Master of Business Administration is one of the most popular postgraduate programme among candidates. Some of the institutions offer PGDM/ PGPM programme in place of an MBA. Candidates who hold at least a Bachelor’s degree in any stream with a minimum percentage can appear for the entrance exam. Candidates who obtain a minimum required percentile as specified by the individual institution move to the GDPI/ GEPI or WATPI process.

Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are the mecca of management education in the country who accept the Common Admission Test (CAT) percentile. A number of reputed business schools in the country accept the scores of CAT for admission. Given below is the list of some of the renowned management institutes in the country:

• IIM Ahmedabad
• IIM Bangalore
• IIM Calcutta
• IIM Lucknow
• IIM Indore
• IIM Kozhikode
• FMS Delhi
• XLRI Jamshedpur
• SPJIMR
• MDI Gurgaon
• IIFT Delhi

Some of the elite IITs also offer an MBA. Given below is the list of some of the IITs offering an MBA:

• IIT Bombay
• IIT Delhi
• IIT Kharagpur
• IIT Madras
• IIT Kanpur
• IIT Roorkee

CAT is not the only way to gain access to the India’s top business schools. Some of the institutes conduct their own entrance exam. These other renowned MBA entrance exams (also known as OMETs) are XAT, SNAP, NMAT, CMAT, etc.