IHM Kolkata: Admission 2025, Courses, Fees, Placements, Rankings

Institute of Hotel Management, Catering, and Nutrition, New Delhi (IHM Delhi) is a prestigious hospitality institute, also popularly known as IHM Pusa, which was established in 1962. The institute was established as an autonomous body under the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. IHM Pusa offers five diploma, UG, and PG programmes in Hospitality and related disciplines. Pusa Hotel Management is affiliated with National Council for Hotel Management & Catering Technology (NCHMCT), Noida. IHM Delhi course admission is based on merit and entrance exams. The key highlights of IHM Pusa are given in the table below:

IHM Kolkata cutoff 2025 has been released for Round 1. As per the cutoff list, the closing rank for BSc in Hospitality and Hotel Administration was 2693 for the students belonging to the General AI quota. The cutoff has been released as opening and closing ranks for different categories of students under the AI quota. For a detailed category-wise split, refer to the table below:

IHM Kolkata Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition offers several programmes in the field of Hospitality, Hotel Administration, and Catering Technology. The institute offers two full-time courses i.e., BSc and MSc and several short-term courses. Students can check out the following table to know about the duration of various IHM Kolkata courses:

IHM Kolkata provides BSc and MSc admissions through NCHM JEE exam. The institute follows the reservation policy of Government of India and reserves a certain amount of total intake based on the merit list of NCHM JEE results. Students can check out the following table to know about the IHM Kolkata seat reservation:

Note: This information is taken from the official sources and is subjective.

No, IHM Kolkata does not offer courses through distance education. Students are offered several full-time and short-term programmes in the field of Hotel Management and Catering through regular modes. Interested students can visit the official website of the institue to apply for the programme of choice by filling out the application form available online.

IHM Kolkata's B.Sc. is a top choice, so the cutoff ranks are pretty high. Last year, you needed to be within the top 142 to 2143 in the NCHMCT-JEE to secure a seat. For the open category in Round 1, the closing rank was 2143, which was actually slightly lower than 2022's 2172.

Cutoff varies based on your category too. Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) had much lower cutoffs, around 9876 and 5421 respectively.

No, candidates cannot fill out the NCHMCT JEE application form offline. The exam authority for the National Council for Hotel Management and Catering Technology (NCHMCT) JEE exam releases the NCHMCT JEE application form online only.

The exam is conducted for all eligible candidates from different Indian states. It is difficult for the exam authority to make the exam form available to everyone at different physical application centres. Thus, to allow all the exam aspirants to access the NCHMCT JEE application form, the exam authority makes it available online on the National Testing Agency's NCHMCT JEE official website of,  nchm.nta.nic.in. The NCHMCT JEE application or registration form can also be accessed on the website of National Council For Hotel Management And Catering Technology, nchmct.info.

For the BSc in Hospitality and Hotel Administration program at IHM, 380 seats are available

Under OBC category its 27 seats

followed by  Sc category in which 15 seats are available

In Gen -EWS category its 10 seats and

for ST category its 7.5

Whereas, PwD offers only 5 seats in IHM