IIMs are releasing their shortlists one by one for final selection round. Among the top 7 IIMs, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Indore have released their shortlists till 11AM on January 11, 2020. IIM Shillong is to release the shortlist soon.

Shortlist by CAP 2020 Participating IIMs

IIM Rohtak has opted out of CAP 2020 and has released its registration form for admission 2020 and the last date to register is January 21. Other IIMs who will participate in CAP are yet to announce their shortlist for final selection round.

Shortlist by Baby IIMs
IIM Visakhapatnam has opened its application process for admission 2020. Other 6 IIMs are to open their application shortly. The shortlist will be announced in April 2020.

This article by MBAUniverse.com will give you overview of IIMs Shortlist release dates, IIM shortlisting criteria, IIM Wait list, IIMs Total Seats, CAT Cut offs, Fees, Placement at all IIMs in India. 

IIMs Shortlist 2020 Release Dates 2020
Following are the IIM shortlist release dates on which the IIMs have released the shortlists or are expected to release the shortlists for GD-PI-WAT round for MBA admission 2020

IIM Shortlist Criteria: Key Parameters

IIM shortlist criteria focus more on student quality which is not just measured only by CAT exam scores. As such ‘profile’ plays an important role and therefore is considered for improving diversity in IIM Class rooms. Accordingly IIM Shortlist criteria focus mainly on following 3 Parameters:

• CAT 2019 Exam Scores: Each IIM shortlist criteria specify its minimum required sectional as well as overall percentile score in the range of 70 to 95 percentile
• Academic Profile & Diversity: IIMs shortlist criteria award weightage to excellent academic record till graduation and to the candidates coming from Non-Engineering back ground. Female candidates are also awarded weightage to promote gender diversity in IIM class rooms
• Work Experience: If a candidate has a work experience between 2 and 3 years in a supervisory cadre, good weightage in the range of 5 to 10 percent is awarded in IIM shortlisting criteria to become eligible for GD-PI-WAT round

IIM Seats and Number of Shortlisted Candidates
IIMs shortlists are announced by including a minimum of 10 times more candidates as compared to their respective intake. The seats available for admission in IIMs and the number of candidates shortlisted by IIMs for final selection round 2020 are given here:

*Shortlisting for Common Admission Process (CAP) by coordinating IIM in consultation with each participating IIM

IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA) Shortlist: Shortlisting Criteria, Release Date, Highlights  
IIM Ahmedabad PI shortlist is released on January 6, 2020. You can check your admission status by login with your CAT 2019 user ID and email ID

Following weightages were awarded in IIMA Shortlisting criteria. The IIMA shortlist includes key achievers in diverse academic areas. Such candidates may have not scored very high CAT percentile.

IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist 2020: Key Highlights

• 29080 candidates were considered by IIM Ahmedabad for preliminary screening based on CAT 2019 score and 5 candidates on the basis of GMAT score cut offs
• 642 candidates shortlisted from exceptional performers (ACRC Group) in different categories and different streams despite scoring a lower percentile than actual cut off applied
• 59 candidates in Non-ACRC group have been shortlisted
• 1243 are the total candidates shortlisted for AWT & PI Round 

IIM Bangalore (IIMB) Shortlist: Shortlisting Criteria, Release date, Highlights
IIM Bangalore shortlist has been released late evening on January 10, 2020. The PI-WAT round begins in February 2020 and will continue till second week of March 2020.

IIM Bangalore will conduct the PI-WAT round in Bangalore, New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Hyderabad on different dates.

Focused more on academic profile, IIM Bangalore shortlist is prepared considering candidate’s academic performance, quality of work experience among others. CAT score is not the only point in IIM Bangalore shortlisting criteria.

The Weightage of 40 points for CAT 2019 percentile score is divided further into the performance in each of the three sections to shortlist candidates for PI round as under:

IIM Calcutta (IIMC) Shortlist: Shortlisting Criteria, Release Date, Highlights  
IIM Calcutta shortlist has been released on January 8, 2020. IIM Calcutta has changed the title of its flagship 2 years full time management program to MBA from PGP.

IIM Calcutta shortlisting criteria 2020 prescribe less weightage to CAT cut offs and greater weightage to academics  

IIM Calcutta Shortlist 2020: Key Highlights

• 25000+ candidates were screened for shortlisting
• 2000+ candidates shortlisted for PI-WAT round
• More than 40% female candidates shortlisted
• Shortlisted candidates can check their status by login at IIM Calcutta website with their CAT 2019 registration ID and Email ID

IIM Lucknow (IIML) Shortlist: Shortlisting Criteria, Release Date, Highlights  
IIM Lucknow has released the shortlist for admission 2020 on January 4, 2020. A comprehensive list of candidates shortlisted for PGP, PGP‐ABM and PGP‐SM is placed on IIM Lucknow website.

IIM Lucknow Shortlisting Criteria

*Maximum marks for diversity factor (DFa and DFb) cannot exceed 20 (for PGP-ABM Program only).

IIM Lucknow Shortlist 2020: Key Highlights

• 27597 candidates were considered by IIM Lucknow in preliminary screening based on CAT 2019 score
• 8031 are the total candidates shortlisted for WAT & PI Round 
• 3766 candidates are shortlisted for PGP; 2666 for PGP-ABM and 1599 for PGP-SM program 2020-22 batch in different categories.
• Blank cell in the shortlist released by IIM Lucknow means that the candidates did not qualify Stage 1a criteria for the respective programme
• Candidates shortlisted for WAT‐PI based on composite score cut‐offs need to submit their WAT‐PI form online
• A candidate's name shall be dropped for WAT‐PI if she fails to submit the form online within the stipulated deadline.
• WAT‐PI form online link will be activated on IIM Lucknow official website in the second week of January 2020.

IIM Kozhikode (IIMK) Shortlist: Shortlisting Criteria, Release Date, Highlights  
IIM Kozhikode shortlist has been released on January 7, 2020 for final selection round for PGP 2020-22 batch. You can check your short list status by login with CAT 2019 registration ID and your email id on IIM Kozhikode official website

IIM Kozhikode Shortlisting Criteria 2020
IIM Kozhikode has released the shortlist of candidates for WAT & PI stage on the basis of  five parametres for admission 2020 as against three parameters last year. The IIMK shortlisting criteria include - CAT 2019 score, academic scores of class X and XII and Academic & Gender diversity. There is no weightage to the academic scores after class 12.

IIMK shortlist is prepared in each category and is created based on an Aggregate Index Score (AIS). The AIS is computed based on the performance in CAT 2019, Class X and XII marks and diversity. The weight of each component in the AIS is as follows:

IIM Kozhikode Shortlist 2020: Key Highlights

• Registration for Stage 2 shortlist required. Will close in a week’s time by January 16-17, 2020
• Only those candidates who have successfully completed the online registration process for IIM Kozhikode will be considered for Stage 2
• This is a pre-interview registration process and not the call for interview.
• IIM Kozhikode Shortlist status is made available on the shortlist page of IIM Kozhikode
• 50% Weight to PI-WAT round is awarded in final selection round
• IIM Kozhikode call for admission is released in April 2020 

IIM Indore (IIMI) Shortlist: Shortlisting Criteria, Release Date, Highlights  
IIM Indore shortlist has been released on January 10, 2020.

IIM Indore Shortlisting Criteria 2020
IIM Indore shortlists the candidates for WAT & PI stage on the basis of composite scores which are arrived at by accounting for the academic profile also. The Composite Score therefore is calculated on the basis of CAT 2019 score, academic scores, and gender diversity. There is no weightage to the academic scores beyond class 12. Candidates scoring percentage of marks above 85 gets a good weightage in the computation of composite scores:

* Composite Score = Sum of the above scores (Max 100) is the formula to arrive at the maximum score to check whether you would be shortlisted by IIM Indore after CAT 2019 result is announced in the 2^nd week of January 2020.  Please note that  Zcandidate, Zmin, Zmax for 10th and 12th Standard are computed using the normalisation process.

Top IIMs Shortlist: Many 99 Percentilers may not be in IIMs Shortlists  
What is noteworthy is that even hundreds of CAT 2019 Toppers and 99 Percentilers may not find place in the IIM shortlisting  & Admissions 2020 in the top IIMs. On the other hand, candidates with percentile below 90 may find place in IIM shortlisting due to their profile, academic diversity despite scoring low in CAT exam 2019.

IIMs Shortlisting Cut Offs
The minimum required CAT 2019 percentile cut offs in IIM Shortlist 2020 for MBA admission 2020 are as below. Actual cut offs in shortlist are higher than anticipated.

How IIMs announce Shortlist for Interview?
The criteria being adopted by IIMs to announce the shortlist for final selection round 2020 is changed as they now focus more on academic diversity, gender diversity and diverse profile of the applicants along with the quality of work experience.

All the top IIMs including IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode and others announce the weightage for the components in shortlisting process much ahead of the CAT exam result declaration.