GATE 2025: Top Subjects Chosen by Students in the Last 5 Years

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The Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) paper has been the most-registered subject in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) over the past five years. Mechanical and Civil Engineering also remain popular choices.

As GATE registrations continue for master's, doctoral programs, and PSU recruitment, here are the top three subjects students prefer.

In 2024, 1,52,652 students registered for the CS paper, with 1,23,967 appearing. However, only 21,949 qualified. The highest score in CS was 1000, while the lowest was -96.

Top 3 subjects in GATE 2024

Subjects	No of students registered	No of students appeared	No of students qualified
Computer Science and Information Technology (CS)	1,52,652	1,23,967	21,949
Civil Engineering (CE)	1,08,136	85,869	16,604
Mechanical Engineering (ME)	83,114	65,546	11,922

According to GATE 2023 data, the most number of registered students were seen in Civil Engineering. As many as 1,05,064 students registered for it. Of them 83,187 appeared and and as many as 1,57,85 made to the qualified list.

Top 3 subjects in GATE 2023

Subjects	No of students registering	No of students appearing	No of students qualifying
Civil Engineering (CE)	1,05,064	83,187	1,57,85
Computer Science and Information Technology (CS)	99,555	75,679	14,797
Mechanical Engineering (ME)	82,233	63,489	11,401

In 2022 as well, the CE paper garnered the most number of students registering for it. Of the 1,36,285 students registering for the subject, as many as 1,00,043 appeared and 17,776 qualified.

Subjects	No of students registering	No of students appearing	No of students qualifying
Civil Engineering (CE)	1,36,285	1,00,043	17,776
Mechanical Engineering (ME)	1,26,979	89,567	15,282
Computer Science and Information Technology (CS)	1,15,458	77,257	12,727

In 2021, 1,20,594 students appeared for the Mechanical Engineering (ME) GATE paper, followed by 1,15,270 for Civil Engineering (CE), and 1,01,922 for Computer Science (CS). Qualification rates were 17.38% for ME, 17.45% for CE, and 17.73% for CS.

In 2020, of 8,58,890 registered candidates, 79.76% appeared, and 18.8% qualified. Geophysics had the highest qualifying marks: 51.9 for General, 46.7 for OBC, and 34.6 for SC/ST/PwD.

IIT Roorkee will conduct GATE 2025 with 30 papers available, including aerospace, chemistry, physics, and more.