Top MBA Colleges Accepting CAT Score: Check by Percentile, Cut Off Required, Fees, Placements, Admissions Status

IIMs are the foremost among the MBA colleges accepting CAT score. There are 21 IIMs at present and all the IIMs will accept only CAT 2024 score for admission 2025. All the IIMs have their sectional and overall, CAT score cut offs which go in the range of 90 to 99 percentile. The admission process 2025 in all the 21 IIMs opens from August first week with the start of CAT registration process and the last date to apply for admission is the last date of CAT exam registration. Read all about IIM Admission. You can check the Fee and placements and other details about the top IIMs below:

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Not only the IIMs, there are highly ranked and internationally accredited MBA/ PGDM colleges among the MBA colleges accepting CAT score. Some of the prominent MBA colleges excluding IIMs which will accept CAT 2024 score percentile 90 & above for MBA admission 2025 are:  

Top MBA colleges accepting CAT 80 percentile and above are well ranked MBA/ PGDM colleges in India. The list is given below with their admission 2025 status:

Check list of Good MBA colleges accepting CAT percentile in the range of 70-80.

MBA Colleges in India Accepting CAT Score include good number of MBA colleges in the range of 60-70 offer number of MBA/PGDM programmes and award greater weightage to the profile of the applicants than only to the CAT exam score. CAT Accepting Colleges in this list are as below: 

MBA colleges accepting CAT percentile in the range of 50-60 have moderate fee structure and good placements. These colleges have deliberately have kept the CAT cut off moderate as they award greater weightage to the profile of the applicants than only to the CAT percentile. The list of some of the prominent MBA colleges is shared below:

All these MBA colleges in India will accept the CAT scores for MBA admission 2025. Although a few highly ranked MBA colleges also accept other exam scores like XAT, the scores of the largest MBA entrance exam CAT 2024 is the gateway to top MBA colleges in India. It must be noted that the MBA colleges accepting CAT exam scores are not only 21 IIMs but also include top MBA colleges in India as shared above and hundreds of others.  

In addition to above top colleges, many other good MBA colleges such as Kohinoor Business School Mumbai, MKES Institute of Management Studies and Research Mumbai, Firebird Institute of Research in Management, Coimbatore, RSB Chennai: Rajalakshmi School of Business, Jansons School of Business, Coimbatore, Accurate Institute of Management And Technology, CII School of Logistics, Amity University Noida, TAPMI School of Business Jaipur accept low CAT scores. 

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• List of MBA Colleges Accepting 90 Percentile in CAT
• List of MBA Colleges Accepting 80 Percentile in CAT
• List of MBA Colleges Accepting 70 Percentile in CAT
• List of MBA Colleges Accepting 50-60 Percentile in CAT