IIFT Delhi PhD Courses & Fees 2025: Dates, Eligibility & Selection, Application Process

IIFT Delhi accepts CAT scores for MBA (IB & BA) specialisations. Earlier the admission was through the IIFT exam. However, in an official notification, the institute has announced that will accept the national-level exam score now. After the conclusion of the entrance test, candidates shall be shortlisted for further selection rounds. Shortlisted candidates are further required to participate in the written test, group discussion and personal interview round. The final selection is done based on overall performance in the selection rounds.

IIFT Delhi offers INR 15,000 as the fellowship for the first two years of the degree course/work. The fellowship is given to some selected candidates only. The mentioned fellowship amount is as per the past years’ data. Hence, the actual amount may vary. For more information, candidates can visit the IIFT Delhi website (iift.ac.in).

IIFT Delhi is one of the leading Management Institutes in India and provides good placements. During the MBA IB and MBA BA placements 2025, overall highest package offered was INR 123 LPA and 72 LPA.

MBA IB and MBA BA median package recorded in 2025 was 26 LPA and 20 LPA.

The key highlights of IIFT summer placements for the MBA IB and MBA BA programs are presented below:

Note: The stipend offered are for two-month duration.

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade has collaborated with various colleges, organisations, and universities. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade has signed MoUs with various industries, organisations, and companies. Some of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade collaborations are mentioned below:

According to data gathered from unofficial sources, Business Development domain has placed the most no. of IIFT students. The function-wise OOFT Delhi alumni placement statistics are presented below:

Note: The above-mentioned alumni data is gathered from unofficial sources and hence may vary.

The median package recorded during IIFT MBA IB placements 2025 was 26 LPA. MBA BA median package in 2025 was 20 LPA. Further, MA Economics students received median package of 12 LPA in 2025.

IIFT Delhi admit candidates to PhD courses based on merit in the written examination conducted by the institute. Candidates shortlisted based on exam score are further required to participate in the personal interview round. The final selection for PhD at IIFT Delhi is further done based on overall performance in the exam and the interview round. Selected candidates can further confirm their seats by paying the required fee amount.

The sector-wise placement distribution recorded during IIFT Delhi MBA placements 2024 is presented below:

For the IIFT Delhi MBA in Information Technology specialisation, a total of six elective subjects are available. Candidates are required to opt for 18 electives. They can major in two functional areas and minor (3) in any other functional areas or major in three functional areas. The electives available under Information Technology specialisation are:

• IT Project Consultancy
• Software Product Management
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
• Online Business & E-Commerce
• Data Modelling and Visualisation
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

IIFT Delhi PhD admission is done on the basis of candidates' performance in the written test conducted by IIFT. Candidates further need to take part in the personal interview round to shortlist the candidates. These shortlisted candidates are further eligible to take admission. To confirm their seats, the selected candidates need to pay the required amount of fee within the due date as prescribed by the institute.

Yes, IIFT cut offs for MBA-International Business and Business Analytics admission differ category wise. For General category students, the IIFT cut off is higher than that for Reserved category students. For example, the IIFT 2022 cut off for General category candidates was 52.75 but for SC/ST candidates, it was 42.75. in 2023, the qualifying cut off was 35 percentile for General-EWS and NC-OBC categories, it is 35 percentile. For SC/ST/PwD/KashmiriMigrants/Non-Migrants, the IIFT cut offs 2023 was 30 percentile. Selection for the personal interview round is based on these cut offs.

The Reserved category students also get the benefit of Reservation quota fixed by the Government of India. A certain number of seats are available for Reserved category candidates in the management programmes.

Yes, the candidates are required to clear the sectional cut offs of IIFT entrance exam as well for selection to second round of IIFT admission process, which is group discussion or extempore, essay writing and personal interview. The sectional cut offs play an important role in assessing the abilities of a candidates in all subjects – Data Interpretation, Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning and English Comprehension. That is why the institute releases sectional cut offs as well for shortlisting of candidates for the personality assessment round of the MBA admission process. Those who do not meet the sectional cut offs, may not get selected for the group discussion or extempore, essay writing and personal interview round.

The seat intake for all three PhD programmes (full-time and part-time) at IIFT Delhi is 15. The seat allocation procedure is carried out in accordance with the seat intake, category of the candidate, overall scores, etc. It must be taken into consideration that the given seat intake is as per unofficial sources. Thus, may vary. The final selection to the PhD courses is done based on performance in the written exam and the personal interview round.

Consulting followed by Finance were the top most domains with placement distribution of 22% and 21% duing IIFT MBA IB placements 2025. For MBA BA, IT/Analytics was the top domain with placement distribution of 28%. It was followed by Sales & Marketing domain with 27% distribution.