IIM Sambalpur MBA Admissions 2025: Exits CAP Process; Announces Independent Admissions; Check Criteria, Cut Offs, Process

Table of Contents

1. IIM Sambalpur Admissions 2025 – Key Highlights 
2. IIM Sambalpur Admissions 2025 – Important Dates
3. IIM Sambalpur MBA Fees
4. IIM Sambalpur MBA Placements 
5. IIM Sambalpur Admission Policy 2025 

1.IIM Sambalpur Admissions 2025 – Key Highlights 

• Exit From CAP 2025: IIM Sambalpur has exited from CAP 2025 for MBA Admissions 2025 and will conduct its own admission process.
• Flexible Interview Modes: Candidates can opt for online interviews or attend offline interviews at the IIM Sambalpur campus or at its Delhi campus. 
• Common Admissions: The same admission process would be followed for the flagship MBA and the new MBA (BA) programmes to streamline the experience of shortlisted candidates.

2.IIM Sambalpur Admissions 2025 – Important Dates

1. Shortlisting for First Round: Students who will be shortlisted after the first round will receive intimation through email by January 10, 2025.
2. Candidate Registration on IIM Sambalpur Portal: Shortlisted candidates who are interested in taking admission to IIM Sambalpur have to register on the website/portal before January 25, 2025. 
3. Second List Release: The second list for personal interviews will be intimated to the shortlisted candidates, who will then be able to choose their preferred slots. 
4. Personal interviews: Personal interviews will be conducted between 3rd March, 2025 and April 18th, 2025. 
5. First Merit List Release: The first merit list will be announced tentatively on 10th May 2025 and thereafter, subsequent lists will be declared (if necessary) until all seats are filled.

Sharing the context behind this shift in IIM Sambalpur admission 2025 process, Prof Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director, IIM Sambalpur, said, “Since 2018, IIM Sambalpur has been a part of CAP, where it has collaborated with other IIMs... The primary objective of this collaboration was to optimally use the limited resources during the initial years of the institute…” Dr Jaiswal further added, “However, with the introduction of this new and independent admission process, IIM Sambalpur has opted to conduct its MBA admissions process independently similar to the earlier generation IIMs, allowing prospective candidates to be directly interviewed by the institute.”

3. IIM Sambalpur MBA Fees
IIM Sambalpur MBA Fees is at par with leading B-schools in India. For MBA Admission 2024-26, IIM Sambalpur Tuition Fees was Rs 14.00 lakhs for two years. IIM Sambalpur Total MBA Fees 2024-26 was Rs 21.00 lakhs for two years. Fees for 2025-27 batch is yet to be released. 

Read more about IIM Sambalpur MBA Fees.  

4. IIM Sambalpur MBA Placements 
The final placements for the MBA batch of 2022-24 saw graduates securing a broad spectrum of roles across various domains that include Marketing, Sales, BFSI, Operations, Consulting, Analytics, and ITES. The highest domestic annual Cost to Company (CTC) achieved an all-time high of Rs 23.5 LPA. The average annual CTC was 14.21 LPA. Top recruiters included Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company, Adani Group, Vedanta Limited, Micron Technology, Cognizant Technology Solutions, ICICI Bank, Ernst & Young, Gartner India, HDFC Bank, Aditya Birla Capital Ltd, Akzo Nobel and Accenture.

Read more about IIM Sambalpur MBA Placements.  

5. IIM Sambalpur Admission Policy 2025 
IIM Sambalpur has announced Admission Policy for Admission 2025-27 which aims to “conduct a holistic evaluation of the candidature of potential students rather than focusing on narrowly defined criteria.” Admission policy includes IIM Sambalpur Admission Process, IIM Sambalpur Admission Eligibility, IIM Sambalpur Admission Criteria and more. 

IIM Sambalpur will follow a three-stage selection process, and the selection criteria will be applied in each phase. 

Stage 1: Shortlisting based on CAT 2024 scores 
In Stage 1, all the eligible candidates who have appeared for CAT 2024 and have selected IIM Sambalpur as one of their preferences in the CAT 2024 registration form will be considered. 
IIM Sambalpur will first shortlist candidates who have secured a pre-determined minimum percentile both in each section as well as overall, in CAT 2024. Only candidates obtaining a positive (greater than zero) raw score in all the sections of CAT 2024 will be considered. 

IIM Sambalpur CAT Cut Offs 2025 
Table 1: Minimum percentiles applicable to CAT 2024 for IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025-27 batch

Category	QA	DILR	VARC	Overall
General	65	65	65	90#
EWS	60	60	60	80
NC-OBC	55	55	55	75
SC	40	40	40	55
ST	35	35	35	40
DAP	35	35	35	40

# For male candidates having at least one year of relevant work experience, and for all the female candidates, the minimum overall percentile in the General Category will be reduced to 85 
All the candidates shortlisted in Stage-1 will be sent an email in January 2025 containing a link to an online application form on the admission portal of IIM Sambalpur. This online application form will be pre-filled with the details entered by the candidate in the CAT 2024 registration form. Interested candidates should update the pre-filled information, except the category, to ensure that the data is factually correct and up to date. 

The candidates will also have to upload the copies of necessary documents such as academic certificates and transcripts, work experience certificates (if applicable), certificate of disability (if applicable), SC / ST / EWS / NC-OBC certificate (if applicable). 

Only those candidates shortlisted in Stage 1 who successfully complete and submit the online application form will be considered for next stages of the admission process. 

Stage 2: Pre-Personal Interview Shortlisting
For all the candidates shortlisted in Stage 1 and who successfully submitted the online application form, a Pre-PI Score will be calculated out of 80 as follows: 

• CAT score = 40 
• Class X = 3 
• Class XII = 3 
• Graduation = 4 
• Work Experience = 20 

Stage 3: Personal Interview and Final Selection Merit List Release 
Based on the Stage 2 shortlist, all the eligible candidates will be required to attend the Personal Interview (PI) process conducted by IIM Sambalpur. The PI score obtained by the candidate, after being appropriately normalized, will account for 25 % of the final merit score. 

The PI score (out of a maximum of 25 marks) will be added to the adjusted Pre-PI score (adjusted to 75 marks instead of the earlier 80 marks) to obtain the final merit score. 

Table: Components of the final merit score 

Component	Score
Adjusted Pre-PI score	75
Personal Interview	25
TOTAL	100

Candidate who gets final admission offer from IIM Sambalpur need to send an Offer Acceptance Amount of Rs. 50,000 along with the Offer Acceptance Form on IIM Sambalpur’s admission portal. Failing to do this within the deadline will lead to the offer getting lapsed. 

Before the program registration date a candidate who has paid the offer acceptance fees but wants to withdraw, can do so. The received fee will be refunded to the candidate after deducting Rs. 1000 for processing charges. 

Also Read:

• IIM Sambalpur MBA Rankings
• IIM Sambalpur Admission