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Common Admission Test (CAT) is the largest MBA entrance exam. Its popularity can be understood by the fact that the number of CAT aspirants have been increasing year after year.
CAT Year | Total Registration in Lakhs |
2008 | 2.76 |
2009 | 2.42 |
2010 | 2.04 |
2011 | 2.05 |
2012 | 2.14 |
2013 | 1.95 |
2014 | 1.97 |
2015 | 2.19 |
Source: CAT data and MBAUniverse.com analysis
If we compare the number to other exams, it is more than twice the number of any MBA entrance exam in India including XAT, MAT, CMAT, NMAT by GMAC or SNAP.
CAT 2016 scores: Gateway to top B-schools
There are more than 3000 management institutes who accept CAT scores as one of the major criteria for admission. A few of the top rated ones among them are –
20 IIMs
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Tiruchirappalli
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Udaipur
Other top B-schools who accept CAT scores for admission to MBA and PGDM programmes in India include the University affiliated autonomous B-schools, other autonomous B-schools and Private PGDM B-schools. These B-schools are second to none and compete with highest international education standard:
- Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) University of Delhi, Delhi
- Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Delhi & Kolkata
- International Management Institute (IMI) Delhi
- Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad
- Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), University of Mumbai, Mumbai
- Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon
- Birla Institute of management & Technology (BIMTECH) Greater Noida
- T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Manipal
- Xavier School of Management (XLRI) Jamshedpur
- Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB)
- National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai
- Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM) IIT Mumbai
- Department of Management Studies (DMS) IIT Delhi
- Department of Management Studies (IIT) Madras
CAT 2016 aspirants should be aware that IIMs prescribe minimum qualifying sectional scores alongwith overall score to shortlist the candidates.
Candidates desirous of pursuing management study with IIMs are supposed to score above 85-90 percentile in each section alongwith high overall percentile. Scoring only high overall percentile will not entitle a candidate to get shortlisted by any IIM.
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