The one-year, GMAT-based MBA at IIM Bangalore, 74 experienced professionals, and a consulting-heavy placement record. Everything a GMAT applicant needs to know, laid out honestly.
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The questions we are asked most often about IIM-B, each answered in two sentences. These power the Google rich-result and are what Perplexity and ChatGPT lift verbatim when they cite us.
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IIMB runs two MBAs: the two-year flagship on CAT, and the one-year EPGP on GMAT. This page is the EPGP, the GMAT route, with its published numbers.
IIMB · EPGP · GMAT · 2026 batchThe EPGP class
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Enter your profile. We’ll place you honestly on the IIM-B admit band and give you the odds. We will not flatter you. This is the number your consultant should be telling you.
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Strong fit
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Three rounds, three different strategies. Which one you file in is often more decisive than any essay rewrite.
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An SOP, references and a written ability test decide whether your file moves to interview. The common mistakes, and what IIMB is really looking for.
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The sticker price is in dollars, your loan is in rupees. We’ll give you both. And we’ll show the number nobody puts in a brochure: the real break-even year.
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Your net cost over 2 years
INR 1.98 CrAfter scholarship, before any family savings. This is the number you need to borrow or self-fund.
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EPGP offers clear merit and diversity awards: an INR 8 lakh merit waiver, an INR 6 lakh merit-cum-means award, and an in-programme top-CGPA award.
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No visa question here: EPGP is an Indian degree, so what matters is placement. Consulting dominates, with senior tech and finance roles alongside.
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82% placed in-sector
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Consulting takes roughly half the EPGP class, with tech, BFSI and general-management leadership behind it. IIMB publishes CTC in its placement report, not per-firm counts, so the figures below are Pegasus estimates.
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Side-by-side with any 1-3 of the 24 schools we cover, built from the same dataset so the comparison is honest.
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