The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur is the organising institute for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2022. GATE 2021 was organised by IIT Bombay and the institute transferred the responsibility to IIT-KGP this year.
Subhasis Chaudhri, director of IIT Bombay, handed over the chairmanship of NCB-GATE 2022 to Virendra Singh Tewari, director of IIT KGP.
In GATE 2021, a total of 8,82,684 candidates had applied which is a slight increase from 8.59 lakh applications last year. A total of 14,196 students had applied for newly introduced humanities subjects. This is more than the number of applications in nine existing subjects out of 27 papers. The least opted for paper in 2021 was statistics while the most opted paper remains mechanical engineering.