Indian Institute of Management Admission to Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), 2026

Indian Institute of Management

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Admission to Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), 2026

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore
Bangaluru, Karnataka
Admission to Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), 2026
A two-year fulltime programme leading to a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree

The Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) is a master’s level programme, leading to the grant of a degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA). The two-year full-time residential programme is designed to equip students to take on leadership roles in an increasingly complex and dynamic global scenario. It lasts six trimesters, spread over two years, with a summer project intermediary.
Duration: Two-year fulltime programme

Programme Structure

Curriculum
The programme offers Core and Elective courses.

Core courses are compulsory courses offered in the first year.
Elective courses are offered in the third term of the first year and all terms of the second year, where students get the opportunity to choose from a basket of multidisciplinary courses.
IIMB courses are delivered through a combination of the following formats: lectures, classroom discussions, industry interactions, case analyses, individual and group projects, term papers, role plays, dissertations, simulations, business games, films, and various experiential learning methods.

During the first year, a PGP student is required to undertake sixteen core courses and two electives (totalling 49.5 credits). The first year consists of three terms, and the term-wise course details are given in the following table

Sl. No.	Term I	Term II	Term III
1	Accounting for Financial Decisions	Corporate Finance	Business, Government and Society: Ethics and Responsible Business
2	Advances in Business Communication	Communication in the Digital Age	Macroeconomics
3	Marketing Management	Operations Management	Managing Digital Business
4	Managerial Economics	Competition & Strategy	Entrepreneurial Mindset and Action
5	Organization Design	Managing People and Performance in Organizations	Elective-1
6	Decision Sciences-I	Decision Sciences-II	Elective-2

Summer Internship
Summer internship is scheduled between the end of first year and the beginning of second year. Internship is optional for students who have at least 34 months of work experience prior to enrolling for the programme.

Courses and Credits – Second Year
A PGP student should earn a minimum of 45 credits and a maximum of 51 credits in elective courses over three terms in the second year. The electives cover a wide array of topics. Here is a sample list of electives:
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Infrastructure Development
- PPPs and Regulation
- Business Analytics and Intelligence
- Spreadsheet Model-Business Decision
- Current Economic Scenario; Indian Economy and Policy Matters for Business
- Global Securities Markets
- Corporate Governance: Indian and International Perspectives
- Corporate Valuation
- Digital Marketing
- Research for Marketing Decisions
- Brand Management
- Entrepreneurship in Action
- Personal Values, Goals and Career Options
- Creating High Performance Organizations
- Supply Chain Management
- Technology and Operations Strategy
- Green Business Management
- Strategic Thinking and Decision Making

Apart from electives on functional areas, IIMB also offers different types of courses such as language courses (German, French, Spanish and Japanese), courses with international immersion (like Business Planning in International Markets, Developing Technology Partnerships between Firms in India and Israel), and experiential courses (like the Himalayan Mountain Challenge and Motorcycle Immersion in Local Entrepreneurial Settings), based on the interest of students.

Elective Courses

IIMB has the distinction of offering the largest number of elective courses among B-schools in India. The electives cover a wide array of topics as indicated below. Students follow a bidding system to select the elective courses of their interest. This is a tentative list that may change year on year based on students’ interest.

- Analytics for Cross-functional Excellence
- Analytics for E-commerce and Retail Operations
- Business Analytics and Intelligence
- Data Visualization and Storytelling
- Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Sports Analytics
- Spreadsheet Models for Business Decision Problems

- Behavioural Economics
- Business, Finance & International Economy
- Econometrics for Consultants
- Global Common Negotiations and Business in Network Technologies
- International Macroeconomics

- Developing Leadership Networks
- Entreprenuerial Marketing
- Global Perspectives: Understanding the West through its classics
- Motorcycles and Immersion in Local Entrepreneurial Settings
- Lean Launch Lab: Building Ventures Iteratively
- New Age Business Models
- Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

- Advanced Value Investing
- Advanced Corporate Finance
- Corporate Financial Strategy
- Corporate Governance and Ethics
- Financial Derivatives
- Financial Markets
- Financial Modelling
- Fintech: How Technology is Reshaping Financial Services Ecosystem
- Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives
- Global Securities Market
- International Finance
- Investments
- Alternative Investments
- Management of Banks and Financial Institutions
- Mergers, Acquisition and Corporate Restructuring
- New Enterprise Financing
- Real Estate Investment Management
- Risk Management
- Valuation
- Wealth Management and Personal Financial Planning

- Artificial Intelligence Applications for Managers
- Big Data Analytics
- Digital Product Management
- Gamification for Management and Business
- Managing Digital Transformations
- Responsible AI
- Software Product Management

- Communication for Leaders
- CEO's Agenda - Towards Climate Action
- Intercultural Managerial Communication

- Agile Marketing
- Analytical Marketing
- Brand Management
- Business to Business Marketing
- Competitive Marketing Strategy
- Consumer Behaviour
- Customer Relationship Management
- Digital Marketing Strategies
- Global Marketing
- Marketing Analytics
- Marketing Communication
- Marketing of Hi-Tech Products and Innovations
- Marketing ROI & Media Metrics
- Omnichannel Retail Strategy
- Product Strategy and Management
- Research for Marketing Decisions
- Sales and Distribution Management
- Strategies for Mobile Marketing
- Strategy, Tactics and Economics of Pricing

- Decision Making
- Enlightened Leadership for Responsible Business
- Extreme Leadership
- Inclusive Business Models
- Leadership in Digital Era
- Leading with Joy - Leveraging the Mind to Create Greater Impact
- Learning to Lead: Challenges and Competencies
- Managing Career Success and Transition
- People Management Skills
- Personal Values, Goals and Career Options
- Storytelling for Business Managers

- Business Process Improvement
- Competition and Co-operation in Business Ecosystems
- Greening the Operations and Supply Chain
- Operations Strategy
- Project Management Essentials
- Responsible Business Operations
- Revenue Analytics
- Service Delivery and Management
- Supply Chain Management

- Building Sustainable and Liveable Cities
- Business Government and Society
- Business Law
- Business Unusual: Understanding Alternative Business Models
- Corporate Excellence with Econometrics
- Doing Business in Indian Infrastructure
- Education Policy: Concepts and Praxis
- Understanding Contemporary Japan_A Nation in Transition
- Ethics and Public Policy
- Foundations of Development Economics: Conceptual Issues and Practice
- Health Economics: Theory and Practice
- History of India's Political Economy
- Public Policy for Managers
- Rural Banking and Financial Inclusion
- Social Entrepreneurship

- AI Strategy
- Business Strategy using Capstone Simulation
- Corporate Strategy
- Design Thinking - An Approach to Innovation and Creativity
- Digital Business Models and Strategy
- Green Business Management
- Leadership: Vision, Meaning and Reality
- Learning from Corporate Failures
- New Product Development
- Platform Business Models
- Strategic Leadership
- Strategic Leadership: Sustaining Firm Growth
- Strategic Management in Media and Entertainment Industry
- Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation
- Strategic Stewardship
- Strategic Thinking & Decision Making
- Strategy Consulting
- Strategy Implementation
- Technology and Innovation Strategy
- Technology and Innovation Management
- Technology Strategy

- An Introduction to the World’s religions
- Business Planning for International Markets (BPIM): Japan, Dubai
- Explorations in Architecture and Design: Lessons for Managers
- Foreign Language Courses: French, Spanish, German, Japanese
- General Commercial Knowledge
- Himalayan Mountain Challenge
- Introduction to Hindu Philosophy
- Introduction to Indian Knowledge System
- Management Paradigms from Bhagavad Gita

Admission Process

Domestic Admissions

Eligibility
The basic criteria for applying to the programme include one of the following:

A bachelor’s degree in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). Applicants from SC, ST and PwD categories should have a minimum of 45% or equivalent CGPA.²
A completed professional degree (CA/CS/ICWA(CMA)/FIAI).

The candidate also needs a Common Admission Test (CAT) score that is valid on the date of application submission.

Required documents
The documents to be submitted as part of the application process are listed below. Please ensure that all the documents submitted are complete in all respects.

10th board, 12th board and bachelor’s degree transcripts
Bachelor’s degree certificate / provisional degree certificate (if applicable)
Bonafide certificate (for candidates studying in final year)
Professional degree transcripts (CA/CS/ICWA) (if applicable)
Professional degree certificate (if applicable)
Statement of purpose
Work experience letters, first and last payslips (if applicable)
SC/ST/NC-OBC/EWS certificate (if applicable)
Relevant disability certificate and UDID Card for persons with disability (PwD)

¹ All information in this document is pertinent to the admissions cycle (2026-28) alone, and therefore no inference can be made from this document about the admissions process that will be used for future admission cycles at IIMB. IIMB reserves the right to change, modify or adopt any new admissions process that it deems necessary, at any point.

² Applicants who do not have a bachelor’s degree but have completed their CA/ICWA/CS after Class XII, are also eligible to apply for PGP 2026. The requirement of minimum percentage marks /CGPA is the same as a bachelor’s degree.

Application process: Stage I
The PGP admission process at IIMB starts with the submission of the online application form.

A first shortlist is prepared comprising candidates who have secured a pre-determined minimum score on all sections of CAT 2025. Only candidates obtaining a minimum raw score that is positive in all sections of CAT2025 will be considered. The percentile cut-off scores for admission, applied to CAT 2024, are shown in Table 1 in Annexure I. All the subsequent processing, standardization and selection are limited to candidates in the the first shortlist alone.
For candidates in the first shortlist, a pre-PI (Personal Interview) score is created. The weights for different components at the pre-PI stage are as follows : CAT = 55 , 10th board score = 10, 12th board score = 10, Bachelor’s score = 10, Work experience / Professional course = 10, Gender diversity = 5. The 55 points for CAT are derived from performance in each of the three sections as follows: Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VARC) - 19 points, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) - 21 points, and Quantitative Aptitude (QA) - 15 points. The gender diversity component is applicable only for computing the pre-PI score and is not used in the next stage.
- The scores for 10th and 12th board exams are normalized. For candidates without a 10th board and/or 12th board exam score (due to COVID), no weightage shall be given to these component(s), and the weights assigned to other components shall be re-adjusted.
The bachelors’ degree scores are normalized. Incomplete or intermediate graduate scores are considered only if the candidate's final score is pending. For candidates without a bachelor’s degree score (due to COVID), no weightage shall be given to this component, and the weights assigned to other components shall be re-adjusted.
- Candidates with Chartered Accountancy (CA), Cost Accounting (ICWA), or Company Secretary (CS) certifications are eligible for weightage under the category of professional course. The scores obtained in these professional courses (Final year completed only) are normalized and weightage is calculated.
- The pre-PI score for work experience
= 10x/36 if 0 < x < 36
= 10 if x >= 36
where x is the months of work experience up to July 2025. No consideration is given to any time spent as an intern, either during or after the course of study in a programme, or any periods of apprenticeship such as articleship required as part of certain professional courses, or any unpaid work undertaken in any organization or institution.
- For candidates who have undergone a professional course of study mentioned above and have work experience as well, the maximum of the work experience score and the professional course score is considered.
- For all components mentioned above, the standardized score, truncated between 0 and weight (wt) is computed from the raw score (val) as: Max [0, min {wt, wt/2 + ((val-mean) / sd) * wt / 6}]
For candidates in the first shortlist, the top-ten candidates in each of the following category automatically qualify for the PI stage: total score in CAT, adjusted bachelor’s degree score (commerce, arts, and science disciplines) and professional (CA / ICWA / CS) score. Post PI, all such candidates are evaluated in the same way as any other candidate.
Presentation of employment claims that are false will be dealt with severely. A candidate who is found to have provided incorrect information about work experience will not be considered further for admission. Furthermore, the candidate will be barred from applying to any programme at IIMB for the next 3 years.

Based on the pre-PI score, a certain number of candidates from each category are selected for the next stage in the admission process.

Application process: Stage II
The second stage of the admissions process at IIMB consists of a personal interview (PI) and a Written Ability Test (WAT) where candidates will be required to write a note.

The PI and the WAT will happen on the same day and in the same location. The duration of the WAT is approximately 30 minutes. The WAT will be evaluated based on the content and style of the note.
The work experience weight assigned while computing the Pre-PI score is scaled down from 10 to 5 during the post PI process to arrive at the composite score. This work experience score will be multiplied by the quality of experience score where the latter will be evaluated on a 5 point scale (0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2) by each member of the interview panel. The average quality of work experience score will be multiplied by the pre-PI work experience score to arrive at a revised weighted work experience score.
For all candidates called for interviews, the weights for the parameters at the post-PI stage are as follows : Personal interview = 40, WAT = 10, CAT = 25 , 10th board score = 5, 12th board score = 5, Bachelor’s score = 5, Work Experience / Professional Course = 10. The 25 points for CAT are derived from the performance in each of the three sections as follows: Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VARC) - 8.75 points, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) - 10 points, and Quantitative Aptitude (QA) – 6.25 points.

Final offers of admission to candidates from each category will be made strictly on the basis of the post-PI scores.

Cut-offs for the batch of 2025-27, based on CAT 2024

Minimum Percentile requirements for the first shortlist*
Category	Section 1 (VARC)	Section 2 (DILR)	Section 3 (QA)	Aggregate
General	80	75	75	85
NC-OBC	70	65	65	75
EWS	70	65	65	75
SC	60	60	60	70
ST	55	55	55	65
PWD	50	50	50	60

* These are cut-offs used for preparing the first shortlist. The scores of those called for interviews were higher.
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International Admissions

Eligibility
International applicants are those holding foreign passports (including those of Indian origin).

Overseas applicants are those holding Indian passports, but who are not physically present in India on the date of CAT 2025. Such applicants must also have resided abroad for at least 18 months in the preceding three years (January 2023 to December 2025).

Apart from satisfying the above eligibility, canidates must have the following:

A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification (from at least a three year programme) in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) from a recognized university/institute.
A valid GMAT or GRE score - the GMAT or GRE score should be valid as on the date of application.

Application process: Stage I
The PGP Overseas/Intenational admission process starts with the submission of the online application form. The online application form can be accessed at https://campus.iimb.ac.in/psp/cssisprd/?cmd=login&languageCd=ENG&.

The application fee for Overseas applicants is INR 6,500. There is no application fee for International applicants. The application fee is non-refundable and should be paid on-line.

Only those applications that are complete in all respects and meet the minimum academic and other criteria specified above are considered for the next stage in the admission process. Shortlisted candidates will be called for a personal interview (PI) and a writing ability test (WAT). If the shortlisted candidate is in India at the time of the interview period, he/she will be asked to appear for the PI/WAT process in person. Otherwise, the PI/WAT process will be conducted online.

Application process: Stage II
After the interviews, each applicant is assigned a composite score. The score is a composite of multiple factors including academic track record, GMAT/GRE scores, quality of work experience (if any), performance in the writing ability test and the interview. The number of offers, which are not fixed, are made based on this composite score. There is no waitlist. The number of offers are further subject to the candidate meeting a minimum cutoff in terms of the composite score and / or any other factor score that the admissions committee may deem fit.

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Important Dates

The application window and the schedule of events (tentative) are as below:

Applications open	October 13, 2025
Applications close	January 20, 2026
Interviews*	February/March, 2026*
Offers*	April, 2026 # (First week)
Offer acceptance #	April, 2026 # (Second week), 2026#

# All the above-mentioned dates are subject to change if required. Only those candidates who have been shortlisted for interviews will be intimated by e-mail.

* Online interviews will be arranged for applicants who are outside India during the above interview dates.

Fees

The fees (in INR) for the batch of PGP 2025-27 (Domestic) is:

Fee* for 2 Years	Rs. 26,00,000/-
Caution Deposit (General)#	Rs. 30,000/-

*Fees covers Tuition, Library, Internet, Case Permission Royalty, Course Material, Hostel Room Rent and Service Charge, Medical Insurance, Personal Accident Insurance and Alumni Activity.

#Caution deposit (one time) to be paid separately at the time of registration.

The fees indicated above, excludes Service Tax and any other tax. Such taxes, if made applicable by law, will be collected from students at the prescribed rates.

In addition to the amounts mentioned above, students will have to pay mess advance of Rs. 30,000 each term.

Accommodation: Accommodation on campus is provided for PGP students. Please note that students may opt to live off-campus in the second year by making their own arrangements.
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