XIMB Bhubaneswar: Fees, Admission 2026, Courses, Placements, Ranking

BFSI was the top recruiting sector during MBA Business Management placements 2025, with 25% of placement rate. This was closely followed by Consulting sector with 24% of students placed. The table below represents the sector-wise distribution of XIM University placements 2025 for MBA Business Management:

The Management college is ranked top 6 in India’s Top 100 private B-School and No. 1 private B-School by State Ranking in the Education World India Private B-Schools Ranking 2021-22. NIRF has ranked the institute as the top 34^th Management institute in the country. Hence, it is one of the prestigious institutes for Management studies.

Candidates must complete a four-year bachelor's degree with 7.5 CGPA out of 10 or, master's degree or equivalent in any discipline with at least 55% aggregate to apply for PhD programme at XIMB Bhubaneswar. Aspirants must have documents proving their eligibility for verification.

Aspirants must pass 3 year bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any discipline with a at least 55% aggregate from a recognised university to apply for EMBA programme at XIMB.

Aspirants must also have atleast 3 years of work experience in executive capacity in an organisation of repute in public, private or non-governmental sector. Self-employed persons with at least 5 years of experience can also apply.

The total tuition fees for MBA is INR 23 lakh at XIMB. The total fees includes components such as Development fund, course material per year, IT expenses per year, university alumni fee, refundable deposits, etc. Aspirants need to pay course fees to confirm their seat at the time of admission.

You generally need about 91 percentile in CAT for general nondomicile or engineering background applicants—slightly lower (90 to 91) for non engineering. There are sectional cutoffs too: VA ~87 to 88, DILR ~80, QA ~75 for non domicile.

Your 93 percentile in XAT is ideal and you stand a good possibility of getting an admission call at XIMB 2025. Past statistics reveal that an XIMB XAT General category cut off is usually between 90 and 93 percentiles. Nevertheless, subjects who had high performance, work experience, and performed well in Writing Ability Test, Group Discussion and Personal Interview are not rejected on final selection basis. Look out on your email to receive their official message.

XIMB MBA conducts the XIM General Management Test (XGMT) for admission to its MBA programme. However, candidates with a valid score in XAT/CAT/GMAT are exempted from the XGMT. The entrance exams dates mary vary from year to year. The XIMB MBA admission 2025 were based on the following entrance exams:

a) XAT conducted by XLRI, Jamshedpur on January 05, 2025, OR

b) CAT conducted by IIMs on November 24, 2024, OR

c) GMAT conducted or to be conducted in 2023 or 2024, OR

d) XGMT (XIM General Management Test) conducted by XIM University on January 25, 2025

Candidates must take one of the following entrance tests in order to be admitted to the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) Executive MBA in Business Management (EMBA-BM) program:

• The Xavier Management Aptitude Test (X-MAT), created especially for the Executive MBA program, is XIMB's own entrance exam.
• XIMB accepts the internationally recognised Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) as a prerequisite for admission to the EMBA-BM program.
• Candidates who meet other qualifying requirements may also apply for the EMBA-BM programme if they have appropriate CAT (Common Admission Test) results, albeit this is mostly for standard MBA programs.

Yes, a written test and GD/PI are part of the admission process. Selected candidates have to first appear for WAT followed by GDPI.

X-GMT – XIM General Management Aptitude Test is an online examination conducted for admission to various Master’s degree programmes. Candidates who do not have a CAT/ XAT/GMAT score can appear for this exam.

Aspirants need to apply on the Xavier University's website for course at XIMB and X-GMT. For other entrance exam scores, candidates need to apply on their respective websites. 

Work experience is not mandatory to apply for MBA course at XIMB. Aspirants do need to meet the eligibility criteria i.e. graduation in any discipline with a minimum of 55% aggregate from a recognised university.

XIMB confirms application acceptance over mail. Candidates can get their registered email id for the mail sent by the admission team. Once the application is accepted, candidates are called for further rounds of selection.