Certificate Course in Business Management for Defence Officers 

at IIM Indore, Indore

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore, also known as IIM-I is the sixth IIM established under the IIM legacy. IIM Indore has been ranked 8 under the Management category by the NIRF Ranking 2025. It is one of the prominent public B-schools in India with autonomous status. IIM Indore offers great placement opportunities. The highest and average package offered during IIM Indore placements 2023 stood at INR 1.14 crore per annum and INR 30.21 LPA, respectively. This institute is known for its two-year, full-time, residential flagship PGP (also referred to as MBA) programme, admission to which is offered based on a valid score in CAT. The percentile of CAT for IIM Indore reached up to 98 percentile in the past years which shows how rigorous it is for a student to get admission to this institute.

Yes, IIM Indore secured 100% placements during the 2024 drive. The key highlights of IIM Indore placements for the Class of 2024 are tabulated below:

As per the latest report, the highest package offered during IIM Indore placements 2024 stood at INR 100 LPA. This package was offered to the students of PGP and IPM batch 2024. In 2023, the IIM Indore highest package offered to the PGP and IPM batch 2023 stood at INR 114 LPA. Further, the IIM Indore highest package offered to the PGP-HRM and EPGP batch 2023 was INR 34.50 LPA and INR 43.90 LPA, respectively. The course-wise IIM Indore highest package offered between 2022 and 2024 are tabulated below:

Yes, it is mandatory for the candidates to meet the sectional and overall CAT cutoff to be eligible for the Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) rounds for admission to IIM Indore. IIM Indore offers admission to Management courses on the basis of valid CAT scores. For IIM Indore MBA admission, students need to meet both the overall CAT cut off percentile and the sectional cut offs. Candidates seeking admission to IIM Indore must score above the 90 percentile in CAT exam. IIM Indore do not release CAT cutoffs in the public domain and are exclusively accessible only via account login to candidates who have appeared for the exam. Therefore, the students must aim to score above 90 percentile.

For IIM Indore MBA admission to the PGP batch, the qualifying sectional CAT cutoffs for General category candidates is 80, whereas the overall percentile rank required is 90. However, for the final IIM Indore admission 2023, the estimated final cutoff ranges between 97-98.

IIM Indore admission 2024 to MBA course is based on CAT 2023 scores followed by Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI). Candidates must note that for admission to IIM Indore, they are required to meet both the overall CAT cut off percentile and also the sectional cut offs.

The application fee for all the courses offered at IIM Indore is tabulated below:

IIM Indore provides Need-Based Financial Assistance (NBFA) to PGP/ IPM students with annual family income below INR 9 LPA, are eligible to apply for financial aid. The objective of the Need-Based Financial Assistance (NBFA) at IIM Indore is to ensure that no participant is deprived of education at the institute for financial reasons. The NBFA Committee undertakes a two-step process for deciding the number of awardees and quantum of aid. The scholarship is awarded to the students selected for pursuing courses at graduate/postgraduate in identified institutions in professional fields such as Management, Medicine, Engineering, Information Technology, Law, and Training etc. In the first stage, the candidate's financial needs will be assessed by evaluating the application submitted by them. In the second stage, based on the first stage assessment, some of the participants are called for personal interaction with the NBFA Committee. Eligible applicants who wish to apply for the IIM Indore NBFA may apply in the prescribed form as available in PGP/ IPM Office.

CAT lays a lot of emphasis on analytical skills so the questions are asked mostly from those topics which require deep learning and practice. The three sections of CAT question paper are designed in such a way that candidates have to use their ability of minute observation and fast calculation. Shared below are the section wise main topics from which questions are asked in CAT. Verbal Ability: Parajumbles, Parasummary, Sentence Completion and Inferences

• Reading Comprehension: Questions based on passages, Para meaning, Order of sentences 
• Data Interpretation: Tables, Graphs, Pie Charts, Venn Diagram, Data Sufficiency
• Logical Reasoning: Blood Relation, Seating Arrangement, Syllogism, Coding-Decoding, Sets and Caselets, Family Tree, Assumptions
• Quantitative Aptitude: Geometry, Algebra Number System Modern Math, Arithmetic, Mensuration

The difficulty level of CAT questions is usually moderate to high. Only a few questions are easy and quick to solve. To crack the CAT exam, one needs to pay attention to the abovementioned topics.

For admission to IIM Indore for the flagship MBA (or PGP) course, the result of CAT 2023 can be expected by the last week of December 2023 (If the CAT conducting body follows the trend as in 2022). However, if the trend is not followed, the same will most probably be out by the first week of January 2024. After the release of result, the exam takers will be able to download their CAT scorecards from the official website using their login credentials for IIM Indore admission.

As per IIM Indore’s official website, the institute is listed in the top 100 in the Financial Times Rankings for its flagship PGP in Management (PGP) under the Masters in Management category. NIRF has also ranked IIM Indore in 2024 under 'Management' Category. Check below NIRF ranking trend for last three years:

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