Integrated Programme in Management at IIM Indore: Apply by March 30

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore has invited applications for admissions to the Five-Year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) for 2020-25.

A total of 150 domestic students will be admitted to the programme. Upon successful completion of IPM, those enrolled will be eligible for award of Bachelor of Arts (Foundations of Management) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees under Dual Degree Programme.

Eligibility:  Applicant should have been born on or after August 1, 2000. Those of SC/ST/PwD category will be given 5 years of relaxation. Those of this category, born on or after August 1, 1995 are eligible to apply.

Applicant should have passed Standard XII/HSC or equivalent examination in 2018, 2019 or should be appearing in 2020. They should have secured at least 60% in standard X/ SSC and standard XII/ HSC or equivalent examinations (55 % for SC/ST/ PwD category). In case letter grades or grades points are awarded instead of marks, the conversion of grades to percentage of marks would be based on the procedure certified by the Board/ Competent Authority explaining the method of conversion from where they have obtained the certificate.

Those appearing in 2020 should attain eligibility by June 30, 2020, failing which the candidate’s provisional admission offer will stand cancelled.

Applicants pursuing their X and/or XII standard from international schools affiliated to foreign board’s like IGCSE (International General Certificate for Secondary Education) and IB (International Baccalaureate) can also apply.

Application: Applications can be submitted online at https://www.iimidr.ac.in/ (Academic Programmes- Five Year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM)-Admissions), latest by March 30, 2020 (Monday).

Application fee of Rs. 4,130/- (Rs.2,065/- for SC/ST/PwD category) can be paid online.

Selection: Selection will be on the basis of overall performance in Aptitude Test (AT), Written Ability Test (WAT) & Personal Interview (PI).

Based on the applications received, those satisfying minimum eligibility criteria will be called for the Aptitude Test (AT) to be conducted on April 30, 2020 (Thursday), at Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh/ Mohali, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Meerut, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Roorkee, Siliguri, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam. There will be three sections in the Aptitude Test- Quantitative Ability (40 Multiple Choice Question-MCQ), Quantitative Ability (20 Short Answer Question-SA) and Verbal Ability (40 Multiple Choice Question-MCQ). Each question will carry 4 marks. There will be a negative marking of 1 negative mark for each wrong answer except for Quantitative Ability (SA) Section. Candidate must answer the sections in a pre-specified order and this order will remain same for all the candidates.

Short listing for Written Ability Test (WAT) & Personal Interview (PI) will be done considering only the candidates having positive raw scores and a minimum mark in each of the three sections of Aptitude Test. The minimum category wise cut off mark in each section will be decided by the Admissions Committee. Sufficient number of candidates will be shortlisted for WAT & PI from the eligible pool for each category (General, EWS, NC-OBC, SC, ST and PwD) using the merit list generated based on Aptitude Test Score (ATS) computed based as a weighted score as per the details given in the Notification.

Shortlisted candidates have to appear for WAT & PI at any one of Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata and Mumbai centres.

Final category wise merit list will be generated based on Composite Score (CS), by giving weightage of 50, 35 and 15 respectively Aptitude Test Score (ATS); Personal Interview (PI) and Written Ability Test (WAT) respectively. 

Reservations will be as per Government of India norms.

For details, visit https://www.iimidr.ac.in/