MBA Entrance Exam

If you have taken the last MAT exam and obtained your result knowing the top B-Schools accepting MAT scores and their MAT cut-offs will give headway to your MBA admission through MAT scores.
I would suggest you these colleges:-
MS Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore (AAA+)
ITM Business School, Navi Mumbai (AAA+)
Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida (AAA+)
Acharya Institute of Management and Sciences, Bangalore(AAA+)
IIRM, Jaipur

INSTITUTE NAME LOCATION CAT SCORE
Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra Jharkhand 50
Institute of Public Enterprise - IPE Hyderabad 50
Gitam Institute of Management Visakhapatnam 50
Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research DSPSR Delhi 50
School of Management Sciences, Lucknow - SMS Lucknow 50 Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India - EDI Ahmadabad 50+
New Delhi Institute of Management - NDIM Delhi 50+
School of Management Sciences, Varanasi - SMS Varanasi 55
JK Lakshmipat University Jaipur 50.

With 146 marks in NMAT, unfortunately, you don't have good options. NMAT is not accepted by any top college apart from NMIMS and its sister schools in Bangalore and Hyderabad. So, you're advised to re-attempt it next year. If you are looking for tier-3 options and are okay with the cadre then you may opt for L.M.Thapar, MISB Bocconi, Woxsen, IBS, Shiv Nadar University, UPES College of Business Management and Economic Studies, Alliance School Of Business, SRM University- Chennai, GITAM University-Hyderabad, BML Munjal-Gurgaon to name a few.

Dear Ms. Malini,
MAT results will come by Feb 28. Even if they do not come, apply with MAT hall ticket number. You can apply to our programme and later update the admission test score. You can also appear for any number of admission tests and keep us updating the scores till you get a call for GD/PI. You will get a call for GD/PI only if your scores are above the cut-off as explained by Ms. Srikrupa. Wishing you the best.

You can look for colleges like XIME-Bangalore, IFIM-Bangalore, Alliance University, IMI-Kolkata/Bhubaneshwar, Amity, IBS-Mumbai campus, Christ University, Thapar University, Modi University-Jaipur, Jaipuria-Noida/Jaipur/Lucknow, GITAM, VIT, LIBA, BIMM/BIMHRD-Pune, MITSOT, MISB-Bocconi, Woxsen. You also have a slight chance in IFMR-Chennai, BIMTECH-Noida, BIM-Trichy. You can also try for NITs like Durgapur and Rourkela.

Chances are very less to get calls from good government MBA colleges but you can try for NITs. Durgapur, Rourkela, Hamirpur and few others might accept this score for management school. You can try for other state engineering colleges if they have a management wing. Generally, government colleges (even tier-II/III) have good ROI and have very fewer seats for management, hence it will be difficult to get one.

Hi Pratichi,
First of all congratulations for clearing CAT 2017 with an awesome percentile. Yes, with this percentile you will definitely get a call for IIM-Lucknow.

Look Shree, as MAT is one of the most important exams and each year lots of students appear in this exam. And the colleges/universities also cannot take all the test appeari g aspirants ao there is negative marking in MAT exam. The marking scheme is one marks for correct answer and 0.25 marks will be deducted for each wrong answer. So if you are looking for this exam make sure you make less mistakes and sure about your answer. The best of luck for your future.

Dear aspirant,
Please note that MBA is a huge investment of time and money and you do it generally once. Hence, try to get the best college you can. I am sure that with better and more focussed preparation you can get into the 80percentile tier which will enable you decent schools. In India, only the top 30-35 colleges are considered worthy to join and at your percentile, None of them will be accepting you. Hence, my advise would be to re-take the CAT. Also, apply for MAT as some decent B-Schools accept that.