IIM Ranchi - Indian Institute of Management

MBA (Executive) admission at IIM Ranchi is moderately challenging, depending heavily on CAT scores. The criteria also depends on the student's professional profile, work experience quality, and performance in the personal interview round.

A fresher at an IIM Ranchi must put in high, consistent daily effort across academics, corporate competitions, and networking to bridge the lack of prior work experience. Students must follow below steps:

• Speak up in lectures from day one to build confidence and sharp communication skills, which interviewers and professors value.
• Participate actively in national corporate case competitions to win awards and add powerful resume points.
• Complete domain-specific courses in finance, analytics, or product management to show focused intent to recruiters.
• Craft a clean resume highlighting college achievements, internships, etc.

No, there is no possibility of part payment at IIM Ranchi. Applicants have to pay the fees for first term on the admission portal before the last date. 

Students pursuing any of the MBA specialisations or IPM course can apply for Merit-cum-Means scholarship at IIM Ranchi. The scholarship value is around INR 1 Crore every year. This scholarship is offered to meritorious and financially-weak students.

Yes, aspirants must pass CAT for admission in IIM Ranchi. Students must meet the cutoff requirement. CAT holds the maximum weightage of 65% in the selection process. Selected candidates have to register for JAP to be considered for PI round. CAT cutoff percentile is competitive. In 2025, overall percentile required was 94.

The total tuition fees for Executive MBA is INR 12.5 lakh at IIM Ranchi. Students need to pay a caution deposit of INR 10,000 and alumni fees of INR 10,000 at the time of accepting offer.

Aspirants must pass graduation or equivalent with a minimum of 50% aggregate to apply for Executive MBA course at IIM Ranchi. Candidates also need to have at least three-year of full-time work experience to apply.

Candidates can accept offer for any one MBA specialisation only at IIM Ranchi. Suppose a candidates gets an offer for MBA-BA in the first round and waitlisted for MBA and chose to accept the MBA-BA after fee payment. If the candidate now receives an offer for MBA after 15 days, he or she can choose MBA by accepting the offer through the portal. 

For placements at the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi one has to put in their best efforts with recruiters looking through not only one's academic performance over their semester but as well as interviews, GD, etc.

Thankfully the insitute conducts workshops and training for pre-placements such as:

• Mock GDs
• Panel Interviews
• CV Workshops
• Direct sessions with industry leaders 

Further students also have mandatory internships that give students work experience and exposure before final placements.