IIM Udaipur Admission Criteria 2014-16

With an aim to help CAT 2013 aspirants to choose the desired Indian Institute of Management, MBAUniverse.com has started a special series - IIMs Admission Criteria 2014-16 that will equip aspirants with detailed and updated information on the admissions process of all 13 IIMs.

In todays article of this special series, we will analyze IIM Udaipur admission criteria for the Batch 2014-16.

In 2009, the Indian government decided to start six new IIMs including IIM Udaipur. IIM U started its PGP programme with 58 students in a temporary campus located at Polymer Science Building, Mohanlal Sukhadia University (MLSU), Udaipur. The new campus for IIM Udaipur will come up in 253 acres of land in the Balicha area of Udaipur, Rajasthan which have been allocated by the Government of Rajasthan for the this purpose.

Shri C. K. Birla, the Chairman of Hindustan Motors Ltd. India, was appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Governors for IIM Udaipur while Prof. Janat Shah, formerly with IIM Bangalore, was appointed as the Institutes Director.

IMU has made significant investments into building analytical capabilities of students via both infrastructural development viz. full-fledged Bloomberg lab and coursework development. Entrepreneurship is the third key area of focus at IIMU.

The following articles will also share with you the admissions, faculty & placement Data of IIM Udaipur for the year 2013-15.

Analysis of admissions, faculty and placements data

Below is the performance of IIM Udaipur on some of the specific criterion Number of permanent faculty, total seats, median domestic salary and fees for 2013.

Table 1: Admissions, faculty & placement Data of IIM Udaipur (2013-15)

Institute Name
Permanent/ Visiting Faculty
Total Seats
Minimum Cut-off CAT 2012
Median salary 2013 (In Lakhs)

Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
19/27
120
90
Rs. 9.31

According to the MBAUniverse.com survey data, IIM Udaipur has a total number of 120 seats. The number of permanent and visiting faculty at IIM Udaipur is 19 and 27 respectively. Median Salary in Placement 2013 at IIM Udaipur was Rs. 9.31 lakhs
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Analysis of IIM Udaipur Admission Criteria for PGP 2014

IIM Udaipur Admission Criteria 2014 consists of:
(a) CAT Examination (b)Short listing candidates for Personal Appearance (PA) process (c)Conducting the PA process. PA process is composed of Written Analysis (WA) and Personal Interview (PI). The PA process will be common to all the six new IIMs, namely, Rohtak, Ranchi, Raipur, Tiruchirappalli, Udaipur, and Kashipur. (d)Preparing the Merit List based on CAT score, PI & WA score and Profile score as indicated in following tables.

1. IIM Udaipur Admission Criteria 2014 for short listing for PA (WA & PI) process
The cut-off percentile marks for eligibility for PA process in the two sections and the total CAT scores for different categories of students is given below.

Category
QA & DI
VA & LR
Total

SC
60
60
75

ST
50
50
65

DAP
55
55
70

NC-OBC
63
63
81

General
70
70
90

IIM Udaipur Admission Committee will decide the number of candidates who would be called for PA process on the basis of short listed merit list prepared for each category. However, if the actual number of short-listed candidates were found to be less (more) than the required number of candidates to be called for PI/WA category-wise, then the overall as well as section-wise minimum score would be reduced (increased) to get the desired number of candidates.

The six new IIMs (Kashipur, Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Trichy and Udaipur) have decided to adopt a common process of WA&PI to be coordinated this year by IIM Trichy. In case any of the older IIMs (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode, and Lucknow) are willing to share their WA&PI score with the six new IIMs, the common candidates who have applied to new IIMs, need not to appear for WA&PI process separately, else they have to appear. The common candidates will be intimated the names of older IIMs sharing WA&PI scores with new IIMs in due course of time.

2 .Criteria for Preparing the Merit List
The criteria for preparing the Merit List will be as follows
CAT Score: 50 %
Personal Appearance (PI & WA): 30%
Profile: 20%
a. CAT Score: IIM Udaipur will use CAT 2013 score
b. Personal Appearance: IIM Udaipur will consider the following weightage
Written Analysis : 10%
Personal Interview : 20%
c. Profile: The following weightages will be considered for profiling
Academic Profile: 40 % of Profile weight
Work experience: 30 % of Profile weight
Diversity : 30 % of Profile weight
I. For Academic Profile following will be the weights
10th Standard: 10
12th Standard: 10
Under Graduation: 20

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