ADMISSION CRITERIA AND SELECTION PROCESS OF IIM-CALCUTTA

Institute of Management Technology (IIM) , Calcutta application process has been started.

Structure of admission in IIM-Calcutta

Indian Institute of management Calcutta was the first IIM to be opened in India, in 1961 in collaboration with MIT Sloan school of management, government of west Bengal, and ford foundation. In its initial years, IIM Calcutta operated from Emerald Bower, Barrackpur Trunk Road, Kolkata. The foundation stone of the current IIM-C campus in Joka, Kolkata, was laid by Mr. Morarji Desai, who was then the Deputy Prime Minister of India on 15 Dec 1968. The institute moved to the new campus in 1975.

IIM-C has made their worth in the industry over a span of time. It has remained amongst the best MBA colleges in India, and has been successful in maintaining a name of themselves in every academic field in quality and numbers. It has maintained a placement record since its formation.

IIM Calcutta has changed the admission criteria 2020 by modifying the weightage parameters for academics in shortlisting and making it more lucrative for candidates from all academic backgrounds. IIM Calcutta Admission 2020 remains a two-step process involving shortlisting with 56% weightage for CAT 2019 score and 44% to academics and diversity factors followed by PI-WAT round leading to final admission offer.

Structure of admission

IIM Calcutta eligibility criteria require that the candidate must hold a bachelor's degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA (in case of the candidate belonging to SC/ST/PwD category, the eligibility criterion is relaxed to 45%.If the candidate is awarded grades/CGPA instead of marks, the equivalence to determine PGP admission eligibility would be based on the equivalence certified by the institution/university from where the bachelor's degree is obtained. In case the institution/university does not have any scheme for converting the CGPA into equivalent marks, the equivalence would be established by IIM Calcutta by dividing the obtained CGPA by the maximum possible CGPA and multiplying the resultant by 100 to confirm the Admission eligibility of the candidate. It is mandatory for a final year student, who is provisionally considered eligible by IIM Calcutta and offered admission, to submit the mark-sheet and degree certificate of the final year bachelor's degree examination held on or before June, 2020.

Steps in admission

1. The candidate must have appeared and scored the minimum required sectional and overall percentile in CAT 2019 to be considered for first stage screening process for admission at IIM Calcutta
2.  Candidates are short-listed for Personal Interview (PI) and Written Ability Test (WAT) from among the candidates who have a valid CAT-2019 score, who have applied to the programme and who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the programme of IIM Calcutta 
3. After the WAT & PI round, admission offers are made by IIM Calcutta to successful candidates. The final selection is based on a diverse set of attributes which includes performance in CAT, performance in WAT & PI, academics, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements, work experience among others
4. Final Admission Offer will be made to the candidates in the third week of April 2020 on the basis of Final Score arrived after awarding the weightage scores on all the components.

Source - Edumyra

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