IIM Kashipur Admission Criteria for 2026-28: Check WAT-PI & CAT Cut Offs 2025

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4 mins readUpdated on Aug 29, 2025 16:35 IST

IIM Kashipur admission criteria 2026-28 will be announced soon. Admission to MBA programmes is based on the candidate's CAT score, academic record and Personal Interview (PI). Check details of IIM Kashipur selection criteria and admission process here.

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The IIM Kashipur admission criteria 2026-28 will be announced soon. The qualifying CAT cut off percentile is expected to be 94 for General category students. For NC-OBC candidates, it is expected to be 77 percentile, for SC candidates it could be 60 percentile whereas for SC and PwD candidates, it could 40 percentile.

IIM Kashipur admission is planned in a two-phase manner. The first phase includes shortlisting of candidates who meet the minimum CAT cut off criteria. In phase two, the shortlisted candidates will have to participate in the Personal Interview (PI) round. Post the PI round, a merit list will be created on the basis of the candidates’ PI performance and other components. The IIM Kashipur PI round will be conducted in February-March 2026. The PI date and venue will be shared with the shortlisted students in email. IIM Kashipur will select candidates through IIM CAP process. Check here previous year's IIM Kashipur admission criteria and selection process.

Table of content
  • IIM Kashipur Admission Criteria 2025: Minimum CAT cut off percentiles
  • IIM Kashipur Admission Criteria 2025-27: Composite Score Parameters
  • IIM Kashipur PI Shortlist 2025: How to Fill CAP form?
  • IIM Kashipur Admission Criteria: Academic disciplines eligible for diversity factor marks
  • IIM Admission Criteria of Other Campuses 2025-2027

IIM Kashipur Admission Criteria 2025: Minimum CAT cut off percentiles

Given below are category-wise and section-wise CAT cut off required to be eligible for PI round for admission to IIM Kashipur’s MBA programme:

Category

QA percentile

DILR percentile

VARC percentile

Overall percentile

General

73

73

73

94

EWS

50

50

50

77

NC-OBC

50

50

50

77

SC

44

44

44

60

ST

30

25

25

40

DAP

30

25

25

40

Also Read: Top WAT-GD-PI topics for MBA admission 2025

IIM Kashipur Admission Criteria 2025-27: Composite Score Parameters

Final selection for admission to the PGP course was based on the Composite Score. The table below indicates parameters and weight assigned to them for calculation of Composite Score:

Components

Weight in percent

CAT score

33

PI

25

Academics

15

Professional qualifications (CA/CS/ICWA)

5

Work experience

12

Academic diversity

4

Gender diversity

6

Total

75

Selected candidates were intimated via email by April 2025 following which they had to confirm admission through offer acceptance letter and a stipulated fee (INR 50, 000), which will be adjusted at the time of admission.

Also Read: CAT cut off 2024/2023/2022/2021/2020/2019/2018/2017

IIM Kashipur PI Shortlist 2025: How to Fill CAP form?

To participate in the selection round, candidates had to fill the CAP 2025 form. The CAP Roubd was conducted by Bodh Gaya. Check below the process to fill IIM Kashipur PI shortlist form:

  • Visit the IIM Kashipur website
  • Click on the link indicating CAP form/PGP admission
  • Enter CAT ID and password
  • Check PI shortlist status and fill the form

IIM Kashipur PI shortlisting is done through IIM CAP in which one of the newer IIMs shortlist the students for PI round on behalf of nine IIMs - IIM Jammu, IIM Bodh Gaya, IIM Kashipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Sirmaur and IIM Trichy, IIM Udaipur. 

Those, who shall have filled IIM Kashipur as one of the preferred institutes in CAT 2025 application form, can fill the IIM CAP 2026 shortlist form once it releases on the basis of their CAT 2025 result.

IIM Kashipur Admission Criteria: Academic disciplines eligible for diversity factor marks

Arts/Humanities: Anthropology, Archaeology, Education, Fine Arts (Dance, Music, Painting), Geography, History, Journalism, Languages, Library Science, Literature, Mass Communication, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Social Work/Welfare, Sociology, etc.

Science: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, Biology, Zoology, etc.

Commerce/Economics: Accountancy, Auditing, Banking, Costs and Works Accountancy, Chartered Accountancy, Business Mathematics, Business Organization, Economics, Economic Development and Planning, Public Administration, Public Finance, Secretarial Practices etc.

Others: Company Secretaryship, Physical Education and Sports, Law, Medicine/Dentistry, Pharmacology/Pharmacy, Management (BBA)

IIM Admission Criteria of Other Campuses 2025-2027

To read IIM admission and selection criteria for each institute, refer to the table below.

IIM Admission and Selection Criteria 2025

IIM Bangalore Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Lucknow Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Calcutta Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Kozhikode Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Ranchi Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Indore Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Visakhapatnam Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Trichy Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Udaipur Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Shillong Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Sirmaur Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Jammu Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Rohtak Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Raipur Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Sambalpur Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Amritsar Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Nagpur Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Bodh Gaya Shortlist & Admission Criteria

IIM Mumbai Shortlist & Admission Criteria

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