IIM Shillong MBA Admission 2025: Check Personal Interview Shortlisting Calls, Selection Process, Cut Offs, Placements, Fees

Table of Contents
1. IIM Shillong: Key Highlights and USPs
2. IIM Shillong Fees (Under Revision)
3. IIM Shillong Intake: 250-260 Students
4. IIM Shillong MBA Placement 
5. IIM Shillong MBA Admission 2025: Important Dates
6. IIM Shillong MBA Admission Process 2025 
7. IIM Shillong Admission 2025 - Final selection stage - Phase 2 
8. IIM Shillong MBA Eligibility Criteria 2025
9. IIM Shillong Financial Assistance & Scholarships

1. IIM Shillong: Key Highlights and USPs
1.1 Highly Ranked: IIM Shillong is Ranked #24 amongst top 125 Management Institutes in India in GoI, MHRD NIRF Ranking 2024. IIM Shillong is Ranked # 11 in MBAUniverse.com B-School Rankings 2025.

1.2 IIM Shillong Fees: IIM Shillong MBA (PGP) fees is Rs. 21.50 lakhs.

1.3 IIM Shillong Placement: IIM Shillong Placements 2024 saw a total of 87 recruiters actively participated across a wide range of sectors. Here are key IIM Shillong Placements 2024 highlights:

• IIM Shillong Placements 2024 Highest Salary Package: 71.50 LPA
• IIM Shillong Placements 2024 Median Salary Package: 25.67 LPA 
• IIM Shillong Placements 2024 Average Salary Package: 26.10 LPA

1.4 Top Recruiters: Top recruiters include Accenture, Aditya Birla, Bain & Company, Capgemini, EY, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Adani Group, L&T, McKinsey among others.

1.5 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Centre for Policy Research and Analysis: Focusing on Holistic Development, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India was a visiting faculty at IIM Shillong. The institute has set up the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Centre for Policy Research and Analysis with a focus on the development of the North East Region.

1.6 IIM Shillong Campus:  Nestled in the lap of the serene green hills amidst the abode of Clouds in the state of Meghalaya, IIM Shillong campus provides the perfect ambience for serious academic pursuits of the best global standards. IIM Shillong offers Experiential Learning outside the classrooms with industrial interactions, sports competitions, cultural activities, entrepreneurial pursuits.  

1.7 Global Standards of Academic Excellence: IIM Shillong offers Global standards of academic excellence, action-oriented research, value based consultancy, and quality education with innovative academic programmes, course curriculum and pedagogical innovations that enables its students to the challenges of a constantly changing and dynamic global business environment. Core values of IIM Shillong include Openness to new ideas and experiences, Intellectual freedom, Self-experimentation and creative pursuit, Adherence to fair, just and ethical practices, Compassion for others.

2. IIM Shillong Fees (Under Revision)
IIM Shillong Fees for MBA (PGP) program is Rs. 21.50 lakhs for two years.

3. IIM Shillong Intake: 250-260 Students
IIM Shillong has an intake of 250 to 260 students. IIM Shillong seats are expected to increase for the PGP 2025-27 batch.

4. IIM Shillong MBA Placement 
Over the years, IIM Shillong has recorded strong placements. Check details below. 

4.1 IIM Shillong Placements 2024 
IIM Shillong Placements 2024 saw a total of 87 recruiters actively participated across a wide range of sectors, including Consulting & Strategy, Finance, General Management, Human Resources & Operations, IT & Analytics, and Sales & Marketing. Here are key IIM Shillong Placements 2024 highlights:

• IIM Shillong Placements 2024 Highest Salary Package: 71.50 LPA
• IIM Shillong Placements 2024 Median Salary Package: 25.67 LPA 
• IIM Shillong Placements 2024 Average Salary Package: 26.10 LPA

4.2 IIM Shillong Placement 2023: Key Highlights

• 100% placements for the large batch of 238 students
• Joins Elite Club of Top IIMs and B-Schools with Rs.25+ LPA Average Salary
• Average Salary in Placement 2023 goes up by 16.7% at Rs.26.96 LPA from Rs.23.10 LPA in 2022
• Highest Salary in Placement 2023 jumps by 29% at Rs.71.30 LPA from Rs.55.22 LPA last year
• 63 Recruiters Made Placement Offers in 2023 to the batch of 238 students
• Median Salary has gone up at Rs.26.09 LPA in Placement 2023 from Rs.22.28 LPA in 2022
• Top 20% of the batch got average package of Rs.35.35 LPA in Placement 2023 as against Rs.31.31 LPA in Placement 2022
• Top 50% of the batch secured average package of Rs.30.82 LPA as against Rs. 26.95 LPA last year
• 85 PPOs/PPI offered by prominent recruiters
• 26 New Recruiters participated in IIM Shillong Placements 2023

Top Recruiters include AB InBev, Aditya Birla Capital, Axis Bank, Bain & Company, Capgemini, Cipla, D.E. Shaw, Deloitte, EY, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Bank, IBM, ICICI Group, Infosys, ITC, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Microsoft, Tata AIG, Adani Group, EXL, Godrej, L&T McKinsey, Uber among others

Top Recruiting Domains: Consulting and Strategy with 35% Offers

4.3 IIM Shillong Placement 2022: Highlights

• 100% placements for the large batch of 250 students
• Joins Elite Club of Top IIMs and B-Schools with Rs.20+ LPA Average Salary
• Average Salary in Placement 2022 goes up by 20.5% at Rs.23.10 LPA from Rs.19.17 LPA in 2021
• Highest Salary in Placement 2022 jumps by 72.56% at Rs.55.22 LPA from Rs.32 LPA last year
• 73 Recruiters Made Placement Offers in 2022 to the batch of 250 students
• Median Salary has gone up at Rs.22.28 LPA in Placement 2022 from Rs. 17.50 LPA in 2021
• Top 20% of the batch got average package of Rs.31.31 LPA in Placement 2022 as against Rs.26.67 LPA last year
• Top 50% of the batch secured average package of Rs. 26.95 LPA as against Rs. 23.22 LPA last year
• 48 PPOs/PPI offered by prominent recruiters
• 43 New Recruiters participated in IIM Shillong Placements 2022

Top Recruiters include Bain & Co., Deloitte, EY, PwC, D.E. Shaw, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Nomura, AB InBev, Aditya Birla Capital, JSW, Mahindra GMC, Bosch, HSBC Bank, Titan, Capgemini, Microsoft, Amazon, Cipla, ITC among others

Top Recruiting Domains: Consulting and Strategy with 29.67% Offers.  

5. IIM Shillong MBA Admission 2025: Important Dates
IIM Shillong MBA Admission Process 2025 for the PGP 2025-27 batch has following important dates:

• Shortlisting of Candidates for Personal Interaction: Mid-January.
• Start of Personal Interaction Process across the centers: Early February.
• End of Personal Interaction Process across the centers: Late April.
• Declaration of final offer and wait list: by Early May.
• Registration at IIM Shillong Campus: Mid to late June.

6. IIM Shillong MBA Admission Process 2025 
IIM Shillong MBA Admission Process 2025 for the PGP 2025-27 batch can be divided into two phases.
In Phase 1, candidates will be shortlisted for the Personal Interview (PI) process. In Phase 2, the final merit list will be prepared for the offer of admission to the PGP 2025-27 batch. The process in each of these phases is described in the next sections.

6.1 IIM Shillong Admission 2025 - SHORTLISTING FOR PERSONAL INTERVIEW – Phase 1  
Preliminary Screening 1. All candidates who have opted (as per the CAT-2024 application) for the IIM Shillong PGP 2025- 27 batch are eligible for consideration in Phase 1. The minimum required percentile in each of the three sections of CAT for candidates across different categories, to be considered for shortlisting for the Pl process is given in Table 1.

Table 1: IIM Shillong CAT Cut Off - Minimum percentile requirements for shortlisting in various categories

Category	CAT 2024 Percentile (V&RC)	CAT 2024 Percentile (DI &LR)	CAT 2024 Percentile (QA)
General, OBC & others not covered in reserved category	75	75	75
EWS (E)	75	75	75
DA (D)	50	50	50
ST (T)	50	50	50
SC (C)	60	60	60

2. Post Step 1, Composite Scores will be calculated for eligible candidates. This score is based on the total CAT percentile and normalised application rating score (NARS), having a weightage of 65% and 35%, respectively. NARS will be based on scores assigned to Class X and Class XII percentages (Table 2) and scores for months of experience (Table 3).

Table 2: Rating Scores for Class X (A) and Class XII (B)

Class 10			Class 12 (HSC)
			Science		Commerce		Arts
Percentage	Score	Percentage	Score	Percentage		Score	Percentage	Score
95-100	10	95-100	10	95-100		10	90-100	10
90-94.99	9	90-94.99	9	90-94.99		9	85-89.99	9
85-89.99	8	85-89.99	8	85-89.99		8	80-84.99	7
80-84.99	5	80-84.99	5	80-84.99		5	75-79.99	5
75-79.99	4	75-79.99	4	75-79.99		4	70-74.99	4
70-74.99	2	70-74.99	2	70-74.99		2	65-69.99	2
65-69.99	1	65-69.99	1	65-69.99		1	60-64.99	1
Less than 65	0	Below 65	0	Below 65		0	Below 60	0

Table 3 (C) Rating Scores for Work Experience

Months of Experience	Score
Lless than 12 months	0
12 months to less than 18 months	8
18 months to less than 24 months	12
24 months to less than 30 months	14
30 months to less than 36 months	10
36 months to less than 42 months	6
42 months to less than 48 months	2
48 months or more	0

Application Rating Score (ARS) = A+B+C

The candidates obtained from the above filtering are then classified into 7 academic categories. The applicants are segregated based on their academic category AC 1 to AC 7 ( you can check academic category classification at the end of the doc ) and reservation category.

Applicants of each academic category will be shortlisted proportional to their representation in the overall number of applicants. For instance, if 70% of the overall applicants belong to AC-4, then 70% of the shortlisted candidates would be belonging to that category.

Within each academic category, the percentage of calls given to the candidates of each reservation category is listed below:

• No. of calls to the ST category candidates = 7.5% of total calls
• No. of calls to the SC category candidates = 15.0% of total calls
• No. of calls to the Other category candidates = 67.5% of total calls
• No. of calls to the EWS category candidates = 10% of total calls

The required number of candidates from each academic category and reservation category will be called for the PI round based on their CAT Score.

7. IIM Shillong Admission 2025 - Final selection stage - Phase 2 
The following are the parameters used during the final selection stage

Components	Weightage
CAT	40%
Performance in Personal Interview (PI)	40%
Application Rating Score	10%
Gender Diversity (Only for Female Candidates)	10%
Total	100%

Candidates will need to ensure that they meet the minimum cutoff performance in the PI round in order to land a final admission. The cutoff in terms of a percentage of minimum performance in GD & PI to the maximum possible score in the round is different across reservation categories. Following is the corresponding table-

Category	Cutoff as Minimum Percentage of Performance out of Maximum Possible Combined Performance in PI
DA	20%
SC	25%
ST	20%
EWS	30%
Others	30%

8. IIM Shillong MBA Eligibility Criteria 2025
IIM Shillong Eligibility criteria require that the candidate must hold a bachelor's degree of minimum 3 years duration after class 12, 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% One of the most important points in IIM Shillong Admission Eligibility criteria is that apart from a recognized graduate degree, the candidate should appear in CAT 2024 exam and must score minimum prescribed sectional score to become eligible for admission. 

If the candidate is awarded grades/CGPA instead of marks in its academics, 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 Shillong by dividing the obtained CGPA by the maximum possible CGPA and multiplying the resultant by 100 to confirm the Admission eligibility of the candidate. 

A candidate appearing for the final year bachelor's degree/equivalent qualification examination and those who have completed the degree requirements and are awaiting results is also eligible to apply for IIM Shillong Admission 2023. Such a candidate must produce a certificate from the principal/head of the department/registrar/director of the institution/university, certifying that the candidate is currently in the final year or is awaiting final results and has obtained at least 50% marks or equivalent (45% in case of the candidate belonging to SC/ST/PwD category) based on latest available grades/marks.

IIM Shillong Eligibility further clarifies that such a candidate, if selected, will not be eligible for the IIM Shillong admission unless he/she submits a certificate latest by June 30, 2024 from the principal/head of the department/registrar/director of the institution/university (issued on or before June 30, 2024) stating that they have completed all the requirements (the result may, however, be awaited) for obtaining the bachelor's degree/equivalent qualification on the date of issue of the certificate.
It is mandatory for a final year student, who is provisionally considered eligible by IIM Shillong and offered admission, to submit the mark-sheet and degree certificate of the final year bachelor's degree examination held on or before June 30, 2024.  The deadline to submit the mark-sheet and the certificate is December 31, 2024.  

9. IIM Shillong Financial Assistance & Scholarships
IIM Shillong assists the participants in availing educational loans from banks during the admission process. The details regarding the process are made available to the participants after they are offered admission to the Institute. The Institute endeavors that no candidate be denied opportunity to pursue the Post Graduate Programme for want of adequate financial resources. Keeping this in mind, IIM Shillong has provision for Need Based Financial Assistance Scheme to help economically weak MBA participants. The number of scholarship awardees and quantum of assistance is decided on the basis of annual gross family income, participants liquidity, credit worthiness and her/his overall suitability for the same. In addition, there are scholarships made available to Scheduled Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST)/People with Disabilities (PWD) participants by Government of India. 

Hope you found this article on IIM Shillong quite useful to decide on MBA admission 2025. IIM Shillong MBA admission application process through CAT 2024 is open and you can apply now.  

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