IIM Shillong - Indian Institute of Management Answered Questions

IIM Shillong admission 2024 is open. For admission to its flagship courses PGPM/ MBA, the institute accepts CAT scores. Aspiring candidates must qualify for the CAT scores before the admission process. IHM Shillong shortlists candidates based on CAT scores, work experience, academic performance, and several other factors. IIM Shillong admission to PGP Executive programmes is based on CAT, WE-MAT, GMAT, entrance exam scores, followed by the PI rounds.

IIM Shillong offers various extracurricular activities for the students for interaction and organises Management, Cultural, and other fest. The annual cultural Management festival ‘Khlur Thma’ showcases talents from across the country. For the cultural fest, it organizes Nirvana with various events such as music, dance, and theatrics.

In the 'Management Institutes' category, IIM Shillong University has been ranked good by the NIRF based on the collective ranking. IIM Shillong is ranked #26 in the 'Management Institutes' category by the NIRF ranking for 2023, which is the same as it was for the previous year. IIM Shillong was placed in the top 50 nationwide in the 'Management Institutes' category for the third year running in 2023. Ranking sixth on the Outlook 2023 list is IIM Shillong. By the Business Today ranking, IIM Shillong moved up one spot next to the number twelve in the 'MBA' category in 2023.

The comparison between IIM Shillong and IIM Kashipur shows that IIM Shillong is considered better than IIM Kashipur.IIM Shillong placements 2024 have been released for PGP and PGPEx. A total of 87 companies participated in IIM Shillong placements 2024 for PGP. In addition to this,  42 companies participated in PGPEx placements. IIM Shillong placements 2024 the highest package offered to PGP and PGPEx students was INR 71.50 LPA and INR 35 LPA, respectively. The average package for PGP and PGPEx stood at INR 26.10 LPA and INR 24.40 LPA, respectively. Infrastructure: Campus is spread over 120 acres with access to high-speed internet and smart classrooms and a state-of-the-art library. Faculty: Faculty members are best in class here. All the faculty members are top scholars, PhD holders and have extensive corporate experience. IIM Kashipur - Indian Institute of Management - Dehradun Campus is located in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. It is a reputed institute and offers various PG courses in part-time mode. Some of the most popular courses offered at the institute are Executive MBA/PGDM, etc. Further, the institute mainly offers courses in streams such as Business and Management Studies. Additionally, the fees of the courses offered at the institute vary in the range between INR 1,150,000.college displayed 100% placements with the average salary package of around 12 LPA. Many different reputed companies from different fields like finance, marketing, HT or any other field visited our campus for placements. Few of the companies which visited here are ICICI Bank, Fiitjee and KPMG.

I think IIM Shillong is better. Here are some points -IIM Shillong is one of the top 7 IIMs in the country.The campus life is very good.Almost 100% of the students got a summer internship offer through college.Total fees go upto INR 12 lakhs.  

The salary packages recorded during the recnt years at IIM Shillong MBA placements are given in the table below:ParticularsPlacement Statistics (2023)Placement Statistics (2024)PGP Placement Statistics (2025)Highest packageINR 71.30 LPA (PGP)INR 35 LPA (PGPEx)INR 71.50 LPA (PGP)INR 71.5 LPA (PGP)INR 35 LPA (PGPEx)Average packageINR 26.96 LPA (PGP)INR 24.40 LPA (PGPEx)INR 26.10 LPA (PGP)INR 26.44 LPA (PGP)INR 24.38 LPA (PGPEx)Median packageINR 26.09 LPA (PGP)INR 22.80 LPA (PGPEx)INR 25.67 LPA (PGP)INR 25 LPA (PGP)INR 25 LPA (PGPEx)Top 10% average packageINR 39.68 LPA (PGP)INR 43.15 LPA (PGP)INR 41.13 LPA (PGP)Top 20% average packageINR 35.35 LPA (PGP)INR 38.43 LPA (PGP)INR 38.53 LPA (PGP)Top 50% average packageINR 30.82 LPA (PGP)INR 32.39 LPA (PGP)INR 32.33 LPA (PGP)

Candidates who has a bachelor's degree from an Indian university with a minimum of 50% marks, or an equivalent degree from an accredited foreign university are eligible for the IIM Shillong certificate programme. Further, candidate with a minimum working experience of two years in the development sector, government organisation, NGO, Corporate etc., are prefered. 

Here is a comparison of the two institutions:University of Dallas:Offers a Full-Time MBA programme and a Professional MBA (Two-Year) programThe Full-Time MBA programme is ranked 86th in undergraduate program-specific business degreesThe tuition for the Full-Time MBA programme is less than $20,000IIM Shillong:Offers a variety of MBA programs, including Full-Time, Part-Time, and Executive MBAIIM Shillong has a National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking of 26 for 2023The tuition fees for the 2-year PGP programme at IIM Shillong are INR 15 Lakhs (approximately $2,000)

IIM Shillong accepts CAT sectional cutoff for admission to the MBA course. CAT cutoff 2023 will be released after the CAT result 2023. Considering the previous year cutoff,   the overall IIM Shillong CAT percentile was 92 for the General All India category. So, it is clear that to get a seat at IIM Shillong, candidates must have the overall CAT percentile of 90+ for General category to get a call from the institute.  Students can refer to the table given below to check out the year-wise sectional CAT cutoff for IIM Shillong: Section202020212022Overall909292Quants709292VA-RC709292DI-LR709292