Colleges

• The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s Degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA [45% in case of the candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Persons With Disability (PWD) categories], awarded by any University or educational institution as incorporated by an Act of the Parliament or State legislature in India or declared to be deemed as a University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
• 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, it may be noted that such candidates, if selected, will be allowed to join the programme provisionally, only if they submit a certificate from the Principal/Registrar of their University/Institution (issued on or before the date as stipulated by the respective IIM) stating that they have completed all the requirements for obtaining the Bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification on the date of the issue of the certificate.
• SC/ST/PWD candidates should have a minimum of 45%. For General and NC-OBC candidates, the minimum is 50%.

The minimum eligibility criterion is B. Tech. or B.E. or B. Arch. (with mathematics as one of the subjects in Class XII), or four year degree programme leading to B. Sc. engineering (with Mathematics as one of the  subjects in  the  UG  programme), or four year degree programme  leading to Bachelor of Science degree (with Mathematics as  one  of  the  subjects in the UG programme),  or  Master  of  Science ( with Mathematics as one of the  subjects  in  the  UG  programme),  or  Master  of  Arts  in Economics  (with Mathematics as one of the subjects in the UG Programme) with aggregate of 65% or a CPI of 6.5 on a scale of 10 from any AICTE recognized institute/university, IITs, NITs, and IIITs.