Which Business Schools Should I Apply To? - Options At Various CAT Percentiles

The table below gives a indicative range/cutoff wherever possible of schools where you can apply to based on your percentiles in CAT/XAT/NMAT/SNAP. We have tried to get this data directly from the school and not from Google. We will keep updating this list as and when we get more data. Like most other things in India, application to business schools is chaotic - there are multiple entrance tests and schools accept multiple tests. Student take multiple tests. We strongly recommend that students look at cutoffs as just one of the criteria. Browse through content on InsideIIM in detail and then take a call. If you don't find too much information about a school on insideIIM, it is highly likely that it is not worth applying to. Do note that a lower cutoff does not mean the school is inferior - top IIMs have also relaxed cutoffs to ensure gender and background diversity. Schools focus on entire profiles and not just entrance scores. (We are answering questions live here) We will keep updating, leave your comments in the comments section. Questions or observations or if you think data needs to change. All data is for general category only.

Name of the B-school	CAT Percentile Bare Minimum Cutoff/Other Exam Scores as per 2015-16 Data for GENERAL Category
XLRI Jamshedpur	XAT - 94%ile for BM, 90% for HRM
MYRA Mysore	Profile Based Call - No cutoff. Click to apply
MICA Ahmedabad	No CAT Cutoff - apply through MICAT. Click to apply
NMIMS Mumbai	NMAT 208+
JBMIMS Mumbai	MH-CET - 99.9%ile
IIFT Delhi & Kolkata	IIFT Test - Score of 48.5
ISB Hyderabad & Mohali	GMAT - 600 to 770
MISB Bocconi	CAT Average 90%ile, NMAT Preferred 195+, GMAT Average 640. Click to Apply
IIM Ahmedabad	99.7%ile
IIM Calcutta	99.59%ile
IIM Bangalore	99.5%ile
IIM Lucknow	99.3+ Males for PGP/99+ for Females for PGP
FMS Delhi	99.3%ile
SJMSOM Mumbai	98.34%ile
SIBM Pune	97.9%ile in SNAP
MDI Gurgaon	97.5%ile PGP, 94.09%ile for IM/HR
IIT Delhi	97.5%ile
NITIE Mumbai	97.01%ile
IIM Bodh Gaya	97%ile
SCMHRD Pune	96.511%ile in SNAP
IIM Rohtak	96%ile
IIM Kozhikode	95.44%ile
IIM Raipur	95%ile
IIM Trichy	95%ile
IIM Udaipur	95%ile
IIM Indore	94%ile For a Male with 10th, 12th 90 + and 91%ile For A Female with Similar Acads
SPJIMR Mumbai	93%ile
IMT Ghaziabad	92.03%ile
IIM Nagpur	92%ile
XIM Bhubaneshwar	91%ile
GIM Goa	90%ile
Great Lakes Institute of Management	90%ile. Click here to Apply
IIM Shillong	90%ile
IMT Nagpur	90%ile
IIT Kanpur	90%ile
IIT - Kharagpur - VGSoM	90%ile
TAPMI Manipal	88%ile - Click to Apply
UBS Chandigarh	88%ile
LBSIM Delhi	88%ile
K.J. Somaiya	87.89%ile
SIBM Bangalore	86.54%ile in SNAP
BIM Trichy	85%ile
FORE Delhi	85%ile
Welingkar Mumbai	80%ile+
IFMR Chennai	80%ile - Click to Apply
IRMA Anand	80%ile
NIRMA	80%ile
BIMTech Noida	80%ile
TISS Mumbai	66-68 Score in TISSNET
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  Our friends at Vistamind have given us indicative cutoffs for reserved categories in Government schools. CAT 96+ OBC -  IIMA, IIMC CAT 90+ OBC - IIMB, IIML, IIMI, IIMK, FMS, IIM Shillong, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, CAT 80+ OBC - IIM Ranchi, Rohtak, Raipur, Trichy, Udaipur, Kashipur; MFC, MIB, MBE (Delhi University) CAT 75+ OBC - NITIE, BIM Trichy, CAT 70+ OBC - IIM Amritsar, Bodhgaya, Nagpur, Sambhlapur, Sirmaur, Visakhapatnam; UBS Chandigarh, UPES Dehradun CAT 90+ SC - IIMA, IIMC, IIMB CAT 80+ SC - IITs, Other IIMs, FMS CAT 80+ ST - IIMA, IIMC, IIMB CAT 60+ ST Almost all others