Top MBA colleges Accepting CAT 2016: Cut Off, Latest Placements, Fee, Admission Status

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January 20, 2017
CAT 2016 cut offs in top MBA colleges vary from IIM to IIM and also among other top B schools
Low or high scores in CAT 2016 in the range of 60 to 90 and above percentile can get you shortlisted in many top MBA colleges in non IIM category

Out of 3500 MBA colleges in India, around 200 are the top MBA colleges accepting CAT 2016 scores. The CAT 2016 cut offs  in top MBA colleges vary from IIM to IIM and also among other top B-schools. While the top IIMs have announced their 1st stage shortlist post CAT 2016 result declaration on January 9, 2017 other IIMs, and other top MBA colleges namely FMS Delhi, SPJIMR Mumbai, MDI Gurgaon, IMI New Delhi, IMT Ghaziabad among others are in the process of announcing their shortlist and schedule for GD-PI-WAT round shortly.

IIM Ahmedabad has considered a total 25192 candidates for 1st stage shortlisting based on CAT 2016 cut off percentile and has finally shortlisted 1224 candidates for Academic Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI). The Interview schedule has also been announced simultaneously by IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode and other IIMs.

Other top MBA colleges - FMS Delhi, MDI Gurgaon, SPJIMR Mumbai, IMI New Delhi, IMT Ghaziabad, 9 new IIMs participating in the Common Admission Process (CAP) 2017 are to announce their 1st stage shortlist on the basis of CAT 2016 scores in a few days from now.  The CAP 2017 is coordinated by IIM Rohtak for admission to 9 IIMs which also includes 3 newest IIMs who started operation in 2015-16.

Top MBA Colleges- CAT cut offs
Low or high scores in CAT 2016 in the range of 60 to 90 and above percentile can get you shortlisted in many top MBA colleges in non IIM category. While IIMs are strict on their minimum qualifying sectional percentile score, other top B-schools apart from considering the sectional percentile scores, highly consider the overall CAT scores. If you have good academics and have done well in extra- curricular activities also, you may be shortlisted by top B-schools like SPJIMR, Mumbai and others. 

Latest Placements
Placement in the top MBA colleges has been consistently rising. Many top B-schools have completed their placement 2017. Prominent among them are IMI New Delhi, SPJIMR Mumbai among others.

It has been reported that MBA placements 2017 would go much higher than last year in almost all the management institutes.

Top MBA colleges – Admission Status
Admissions in some of the top MBA colleges are still open for a few more days and the application last date is proposed to close in January for MBA/PGDM 2017-19. It could serve as the last opportunity for those who wish to apply and start pursuing the management programme in 2017 in one of the top non-IIMs.

The admission process in IMI New Delhi is open and will close today evening. The admission at IMT Ghaziabad is open till January 28 for the candidates who wish to apply with their CAT 2016 scores and till February 5 for the candidates who wish to apply with their XAT 2017 scores.

IMI New Delhi
Last date to apply: January 20, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 90
Fee: Rs.15.41 lakhs
Average Placement class 2015-2017: Rs.14. 30 lakhs

IMT Ghaziabad
Last date to apply: For applicants with CAT 2016 score till Jan 28 & with XAT 2017 score till February 5, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/ XAT 2017
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 92.03
Fee: Rs.15 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.10.08 lakhs

K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research (SIMSR) Mumbai
Last date to apply: February 10, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/XAT 2017/CMAT 2017
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 87.89
Fee: Rs.9.68 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.9.40 lakhs

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
Last Date to apply: January 24, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/ XAT 2017/CMAT 2016
Flagship programmes: PGDM
CAT cut off percentile: 85
Fee: Rs.18.50 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.12.11 lakhs

MICA Ahmedabad
Last date to apply: January 31, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/XAT 2017 or GMAT
Flagship programmes: PGDM-C
Last year CAT cut off percentile: No minimum cut off, candidates to additionally appear in MICAT-II
Fee: Rs.15 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.11.60 lakhs

TAPMI Manipal
Last date to apply: Jan 31- for applicants with XAT 2017 score (Closed for applicants with CAT 2016 scores)
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/ XAT 2017
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT/XAT cut off percentile: 85
Fee: Rs.14 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.9.23 lakhs

FORE School of Management, New Delhi
Last date to apply: January 20, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/XAT 2017/CMAT 2017
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 84
Fee: Rs.12.50 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.9 Lakhs

IFMR, Chennai
Last date to apply: January 22, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/ XAT 2017/CMAT 2017
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 80
Fee: Rs.12 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.8.5 lakhs

IRMA, Anand
Last date to apply: January 20
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/ XAT 2017 and additionally appear in “Issues of Social Concern"
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 80
Fee: Rs.10.10 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.8.56 lakhs

Institute of Management, NIRMA University, Ahmedabad
Last date to apply: January 24, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016
Flagship programmes: MBA
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 80
Fee: Rs.8.10 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.8.56 lakhs

SDMIMD, Mysore
Last date to apply: Open
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/XAT 2017/CMAT 2017/MAT 2016-17
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 74
Fee: Rs.9.92 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.6.5 Lakhs
 
BIM Trichy
Last date to apply: February 4, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT cut off percentile: 70
Fee: Rs.12 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.9.90 Lakhs

BIMTECH, Greater Noida
Last date to, apply: January 31, 2017
Accepted exam Score: CAT 2016/ XAT 2017
Flagship programmes: PGDM
Last year CAT/XAT cut off percentile: 70
Fee: Rs.11 lakhs
Average Placement class 2014-2016: Rs.7.35 lakhs

These top B-schools are rated at par with many IIMs and are even better performers to a few of the IIMs in terms of learning and placement.

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