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    CAT 2025 Colleges for 80–90 Percentile: IIMs, IITs and Top MBA Colleges at 85 Percentile

    CAT 2025 Colleges for 80–90 Percentile: IIMs, IITs and Top MBA Colleges at 85 Percentile

    Suvam MaitiUpdated on 29 Dec 2025, 11:54 AM IST

    2.58 lakhs management aspirants who appeared for CAT 2025 this year now know how they performed as CAT 2025 result is out, and they are curious about the CAT 2025 colleges for the 80-90 percentile. CAT 85 percentile in 2025 is considered a decent score in CAT 2025 therefore candidates can get into some of the IIMs and IITs after scoring 85 percentile in CAT 2025. IIM Sambalpur, IIM Vizag, IIM Amritsar, IIM Jammu are IIM CAT colleges for 85 percentile regarding the general candidates. Apart from IIMs, some of the top 85 percentile CAT colleges 2025 are Fore School of Management, GIM Goa, Welingkar, SPJMR,TAPMI, LIBA etc. Among the top CAT 90 percentile colleges, VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur, GIM Goa are the prominents. Explore the article to learn more about the CAT colleges for 80-90 percentile 2025.

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    1. CAT 2025 Colleges 85 Percentile : List of IIMS
    2. Top MBA Colleges Accepting 85 Percentile in CAT 2025
    3. Best 85 percentile B-Schools in India: Determining factor
    CAT 2025 Colleges for 80–90 Percentile: IIMs, IITs and Top MBA Colleges at 85 Percentile
    CAT 2025 Colleges for 85

    CAT 2025 Colleges 85 Percentile : List of IIMS

    Among the 85 percentile CAT 2025 Colleges few IIMs take the center stage. While the IIMs in India are among the top CAT colleges 2025 , and fall under 90+ CAT 2025 colleges for the general category student, some of the new IIMs like IIM Sambalpur, IIM Vizag, IIM Amritsar, IIM Jammu are IIM CAT 80-90 percentile colleges 2025 for the general candidates. Apart from that reserved category students still can get into IIMs after having 80-90 CAT percentile 2025. IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Mumbai are IIM CAT 80-90 percentile colleges for EWS/Nc-OBC category students. Check out the complete list of IIMs which falls under the 80-90 percentile CAT 2025 colleges. It would be important to note that this list IIM for 80-90 percentile is based on the trends of past years.

    CAT 80-90 percentile IIM 2025

    Category of the Students

    Expected CAT 2025 Cutoff

    IIM Sambalpur CAT Cutoff 2025

    General

    80+

    IIM Vizag CAT Cutoff 2025

    General

    83+

    IIM Amritsar CAT Cutoff 2025

    General, OBC

    89+

    IIM Jammu CAT Cutoff 2025

    General

    89+

    IIM Bangalore CAT Cutoff 2025

    OBC

    82+

    IIM Lucknow CAT 2025 Cutoff

    EWS, OBC

    86-90

    IIM Kozhikode CAT Cutoff 2025

    EWS

    83+

    IIM Mumbai CAT Cutoff 2025

    EWS

    89+

    IIM Indore CAT Cutoff 2025

    OBC

    82+

    IIM Trichy

    EWS, OBC

    82+

    IIM Udaipur

    OBC, EWS

    80-88+

    IIM Rohtak

    NC-OC

    63+

    IIM Sirmaur

    SC

    67+

    Top MBA Colleges Accepting 85 Percentile in CAT 2025

    Those who are curious about the CAT 85 percentile colleges should know that among the Top MBA colleges for 85 percentile in CAT 2025 , SPJMR, SIMSREE, BIM Trichy are the prominent. Apart from that the below table highlights the list of B-schools accepting CAT 85 percentile.

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    Best 85 percentile B-Schools in India: Determining factor

    Management aspirants wondering about MBA Colleges for 80-90 percentile in CAT should learn that apart from CAT Cutoff, other top 80-90 percentile CAT 2025 colleges uses other parameters for MBA 2026 admissions. So while applying for the MBA college with your CAT 2025 percentile, keep in mind that following components also play an important role in securing final admission offers,though not for all the CAT colleges for 80-90 percentile.

    • Your Academic Profile

    • Work Experience

    • Non-Engineering Background

    • Gender Diversity

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