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IIM Ranchi Admission Criteria 2014-16
This is the 9th IIM in our special series - “IIMs Admission Criteria 2014-16” that will equip
aspirants with detailed and updated information on the admissions process of all the 13 IIMs.
This article is on IIM Shillong Admission Criteria 2014-16.
With an aim to help CAT 2013 aspirants
to choose the desired Indian Institute of
Management, MBAUniverse.com has
started a special series - “IIMs Admission
Criteria 2014-16” that will equip
aspirants with detailed and updated
information on the admissions process
of all 13 IIMs.
In today’s article of this special series, we will analyze IIM Ranchi admission criteria for the Batch
2014-16.
The ninth Indian Institute of Management was established at Ranchi in 2010 with the extensive
support of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and the Government of Jharkhand, working
under the guidance of Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
IIM Ranchi has appointed IIM Kolkata Professor Dr Binay Bhushan Chakrabarti as new director. Dr
Chakrabarti has joined IIM Ranchi after the institute director Dr M J Xavier resigned from the office.
Dr Binay Bhushan Chakrabarti, who has over two decades of teaching, research and industry
experience, was a Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. He has
taught at many top B-schools including IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Indore, XIMB amongst others.
IIM Ranchi currently offers a two year PGDM in General management and another two year fulltime
programe on Human Resources Management (PGDHRM), Fellow Program in Management with
specializations in Analytics, neuro management, Indian management and other functional areas and
18 month part time Diploma in Management (PGEXP). IIM Ranchi has also launched a certified
Barefoot Manger program to promote entrepreneurship and to impart livelihood skills among the
school drop outs and illiterates.
MBAUniverse.com B school Ranking 2013-14
IIM Ranchi is ranked as No: 26 in MBAUniverse.com B School Ranking 2013-14. Below is the
performance of IIM Ranchi on some of the specific criterion – No: of application received in 2013,
Number of permanent faculty, total seats, median domestic salary and fees for 2013. According to
the MBAUniverse.com survey data, IIM Ranchi has a total number of 155 seats. The number of

2. permanent and faculty at IIM Ranchi is 13 and 54 respectively. Total Fees for 2013-15 batch was Rs.
5.94 lakhs while average placement 2013 was Rs. 11.13 lakhs
Analysis of IIM Ranchi admission criteria and selection process 2014-16:
Admission to IIM Ranchi will be based on the performance of candidates in the CAT, Personal
Interview & Written Ability Test (PI & WAT) and also based on their profile. The PI & WAT process
will be common to all the six new IIMs, namely, Ranchi, Rohtak, Raipur, Tiruchirappalli, Udaipur and
Kashipur.
I. Initial Short listing for WAT / PI Process
An initial shortlist shall be prepared of candidates who would be eligible for WAT / PI process for
admission to the PGDM 2014 -16 batch of IIM Ranchi. This list would be purely based on CAT 2013
performance.
The criteria given in Table 1 will be used to rank the students in different categories (General, NCOBC, SC, ST and PWD) and for short listing of candidates based on ranking within categories for
further processing.
II. IIM Ranchi admission criteria 2014: PI & WAT Process
Personal interviews and written ability test are planned to be conducted at five different centres
namely Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore. The exact dates for PI & WAT will be
communicated to shortlisted candidates in due course of time.
The common PI & WAT for the six new IIMs will be coordinated by IIM Tiruchirappalli.
III. IIM Ranchi admission criteria: Final Admissions 2014
After the PI & WAT process is over, admission offers would be announced on the basis of a merit list.
This consolidated merit list (CML) would be compiled on the basis of following components and their
corresponding weights:
The details of the above mentioned components are mentioned as below:
(a) CAT Percentile: 30 percent weightage is assigned to the CAT score of the candidates who are
eligible for PI & WAT.
(b) PI & WAT Score: PI & WAT scores of the eligible candidates of the six new IIMs will be directly
collected from IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode. Only the rest of the
candidates need to appear for the Common Personal interview and Written Ability Test of the six
new IIMs.
Gender Diversity (5 marks)
5 marks will be awarded to female candidates only.