IEM Kolkata Placement & Salary Insights

IEM Kolkata provides good placements to its graduating students. The students are given excellent placement support every year placing them in top companies. Check out the table below to know the key highlights of the IEM Kolkata placements 2024:

NOTE: The above data is obtained from the NIRF report 2025

The institution has not released the course-wise placement packages as of yet. Meanwhile the NIRF report has been released. Check out the table below to know more:

NOTE: The above data is obtained from the NIRF report 2025

IEM Kolkata provides good placements to its graduating students.However, the institution has not released the placement report as of yet. In the meantime, check out the table below to know the median package recorded during IEM Kolkata M.Tech placements 2024:

According unofficial sources, the majority of Institute of Engineering & Management Kolkata alumni are placed in the Engineering sector with a 27% share. The pie chart below illustrates the detailed sector-wise distribution of alumni:

NOTE: The sectors involved in the 'Others' category are Sales, Human Resources, and Research. 

IEM Kolkata accepts WBJEE entrance exam rank for admission to BTech program. According to the WBJEE cutoff 2023, the last round closing rank for BTech program fell between the ranges of 398 to 92292. Among all the brances, BTech CSE was the most sought-after course specialisation. In 2022, the WBJEE rank went up to 3621 in the last round for the General AI category. 

Refer to the table below for more details about the cutoff trend of three years- 

WBJEE Counselling 2025 was conducted in two rounds, namely Round 1 and Round 2, followed by the Defence quota counselling. 

No, candidates cannot get direct admission in BTech courses offered by Institute of Engineering and Management. Candidates will need to appear for IEMJEE in order to qualify for BTech admissions. Selection will be done during the following counselling rounds.

Candidates must verify the following documents at their allotted institutes at the time of counselling. 

• All rank holders – Class 10 admit card/birth certificate for verification of date of birth
• All rank holders – Class 10 Mark sheet 
• All rank holders –Class 12 Mark sheet 
• WB domiciled candidates - Domicile
• SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B rank holders – Respective category certificate.
• PwD rank holders – PwD
• TFW rank holders – Income certificate

No, candidates cannot get direct admission into IEM Kolkata MBA courses. Candidates who wish to apply for MBA must appear in one its accepted entrance exams and receive a valid score.

Selections will be done based on these scores for MBA at IEM Kolkata.

No, CAT is not a mandatory entrance exam for IEM Kolkata MBA admission. Candidates who wish to apply for MBA courses have the option to appear for MAT or XAT in order to qualify for admissions as well. Candidates must note that appearing for one of these exams is mandatory in order to qualify for IEM Kolkata.

No, IEMJEE is not a mandatory entrance exam for BTech admissions at Institute of Engineering and Management. Candidates can also appear for WBJEE or JEE Mains to qualify for BTech courses.

Aside from BTech admission, candidates are also eligible to apply for scholarships through these scores at Institute of Engineering and Management.

BTech students at Institute of Engineering and Management can mostly apply for merit-based scholarships. However, there is also a sports scholarship offered to BTech students with national or state level event achievements.

These scholarships canhelp BTech students secure between 25% - 100% tuition fee waiver at Institute of Engineering and Management.

No, PCM is not a mandatory stream to be eligible for BTech courses at Institute of Engineering and Management. However, candidates who pass from PCM stream will have a lower minimum aggregate requirement than students of other steams.

For PCM students, the highest minimum aggregate limit is 50% for BTech admissions while other streams have the same limit at 75%.

Institute of Engineering and Management is charging the same course fees for all BTech courses in 2026. Thus, candidates will be paying the same fees regardless of which specialisation they end up choosing during Institute of Engineering and Management admissions.

The CAT exam is always conducted in November every year so CAT 2026 will be conducted in November next year. Students can click here to know more about the CAT examination. 

While filling out WBJEE application form, candidates need to pay fee online i.e., through net banking/credit card/debit card. No other mode of payment will be accepted by authorities. WBJEE application fee is INR 500 for General Male Candidates), INR 400 (for general female and SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B/EWS/TFW Male Candidates) and INR 300 (for SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B/EWS/TFW female candidates and Third Gender General Candidates). For SC/ST/OBC-A/OBC-B/EWS/TFW Third Gender category candidates, the application fee is INR 200. If candidates does not pay application fee, their applications will be rejected by authorities.

Candidates can choose the right institutes for IEM Kolkata MBA comparisons by deciding their preferred specialisation first. Not every MBA institute will offer the same specialisations of MBA as IEM Kolkata. After that, candidates can look at rankings, fees or placements offered by each institute to see if they are comparable with IEM Kolkata.

Institute of Engineering & Management is a private institution in Kolkata. It is also known as IEM Kolkata. The institute offers BTech and MBA as flagship courses. Check below for the major highlights of the institute: The institute is ranked 6th by Times 2025 under the Engineering category, 93rd by The Week 2025 under the Engineering category, and 23rd by Times 2025 for MBA.

IEM Kolkata MBA last date for admission was scheduled on last date of February. This date is commonly scheduled as deadline for MBA admissions at IEM Kolkata every year.

Candidates who failed to apply within this time period must wait for next year's admissions to open. Registration for its accepted entrance exams will soo begin.