IIM Bangalore PG, Doctorate, Certificate Courses 2025

For admission year 2024 for the flagship PGP course, CAT 2023 registration went on between Aug 2 and Sep 20. The exam will be conducted on November 26, 2023. For E-PGP, however, the applications for R-1 began in June and the closure of R-3 applications will take place in November. For the 2023 PhD batch, applications started in Jul 26, 2023 and will go on till to Jan 25, 2024. For details, students are advised to visit the official website and apply online.

Unlike other IIM's, IIM Bangalore gave very high weightage to previous academic performance over CAT score. Your previous academic profile looks well and good to get a call for GD/PI if you score 97+ percentile in CAT. All the best.

No matter how much a student secures in Class 12, IIM Bangalore, while shortlisting candidates for MBA follows a normalization process and gives weightage to all exam scores, i.e., Class 10, Class 12 or graduation. The process of normalisation is explained below:

1. For IIM Bangalore PGP admission, a shortlist will be prepared comprising the names of candidates who have secured a pre-determined minimum score on all sections of CAT.
2. All the subsequent processing, standardization and selection are limited to candidates selected to the first short list alone. Therefore, the CAT score alone is used as the basis for arriving at the first short list
3. For all candidates in the first shortlist, a candidate’s percentage scores in the Class 10 and Class 12 board exams are adjusted by dividing each such score by the 90th percentile score obtained in that board. For this purpose, the database of Class 10 and Class 12 scores of all CAT applicants of the past two years is used for identifying the 90th percentile score for each Class 10 and Class 12 scores board.
   
   

The application fee for MBA, E-MBA, PhD and PGPEM are tabulated below:

Course Name	Application fee
PGP (via CAT)	INR 2,400
Executive MBA	INR 3,000
PhD	INR 1,000 (1 area) and INR 1,500 (2 areas) (GMAT/ GRE/ CAT/ GATE/ JRF-NET) Application fee plus IIMB Test Fee- INR 2,000 (1 area), INR 2,500 (2 areas)
PGPEM	INR 1,500

IIM Ahmedabad has been consistently ranked 1 by multiple prestigious ranking bodies such as NIRF and Outlook, among others. Talking about the international ranking, Financial Times has ranked IIMA at 51 position under the ‘Global MBA’ category. Candidates can check the IIM Ahmedabad QS World Ranking for the last two years in the following table:

College Name	QS WUR 2022	QS WUR 2023
IIM Ahmedabad	65	53

Admission to the PGP course is based on CAT score. Candidates are shortlisted for the WAT and PI round on the basis of their performance in the CAT, scholastic achievement and relevant work experience. CAT is the computer-based test conducted for providing admission to PGP courses. For shortlisting, both sectional and overall CAT cutoffs are considered. The weightage aligned to different components for final selection is as follows:

Component	Weightage
CAT score	25%
PI	35%
WAT	10%
Class 10	10%
Class 12	10%
Work Experience/ Professional qualification	10%
Total	100%

Check out the page, to know the complete admission process.

The following video can be checked out for details about IIM admission procedure:

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 Bangalore. The below cutoff percentiles are for the General AI category students. 

IIMs	CAT cutoffs 2024 (percentile)
IIM Ahmedabad	99
IIM Bangalore	99
IIM Calcutta	99
IIM Indore	97