IIM Ahmedabad Admission 2026

A candidate sits CAT, is shortlisted on the institute's own composite score, and is then called for the Analytical Writing Test and a personal interview. The final offer is made on a score that combines all of it.

Dates are set by the conducting IIM and by this institute each cycle, and must be filled from their notices before this page is published.

A candidate in the final year of a bachelor's degree may apply, and holds the offer provisionally until the degree is completed within the deadline the institute sets.

1. Register for and sit CAT in the year of admission.
2. Apply to the institute through its own admission portal, where the policy requires a separate application.
3. Clear the minimum percentile and the Application Rating used for shortlisting.
4. Sit the Analytical Writing Test and the personal interview.
5. Receive the offer, made on the composite score.
6. Accept and pay within the window named in the offer.

Selection is on a composite score, not on the CAT percentile. The components are the CAT score, the class 10 and class 12 record, the bachelor's degree, work experience, the AWT and the interview, each with a weight the admission policy publishes for the cycle.

There is no common counselling. Each IIM makes its own offers, and a candidate holding offers from several accepts one and pays within its window. A waitlist moves as candidates decline.

• Class 10 mark sheet and certificate, for date of birth
• Class 12 mark sheet and certificate
• Bachelor's degree mark sheets and the provisional or degree certificate
• CAT scorecard
• Work experience certificates, where claimed
• Category certificate (SC, ST, OBC-NCL, EWS) in the prescribed format, where claimed
• PwD certificate, where claimed
• Photo identification and passport-size photographs
• Fee payment receipt

A category certificate has to be in the format and within the validity the notice specifies; an out-of-date OBC-NCL certificate is the most common reason an offer is held up.

The institute publishes a minimum CAT percentile for shortlisting rather than a closing rank. The requirement and the selection weights are on the Cutoff page.

Seats are reserved under the central rules: 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST, 27% for OBC-NCL and 10% for EWS candidates, with a horizontal 5% reservation for PwD candidates across categories.

There is none. Every seat is offered through the process above, and any offer made outside it is not an offer this institute can honour.