The process for IIM Admission commences with the release of Notification for Common Admission Test (CAT). IIMs accept CAT 2024 score for MBA admission 2025. It is expected that around 15,000 candidates will get admission 2025 offers from 21 IIMs consequent upon sharp increase in seats in IIMs. All the IIMs release their admission policy one by one after the CAT registration process begins. The competition in IIMs admission 2025 is equally tough as number of candidates taking CAT is rising year after year. Last year, 2.88 lakh candidates appeared in the CAT exam.
MBAUniverse.com has researched each IIM admission criteria to help you guide about IIM admission 2025. So, read this article below to check all about the IIMs Admission stages from application submission to selection
Table of Contents
- IIM Admissions 2025: Process at a Glance
- IIM Admission and Selection Process: Important Dates
- IIM Admissions 2025 Stages
- IIMs Cut offs for Admission 2025
- IIMs Shortlisting Criteria
- IIMs Final Admission Criteria
- IIM Admission Eligibility
- New IIMs Admission Criteria
- IIM Fees
1. IIM Admissions 2025: Process at a Glance
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IIMs to Accept CAT 2024 Score: Apply and Appear in CAT 2024
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2. IIM Admission 2025 and Selection Process: Important Dates
IIMs are expected to begin their Admission process 2025 after releasing shortlists as per following schedule leading to final admission GD PI round:
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IIMs
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IIM Admission 2025-27 Shortlist Dates
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IIMs Admission 2025-27 Batch GD-PI Dates
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IIM Ahmedabad
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January 2025 first week
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January 2025 Last Week
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IIM Bangalore
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January 2025 first week
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January 2025 Last Week
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IIM Calcutta
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January 2025 second week
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January 2025 Last Week
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IIM Lucknow
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January 2025 first week
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January 2025 Last Week
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IIM Indore
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January 2025 second week
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February 2025 First Week
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IIM Kozhikode
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January 2025 first week
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January 2025 Last Week
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IIM Mumbai
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January 2025 second week
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February 2025 First Week
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IIM Shillong
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January 2025 third week
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February 2025 Second Week
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IIM Rohtak
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February 2025 first week
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February 2025 Third Week
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10 New IIMs Admission 2025 through CAP: IIM Kashipur, IIM Udaipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Raipur, IIM Trichy, IIM Nagpur, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Jammu, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Sirmaur
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January 2025 third week (Single PI Round Call for all the 10 IIMs)
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February 2025 Second Week to March First Week
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IIM Amritsar
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March 2025 first week
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March 2025 Third Week
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IIM Visakhapatnam
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January 2025 third week
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February 2025 First Week
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All dates are Tentative
3. IIM Admission 2025 Stages
IIM MBA Admission 2025 goes through 6 stages beginning from registering and applying for CAT exam till getting admission offer from IIMs. Check below the details about each stage of IIM Admission 2025
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IIM Admissions 2025 Stages
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Key Components
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Time Lines & Process
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Stage-I: CAT Registration & Application
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Register for CAT exam and opt for admission in all the IIMs in the Registration form. No separate application fee to be paid
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From August first week to September third week 2024
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Stage-2: Preliminary Screening with CAT Cut offs
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Based on Minimum Qualifying CAT Overall score and Sectional score
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As announced in each IIM Admission Policy 2025
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Stage-3: Shortlist for PI round
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Based on CAT score, Profile, Work Ex and other components
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Released after CAT Result declaration by each IIM
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Stage-4: Final Selection Round
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Comprises PI-WAT. A few may conduct GD also
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Conducted from Jan to April, individually by 11 Old & New IIMs and as a Common Admission Process by 10 new and baby IIMs
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Stage-5: Generation of Final Merit List
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Based on weightages awarded to PI-WAT, CAT score, Academics, Diversity, Work Ex and other components
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Released in April/May. IIMs substantially reduce the CAT score weightage in final selection
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Stage-6: Making Final Admission Offer
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Depending upon the Seats, candidates are given provisional admission offer
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IIMs send admission offers in April/May. Candidates need to pay admission fee in time to avoid cancellation of admission
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CAT 2024 is the mandatory exam for IIM Admission 2025. If you do not apply and appear in CAT 2024, you will not be considered by any of the 21 IIMs for admission 2025.
4. IIMs CAT Cut Off : Preliminary Screening of Candidates
All the IIMs announce their minimum CAT score overall and sectional cut off for admission and before finally shortlisting the candidates, they consider minimum qualifying CAT cut offs as per their admission policy. Unless a candidate has scored above these cut off score, he/she will not be considered for further rounds of IIMs Admission. But remember, actual CAT cut off may go much higher than the qualifying cut off percentile in CAT. Check below:
CAT Cut off Required in IIM Admission: Qualifying and Expected Actual CAT Cut offs
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Top 10 IIMs
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CAT Cut off Overall percentile
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Expected Actual CAT Cut off
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80
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98-99
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85
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97-98
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85
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97-98
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90
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96-98
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IIM Mumbai
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90
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94-95
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90
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94-95
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85
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94-96
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IIM Rohtak
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96
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95-96
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IIM Shillong
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75 (Sectional)
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92-94 (Overall)
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92
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93-95
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IIM Udaipur
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92
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94-95
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IIM Raipur
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92
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93-94
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IIM Kashipur
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92
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93-94
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IIM Ranchi
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92
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93-94
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IIM Amritsar
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85
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90-91
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IIM Nagpur
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92
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91-93
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IIM Bodhgaya
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92
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90-92
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IIM Jammu
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92
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88-90
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IIM Sambalpur
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92
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90-91
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IIM Visakhapatnam
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85
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91-93
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IIM Sirmaur
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92
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90-91
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5. IIM Shortlisting Criteria for PI-WAT
Out of the 21 IIMs, 11 IIMs will release their individual shortlists while 10 CAP participating IIMs will release common shortlist for PI round. IIM shortlist is based on weightage awarded to CAT exam score and other parameters like Academics, Diversity, Work Experience among others. Below is the list of IIMs with their shortlist criteria
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IIMs Shortlisting Criteria
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Weight %age for CAT 2024 Score
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Check complete criteria & Weightages by IIMs in Shortlisting
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65
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55
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56
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60
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35
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45
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IIM Mumbai
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100
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NA
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100
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100
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100
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100
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100
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100
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60
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100
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100
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30
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100
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100
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40
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6. IIM Final Admission: GD- PI-WAT Round
After getting shortlisted for next round of IIM Admission 2025, you need to get ready for GD-PI-WAT conducted by IIMs from January to April. In the Final admission round, IIMs award higher weightage to Personal Interview and Writing Ability Test than to CAT score. The key weightages awarded to various parameters by IIMs in final admission based on which final merit list is generated are as below:
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Name of the IIM
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Weight for PI-WAT
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Weight %age for CAT Score
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Weight %age for Diversity, Work Ex & Other Components
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60%
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25
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50%
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25
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56 Points
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30 Points
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50%
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30
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50%
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37.5
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55%
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35
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25%
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33
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35%
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35
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30%
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40
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25%
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50
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15%
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60
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20%
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60
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70%
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30%
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40
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30%
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40
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50%
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15
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20%
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30
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30%
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30
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48%
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25
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IIMs release admission offer depending upon the Seats, and also release the wait lists of candidates who are given admission offer in case some candidate do not turn up for admission or do not pay admission fee in time.
7. IIMs Admission Eligibility
IIMs admission eligibility requires minimum 50% marks in graduation in any discipline. Candidates in final year of bachelor’s degree can also apply. If you have any back log in graduation and clears it with required percentage of marks, you are eligible for IIM admission. There is no age restriction for IIM Admission eligibility. Apart from the academic eligibility, you need to apply and appear in CAT Exam. Please note if you do not apply for CAT, no IIM will consider you for next round of admission process.
8. New IIMs Admission: Through Common Admission Process (CAP)
While older IIMs like IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore, Mumbai conduct their admission process individually and award weightage to Academics, Diversity, work experience at the shortlisting stage, 10 new IIMs admission process awards weightage to these parameters in final admission round. All these 10 new IIMs including IIM Kashipur, Raipur, Ranchi, Trichy, Udaipur, Nagpur, Bodhgaya, Jammu, Sirmaur, Sambalpur have common shortlisting criteria followed by Common Admission Process (CAP) comprising PI-WAT. It is only after the CAP that each of these new IIMs generate individual merit list based on its own parameters and weightages to make final admission offer. However, IIM Shillong, IIM Rohtak, IIM Amritsar, IIM Visakhapatnam conduct their own admission process, instead of participating in CAP. Read More
9. IIMs’ Fee Check IIM Admission 2024 Latest Selection Criteria, Cut Offs, Rankings, Placements
There has been a sharp increase in IIMs fee during last few years. Now the Baby IIMs like IIM Amritsar, IIM Nagpur, IIM Visakhapatnam among others charge MBA fee between 15 to 19 lakhs, second generation IIMs like IIM Udaipur, Rohtak, Tiruchirappalli among others have a fee structure between 17 to 20 lakhs and top IIMs like IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta have a fee structure of 24 to 25 lakhs. Read IIMs Fee in Detail
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