IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2026-28: Big Shift towards Diversity - Women 66%, Non-Engineers 57%

IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2026-28: Key Highlights at a Glance
IIM Udaipur formally inaugurated the 15th batch of its flagship Two-Year MBA Program (2026-28). The institute admitted 378 students to the batch, drawn from varied academic disciplines, professional backgrounds and geographies. In its official announcement, IIM Udaipur described the cohort as one defined by diversity, talent and ambition, and linked the batch composition to its stated objective of building an inclusive learning environment that strengthens classroom discussion and peer learning.

The table below captures every officially disclosed data point on the IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2026-28.

Gender Diversity in IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2026-28
Women constitute 65.87% of the IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2026-28, while male students account for 34.12%. This is the single most striking feature of the batch profile. In the 2025-27 batch, women made up just 30% of the cohort. This means that IIM Udaipur gender diversity has improved by nearly 36 percentage points in a single admission cycle. 

Applied to a batch size of 378, the 65.87% share works out to approximately 249 women and 129 men. 

The significance for MBA aspirants is direct. IIM Udaipur now sits at the top end of the gender diversity table among IIMs. For comparison, MBAUniverse.com had earlier reported that IIM Kozhikode achieved 51% women across its three full-time MBA programmes in 2025-27 — a figure that was widely cited as a benchmark. The IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2026-28 has gone well past it.

Academic Diversity: 56.87% of IIM Udaipur MBA Batch from Non-Engineers 
Academic diversity is the second big shift in the IIM Udaipur batch profile. A majority of the batch — 56.87% — comes from non-engineering academic backgrounds. In other words, engineering graduates now account for 43.13% of the cohort, down from 67% in the 2025-27 batch. IIM Udaipur states that students come from a wide range of fields and bring varied perspectives into the classroom.

This is a meaningful correction. MBAUniverse.com had reported the 2025-27 batch as engineer-heavy, with only 33% students from non-engineering streams. Within twelve months, the non-engineering share has expanded by nearly 24 percentage points. For context, MBAUniverse.com had reported that IIM Lucknow admitted close to 50% non-engineering students in its 2025-27 batch. IIM Udaipur has now moved ahead of that mark.

IIM Udaipur Batch Work Experience: 40.47% with Industry Exposure
The IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2026-28 brings together fresh graduates and young professionals. Prior work experience is held by 40.47% of the batch, which means approximately 59.53% of students have joined directly from an undergraduate programme. IIM Udaipur says this mix enables an exchange of ideas between students entering management education straight from academia and those carrying industry insights.

Here too, the direction of change is sharp. The 2025-27 batch had 72% students with work experience and only 28% freshers. The freshers’ share has therefore more than doubled in one cycle. The IIM Udaipur average age for this cohort stands at 23.46 years, consistent with a batch weighted towards recent graduates and candidates with short work stints. Read together, the IIM Udaipur work experience and IIM Udaipur average age data describe a distinctly younger classroom than the one the institute assembled a year ago.

IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2026-28 vs 2025-27: MBAUniverse.com Comparison 
The clearest way to read the IIM Udaipur batch profile for 2026-28 is against last year’s. MBAUniverse.com had reported the IIM Udaipur MBA Batch 2025-27 as dominated by male engineers with work experience, and as an outlier among IIMs on diversity. The 2026-28 numbers turn each of those three parameters around.

Three conclusions follow from this IIM Udaipur batch profile comparison, and each of them is unusual for an IIM batch profile in a single year. First, the batch has flipped from male-majority to women-majority. Second, it has flipped from engineer-majority to non-engineer-majority. Third, it has flipped from work-experience-majority to fresher-majority. All three moved in the same admission cycle, and all three moved by more than 23 percentage points.

IIM Udaipur Inaugurates 15th MBA Batch; Ganesh Krishnan Delivers Inaugural Address
The inauguration ceremony opened with a welcome address by Prof. Ujjwal Das, Chairperson of the Two-Year MBA Program Committee, who introduced the incoming batch to the institute’s academic philosophy, values and expectations, and spoke about the transformative nature of the MBA experience. Prof. Vijayta Doshi, Dean - Programs, followed, underlining continuous learning, adaptability and responsible leadership in a dynamic business environment, and urging students to engage with diverse perspectives within the institute community.

The inaugural address was delivered by Chief Guest Mr. Ganesh Krishnan, a serial entrepreneur and promoter of ventures including BigBasket, Bluestone, HomeLane, Portea Medical and GrowthStory.in. Drawing on his entrepreneurial journey, he spoke on resilience, innovation, customer-centricity and the courage to back unconventional ideas, and encouraged the batch to stay curious and pursue emerging opportunities to build sustainable value.

Prof. Ashok Banerjee, Director, IIM Udaipur, welcomed the cohort and set out the institute’s vision of developing responsible leaders who combine analytical rigour with ethical decision-making. He pointed students towards IIM Udaipur’s research-driven learning environment, global outlook and collaborative culture. Prof. Avijit Raychaudhuri, Member of the Two-Year MBA Program Committee, delivered the vote of thanks.

The inauguration also served as the platform for recognising academic performance in the first year of the preceding batch. Scholastic awards were presented for outstanding performance across terms, and the Director’s Awards were announced for exemplary overall performance.

IIM Udaipur: A Research Led IIM 
Founded in 2011, IIM Udaipur is among the newer IIMs and has built its positioning around research output and a global outlook rather than scale. IIM Udaipur ranks 4th in India for research in management under the UT Dallas methodology, and the institute featured in the Financial Times Global Masters in Management Ranking 2024. Alongside the flagship Two-Year MBA, IIM Udaipur runs one-year full-time MBA programmes in Global Supply Chain Management and Digital Enterprise Management, and a doctoral programme.

At its 13th annual convocation held on April 3, 2025, IIM Udaipur graduated 452 students — 1 PhD scholar, 328 students of the Two-Year MBA Batch 2023-25, and 123 students of the one-year MBA programmes in Global Supply Chain Management and Digital Enterprise Management (Batch 2024-25). The convocation address was delivered by Mr. Amitabh Chaudhry, Managing Director and CEO of Axis Bank.

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