IIM Ranchi - Indian Institute of Management

Aspirants can join the IIM Ranchi IPM course after class 12. It is full time 5-year integrated course comprising Undergraduate and postgraduate management programmes (BBA-MBA). At the completion of IPM students will be awarded an MBA degree. 

• For admission at IIM Ranchi in IPM, candidates are required to appear for the IPMAT examination followed by PI round which will be conducted virtually by IIM Ranchi.
• The total fees for the first three years of the programme will be around INR 16 lakh.The fees for the next two years will be equal to the MBA programme fees set for that year. 
• The programme is designed to provide a multidisciplinary foundation borrowing from Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts, and Sciences. The programme’s cross-disciplinary business core builds on such a foundation. It comprehensively covers management, marketing, accounting, finance, economics, information systems, data science, and strategic management.

Candidates need to appear for IPMAT to get admission to the Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) of IIM Ranchi.

The selection for the Integrated IPM at IIM Ranchi will rely on the Aptitude Test [IPMAT-Indore], Personal Interview (PI), and the academic background of candidates. The PI will be conducted by IIM Ranchi.

To be considered for the IPM programme at IIM Ranchi, all applicants must complete an online application form on the IIM Ranchi website, which will be utilized for additional assessment.

The final admission offers are made based on a Consolidated merit list (CML) that comprises of following components:

*Bonus marks are added to the candidate score and not to the total

Candidates are required to take the Common Admission Test (CAT) to gain admission to the flagship programme, MBA in General Management, at IIM Ranchi. The CAT also serves as the entrance exam for the MBA-HR and MBA in Business Analytics programmes offered by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ranchi. To proceed with the admission process, candidates must meet the sectional cutoff and overall cutoff. Once they achieve the necessary CAT percentile, the shortlisted candidates will be notified of the specific dates for their Personal Interviews.

For admission to the Executive MBA programme of IIM Ranchi, candidates have to go through the Personal Interview (PI) process only, the candidate must have at least 5 years of full-time work experience to be eligible for this programme.

The first IPMAT exam was conducted in the year 2011. IPMAT was initially accepted only for admission to the five year integrated management programme (IPM) offered by IIM Indore.  From 2022 onwards, the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) also started to accept IPMAT scores for admission to its Integrated Programme in Management. 

Later, in 2023, IIM Indore announced that the IPMAT scores will be accepted by a few other institutes too for admission to their BBA programme. Institutes such as the Indian Institute of Ranchi,  Alliance University,  Indian7 University,  Department of Management Studies, NALSAR University of Law and Institute of Management, Nirma University will also accept IPMAT scores for admission to the Integrated Programme in Management (IPM). 

So to answer your question, yes, IIM Ranchi will also accept the IPMAT scores which is conducted by the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. 

IPMAT Indore scores are also accepted by IIM Shillong, IIM Amritsar, IIM Sirmaur, etc.