Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta Admissions 2026 - Ph.D, MBA, PGDBA, Eligibility, Selection Criteria and Entrance Exam

The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) was built up as the principal national foundation for Post-Graduate examinations and Research in Management by the Government of India in November 1961 in a joint effort with Alfred P. Sloan School of Management (MIT), the Government of West Bengal, The Ford Foundation and Indian industry. During its underlying years, a few conspicuous personnel framed pieces of its core, including Jagdish Sheth, J. K. Sengupta, among others. 

Throughout the years, IIMC has developed into an adult foundation with worldwide notoriety, conferring top-notch the executive's instruction. It has been assuming a spearheading job in professionalizing Indian administration through its Post Graduate and Doctoral level projects, Executive Training Programs, Research and Consulting Activities. Today, the organization fills in as a self-sufficient body, ceaselessly advancing to meet its objectives in a regularly changing business condition. 


The vision of the Institute is to develop as an International Center of Excellence in all features of Management Education, established in Indian ethos and cultural qualities. In the course of recent decades, IIM Calcutta has bloomed into one of Asia's best Business Schools. Its solid connections to the business network make it a viable component for the advancement of expert administration rehearses in Indian associations. Today, IIM Calcutta draws in the best ability in India - a blend of the scholarly world, industry and research. The best and most splendid youngsters and ladies seek after its scholarly projects. 

The private experience is an establishment of the IIMC culture, which incorporates collaboration and the structure of long-lasting connections. Understudies and accomplices live on or close to grounds, making get-togethers and shared exercises a lifestyle. From our main subjects of general administration aptitudes to cutting edge electives and courses, our understudies have extraordinary access to a superior workforce of thought pioneers, every one of whom instructs in the MBA program. 

CAMPUS ADDRESS

  • INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA
  • Diamond Harbour Road
  • Joka, Kolkata (Calcutta) - 700104
  • West Bengal
  • INDIA


IIM PGDBA Admission 2026

PGDBA is a two-year full-time private recognition program planned for making business examination experts employable by driving Indian and remote firms. This program is intended for the individuals who have a logical mentality, are keen on handling testing business issues, and have a tendency towards arithmetic. A portion of the remarkable highlights of the program incorporate courses educated by presumed employees at the grounds of three all-around prestigious establishments, hands-on business investigation preparing at a related organization, constant communication with industry pioneers over the span of the certificate program, and the accessibility of situation openings at all the three foundations mutually offering this program.

Important Dates

Online application starts
December 03, 2019
Last date of submission of online application
January 06, 2020
Issue of admit cards (Online)
January 31, 2020
Admission Test
February 16, 2020   Timing: 10:30 A.M. - 01:30 P.M.
Intimation to the candidates for the personal interview
March 06, 2020
Personal interview for short-listed candidates
March 28 and 29, 2020
Announcement of the final offer
On or before April 15, 2020
Closure of admission process
June 08, 2020
Commencement of PGDBA program
June 15, 2020

Qualification Criteria for PGDBA

  • A competitor must hold an alumni/post advanced education with any of the accompanying: 10+2+4/10+2+5/10+2+3+2 with a Minimum of 60% imprints or CGPA 6.5 on a 10-point scale in the Qualifying Degree (for example B. Tech./B.E./M.Sc./M. Com or identical). 
  • For SC/ST and Person with Disabilities (PwD) class up-and-comers, the passing imprints for qualification will be 55% or CGPA 6.0 on a 10-point scale.

Criteria and weights for final selection to PGDBA

Criterion
Weights
Written Test
40
Personal interview (PI)
40
Points for Class X marks
07
Points for Class XII marks
07
Work experience
06
Total
100

 How to Apply

  • Eligible candidates are requested to apply online.
  • Application fee of Rs.2000/- (Rs.1000/- for candidates belonging to SC/ST/PwD categories) has to be paid online by using Debit/ Credit Card/ Net Banking.
  • Keep the print out of transaction details for future reference.


IIM Ph.D. Admission 2026

The Doctoral Program of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta was begun in 1971. It is a full-time doctoral program that offers understudies open doors for cutting edge studies and research in various specializations identified with Management Science. The Program expects to plan understudies for professions in instructing and research in the executives contemplates and in related orders, and for vocations in the administration, in industry, and indifferent associations that require progressed investigative and explore capacities. 

The Doctoral Program has two streams : 

  • The Doctoral Program in Management incorporates the accompanying - specializations: Economics, Finance and Control, Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, Public Policy and Management, and Strategic Management. 
  • The Doctoral Program in Disciplines Related to Management incorporates the accompanying specializations: Operations Research and Systems Analysis, Regional Development, and Sociology. 

On fruitful finishing of the Program, an understudy is granted the Ph.D. degree, in his/her region of specialization.

Area of Specialization
Economics, Finance & Control, Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, Public Policy and Management, Regional Development, Strategic Management
Eligibility
First Class Master's or Postgraduate Certificate (2 years) in any order and a three-year Bachelor's qualification with at any rate 50% marks in the total; OR
CA with least 50% marks or CS/CMA with least 55% imprints, with B.com degree; OR
B.Tech/4 year degree with 6.5 CGPA or identical. 
Non-engineering applicants who have experienced 10+2+5 years will be viewed as qualified to apply for the Doctoral Program. CMA (USA) competitors are likewise qualified to apply for the Doctoral Program.
What's more, a candidate more likely than not getting at least 50% marks in the total in either the Secondary or the Higher Secondary Examination of a Board (or proportional).
Reservation
60% of the seats in the programme are reserved for the reserved categories (including EWS).
Admission Tests
GMAT / GRE / UGC-NET/ GATE/ UGC-JRF
Common Admission Test (CAT)
Candidates should get their GMAT scores officially reported to the Institute using the code: 9CP-HT-94.
Candidates should get their GRE scores officially reported to the Institute using the code: 7496.
Exemptions
An MBA/PGDM (two years full time) holder of any of the IIMs with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 6.00/9.00 or more (or comparable) doesn't have to take any Admission Test. (S)he can apply legitimately utilizing the DP Online Application Process. (S)he needs to pay the application expense and fulfill the application time constraint. After accommodation of the application frames, the choice strategy pursued by such a competitor will be indistinguishable from that of every single other up-and-comer.

How to Apply

  • An up-and-comer can apply to a limit of two Areas of Specialization. The SC/ST/PWD candidates (submitting a copy of SC/ST/PWD certificate) are required to pay the application charge of Rs. 500/ - and the various candidates are required to pay an application expense of Rs. 1000/ - . 
  • Applications will be gotten from November 04th, 2019 to January twentieth, 2026.


IIM MBA Admission 2026

The MBA Program in Management is a two-year full-time private post-advanced education course.

The MBA Program has a two-level structure: it comprises of central subjects (necessary credit courses and mandatory non-credit courses), a mid-year temporary position (obligatory industry preparing among first and second year) and elective courses (discretionary courses in the subsequent year). The primary year is focused on creating business basics through obligatory courses spreading over the regions of financial matters, funds, advertising, tasks, frameworks, and authoritative conduct. The subsequent year offers plenty of electives in various practical regions that understudies can pick dependent on their ideal zone of interest. Understudies seeking to dive further into subjects can embrace research papers under personnel supervision.

Eligibility for Admission to MBA Programme

An applicant must hold a Bachelor's Degree, with at least 50% marks or proportional CGPA [45% if there should arise an occurrence of the competitors having a place with Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Persons with Disability (PWD) categories], granted by any of the Universities consolidated by an Act of the focal or state assembly in India or other instructive foundations set up by an Act of Parliament or proclaimed to be esteemed as a University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, or have an identical capability perceived by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.

Components and weights for final selection for the MBA Programme

Components
Weights
CAT 2019 Score
38
Personal Interview (PI)
48
Written Ability Test (WAT)
10
Point awarded for Academic Diversity at Bachelor’s level for Non-Engineering degree
04
Work Experience
08
Total
100

How to Apply for an MBA at IIM Calcutta?

To apply for admission to the MBA/Ph.D. program at IIMC, the candidates must visit the official website of CAT.

  • Register using a valid email id and password.
  • Login to the CAT website.
  • Fill Personal Details followed by Academic Qualifications
  • Mention the Work Experience
  • Select the Interview center.
  • Select the test center.
  • Pay the fee.

Application Fee: INR. 1900/- (INR. 950/- for reserved category candidates).


Payment Gateway Refund Policy

If there should arise an occurrence of abrogation made as long as 15 days preceding the beginning date of the occasion, a 10% handling charge will be required on the net sum before discounting. No discounts can be made for scratch-offs done under 15 days before the occasion start date. All discounts will be handled after the finish of the occasion. All discounts will be made physically through checks/DD/Banker's Checks and exchange costs (assuming any) will be borne by the payer. There will be no electronic inversion/discount of installments

Scholarships & Prizes/Awards

Various scholarships supported by various organizations like Aditya Birla Group, Ratan Tata Trust, T. Thomas Scholarship supported by HUL, OP Jindal Engineering and Management Scholarship are accessible for the meriting understudies based on merit and different criteria stipulated by the Sponsors. NTPC scholarships merit scholarships for meriting SC/ST/understudies with inabilities dependent on the MBA-I result. The legislature of India additionally supports the Merit cum Means Scholarship for SC/ST understudies dependent on their presentation at the hour of affirmations. 

There are various prizes/scholarships supported by the Institute and different associations for granting praiseworthy understudies based on their first and second-year results. A few prizes are likewise granted to understudies at the Annual Convocation for certain exceptional extracurricular exercises on the proposal of the Institute's Students' Council.

Recruiters

In our current reality where rivalry develops continuously and duplicates constantly, situations have become a measuring stick for greatness. IIM Calcutta is broadly viewed as the best in the nation in this regard and that is a declaration to the nature of its understudies and the quality of our corporate connections that have been worked throughout the years. Understudies of the foundation appreciate the differed kaleidoscope and are presented to an assortment of utilitarian zones and segments. Employment areas envelop the globe, from New York and London to Shanghai and Hong Kong and even the Middle East. What's more, the rundown just continues expanding each year. Retail majors, private value firms, venture holding organizations, and driving speculation banks all come down to Joka to get the most splendid personalities in India consistently. 

In our craving to be the best, we have consistently had confidence in building everlasting securities with our corporate accomplices. Greatness they state streams past limits and we at IIM Calcutta accept the adventure has quite recently started as we endeavor to scale new statures and in the process investigate strange territories. The ongoing years have seen various new organizations on grounds, by and by demonstrating the deep-rooted maxim "Whatever you do, any place you go, showing signs of improvement never at any point stops".

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