A top-tier IIM with the most gender-balanced class in the system; CAT for domestic applicants, GMAT for international and executive routes. Everything an applicant needs to know, laid out honestly.
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The questions we are asked most often about IIM-K, 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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IIM Kozhikode’s flagship MBA is CAT-based for domestic applicants; GMAT opens two specific doors (international applicants and the Executive PGP). Here is the real picture of both.
IIMK · Flagship PGP + GMAT routesThe class
GMAT doors
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Enter your profile. We’ll place you honestly on the IIM-K 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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Verdict
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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Selection is CAT (or GMAT for international/executive routes) plus a written test and interview. The common mistakes, and what IIMK 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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IIMK offers international-student fee waivers (50 and 25 percent), domestic need-based aid and full government category support. Named amounts are partly unpublished.
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No visa question: this is an Indian degree, so placement is the story. Consulting and finance lead, with the top offers in technology.
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Reality check
82% placed in-sector
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Consulting leads at about a third of offers, with finance and IT/analytics behind, and the batch’s top offers in tech. IIMK publishes CTC, 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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