IITs begin MBA admissions based on CAT score

Reports suggest that eight IITs, including Bombay, Delhi, Dhanbad, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, and Roorkee, are offering admissions to their two-year MBA programmes.

IIT Admissions 2021: Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is all set to enroll students for its MBA programmes based on the common admission test (CAT) score much like Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). Reports suggest that eight IITs, including Bombay, Delhi, Dhanbad, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, and Roorkee, are offering admissions to their two-year MBA programmes. In order to apply for MBA admission across IITs, candidates interested in MBA admissions across IITs must note that they need to apply for the same at each institute individually. The application for the same is ongoing across IITs. The last date to apply is January 31.

According to the reports, each IIT will conduct the admission following a different selection process. While this is similar to IIM admissions, MBAs offered by IITs are independent and will have nothing to do with IIMs. The official data released after CAT results suggest that this year, too, most of the top-scoring students in CAT were from an engineering background. Of the nine candidates who scored 100 percentile in the CAT 2020 exam, all were male and seven were from engineering or technology background, one was from a mathematics background, and another from a management background. Five of 100 percentile scoring students were from IITs. 19 candidates secured the second rank by scoring an overall 99.99 percentile in CAT 2020, of which 18 are male and one female. Out of these candidates, 16 were from engineering or technology background. For CAT 2020, a total of 1,90,144 candidates appeared.