, the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, the test is organised at national level. For regulating the examination and declaring the results, GATE committee is the only responsible authority, which involves representatives from administering institutes. For GATE 2010, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati is assigned as an organising institute. This institute is going to look after the full responsibility related to coordination of GATE 2010.
Admission into postgraduate programmes with MHRD and some other government assistantships/ scholarships in engineering institutes/ colleges can be acquired by GATE qualifying candidates. Eligibility for admission into Doctoral/ Master programmes in Architecture/ Technology/ Engineering as well as Doctoral programmes in other related Science branches with MHRD or other government assistantships / scholarships is Bachelor's degree in Technology/ Engineering/ Architecture or Master's degree in any area of Mathematics/ Science/ ComputerMasters in Technology/ Engineering/ Architecture may get admission into PhD programmes with assistantship/ scholarship without going through GATE exams. Applications/ Statistics. The students, who secure a place into a postgraduate programme, according to the existing procedure of the relevant institution, are eligible for scholarship as well. However, Candidates with
GATE qualification is compulsory in few of the institutions, and it's equally applicable on self-financing students to postgraduate programmes. GATE Qualifying candidates are eligible for Junior Research Fellowship award in CSIR Laboratories or sponsored projects by CSIR. Students coming to the top in some of the GATE papers can apply for "Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Fellowship", which is given by CSIR. Prerequisite for an Engineer or Scientist at government organisation is sometimes GATE.
