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Waitlist Movement in Non-IIMs: FMS, IIFT, XLRI

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Kirtika Singh Tanwar
Kirtika Singh Tanwar

IIM-Ahmedabad, FMS, and IIM-Bangalore have released the results, and now all B-schools will follow by releasing their results by the first two weeks of May. This is an anxious period for the MBA aspirants, especially when you are on the waitlist. After covering the IIMs waitlist and the IITs waitlist movement, in this article, we are sharing the Non-IIMs Waitlist Movement 2025: FMS, IIFT, XLRI, DSE, and DBE, according to the RTI of the 2024-26 batch.

 

  1. FMS Waitlist Movement

 

Category Waitlist Movements
General 196
EWS 30
NC-OBC 95
SC 44
ST 21
PWD 10

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2. IIFT Waitlist Movement (2023-25 Batch)

 

Category General EWS NC-OBC SC ST PWD
Kolkata to Delhi 26 0 10 10 0 0
Round 01 66 0 33 12 0 1
Round 02 71 0 27 22 3 1
Round 03 36 0 0 7 0 0

(Data of 2024 Not Available)


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3. DFS MBA Finance, DU

 

Category Waitlist No.
General 2424
EWS 678
NC-OBC 1513
SC 893
ST 462
PWD 100

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4. DBE MBA Business Economics (DU)

 

Category Waitlist No.
General 3404
EWS 1065
NC-OBC 2851
SC 1370
ST 68
PWD 18

*ST, PwD have fewer waitlist numbers because of a smaller/ineligible applicant pool.

(Source for 1-4: RTI Data Query 2024, The Career Consultants)

5. XLRI

XLRI does not release an official list declaring the waitlist movement, but the expected waitlist movement according to previous years' trends is around 100 seats for XLRI Jamsedhpur BM, 400 for the  Delhi campus BM, and around 200 for the HRM course in the XLRI Jamsedhpur campus.

FAQs

  1. What is the waitlist movement in IIFT?

Ans: The waitlist first moves students from Kolkata to Delhi, the main campus. For the general category, around 150-180 candidates appear on the waitlist.

2. What is the expected waitlist movement for XLRI?

Ans: The expected waitlist movement according to previous years' trends is around 100 seats for XLRI Jamsedhpur BM, 400 for the  Delhi campus BM, and around 200 for the HRM course in the XLRI Jamsedhpur campus.

3. What is the expected waitlist movement for FMS?

Last year, the waitlist movement was around 200 for the general category, 100 for NC-OBC, 30 for EWS, 45 for SC, 20 for ST, and 10 for PwD.

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Non IIMs Waitlist Movement 2025: FMS, IIFT, XLRI