Ph.D. in Management 

at IIM Ahmedabad, Vastrapur

All the courses offered by IIM Ahmedabad are career-oriented. However, every program offered at IIMA has different objective. The PGP program of IIM Ahmedabad is the flagship program, which purely suits students who want to build their career in Core Management. Further, the PGP FABM program will suit students who want to build their career in the field of Agriculture. The PGPX program is meant for students with work experience.

The key highlights of IIM Ahmedabad placements over the past three years for PGP, PGP FABM and PGPX programs are presented below:

IIM Ahmedabad admissions is based on entrance. Therefore, candidates must qualify the eligibility criteria and secure valid scores in CAT entrance exams. Moreoever, candidates ae required to apply for admission through the official website of IIMA. The percentile of CAT for IIM Ahmedabad reached up to 99.6 in the past years which shows how rigorous it is for a student to get admission to this Institute. Candidates are shortlisted for these programmes based on course-specific entrance exams, followed by shortlisting processes which generally comprise a Personal Interview (PI) round.

To conclude, seeking admission to IIM Ahmedabad is challenging but not difficult. 

The shorting and selection criteria for IIM Ahmedabad admission 2024 is divided into various stage. The first stage is Preliminary screening of candidates for the further admission process. CAT 2023 will be having three sections, Quantitative Ability, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning and Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC). Candidates above the minimum cut offs in the sectional percentile ranks, the overall percentile rank and obtaining a positive (greater than zero) raw score in all sections of CAT will be considered for all the subsequent stages. Candidates belonging to General and EWS category must have CAT cutoff of 80 Percentile, 75 Percentile for NC-OBC-cum-transgender, 70 Percentile for SC, 60 for ST, 70 Percentile for PwD (General, EWS, NC-OBC-cum-transgender, SC) and 60 Percentile for PwD (ST). Also, for the final process, candidates must have an overall CAT percentile of 99 for final admission. For more details regarding IIM Ahmedabad cutoff, click here. 

IIM Ahmedabad's selection criteria is entrance-based for the offered courses. Students need to meet both the basic eligibility and clear the selection rounds as well. Check out the table below to know about the selection criteria for IIM Ahmedabad:

A total of 188 companies participated and 280 roles were offered during PGP placements 2023. McKinsey & Company and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) were the top companies that made most number of offers during IIM Ahmedabad PGP placements 2023. The domain-wise offers made by the top recruiters during PGP placements 2023 is listed below:

IIMs do not release the final CAT cutoff publicly and is only accessible through account login to those candidates who appear in the CAT exam. However, candidates can refer to the table below to view the estimated final CAT cutoff percentiles for top IIMs, including IIM Ahmedabad. The below cutoff percentiles are for the General AI category students. 

The course-wise average package offered over the past three years is presented below:

The course-wise top recruiting sector during IIM Ahmedabad placements is presented below:

The course-wise the highest package offered over the past three years during IIM Ahmedabad placements is presented below:

Note: The mean package is considered as the average package in the above-mentioned table. Further, the Maximum Earning Potential is considered for the salary packages shown above.