IIM Bangalore PGP RTI Data 2024-26: CAT Cut-off & Academic Records

Less than 1 percent of students who applied for the flagship PGP program at IIM-Bangalore in 2023 got an interview shortlist for the WAT-PI stage. IIM Bangalore's 2-year MBA program is highly sought after in India, but gaining admission at IIM-B is not easy. Apart from the CAT score IIM-Bangalore evaluates the candidates on their academics and work profile. In this post, we have shared the IIM Bangalore PGP RTI Data 2024-2026. It highlights total registrations to the program and offers made, batch data regarding minimum, maximum, and average of CAT Percentile, 10th, 12th, and graduation marks, and work experience across different reservation categories.

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Key Highlights

1. On average you need to score 97 %ile plus to get an interview shortlist from IIM-B.
2. The minimum percentile at which a general candidate got a call for WAT-PI is 93.66.
3. Around 28% of students who received a call for an Interview made it into IIM-B.
4. The average 10th, 12th, and graduation scores of the selected candidates in the general category are as follows: 94%, 92%, and 86% respectively (rounded-off)
5.  The minimum and average work ex for the PGP 2024 are 1 month and 27 months respectively.

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IIM Bangalore PGP RTI Data: Number of candidates who applied for the PGP 2024 & PGPBA 2024 

Category	PGP 2024	PGPBA 2024
General	175565	143729
NC-OBC	46023	40368
SC	21167	17601
ST	5622	4446
PwD	1087	894
EWS	13905	12623
Total	263369	219661

Number of candidates shortlisted for the WAT-PI round

Category	PGP 2024	PGPBA 2024
General	707	496
NC-OBC	471	380
EWS	155	160
SC	299	200
ST	148	116
Total	1780	1352

Number of students who received admission in 2024

Category	PGP 2024		PGP-BA 2024
	Female	Male	Female	Male
GEN	92	109	20	8
NC-OBC	54	83	19	1
EWS	19	34	6	2
SC	32	46	6	2
ST	8	30	6	0
Total	507		70

*The IIM-B official website mentions the total batch strength as 535.  Minimum, Average, and Maximum CAT 2023 Scores for the WAT-PI Shortlist CAT Score is the most important factor for WAT-PI shortlists. It holds 55% weightage in the total Pre-PI Score. The tables below summarize the maximum, minimum, and average percentile across the three sections for all categories.

Category	VARC (Min)	DILR (Min)	QA (Min)	Agg (Min)
EWS	71.35	71.28	70.62	81.96
GN	80.49	80.83	80.81	93.66
NC-OBC	70.39	71.28	70.62	81.86
SC	60.99	61.44	61.02	70.68
ST	55.83	56.15	55.51	66.82

 

Category	VARC (Max)	DILR (Max)	QA (Max)	Agg (Max)
EW	99.96	99.99	99.99	100
GN	100	100	100	100
NC-OBC	99.97	99.98	99.96	99.97
SC	99.96	99.83	99.71	99.98
ST	99.95	99.87	99.84	99.8

 

Category	VARC (Avg)	DILR (Avg)	QA (Avg)	Agg (Avg)
EW	92.16	93.94	93.95	97.44
GN	96.89	97.71	96.67	99.32
NC-OBC	92.03	92.88	92.67	96.85
SC	88.62	86.56	86.82	93.29
ST	83.47	83.72	81.81	90

Minimum, Maximum, and Average 10th, 12th and Bachelors Score  IIM-Bangalore has balanced selection criteria for marking the candidates in academics. Analyzing the given data, an 80% + score in graduation is a good chance to make it into the top B-School, given other factors also meet the criteria. None of the categories have a grade score below 83 %

Category	Min SSC	Min HSC	Min Bachelors
EWS	77.2	78	83.19
General	87.33	84	83.19
NC-OBC	84.8	75	83.19
SC	89	83.33	83.19
ST	81.43	77.6	84.5

 

Category	Max SSC	Max HSC	Max Bachelors
EWS	99	97.5	87.6
General	99	97.5	87.6
NC-OBC	99	97.5	87.6
SbC	98	97.4	87.6
ST	98	97.4	87.6

 

Category	Average of SSC Percentile	Average of HSC Percentile	Average of Bachelor Percentile
EWS	93.85	90.7	86.87
General	94.92	92.63	86.4
NC-OBC	94.69	92.32	87.09
SC	94.5	92	87.23
ST	94.39	92.83	87.19

IIM Bangalore PGP RTI Data 2024-26: Academic Background of Students Who Received Admission Engineers form most of the batch for both courses at IIM-Bangalore. For the PGP 2024 batch, they account for 75% of the total strength. As mentioned above, the total batch strength at IIM-B is 507 according to RTI, which is slightly different from the website number.   PGP 2024-26

Category	EWS	General	NC-OBC	SC	ST
Arts	1	12	7	3	-
Commerce	7	31	6	-	4
Engineering	38	134	112	66	31
MBA	1	8	2	1	2
Others	1	3	4	4	-
Science	5	13	6	4	1

PGP-BA 2024-26

Category	EWS	General	NC-OBC	SC	ST
Arts	-	-	-	-	-
Commerce	1	2	-	-	-
Engineering	2	25	18	7	6
MBA	1	2	1	-	-
Others	3	-	-	-	-
Science	1	1	1	1	-

IIM Bangalore PGP RTI Data 2024-26: Minimum and Average Work Experience of selected candidates

Work-Ex in Months	PGP	PGP-BA
Min	1	0
Avg	27	21

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the minimum percentile required to make it into IIM-Bangalore?

Ans. According to the RTI Data, the lowest percentile at which a general candidate made it into IIM-B is 93.66 for the PGP batch of 2024-26.       2. What is the average work experience of the batch at IIM-B? Ans. The average work experience of the PGP batch of 2024 is 27 months.        3. How many non-engineers make it into IIM-B? Ans. Around 25% of the PGP batch of 2024-26 is non-engineer.

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