Hi,

I hope you are doing well.

IIMs, especially the old ones, are India's premium institutes because of their great quality of education, faculty and infrastructure. The results are clearly seen from the students graduating from those colleges.



So if they are making brilliant managers, they require the best minds of India, hence the CAT which is a race against time and packed with negative marking scheme and tests endurance, accuracy and focus. So CAT becomes a major filter for IIMs to filter out the best minds and then filtering them even more by WAT/GD-PI process before admission.



So yes, BBA can be a good direction but don't make it a factor to decide wether to opt for MBA or not.

All you have to do is to focus on CAT/MAH-CET/XAT/SNAP etc. for a good score and then you are all good.



An IPM course is a five year long program which is generally opted by students after 10th standard by clearing IPMAT which is designed by IIM Indore.



You can find more details about the exam here, https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/ipmat



You can get the detailed information about IPM course here: https://www.iimidr.ac.in/academic-programmes/five-year-integrated-programme-in-management-ipm/



Click here to view sample paper of IPMAT,https://www.iimidr.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/IPM_Sample_Paper-AT.pdf



Click here for Filling up the Application form,https://cdn.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/1329/60305/login.html



You can check this out for detailed adminition procedure by IIM Indore for IPM,https://www.iimidr.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/IPM-International_Applicants.pdf





From the point of view of placements and salary package, the stream might yield you high salaries, their is always exceptions in the larger packages that we here about in the news. But above average salaries.