I've scored 79.55%ile in mat which is 632.50. What is the next step I should do to get admission and what are the best colleges j can apply

Hi Gagandeep!

First of all congratulations on scoring well in MAT 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 MAT score. But before you make a decision please make sure that you get in touch with the alumni of the college over LinkedIn to understand how actual placement works and what one can expect if given an admission. Here's a list of colleges you can consider.

IMT Hyderabad

• IMT Hyderabad offers different courses like PGDM and Executive Postgraduate program in management and you could opt for whichever suits your profile.
• The fees for the first year is somewhere around 6.4 lakhs and 5.5 lakhs for the second year.
• The average package of the institution is around 6-7 lakhs and the highest package has been said as 20 lakhs.
• Though the college offers various programs, getting to know about the faculty and facilities is quite important and thus it is advisable for you to contact with the alumni to inquire about the same.
• The various recruiters that usually come for placement are Deloitte, Amazon, Coffee Day, ICICI, SBI Life Insurance, Infosys, Cognizant, Wallmart, Tata Capital, Duke India, etc and they offer various profiles ranging from finance, marketing to HR.

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.

Management Development Institute (MDI) Murshidabad

• Course Fee: 8.73 lakh

• Another child of the top MDI group, this b-school has been turning popular in recent times and is most preferred by the ones who have missed the CAT score here. The infrastructure is pretty decent and going by the fees offered and comparing it to other colleges, the return on investment is okayish going by the brand.

• Average Package: 4-5 lakhs

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

Good luck! Feel free to contact for further queries.

Hi Gagandeep,

Thanks for A2A.

Here is a list of colleges you can look out for:

• Great Lakes Chennai

• Wellingkar Institute of Management
• Goa Institute of Management
• Institute of Financial Management and Research, Changambakkam
• Prin. L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai
• Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Bangalore
• Institute of Finance and International Management, Bangalore
• Institute of Management Studies, Banaras
• Hindu University, Varanasi
• University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh
• Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education,Mumbai
• FORE School of Management, New Delhi 85 PercentileBharathidasan Institute of Management,Trichy
• ABV – Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior
• Loyola Institute of Business Administration,Chennai
• Institute of Rural Management, Anand 80 Percentile Delhi School of Management, Delhi Technical University, Delhi
• DMS, NIT Trichy 80 Percentile Motilal Nehru Institute of Technology,Allahabad
• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
• Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad
• Balaji Institute of Modern Management,Pune
• National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
• Alliance School of Business, Bangalore
• SCMS Cochin School of Business, Cochin
• National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
• Department of Management Sciences,University of Pune, Pune
• Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad
• Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Usha and Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management, New Delhi
• LIBA
• ICFAI BUSINESS SCHOOL HYDERABAD
• BIM TRICHY
• GITAM BUSINESS SCHOOL
• IRMA
• NIRMA
• Manage HYD
• NIBM PUNR
• XIRM
• SDMIMD
• IDB&M
• IPE

All the best