General Category Seats in IIMs for MBA
Check the seats availability for general candidates in different IIMs including IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta and others.
IIM Seats for General Category: Every year, one of the IIMs administers the CAT exam for MBA admissions across the institutes. IIM reservation policy is drafted after the Government of India norms leaving a few general category seats after reservations for SC/ST, OBC and other categories. This article provides details on the seats availability in different IIMs. This article will specifically be helpful for general category candidates as it has the exact number of seats available for general category students in MBA/PGDM programmes in all 21 IIMs, including IIM Mumbai.
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IIM Ahmedabad admissions is based on entrance. Therefore, candidates must qualify the eligibility criteria and secure valid scores in CAT entrance exams. Moreoever, candidates ae required to apply for admission through the official website of IIMA. The percentile of CAT for IIM Ahmedabad reached up to 99.6 in the past years which shows how rigorous it is for a student to get admission to this Institute. Candidates are shortlisted for these programmes based on course-specific entrance exams, followed by shortlisting processes which generally comprise a Personal Interview (PI) round.
To conclude, seeking admission to IIM Ahmedabad is challenging but not difficult.
For admission to a PhD/DPM course in IIM Kolkata, aspirant must meet the eligibility criteria. Only eligible candidates can fill out the admission form. Find below the eligibility requirements for the programme:
- First Class master's or postgraduate Diploma degree in any stream and a three-year bachelor's degree with at least 50% aggregate, OR
- CA with a minimum of 50% aggregate or CS/ CMA with a minimum of 55% aggregate along with a BCom degree, OR
- BTech degree of four years duration with 6.5 CGPA or equivalent, OR
- Non-engineering candidates, who have undergone 10+2+5 years, are also eligible to apply for the doctoral programme
- In addition, applicants must have obtained a minimum of 50% aggregate either at SSC/HSC-level
- A final-year student appearing for the Bachelor's degree examination in Engineering or Master's degree examination in any discipline can also apply. Such a candidate, if selected, will be provisionally admitted provided he completes all requirements for obtaining the degree before June 30, of the admission year. Admission of the candidate will remain provisional until the candidate produces mark sheets proving that he satisfies the eligibility criteria. The deadline for submitting the final year degree mark sheets is December 31 of the admission year.
We have gone through official websites of various colleges to provide you the exact number of seats, but there are several colleges which have not updated their real figures. In such circumstances, we have applied the reservation norms specified by the Government of India. So, you can expect a little change in the number of seats for some colleges.
First in the list comes IIM Ahmedabad, which is one of the most sought after colleges among Post Graduate Master’s Degree Program candidates. The institute, since its inception, has been among the best for its world class education and facility. Moreover, the placement track record is simply outstanding. For last many decades, it has been producing some of the best entrepreneurs and business leaders.
No wonder, it is the one of the top ranked MBA institutes in India. The organization has 194 seats for general candidates.
Next in the list comes a yet another favourite college among candidates – IIM Bangalore. This college has always been the hot favourite on account of its campus, outstanding placement figures and many other features. Alumnus of the college comprises many C-level executives and business tycoons spread across the globe. IIM Bangalore has 193 seats for general candidates, almost equal to that of Ahmedabad.
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Then comes IIM Calcutta (Kolkata), third among the trio of IIM ABC. It is among the oldest IIMs, in line with the other two oldest IIMs – Ahmedabad and Bangalore. What gives it an edge over the two is the number of seats. It has the highest number of seats among all the IIMs currently and has 233 seats for general category students. This is a big number as compared to other IIMs.
Candidates who wish to take admission to the EMBA programme offered at IIM Visakhapatnam have to meet minimum eligibility requirement. In order to take admission to the EMBA programme, candidates must be an Indian national residing in India only and must have passed a minimum of three year Bachelor's degree examination with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA (45% for NC-OBC/ EWS category candidates and 40% for SC/ ST/ PwD) category candidates) and must have a minimum of three years of full-time work experience as of the closing date of the respective application window at an officer/ executive level or higher, as a professional, or as an entrepreneur.
IIM Lucknow features next in the list. It has 211 seats for general category students. The college has fared quite well over a period of three decades. It has some of the best faculty members. After IIM ABC, it is the top choice for students. The college has a lush green campus along with good infrastructure. The placement is top notch and many big firms visit campus to hire candidates.
Apart from above mentioned top four IIMs you can check the number of seats of other IIM colleges provided below.
Institute-wise General category seats in IIMs for MBA
| IIM |
Seats (General Category) |
|---|---|
| 226 | |
| IIM Ahmedabad |
194 |
| IIM Calcutta |
233 |
| IIM Bangalore |
193 |
| 60 | |
| 60 | |
| 52 | |
| 46 | |
| 189 | |
| 60 | |
| 60 | |
| 60 | |
| 60 | |
| 27 | |
| 60 | |
| IIM Lucknow |
211 |
| 60 | |
| 70 | |
| 80 | |
| 30 | |
| Total |
2031 |
We hope that the list proves helpful in giving you a quick update. Wishing you good luck with IIM College admission.
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IIM Bangalore considers two kinds of CAT scores for MBA admission - Qualifying and Final score. Qualifying CAT score is the minimum sectional and overall CAT score used to shortlist students for the Analytical Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI) rounds. Candidates above minimum cutoffs in the sectional percentile ranks, the overall percentile rank and having a positive (greater than zero) raw score in all sections of CAT are considered for the next stage. The final CAT score is cutoffs are the basis of which the candidates are called for final selection after the AWT and PI rounds are over.