Cut off Percentile for Top MBA colleges in last 3 Years

Cut off Percentile for MBA Colleges: Last 3 years Trend

 August 19, 2013

Now that the CAT & XAT forms are out and B-Schools have also started announcing the application process for upcoming academic session, you must be busy thinking which B-School to apply for and which one to skip. There would be multiple parameters running in your minds for deciding the colleges to apply for. One of the major parameters is the cut off of previous years’ so that you know your chances of making it to the GD/PI/WAT shortlist of the respective college. This has 2 major benefits – First being that you save your money by not applying to colleges where you might not have realistic chance to get a call because of your preparation level. And second being that you are mentally prepared to focus your preparation and customize it as per specific colleges.

CareerAnna brings to you this article to give an idea about the cut off scores required for Top MBA Colleges for the past 3 years and hence facilitate better decision making while applying to colleges.

Let us look at the cut off (for general category) data for the last 3 years of some of the Top B-Schools of the country. However, please do note that quite a few colleges might be having caste based reservations as well. Cut off for categories in colleges (which have reservation as per Government of India rule) would be lower than that of general category.

CAT Based Colleges
	2013-15 (%ile)	2012-14 (%ile)	2011-13 (%ile)
FMS	98.56	98.73	Own Exam
MDI	95.7 With Sectionals	93.xx With Sectionals	95.31 With Sectionals
NITIE	97.2x With Sectionals	97+ With Sectionals	98+
IIT B	99.07	98.73	JMET
IIT D	98.0x	98.8	JMET
IIT Kgp	97	95+ (Profile Based)	95+ / JMET
IIT M	95.8x With Sectionals	94 (Sectionals 88 each)	96+ / JMET
IIT K	95.2	93	JMET
IIT R	95.75	95	JMET
IMI Delhi	92 (PGDM), 85 (HR) With Sectionals	90 (PGDM) , 85 (HR) With Sectionals	92 (PGDM) , 85 (HR) With Sectionals
TAPMI	Everyone called for GD	Everyone called for GD	Everyone called for GD
IMT Gzb	90	90	94+
MFC/MBE	90+ With weights to other factors	90+ With weights to other factors	90+
MIB/MHROD	91	93.17	93+
BIM Trichy	85	86.xx	90
LBS	85.41	83.xx	83.21
Fore	87.25 , 82.83 (IB)	85.42 , 80.29 (IB)	87+ , 81+ (IB)
Nirma	80 (Sectionals 50 each)	80 (Sectionals 50 each)	80 (Sectionals 50 each)
KJ-SOM	90 (For Both)	90.14 , 80.29 (IB)	90.29 , 80.17 (IB)
IFMR	80	75	86+
LIBA	86	86	Not Available
UBS	81.xx	84.xx	88+
FMS-BHU	84.59	83.8	82.51
NIT Trichy	91	89.83	90+
XIME	60	70	Not Available

 

XAT Based Colleges
	2013-15 (%ile)	2012-14 (%ile)	2011-13 (%ile)
XLRI	BM – 91.25 , HR – 88 With Sectionals	BM – 90 , HR – 88 With Sectionals	BM – 92 , HR – 91 With Sectionals
XIMB	94 (Sectionals 60, 78, 65)	94 With Sectionals	92+ (Sectionals 60)
IMT Gzb	90	90	N/A
GIM	77.04	76.48	77.15
TAPMI	Everyone Called for GD	Everyone called for GD	Everyone called for GD
IFMR	75	75	86+
LIBA	80 (Sectionals 78.81, 50.36, 53.51)	80 (Sectionals Data Not Available)	75 (Sectionals 55, 64, 41)
XIME	60	70	75+

 

SNAP Based Colleges
	2013-15 (%ile)	2012-14 (Marks)	2011-13 (Marks)
SIBM Pune	98.207	91.75	118
SCMHRD	96.504	84.5	113
SCMHRD – IM	90.122	Not Available	Course wasn’t run
SIIB	83.xx	80	107
SIBM-B	90.122	75.75	106
SIOM	77.xx	60	82.5

Please note the following points in addition to the above table:

1. IIMs, old as well as new one’s, have various rounds of shortlisting with weightages to various factors such as past academics, work-experience, academic background, gender, etc. So, they don’t have a fixed cut off. Their cut off keeps on varying every year depending on the applicant pool and the mix that respective IIM wants in the upcoming batch. For details, you can check the shortlisting criteria’s of various IIM’s. (Provided at the end)

2. SPJAIN Mumbai releases 2 shortlists. First shortlist is purely based on profiles of applicants. Second shortlist is based on the combination of scores and profiles. Candidates who feature in first shortlist need to score minimum of 85 percentile overall in CAT/XAT. The cutoff  for second shortlist that considers scores as well is usually on the higher end and is observed to be generally in 95+ percentile range.

3. JBIMS Mumbai has not been included in the above table. It earlier used to accept MH-CET score but has moved to CMAT score now. In addition, CAT and XAT score is also accepted. (For details on JBIMS admission process, please visit this link)

4. NITIE Mumbai runs 3 courses. Cut off mentioned in the table above is for flagship course PGDIM. Other2 courses viz. PGDITM and PGDISEM have lesser cutoffs, with cut off for PGDITM being 1-1.5 percentile less than that of PGDIM and for PGDISEM being slightly lower.

5. IIFT, TISS Mumbai and MICA Ahmedabad conduct their own exams and the cutoff varies depending on the performance of applicants in respective exams. Hence, no concrete information about their cutoff has been put up in the table above.

6. Great Lakes PGPM is only for candidates having more than 2 years of experience. The shortlisting is done on the basis of CAT/XAT Score and Profile. They have recently started PGDM Course also. Cut off for this course is on a lower side as compared to the PGPM Course.

7. The list provided above is only the exam score below which one could not get a call. It does not ensurea call. Reason being that few colleges might have some additional criteria as well. Example: IMI Delhi had an additional cut off for academic scores in Class 10th, 12th and in Graduation. However, there are colleges which consider only the score of written exam to roll out calls for second phase of the admission process; FMS, NITIE and MDI Gurgaon being the examples.

8. Please see that scoring above cut-off marks doesn’t ensure a final convert. Also, there is no cut off as such for a final convert. Final convert in any college depends on various parameters including but not limited to performance in GD/PI/WAT.

Source: Careeranna

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