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Regular Candidates:

Final year students of relevant undergraduate programs who have completed the requirements of qualifying examination can also apply. In case of non-availability of the marksheet of final examination at the time of the Interview due to delay in the announcement of their results, candidates may be allowed to appear in the interview on the basis of their aggregate results upto pre-final year in which the percentage should not be less than as specified above under essential requirements.

However, they will be required to submit the proof of having passed the qualifying examination with the required percentage or CGPA latest by that will be intimated later.

Full-Time Sponsored Candidates:

The candidates must have a minimum of two years of full-time work experience in responsible capacity in a Registered Firm/Company/Industry/Educational and Research Institution/Govt./Quasi Govt./Autonomous Organization in the relevant field in which admission is being sought. The Firm/Company/Industry shall either be a public sector undertaking or a public limited company registered in a stock exchange or a private concern whose annual turnover during the past two years exceeds Rs. Five Crores. The Educational Institution should be recognized by AICTE/UGC/Competent Authority.

Score card of CAT/IIT-JEE score card (as applicable).

The selection of candidates for admission to the batch of MBA at VGSoM, PIT Kharagpur is a two-step process. In the first step, candidates are short-listed for Written Analysis Test and Personal Interview (WAT-PI) from among candidates who have

• a valid CAT score equal to or above the cut-offs as given in Table 1.
• applied for the program and satisfy the eligibility criteria for the program.

Overall CAT score out of 20 and application rating (AR) out of 20 will be added to get the marks for shortlisting candidates to be called for WAT-PI. The application rating looks at the applicants' academic performance (marks obtained) in the 10th Standard Examination, 12th Standard Examination, Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree Examination and the candidates' work experience. Although the online application portal captures sectional scores and percentile as part of CAT, the same is not used for application rating. The scores for the application rating is provided in Table 2.

An overseas category candidate who applies with a GMAT score instead of a CAT Score should have a total scaled score of at least 750.

(i) Graduation with CAT score or a professional qualification equivalent to that of University degree recognized by UGC, in any discipline with minimum 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PD). Final year students are also eligible to apply. Such candidates, if selected, will be admitted provisionally, provided they complete all requirements for the qualifying degree with minimum percentage and CGPA or its equivalent by the specified date that will be intimated later. The percentage will be considered on the basis of aggregate marks/CGPA awarded in qualifying degree examination.

OR

(ii) IIT graduates (admitted through IIT-JEE) with a CGPA 7.0 or above on 10 point scale are exempted from the requirement of CAT 2021. 

Candidates seeking admission to the MBA Programme of the Institute should have Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technology or Master's degree in Science, Economics or Commerce (with Mathematics or Statistics at Bachelor's level)* with the following criteria:

1. A candidate must have any of the following:
   1. A Bachelor’s degree of minimum 4-year duration in engineering, technology, pharmacy, medicine, or similar disciplines;

   2. OR

   3. Master’s degree in Science/Economics/Commerce (with Mathematics or Statistics at Bachelor’s level); with:
      • GE/NC-OBC:Minimum of 60% marks (or CGPA of 6.5 on a 10-point scale)
      • SC/ST/PwD:Minimum of 55% marks (or CGPA of 6.0 on a 10-point scale)
      • For both the above cases, if the CGPA is on a different scale than 10.0, the eligibility of the candidates will be calculated corresponding to the equivalence stated above.
2. Candidates appearing for the final year of bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification examination and those who have completed degree requirements and are awaiting results can also apply. However, if selected, the admission of such candidates to the program will be provisional, only if (s)he submits a certificate latest by May 31, from the competent authorities of his/her university/college/institute (issued on or before May 31, ) stating that the candidate has completed all the requirements for obtaining the bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification on the date of the issue of the certificate.
3. Admission to reserved category candidates will be as per Government of India rules.
4. Applicants must be in good health. In case of any discrepancy found in the certificate of medical fitness to be submitted during registration, the opinion of the Institute Medical Officer will be final.
5. Candidates belonging to PwD category seeking admission to MBA are required to appear before a medical board on or before October 31, 2020 at IIT Kharagpur. The decision of the Medical Board is final and becomes binding to the candidate.
6. Selection of applicants whose results in the qualifying degree examination are yet to be declared will be provisional, subject to the condition that all parts of the examination must be completed in all respects before the date of joining the Institute and the marksheet/certificate as evidence of passing the qualifying examination are to be submitted latest by October 31.