Integrated B.Tech.-MBA Program

IIM Amritsar offers Integrated B.Tech. – MBA Program (IBM) jointly by IIM Amritsar and NIT Jalandhar. The program integrates the curriculum of B.Tech. degree from NIT Jalandhar and MBA degree from IIM Amritsar in 5 years, thereby saving one academic year for the students. Admission to the program will be through an entrance test conducted by IIM Amritsar followed by a Personal Interview. All 4th semester students of NIT Jalandhar are eligible to apply for the program.

The first year MBA curriculum will be covered in semesters 5-8 of the B.Tech. program. Students will also get an opportunity to do summer internships in managerial roles at the end of 8th semester. The IBM program offers B.Tech. students of NIT Jalandhar a unique opportunity to be corporate ready with this Integrated B.Tech. MBA degree.

The program covers the entire MBA curriculum offered by IIM Amritsar. Courses normally covered in the 1st year of MBA at IIM Amritsar will be covered in Semesters 5-8 of the B.Tech. program through lectures in hybrid mode.  In the final year of the IBM program, students are expected to take a minimum of 16 units and a maximum of 18 units of electives divided over three terms. In addition to the above the students will be required to take the core courses Applications of Business Communication, Business Law/Legal Aspects of Business, Strategic Management, Social Involvement Project.

The courses taught in the first year of the MBA program will be covered over semesters 5-8 of the B.Tech. curriculum. These courses will be taught in offline mode. Schedule for these courses will be integrated in the regular B.Tech. schedule of NIT Jalandhar. For the final year of the MBA program the students will shift to the hostels provided by IIM Amritsar and will attend regular offline classes at IIM Amritsar. IIM Offers  optional international immersion Module to IBM students. An additional cost needs to be paid by the candidates if they are interested.

Faculty teaching both IBM and MBA program are drawn from the same pool of faculty available at IIM Amritsar. The attendance and assessment rigor are similar to the MBA program. The IBM students have to comply with the rules and regulations given in the IBM students’ manual. 

Candidates should submit their application for the IBM program online at www.iimamritsar.ac.in within the stipulated time and pay the online non-refundable/non-transferable application fee of Rs. 2000/- (Rs. 1000/- for candidates belonging to SC/ST category) .

• Candidates should submit their application for the IBM program online at www.iimamritsar.ac.in
• Candidates belonging to NC-OBC, SC, ST and PwD categories need to produce valid Caste certificate(s) in support of their reservation category and candidates belonging to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) need to produce a valid document ascertaining the eligibility of the candidate to apply under EWS category.
• Candidates will be required to take the IIM Amritsar Entrance Test (IET). The IET will be designed based on the CAT for admission to the IIMs. It will comprise of a total 75 questions – 25 each in 3 sections, namely, Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) and Quantitative Ability. (QA).  The
• Candidate will get 40 minutes per section with a total duration of 120 minutes. Each correct answer will carry 3 marks and each wrong answer will fetch a negative 1 mark.
• Candidates will be shortlisted for Personal Interview based on their eligibility criteria for the IBM program, have submitted an application complete in all respects including the applicable application fee, have appeared for the IET conducted by IIM Amritsar and obtained a positive (non-zero) score in each of the sections IET exam
• Shortlisting criteria weightages are: IET Score 70%; Jee Score-5%; CGPA upto Semester 3-15%; Gender Diversity-10%.
• Final selection after personal interview will be made based on various attributes as below:

• Eligible candidates should submit their application for the IBM program online at www.iimamritsar.ac.in within the stipulated time
• Pay the online non-refundable/non-transferable application fee of Rs. 2000/- (Rs. 1000/- for candidates belonging to SC/ST category)
• Complete your registration
• Go to your registered email id to activate your account
• Log in to your account
• Complete your application form for the IBM program
• Submit the application form