IFMR Krea University Placements 2025: Average Package, Highest Package, Top Companies

As per the latest report, the highest stipend offered during IFMR summer placements 2025 was INR 75,000 per month. The highest stipend offered during IFMR summer placements bteween 2023 and 2025 is given below:

Particulars	Placement Statistics (2023)	Placement Statistics (2024)	Placement Statistics (2025)
Highest stipend	INR 1 Lacs per month	INR 75,000 per month	INR 75,000 per month

Yes, IFMR Chennai is a good business school for MBA. It offers a two-year full-time MBA program across seven major specializations, including Finance, Marketing, Data Science, Operations, OB & Human Resources. It has a good placement record, with all 184 students from the MBA cohort of 2021-23 being placed in reputed global and Indian Consulting, Finance, and Technology companies. The highest package offered during IFMR placements in 2023 stood at INR 22.90 LPA. The top recruiters of IFMR Chennai in 2023 included Barclays, Deloitte, Wells Fargo, EY, HSBC India, Morgan Stanley, NOMURA, TVS NEXT, Societe Generale, Axis Bank, Cognizant, Accenture, JPMC, and others.

Yes, you can join IFMR Chennai directly by applying online through the official website. The admissions to the courses are both entrance-based and merit-based.  IFMR Graduate School of Business (GSB) offers a 2-year full-time MBA program in various specializations such as Finance, Marketing, Data Science, Operations, OB & HR. The institute also provides direct admission in MBA through management quota and NRI quota seats.

IFMR Chennai offers a two-year MBA course in a full-time mode. Candidates can pusue this course across seven major specialisations. The MBA specialisations offered at IFMR Chennai are as follows:

1. Data Science & Information Systems
2. Economics
3. Finance, Accounting & Quantitive Finance
4. Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources
5. Marketing Management
6. Operations Management
7. Strategic Management

Yes, IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University is considered to be a good college as it is one of the schools of Krea University. IFMR Graduate School of Business was established in 1970 and is located in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. The college has been accredited by the South Asian Quality Assurance System (SAQS) for a period of five years since December 2017. Additionally, IFMR Krea University is ranked 99th by the NIRF 2024 rankings under the ‘Management Institutes’ category.

IFMR  Chennai admission is entirely entrance-basesd. The institute accepts various national-level entrance exams for admission. Candidates are requrired to qualify for any one of the respective entrance exam, followed by other selection rounds in order to get admission. Find below the list of entrance exams accepted by IFMR Chennai for all its courses:

Course Name	Accepted Entrance Exams
MBA	CAT/ XAT/ NMAT/ CMAT/ GRE/ GMAT
Integrated BBA	IPMAT or SAT or Krea Aptitude Test
E-MBA	Institute-level Written Test + PI
PhD	CAT/ CMAT/ GATE/ GMAT/ GRE/ NET JRF/ NMAT/ XAT
Certificate	Merit-based

 

IFMR Chennai offers Integrated MBA programme at the UG level. Aspirants who have completed Class 12 can apply for UG programmes. The minimum aggregate required for Integrated MBA is 60%. Hence, aspirants with 75% in Class 12 can get admission provided they also meet the subject and selection requirements.

IFMR Chennai offers admission to candidates based on their entrance exam scores. Candidates need to have a valid score in CAT/ XAT/ CMAT/ GMAT/ GRE/ NMAT for MBA. Further, aspirants are also called for an online interview. Candidates willing to seek Executive MBA admission at IFMR GSB, need to appear for a written test carried out by IFMR GSB faculty, followed by a PI round at L&T Construction's offices all over India. For integrated and PhD courses, aspirants have to qualify for any one of the entrance exam such as IPMAT, SAT, Krea Aptitude Test and CAT, CMAT, GATE, etc., respectively.

IFMR Chennai admissions are currently open. Candidates can fill out the application form online on the institute's website. Aspirants have to pay INR 1,500 as the application fee. The institute offers admission to aspirants based on their entrance exam scores. Aspirants also have to pass interview round for admission to some of the programmes.

 IFMR Chennai APICET cutoff 2025 has been released for admission to the MBA course, wherein the qualifying cutoff rank was 1626 for IFMR Chennai (KREA University). IFMR Chennai accepts various exams, like APICET,   CAT, XAT for admission to the MBA programme. 

The minimum CAT Score should be 75 Percentile to get a call from Next round, Application is open for MBA Batch. Moreover, other entrance exams accepted by IFMR Chennai include XAT, GMAT, CMAT, NMAT, etc. Interested candidates can apply through official website.

The CAT exam is always conducted in November every year so CAT 2026 will be conducted in November next year. Students can click here to know more about the CAT examination. 

Candidates who want Ph.D. admissions at IFMR Chennai needs to download the application form from the Ph.D. admission section available on IFMR GSBs website. The institute does not charge any application fee for Ph.D. admission. Candidates can email the application form along with the documents required to gsb. Phdadmissionskrea. Edu. In. Candidates can also send the filled in application form along with the self-attested supporting documents to the college address. The documents required for IFMR Chennai Ph.D. admissions include Class 10 and Class 12 mark sheet, UG mark sheets (if applicable), PG mark sheets (if applicable), Date of birth Certificate Passport-size photograph, Transfer Certificate Character Certificate etc.

Yes, you can get admission in IFMR Chennai for BBA with 60% in Class 12th.  Applicants must have passed Class XII or equivalent and achieved an overall performance of 60% or equivalent. Good BBA colleges accept admissions through GD/PI rounds and students from any stream with 50-60% marks in 12th can apply for them. Candidates must qualify for one of the entrance exams such as IPMAT, SAT, KREA Aptitude Test, CAT, CMAT, GATE, etc.

IFMR Graduate School of Business offers a large diversity of courses to students in Management field. IFMR Graduate School of Business admissions are held on the basis of entrance tests. Students seeking course admissions must clear their previous qualifying examination and appear for any of the prescribed entrance exams such as NMAT, XAT, APICET, CAT, CMAT, SAT India, IPMAT, etc. Students can visit the official website to learn more regarding the course-wise eligibility and specialisation details.

Yes, IFMR accepts CAT scores for admission to MBA course. Candidates seeking for admission to MBA can qualify for CAT exam with minimum 75 percentile and submit their scores at the time of filling the application form. Apart from this, the institute also accepts scores of other national level entrance exam such as XAT, NMAT, CMAT, GRE and GMAT. Candidates can qualify for any one of the respective entrance exam in order to get the admission.

Candidates must complete their graduation in any stream from a recognised institute/ university with minimum 60% aggregate to apply for MBA at IFMR Chennai. Further, candidates must have been born after 01 January, 1997 as per the minimum age requirement. Candidates in the final year of the undergraduate degree can also apply for the course. Also, students from ODL (Open and Distance Learning) institutions are also eligible to apply as per the UGC policy and notification. 

IFMR GSB, Krea University has been ranked 60 by NIRF ranking 2022 for Management category. Moreover, the highest package offered during IFMR placements 2023 was INR 22.90. Further, the college provides modern amenities with state-of-the-art infrastructure to its students. Also, IFMR Graduate School of Business provides various facilities to the students and some of them include spacious classrooms, sports, separate hostels for boys and girls, auditorium, seminar halls, health facility, etc.