IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

It totally depends on your preference and what you want to do in your life. For example, marketing and at times finance companies look to hire freshers or students with relevant experience. Consulting and general management firms typically hire people with some experience. Also if you work for a couple of years, you get some insights into corporate world and hence are better placed to make decisions regarding your career. keeping these things in mind you should decide when you want to pursue your MBA. Either way you are not disadvantaged to get an admission in IIMs.

IIMs put a cutoff of 60% for past academic performance. You are just on the boarder line. Hence to get a call from IIMs, you will need to do really well in CAT. As most IIMs compute a composite score based on your previous academic performance. You would not have good standing with respect to composite score, hence really good performance in CAT is the only way out for you.

Hi Chitrakshi,
IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Calcutta does offer 1 year executive MBA course in Healthcare management. For further details do visit their website. Also institutes like ISB Hyderabad and Symbiosis have started offering healthcare management courses.
All the best !!!

I am not sure I understood your question correctly. If you want to understand CAT cutoff, it varies for different institutes, different categories and different background. For example an engineering male graduate from general category at IIM Ahmedabad would have to secure 99.5% percentile to merit an interview call. Whereas for a female commerce graduate it might be around 97 percentile. In short, you should give your best and secure as much marks as you can. Higher marks usually gives you an advantage during interview. All other things are externalities that you can not control.

If you have cleared all the backlogs and have received the degree in time, you are eligible to appear CAT given you fulfill minimum percentage requirement. Here is the details about cutoff requirements.
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/users/admission/files/Admission Procedure_2016_2018_August_10.pdf

Yes, there are. IIMs are known to promote diversity and they strive to get good candidates from all domains (For example: we have doctors, lawyers too). However IIMs do not offer any advantage to BBA graduate over others and you will have to compete with everyone else to get a seat in IIMs.

With less than 60% in graduation, many colleges would not consider you for admission. However there are special cases that you can look for. A few b-schools accept students based on their profile (mostly work-experience). You can look at that. Also IIMs offer interview call to everyone who secures a rank of less than 100 in CAT (irrespective of previous performance). You can look at these options.

It would violate the privacy of the candidates and it would not be representative of the situation. As CAT is held in different slots and with different difficulty level. Unless normalized, stand alone scores would mean very little. Hence they publish only normalized rank and percentile (which is rank of candidates).

I don't think you would get good college with this percentile. I would suggest that you prepare well and write it once more. But to answer your question, IIT Madras, TA Pai, XIME Bangalore, etc. accept MAT score. Also if you are writing MAT, i would suggest that you write CAT as well. There are better colleges enrolled with CAT.