CAT Cut Off for IIMs & Top MBA Colleges

CAT 2019 Cut offs: Top 50 B-schools Accepting CAT 2019 Scores with Cut offs; Best options for 95 %, 90 %, 70-89 %
CAT Results will be announced in the morning of January 7, 2020. Now that you will have your CAT 2019 Percentile with you, if you are searching for Cut Offs for IIMs and other top B-schools, you are at the right place.

 

This article by MBAUniverse.com experts will help you find out:

• CAT 2019 Cut offs for IIMs, Top MBA colleges cut off in India like SPJIMR, MDI, IMT, IMI, XIMB, accepting CAT Cut Off
• MBA Colleges Cut off 2019 that match your CAT Scores and Percentile
• The CAT Cut off for admission 2020 (below) are based on latest actual data sourced from IIMs and respective B-schools so that you can use it with confidence as expected CAT cut offs.

Two Types of CAT Cut Offs
Before we move forward, please be aware that there are two types of B School cut offs:

• a) ‘CAT 2019 Cut off Percentile: Minimum criteria by IIM’ and
• b) ‘Average Batch CAT Percentile cut off’.

Know the Difference Types of CAT Cut Offs
The ‘CAT 2019 Cut off Percentile: Minimum criteria by IIM’ is the minimum eligibility MBA cut off requirement for your application to be considered by respective MBA Colleges. If you didn’t get this CAT cut off percentile, you don’t stand chance for phase-1 shortlisting nor for admission.

 

‘Average Batch CAT Percentile’ is actual CAT off percentile for Admission 2020. It is calculated based on CAT scores of all the candidates who were admitted to respective MBA colleges on the basis of CAT cut off.

 

So, there will be say 4-5 exceptional candidates (Olympian, National Champion, Wiz-kids etc) who get CAT marks slightly higher than minimum CAT cut off, but a lot less than average. However, most of the other candidates admitted in IIMs will be close to the ‘Average Batch CAT Percentile’cut off.

 

Expected CAT Cutoff for Top MBA Colleges
To help MBA aspirants searching for expected Cutoff for IIMs and Top MBA Colleges accepting CAT scores in all ranges of percentile, MBAUniverse.com has prepared a list of MBA colleges with their expected CAT score Cut Offs. Click on the College Name to get more information and to apply online. Please note this list includes IIMs and non-IIM MBA colleges with expected CAT cut off.

 

Let us take a look at IIM Cut Off 2019, Top MBA Colleges CAT cutoff, and CAT Cut Off 2019 for various colleges in different percentile range

 

Top B-schools Accepting CAT 2019 Scores with Cut offs

CAT 2019 Percentile	Institute	CAT 2019 Cut off Percentile: Minimum criteria by IIM, B-schools	Average Batch CAT Percentile: Expected as per past trends
CAT 2019 98%+	IIM Ahmedabad	80	98
	IIM Bangalore	85	99
	IIM Calcutta	85	98
	FMS Delhi	95	98
CAT 2019 95-98%	IIM Lucknow	90	97
	IIM Indore	90	92
	IIM Kozhikode	90	95
	NITIE, MUMBAI	91	97
	SJSOM,IIT BOMBAY	80	98
	DMS, IIT DELHI	NA	97
CAT 2019 93-95%
	SPJIMR, MUMBAI	85	90
	MDI, Gurgaon	90	94
	IIM Tiruchirappalli	95	94
	IIM Shillong	90	92
	IIM Udaipur, IIM Rohtak, IIM Kashipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Raipur	90-95	93-94
	Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) IIT Kharagpur	NA	95
CAT 2019 90-93%	Baby IIMs: IIM Visakhapatnam, IIM Nagpur, IIM Amritsar, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Jammu	90-95	90
	IMT, GHAZIABAD	90	90+
	IMI, New Delhi	90	89-90
	XIM, Bhubaneshwar	90	92
	DMS IIT CHENNAI	NA	95
CAT 2019  85-90%	TAPMI, MANIPAL	85	88+
	MICA, Ahmedabad	80	85+
	Great Lakes, Chennai	80	85+
	GIM GOA	80	85+
	SIMSR,  MUMBAI	80	86
	IRMA ANAND	80	88
CAT 2019  80-85%	FORE New Delhi	80	85
	WELINGKARMUMBAI	80	84
	LBSIM, NEW DELHI	80	85
CAT 2019 70-80%
	BIMTECH, GREATER NOIDA	70	80
	IFMR CHENNAI	70	75
	SOIL, GURGAON	NA	NA
	BIM, TRICHY	NA	70
	BITS, PILANI	NA	70
	LIBA, CHENNAI	70	75
	IFIM, BANGALORE	70	70
	XIME, BANGALORE	70	75
	SDMIMD, MYSORE	70	74
	VIT,VELLORE	60	69
	RAJALAKSHMI, CHENNAI	55	60
	SCMS Cochin	60	65
	JAIPURIA, LUCKNOW	65	69
	NDIM, NEW DELHI	65	65
	IMS, GHAZIABAD	60	65
	JIMS, ROHINI	65	69
	JAIPURIA, NOIDA	65	68
	DELHI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS	55	60
	EMPI, NEW DELHI	55	60
	JAYPEE BUSINESS SCHOOL NOIDA	60	65
	FIIB, NEW DELHI	60	65
	ACCURATE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY	60	60
	ITM Navi Mumbai	60	69
	N.L. DALMIA, MUMBAI	65	69
	SIES, MUMBAI	65	69
	IES Management College And Research Centre, Mumbai	65	69
	CHETANA’S INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH, MUMBAI	65	69
	VESIM Mumbai	60	60
	DSIMS Mumbai	60	65
	Guru Nanak Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai	55	60
	SDA Bocconi Asia Center	60	65
	IBA, BANGALORE	60	65
	AIMS INSTITUTES	60	65
	National School of Business	60	65
	GIBS Business School, Bangalore	60	60
	AIMIT Bangalore	60	60
	ABBS Bangalore	60	65
	IPE, HYDERABAD	65	68
	VJIM, HYDERABAD	60	60
	GITAM Hyderabad Business School	60	60
	VISHWA VISHWANI HYDERABAD	60	60
	GSIB, VISAKHAPATNAM	60	60
	ISB&M, PUNE	60	68
	Indira Institute of Business Management, Pune	60	60
	NIA Pune	60	65
	IIMS Pune	60	60
	MDI Murshidabad	65	69
	KIIT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT CAMPUS, BHUBANESWAR	60	65
	Calcutta Business School	55	60
	Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar	60	65

Besides, there are good MBA colleges accepting CAT scores in the range of 50 to 60 percentile where fee structure is also not high and placement is also good. Such MBA colleges exist in all the prominent cities of India including Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Ahmedabad. 

 

CAT Cut offs: Difference in Admission Policy and Actual Application
CAT Cut off 2019 for IIMs and other top MBA Colleges carry two different aspects in their admission policy. For example, IIMs announce their admission policy with low CAT score cut off percentile requirement but the actual CAT score cut off percentile is much higher at the time of shortlisting. Therefore there will be a difference in MBA Colleges Cut Off 2019 as announced in their admission policy  and CAT 2019 Cut Off Marks as actually applied by these B-schools at the time of shortlisting for final admission round.

 

CAT 2019 score cut offs in IIMs and other prominent MBA Colleges have been announced for MBA admission 2020. Although, IIM Cut off 2019 for CAT percentile score as announced by the 20 IIMs including IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta among others, reflect the minimum CAT 2019 cut offs required to be considered for shortlisting, the actual CAT score cut off in all the IIMs may go much higher.

 

Similar is the case at FMS Delhi, MDI Gurgaon, SPJIMR Mumbai, IMI New Delhi, IRMA Anand, IMT Ghaziabad, XIM Bhubaneswar among other MBA colleges accepting CAT Score with cut off percentiles. The actual CAT Cut Off for top MBA Colleges for MBA admission 2020 may go higher than their threshold CAT cut off requirement.

 

Admission to the flagship MBA/PGDM 2020-22 programmes in number of top MBA colleges is based on CAT 2019 score cut offs.  CAT 2019 test takers searching for MBA admission while looking for the suitable MBA colleges where they can apply, should refer the above relevant information on how good the B-school is alongwith the idea of CAT score requirement for shortlisting.