Master of Business Administration (MBA)

IIM Kashipur MBA is the flagship programme. It is a 2 Years full time residential MBA programme. The MBA programme at IIM Kashipur has been recently redesigned to take it ahead of the industry cutting edge concepts by making it more futuristic adding diverse skill sets and perspectives through introduction of many new core offerings such as Design Thinking and Experiential learning. These differentiators coupled with enablers such as critical thinking, leadership and leadership communication are intended to enrich the candidates with skills for the future. A strong focus on analytics is enabled by offering both core and electives to make it a formidable career option.  

The new program structure takes into account one of the missions of IIM Kashipur- to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship. A critical aspect of this new program structure is that convergence is being sought among academic pursuits, student activities, and placement realities. Synergy is expected among different activities being conducted through different functional areas, with potentially similar goals or anticipated results.  

IIM Kashipur offers wide range of specializations in its MBA program. These are Communications, Economics, Finance, Information System, Marketing, OB & HR, Operations & Decision Sciences and Strategy. Apart from the electives being currently offered, there is also a focus on developing a new set of electives. This new set of electives will focus more on the emerging issues in society and business and will be innovative and aspirational. Along with the electives and core courses, students will also be allowed to take courses of independent studies (CIS)

In the first year MBA participants are given a complete flavour of general management as well as different function aspects of management with an objective to develop a holistic view of organizational management. Participants complete 21 credits of core courses in two years. One course credit is equivalent to 100 hours of study including 30 hours of class interaction. The new core course structure develops the students of IIM Kashipur to become better leaders in the new economy by making their training more contemporary. At the same time, this structure also makes them aware of the grass-root level problems in our society and why they should care about those issues.

The new design also supports several of the strategic plans of IIM Kashipur of promoting learning and practices in emerging areas of management with addition of business analytics, and introduction of experiential learning component. One crucial expectation in this new structure is that in every course, wherever possible, faculty talks about how the learnings of that course can relate to the realities of the Indian economy. Similarly, across all the courses, ethical ideas and communication skills also are incorporated whenever applicable.

In the second of year of MBA programme, IIM Kashipur offers wide range of specializations in its MBA program. These are Communications, Economics, Finance, Information System, Marketing, OB & HR, Operations & Decision Sciences and Strategy. Apart from the electives being currently offered, there is also a focus on developing a new set of electives. This new set of electives will focus more on the emerging issues in society and business and will be innovative and aspirational. Along with the electives and core courses, students will also be allowed to take courses of independent studies (CIS)

Application process for admission at IIM Kashipur opens with the start of CAT  registration process. Candidates have to apply for CAT by the last date. There is no need to apply and pay separately for IIM Kashipur Admission

Admission/Selection Process for Candidates for MBA program at IIM Kashipur is through CAT. The selection of the candidates for admission to the MBA at IIM Ranchi is a two-step process.

In the first step, candidates are short-listed for Common Admission Process (CAP) comprising Personal Interview (PI) from among the candidates who have a valid CAT score, who have applied to the programme and who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the programme. Detailed Admission process is as below:

• The candidate must have appeared and scored the minimum required percentile in CAT. Candidates are short-listed for CAP round which is the common PI round for CAP participating IIMs. 
   
• Candidates are shortlisted from among the candidates who have a valid CAT score, who have applied to the programme and who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the programme   
   
• After the PI round, IIM Kashipur will award weightages to various parameters and admission offers are made by IIM Kashipur to successful candidates. 
   

• The final selection is based on a diverse set of attributes which includes performance in CAT, performance in CAP round, academics, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements, work experience among others

  
  Admission offer letter would be sent to all successful candidates. Candidates, who are offered admission, need to confirm their acceptance by completing all the required formalities by the stipulated

Register and apply for CAT exam by paying the requisite application fee for the exam. On the page 4 of CAT application form, you need to select IIM Kashipur MBA and other programs and select the interview city. Your application for IIM Kashipur admission is submitted. You do not need to apply and pay separately for IIM Kashipur Admission. After declaration of CAT exam result, you can check at IIM Kashipur as well as IIM CAP website whether you are shortlisted by entering your CAT registration ID and password