Hi Yash!

First of all congratulations on scoring well in CMAT 2019. With that percentile there is a lot of good options to choose from and here are some of the colleges one could apply for using the CMAT score. Having work experience or not doesn't really affect much of your chances as most colleges give only a little bit of weight to it while considering you for final admission. There are some of the colleges you can consider while applying.

BIMTECH, Greater Noida

• This college has around 12 lakhs as fees with 240 seats in their PGDM course and the average salary of Rs. 7.68 lakhs.

• Top recruiters include Wipro, HCL, Cognizant, E & Y, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Prudential, FCB Ulka, ZEE Entertainment

XIME Bangalore: Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship

• Top recruiters include Oracle, Infosys, Deloitte, Accenture, ICICI, KPMG, Honeywell, SBI, JP Morgan Chase, HDFC

• Fees for the PGDM programme is Rs.10 lakhs.

• Average Placement: around Rs. 6 LPA

KIIT School of Management - KSOM Bhubaneswar

• The average salary is Rs.6 lakhs.

• Top recruiters include TCS, HDFC Bank, ICICI Securities, Dell, Deloitte, HDFC, Reliance Industries, CCD

• The course fee is Rs. 12  lakhs

Jaipuria Institute of Management Lucknow

• Average Salary is Rs. 5.7 Lakhs PA

• Tuition Fee:INR 9,65,000

• Top Recruiters are Amul, Coca Cola Hindustan, Deloitte, Emami, Axis Bank, Paytm, Amazon, Landmark, Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, FedEx, M&S, Luminous Decathlon, Crisil, JIO.

We School, Bangalore

• Top recruiters include Deloitte, Accenture, ICICl, Accenture, Dell, CRISIL, Abbot
• Fees for PGDM program is Rs.11 lakhs.

• · Average Placement: around Rs. 7 LPA

Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi

• Top recruiters include HUL, Daimler, Infosys, Idea, Vodafone, Hero, Essar, etc
• Fees for PGDM program is Rs.5.6 lakhs.
• · Average Placement: around Rs. 6 LPA

That being said, if you're really aiming for top B-schools and have splendid academics in the past, it is advisable to attempt for CAT next year and try for colleges which rank somewhere in the top 20.

Good luck!

Hi Yash,

You have scored a decent percentile in CMAT, so you have plenty of B-school you can apply for under this percentile.

Some decent B-schools like:-

1) BIMTECH Greater NOIDA

2) XBS, St Xavier's Univesity, Kolkata

3) IMT Nagpur

4) GLIM, Gurugram

5) N.L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai

6) Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow

7) JIMS Rohini, Delhi

8) Christ University Bengaluru

9) NDIM, New Delhi

10) KSOM, Bhubaneswar

These are some of the B-school I have sort down for you up to best of my knowledge.

Some of these have a good average package and some others have a good return on investment. So you can take your own decision by measuring them on your own parameters. For more deatails, you can directly visit the respective college official website to get more information about the college.

I hope this might help you in getting into your desired B-school.