The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts Civil Services Examination for various posts like IAS, IPS, IFS, IFoS and others. Here’s the list of the UPSC Exam Centres for Civil services Prelims and Mains to help the candidates to choose their centre of examination before filling the UPSC online aplication form.
About UPSC Exam Centres
UPSC releases separate lists of centres for civil services preliminary and for mains examination. Candidates should check the list of UPSC exam centres that would make it easy for them to select the nearest and most convenient venue to write the exam. Candidates should know that there will be a maximum number of applicants allotted to each centre except Chennai, Dispur, Kolkata and Nagpur. Allocation of centres will be based on the first-apply-first allot and once the maximum number of candidates are allotted to a specific UPSC Exam Centre that particular centre would be blocked or frozen.
UPSC Exam Centres List – Prelims Exam
The number of IAS prelims exam centres is more than the UPSC CSE Prelims 2024 exam (expected) because of the number of candidates is far more in the prelims. The list of centres is as follows.
| Agartala | Gorakhpur | Patna |
| Agra | Gurgaon | PortBlair |
| Ajmer | Gwalior | Puducherry |
| Ahmedabad | Hyderabad | Pune |
| Aizawl | Imphal | Prayagraj (Allahabad) |
| Aligarh | Indore | Raipur |
| ALMORA (UTTARAKHAND) | Itanagar | Rajkot |
| Anantpuru (Andhra Pradesh) | Jabalpur | Ranchi |
| Aurangabad | Jaipur | Sambalpur |
| Begaluru | Jammu | Shillong |
| Bareilly | Jodhpur | Shimla |
| Bhopal | Jorhat | Siliguri |
| Bilaspur | Kochi | Srinagar |
| Chandigarh | Kohima | Srinagar (Uttarakhand) |
| Chennai | Kolkata | Surat |
| Coimbatore | Kozhikode (Calicut) | Thane |
| Cuttack | Leh | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Dehradun | Lucknow | Tiruchirapalli |
| Delhi | Ludhiana | Tirupati |
| Dharwad | Madurai | Udaipur |
| Dispur | Mumbai | Varanasi |
| Faridabad | Mysuru | Vellore |
| Gangtok | Nagpur | Vijayawada |
| Gaya | Navi Mumbai | Vishakhapatnam |
| Gautam Buddh Nagar | Nasik | Warangal |
| Ghaziabad | Panaji (Goa) | Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) |
| Mandi, (Himachal Pradesh) |
UPSC Exam Centres List – Mains Exam
IAS main exam is conducted on weekends and most of the time it takes two weekends to complete. The candidates need to make accommodations or travel various times to the exam centre. So the candidates need to include the travelling time to the IAS exam centres in their IAS preparation plan to avoid the hassles of the last minute. The candidates can see the IAS exam centre list for the IAS main exam as notified by the UPSC.
| Ahmedabad | Dehradun | Mumbai |
| Aizawl | Delhi | Patna |
| Prayagraj (Allahabad) | Dispur (Guwahati) | Raipur |
| Bangaluru | Hyderabad | Ranchi |
| Bhopal | Jaipur | Shillong |
| Chandigarh | Jammu | Shimla |
| Chennai | Kolkata | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Cuttack | Lucknow | Vijayawada |
Note: The official website informs that the exam centres (for both preliminary and mains) will be allotted on a first-apply-first allot basis. Once the capacity of a particular IAS exam centre is attained, the same will be frozen and applicants will have to choose a centre from the remaining options. Applicants are, therefore, advised to apply early so that they can get an exam centre of their choice.