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What percentile do you need to get into FMS, MDI and SPJIMR in the CAT? What options can one consider other than IIM? What are their CAT cutoffs?
The placements at SPJIMR take place on the basis of the specialization taken by the students and the companies visit with the same intention. Broadly, the candidates are divided into 2 groups
Freshers: Apart from freshers, this category also includes those with up to 1.5 years of experience. They get offers from Marketing and Finance domains usually.
Experienced: This category comprises people with more than 1.5 years of experience. The roles most offered to them are Investment Banking and Operations.
Apart from work experience, there are many other major factors on which placements depend. For instance,
- Quality of Work Experience and understanding of it
- Academics
- What have you learned in MBA
- Extra Curricular
- Confidence
- Overall Personality
At SPJIMR, the roles are distributed quite equally despite the work experience gap. Like any other B School, there are toppers as well as lowest-level students. The rest receive an average income.
What is the sufficient score in the GMAT to get into MDI Gurgaon or SPJIMR Mumbai?
MDI Gurgaon and SPJIMR are considered among the best B Schools in India and therefore have a higher cutoff. The required GMAT score to reach these B Schools is around 680-700. Apart from this, you are required to have a minimum of 97 percentile in CAT/XAT for SPJIMR and 95 percentile in CAT for MDI Gurgaon.
Other requisites include
- Good academics
- Extracurricular activities
- Achievements
- Work experience
SPJIMR eligibility criteria include an 80 percentile overall on all sections. After this shortlisting, you have to move up for GDPI rounds.
Can I get into IIMs, XLRI, FMS, SIBM, SPJIMR, IIFT, MDI? I have 70/61/77 in 10th/12th/B.Com. What CAT percentile would be required to get a call and how to improve my profile?
Based on your past academic records, you are likely to get into top IIMs only with a very high CAT score. Honestly, your academic performance is average and IIMs especially give a lot of weightage to past academics. However, you can target IIM Shillong and elite Non-IIM b-schools such as FMS and MDI.
The best part of these Non-IIM B-Schools is their less weightage given to past academics during shortlisting. They focus the most on your CAT score. So anyone with an average profile can dream of getting into these schools by preparing for CAT sincerely and acing the exam.
Institutes like XLRI and IIFT focus a lot more on the entrance exam scores (around 60%) than your past academics. The other major parameters they give relative weightage to are work experience, GD/PI, and WAT performance. So choosing a B School like FMS, MDI, IIFT, XLRI, or JBIMS is a lot better for someone with your profile.
How to improve your profile:
Past Academics are not the only determining factor during admission. In fact, many B Schools give the least weightage to it. So the question is how can someone with an average profile up their scale and improve their profile? The 3 common ways are
- Gain some valid work experience (up to 3 years max)
- Pursue a hobby or passion in your leisure time
- Learn some professional skills
The CAT percentile required for some B schools you mentioned are
|
B School |
Percentile Required |
|
IIM Ahmedabad |
99.97+ |
|
IIM Calcutta |
99.99+ |
|
IIM Bangalore |
99.99+ |
|
IIM Lucknow |
99.8+ |
|
IIM Kozhikode |
99.9+ |
|
IIM Shillong |
96.80+ |
|
New IIMs |
94.00+ |
|
FMS |
99.40+ |
Who are some of the famous alumni of SPJIMR?
SPJIMR is a very reputed institution. There are many famous alumni of SPJIMR, some of the include:
- Debjani Ghosh, (1993) : President at NASSCOM.
- Neil George, (1996) : Managing Director at Nivea India.
- Mahesh Madhavan, (1988) : Global CEO of the Bacardi Group.
- Anurita Chopra, (2000) : Marketing Director, GSK.
- Deepak Iyer, (1993) : President - India of Mondel?z International.
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