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Last Updated on July 3, 2025 by MBAUniverse.com News Desk

IIM Sambalpur MBA Batch Profile (2025-27): IIMS Admits 363 Students Across Two MBA Programs; Focus on Academic Diversity and Work Experience

IIM Sambalpur, a progressive and fast-growing IIM, has admitted 363 students across its two full-time MBA programs. Emphasizing academic diversity, IIM Sambalpur has enrolled an almost equal number of non-engineering candidates across the programs. A notable highlight of the 2025–27 batch profile for the Business Analytics program is that 100% of the students have prior work experience. Read complete details in this MBAUniverse.com article.

IIM Sambalpur MBA Batch Profile

IIM Sambalpur MBA Batch 2025-27 Profile: Key Highlights 
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) at IIM Sambalpur is a two-year, full-time, residential programme. It aims to groom participants into globally responsible leaders. The MBA curriculum at IIM Sambalpur provides students with an ideal platform to enhance their knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes, preparing them to take on challenging roles in the professional world. The program is guided by three core principles: innovation, inclusion, and integrity. 

The 11th batch of IIM Sambalpur’s flagship MBA program (2025–27) showcases high academic diversity, with 49.68% of students from engineering backgrounds and 50.32% from non-engineering backgrounds.

IIM Sambalpur MBA in Business Analytics (MBA-BA) Batch 2025-27 Profile: Key Highlights 
IIM Sambalpur’s MBA in Business Analytics (MBA-BA) equips students with competencies in business analytics, data-driven decision-making, and strategic management. The program has a unique structure. The first year of the program is conducted at the state-of-the-art IIM Sambalpur New Delhi Campus (IIM-SBP-ND), while the second year will also be held at the same campus. Students have the option to pursue a Dual-Degree Program at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. Upon completion of the second year in Thailand, all students will be granted a one-year extended work visa, offering opportunities for an international career. 

IIM Sambalpur’s MBA in Business Analytics (MBA-BA) programme saw higher number of students with engineering background. Additionally, 100% of participants of MBA-BA batch possess prior work experience. Key highlights are as follows:

 

  • Academic Diversity: 61.70% Engineers, 49% Non-Engineers
  • Freshers vs Work Ex Candidates: 100% with work experience, 13% freshers. 

IIM Sambalpur Welcomes MBA Batch of 2025-27 
IIM Sambalpur welcomed the new batch of 2025-27 in a ceremony. Eminent personalities including V. Srinivas, IAS, Secretary, DARPG, GOI as the Chief Guest; Rajiv Kumar, CEO, Vedanta Aluminium as the Guest of Honor; Samir Kumar, Country Manager, Amazon India as the keynote speaker.

Addressing the students, Shri V. Srinivas, IAS, Secretary DARPG, GOI, said, “Across every sector, space, biotech, semiconductors, energy and robotics, India is witnessing an unprecedented technology surge. Our ‘Maximum Governance, Minimum Government’ approach is turning that momentum into citizen-first outcomes.” He further added, “When students master digital tools, understand policy, and build entrepreneurial mind-sets, they don’t just analyse numbers; they design solutions that simplify lives, power industry and steer India toward a Viksit Bharat by 2047.” 

Earlier, during his welcome address, Prof. Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director, IIM Sambalpur, said, “India’s rise from the world’s 10th to 4th largest economy is a result of bold reforms like Digital India, Skill India, and Make in India. At IIM Sambalpur, we believe it’s time to add one more, ‘Brand in India’.” He further added, “IIM Sambalpur is not just producing managers, but responsible leaders capable of shaping a sustainable and inclusive Viksit Bharat by 2037, not 2047.” 

Spread over approximately 200 acres of land, the permanent campus of IIM Sambalpur was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, on 3rd February 2024. In addition to two MBA programs, IIM Sambalpur offers an MBA for working professionals at the Delhi Centre at ISID, Vasant Kunj. Key highlights of IIM Sambalpur are:

  • IIM Sambalpur CAT cut-off is about 92 percentile. 
  • IIM Sambalpur MBA fee is INR 13.04 Lakh, 
  • IIM Sambalpur average salary package stood at INR 16.64 LPA for the 2023 batch. 
  • IIM Sambalpur highest salary package stood at INR 64.61 LPA for the 2023 batch.

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