Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering - GATE 2013

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an all India examination that tests the complete understanding of several undergraduate subjects/courses in Engineering and Technology.   

The GATE score is used for admissions to various post-graduate programmes such as M.E., M.Tech, direct Ph.D. in Indian higher education institutes with financial assistance provided by MHRD and other Government agencies.  The score is also sometimes used by government and public sector departments for employment screening.

GATE is conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and seven IITs (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee) on behalf of the National Coordination Board – GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.

GATE 2013 is going to be conducted in 21 different streams. They are:

1. AE – Aerospace Engineering
2. AG –  Agricultural Engineering
3. AR – Architecture and Planning
4. BT – Biotechnology
5. CE – Civil Engineering
6. CH – Chemical Engineering
7. CS – Computer Science and Information Technology
8. CY – Chemistry
9. EC – Electronics and Communication Engineering
10. EE – Electrical Engineering
11. GG – Geology and Geophysics
12. IN – Instrumentation Engineering
13. MA – Mathematics
14. ME – Mechanical Engineering
15. MN – Mining Engineering
16. MT – Metallurgical Engineering
17. PH – Physics
18. PI – Production and Industrial Engineering
19. TF – Textile Engineering and Fibre Science
20. XE – Engineering Sciences (Engineering Mathematics <compulsory>, Fluid Mechanics, Materials Science, Solid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Polymer Science and Engineering, Food Technology)
21. XL – Life Sciences (Chemistry <compulsory>, Biochemistry, Botany, Microbiology, Zoology, Food Technology) 

Note: 

• A Candidate can apply for only ONE of the 21 papers listed above.
• A candidate appearing in the XE paper has to answer Engineering Mathematics, General Aptitude, and any two of these subjects: Fluid Mechanics, Materials Science, Solid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Polymer Science and Engineering, Food Technology
• A candidate appearing in the XL paper has to answer Chemistry, General Aptitude, and any two of these subjects: Biochemistry, Botany, Microbiology, Zoology, Food Technology
• The GATE examination consists of a single paper of 3 hours duration which contains 65 questions carrying a maximum of 100 marks.
• The question paper will consist of only objective questions.
• All the papers will contain few questions that test the General Aptitude (Language and Analytical Skills), apart from the core subject of the paper.
• The GATE examination is conducted in online and offline mode.
• ONLINE Examination: A computer based test (CBT) where the candidate will use a computer mouse to choose a correct answer or enter a numerical answer via a virtual keypad. 15 streams i.e. AE, AG, AR, BT, CE, CH, CY, GG, MA, MN, MT, PH, TF, XE, and XL are conducted Online.
• OFFLINE Examination:  A paper based examination where the candidate will mark the correct answer out of four options in an Optical Response Sheet (ORS) by darkening the appropriate bubble with a pen. 6 Streams i.e. CS, EC, EE, IN , ME, and PI are conducted Offline.

Important Dates:

• GATE 2013 Online Application Submission Begins: 1^st September 2012. 
• Last date for Submission of Online Application Form (Website Closure): 30^th September 2012 
• Receipt of printed version of ONLINE Application at GATE Offices: 8^th October 2012 
• GATE 2013 Online Exam Date: 20^th January 2013 
• GATE 2013 Offline Exam Date: 10^th February 2013
• Announcement of GATE 2013 results: 15^th March 2013

 

GATE Paper Codes	Examination Time	Examination Date	Examination Type
AR, CE, GG, MA, MT, PH, and TF	09:00 hrs–12:00 hrs	20th January 2013	Online
AE,  AG, BT, CH, CY,  MN,  XE, and XL	14:00 hrs–17:00 hrs
CS,  ME and PI	09:00 hrs–12:00 hrs	10th February 2013	Offline
EC,  EE  and IN	14:00 hrs–17:00 hrs

For information on eligibility, how to apply, exam cities, syllabus, admit card and scorecard refer to http://www.gate.iitb.ac.in/gate2013

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World's Best Universities : QS World University Rankings 2012

QS World University Rankings has published the latest world university rankings for year 2012.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the new leader in QS World University Rankings and has overtaken both Cambridge and Harvard.
2. Universities from United States continue to dominate the rankings, however, four of the top six universities are from United Kingdom. 
3. There is an extraordinary increate of almost 10 percent in international students numbers at the top 100 universities.

QS World University Rankings listed below.
Source: QS World University Rankings 2012/13 www.topuniversities.com

Rank	Institution
1.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
2.	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3.	Harvard University, United States
4.	UCL (University College London), United Kingdom
5.	University of Oxford, United Kingdom
6.	Imperial College London, United Kingdom
7.	Yale University, United States
8.	University of Chicago, United States
9.	Princeton University, United States
10.	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States
11.	Columbia University, United States
12.	University of Pennsylvania, United States
13.	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland
14.	Cornell University, United States
15.	Stanford University, United States
16.	Johns Hopkins University, United States
17.	University of Michigan, United States
18.	McGill University, Canada
19.	University of Toronto, Canada
20.	Duke University, United States
21.	University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
22.	University of California, Berkeley (UCB), United States
23.	University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
24.	Australian National University, Australia
25.	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
26.	Kings College London (University of London), United Kingdom
27.	Northwestern University, United States
28.	University of Bristol, United Kingdom
29.	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
30.	The University of Tokyo, Japan
31.	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
32.	The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
33.	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
34.	École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
35.	Kyoto University, Japan
36.	The University of Melbourne, Australia
37.	Seoul National University, South Korea
38.	University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
39.	The University of Sydney, Australia
40.	The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
41.	Ecole Polytechnique, France
42.	Brown University, United States
43.	New York University (NYU), United States
44.	Peking University, China
45.	University of British Columbia, Canada
46.	The University of Queensland, Australia
47.	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
48.	Tsinghua University, China
49.	Carnegie Mellon University, United States
50.	Osaka University, Japan
51.	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
52.	The University of New South Wales, Australia
53.	Technische Universität München, Germany
54.	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
55.	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
56.	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
57.	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
58.	The University of Warwick, United Kingdom
59.	University of Washington, United States
60.	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
61.	Monash University, Australia
62.	University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
63.	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
64.	Boston University, United States
65.	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
66.	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
67.	Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
68.	University of Texas at Austin, United States
69.	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom
70.	University of California, San Diego (UCSD), United States
71.	Lund University, Sweden
72.	The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
73.	University of Southampton, United Kingdom
74.	University of Geneva, Switzerland
75.	Leiden University, Netherlands
75.	Tohoku University, Japan
77.	University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
78.	University of Helsinki, Finland
79.	The University of Western Australia, Australia
80.	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
81.	Uppsala University, Sweden
82.	KU Leuven, Belgium
83.	The University of Auckland, New Zealand
84.	Washington University in St. Louis, United States
85.	Utrecht University, Netherlands
86.	Nagoya University, Japan
87.	Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
88.	Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
89.	Aarhus University, Denmark
90.	Fudan University, China
90.	University of Zurich, Switzerland
92.	Durham University, United Kingdom
93.	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
94.	University of Leeds, United Kingdom
95.	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
95.	Purdue University, United States
97.	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH), South Korea
98.	University of Pittsburgh, United States
99.	Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
100.	University of California, Davis, United States
101.	Pennsylvania State University, United States
102.	The University of Adelaide, Australia
103.	Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
104.	University of Minnesota, United States
105.	Ohio State University, United States
106.	Universität Freiburg, Germany
107.	Maastricht University, Netherlands
108.	University of Alberta, Canada
109.	University of Groningen, Netherlands
110.	University of York, United Kingdom
111.	University of Oslo, Norway
112.	Yonsei University, South Korea
113.	Dartmouth College, United States
114.	Université de Montréal, Canada
115.	University of Lausanne, Switzerland
116.	Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
117.	University of Maryland, College Park, United States
118.	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States
119.	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
120.	Rice University, United States
121.	University of Basel, Switzerland
122.	Emory University, United States
123.	University of Virginia, United States
124.	University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
125.	Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
126.	Newcastle University, United Kingdom
127.	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
128.	Kyushu University, Japan
129.	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), France
130.	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
131.	University College Dublin, Ireland
132.	Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
133.	University of Otago, New Zealand
134.	University of Southern California, United States
135.	University of Rochester, United States
136.	Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
137.	Korea University, South Korea
138.	Hokkaido University, Japan
139.	Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
140.	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
141.	Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
142.	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
143.	Cardiff University, United Kingdom
144.	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
145.	University of Bergen, Norway
146.	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
147.	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom
148.	University of Ghent, Belgium
149.	University of Bern, Switzerland
150.	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
151.	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
152.	McMaster University, Canada
153.	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
154.	University of Cape Town, South Africa
155.	University of California Irvine, United States
156.	Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia
157.	University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
158.	Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
159.	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
160.	Universität Wien, Austria
161.	Wageningen University, Netherlands
162.	University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
163.	Lancaster University, United Kingdom
164.	Case Western Reserve University, United States
165.	Texas A&M University, United States
166.	Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom
167.	Vanderbilt University, United States
168.	Nanjing University, China
169.	University of Florida, United States
170.	Zhejiang University, China
171.	Stockholm University, Sweden
172.	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
173.	The University of Western Ontario, Canada
174.	Michigan State University, United States
175.	Queen's University, Canada
176.	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
177.	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
178.	University of Bath, United Kingdom
179.	Sungkyunkwan University Korea, South
180.	University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), United States
181.	Tufts University, United States
182.	University of Exeter, United Kingdom
183.	Georgetown University, United States
183.	University of Arizona, United States
185.	University of Leicester, United Kingdom
186.	University of Science and Technology of China, China
187.	Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain
188.	University of Sussex, United Kingdom
189.	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
190.	University College Cork, Ireland
191.	University of Waterloo, Canada
192.	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
193.	University of Gothenburg, Sweden
194.	Università di Bologna (UNIBO), Italy
195.	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
196.	University of Antwerp, Belgium
197.	King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
198.	Waseda University, Japan
199.	University of Iowa, United States
200.	Keio University, Japan

Best Wishes,
Farzad Minoo Damania
Counsellor & Corporate Trainer