IIM Udaipur Admission Policy 2018-2020: Maximum weight allotted to CAT 2017

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The Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIM Udaipur) has announced its admission policy for 2018-2020 Post Graduate Programme (PGP) batch.

This year, the weightage assigned to CAT exam, held on November 26, 2017, is more than 50%. Although, this year weight of CAT 2017 has dropped by 2% from last year, it still holds the biggest share in the admission pie at 53%.

The CAT cut-off score for WAT/GD-PI rounds has also dropped 10 percentile from last year. CAT 2017 test takers who shall have scored 80 percentile and above will be eligible for WAT/PI round. There’s a major relief for SC/ST candidates who need and overall of 40-60 percentile to get selected for WAT/GD-PI rounds.

Here’s an overview:

Category

QA

DILR

VARC

Overall

General

80

80

80

80

NC-OBC

60

60

60

78

SC

50

50

50

60

ST

30

30

30

40

DAP

30

30

30

40

 

IIM Udaipur notifies that the cut-off may be lowered incase the number of short-listed candidates are found less.

In case any of the older IIMs (Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode, and Lucknow) are willing to share their WAT/PI score with the 11 new IIMs (IIM Amritsar, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IIM Jammu, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Trichy and IIM Udaipur), the candidates who have applied to new IIMs, need not to appear for WAT & PI process separately.

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The WAT/PI process of 11 new IIMs will be coordinated by IIM Rohtak, this year.

Initial selection is based on three criteria: CAT 2017 Score, WAT/PI performance and Candidate’s profile.

Weights allotted to all the criteria are as follows:

Criteria

Weight

CAT 2017 score

53%

WAT

6%

PI

15%

Graduation

4%

Post-Graduation with 55% and above or CA/CS/ICWA

2%

Class 10

2%

Class 12

2%

Work Experience

6%

Diversity

10%

Total

100%


Work experience will be scored in the following manner:

Month

Score

Less than 7 months

0

7-12 months

2

12-24 months

4

25-36 months

6

37-48 months

3

49-60 months

3

More than 60 months

0

 

Diversity score are allotted to the following academic disciplines:

Arts/Humanities: Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, Education, Geography, History, Languages, Liberal arts, Law, Library and Information Science, Mass Communication and Journalism, Music, Philosophy, Performing Arts (Dance/Drama/Theatre), Literature, Physical Education, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Statistics, etc.

Commerce: Accounting, Auditing, Banking, Chartered Accountancy, Costs & Works Accountancy, etc

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

Others: Medicine, Pharmacy, and Management, etc.

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the lowest package

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The key highlights of IIM Udaipur placements 2025 are mentioned below:

Particulars

MBA Placement Statistics 2025

MBA GSCM Placement Statistics 2025

MBA DEM Placement Statistics 2025

the highest package

INR 47.65 LPA

INR 40.18 LPA

INR 32.71 LPA

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INR 17.58 LPA

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Median package

INR 17 LPA

INR 16.79 LPA

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the lowest package

INR 7.5 LPA

INR 8.02 LPA

INR 11 LPA

Offers accepted

302

48

53

Sought Placement through Institute

302

48

53

 

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Nishtha Karan

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Nishtha Arora

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