Candidates will get an option to select the IAS (UPSC CSE) examination centre. The candidates can select the exam city of their choice.
UPSC exam centres are listed in the official UPSC notification released by the UPSC. The UPSC issues a separate list of centres for the Civil Services Preliminary and Mains exam. Candidates must check the list of UPSC exam centres before filling out the IAS application form. This would help them to choose the nearest and most accessible venue for the exam. IAS exam centres are allotted on a first-come-first-serve basis. Thus, candidates should register at the earliest to ensure that they are allotted the centre of their choice for the IAS exam. Once the maximum number of candidates are allotted a specific UPSC Exam Centre that particular centre gets blocked or frozen for further allotment.
UPSC Exam Centres: 2022 Prelims Exam Centres
The candidates can opt for any of the below listed IAS Exam Centres for UPSC prelims 2022 as per their convenience. The number of IAS Prelims exam centres is more than the IAS main exam centres since the number of candidates who appear for prelims is higher. The list of IAS prelims exam centres in 2022 is as follows.
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands
- Port Blair
- Andhra Pradesh
- Anantapur (Anantpur)
- Tirupati
- Vijayawada
- Visakhapatnam
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Itanagar
- Assam
- Dispur
- Jorhat
- Bihar
- Gaya
- Patna
- Chandigarh
- Chandigarh
- Chattisgarh
- Bilaspur
- Raipur
- Delhi
- Delhi
- Goa
- Panaji
- Gujarat
- Ahmedabad
- Surat
- Rajkot
- Haryana
- Faridabad
- Gurgaon
- Himachal Pradesh
- Shimla
- Jammu & Kashmir
- Jammu
- Srinagar
- Jharkhand
- Ranchi
- Karnataka
- Banglore
- Dharwad
- Mysore
- Kerala
- Kochi
- Kozhikode (Calicut)
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Madhya Pradesh
- Bhopal
- Gwalior
- Indore
- Jabalpur
- Maharashtra
- Aurangabad
- Mumbai
- Nagpur
- Navi Mumbai
- Pune
- Nasik
- Thane
- Manipur
- Imphal
- Meghalaya
- Shilong
- Mizoram
- Aizawl
- Nagaland
- Kohima
- Odisha
- Cuttack
- Sambalpur
- Puducherry
- Puducherry
- Punjab
- Ludhiana
- Rajasthan
- Ajmer
- Jaipur
- Jodhpur
- Udaipur
- Sikkim
- Gangtok
- Tamil Nadu
- Chennai
- Coimbatore
- Madurai
- Tiruchirapalli
- Vellore
- Telangana
- Hyderabad
- Warangal
- Tripura
- Agartala
- Uttar Pradesh
- Agra
- Aligarh
- Bareilly
- Ghaziabad
- Gorakhpur
- Lucknow
- Gautam Buddha Nagar
- Prayagraj (Allahabad)
- Varanasi
- Uttarakhand
- Dehradun
- Srinagar
- Almora
- West Bengal
- Kolkata
- Siliguri (Siligudi)
UPSC (IAS) Mains Exam Centre
The UPSC IAS Mains Exam centres are fewer in number as compared to the Prelims. The number of candidates that are shortlisted for IAS mains is less than those who appeared for prelims. Thus, not as many exam centres are required to accommodate the candidates. All the UPSC Mains exam centres are listed in the table below.
List of UPSC IAS Mains Exam Centres:
| Ahmedabad | Dehradun | Mumbai |
| Aizawl | Delhi | Patna |
| Allahabad | Dispur (Guwahati) | Raipur |
| Bengaluru | Hyderabad | Ranchi |
| Bhopal | Jaipur | Shillong |
| Chandigarh | Jammu | Shimla |
| Chennai | Kolkata | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Cuttack | Lucknow | Vijayawada |
The article might have information for the previous academic years, please refer to the official website of the exam.