Engineering No Longer Dominates in IIM MBA Admission? 49% Non-Engineers in IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025 Batch

Engineering No Longer Dominates in IIM MBA Admission? 49% Non-Engineers in IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025 Batch

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This year IIM Sambalpur MBA admission session sees a combined total of 49% non-engineers getting admission into its 2 management degree courses. As the gap shrinks, this provokes the thought of whether engineering no longer dominates in IIM MBA admission or not. In the 2025-2027 sessions began, 363 students entered the IIM Sambalpur for the IIM Sambalpur MBA in Business Analytics (MBA-BA) and IIM Sambalpur MBA programs.

Though the MBA program has been the flagship program for IIM Sambalpur for a long time, IIM Sambalpur started a new management course, and that is the MBA in Business Analytics. If one looks at the MBA academic diversity at these two courses separately, then the scenario would be much clearer to us.

While students got admitted to IIM Sambalpur from all over India, according to a recent India Today report, Maharashtra (13%) and Uttar Pradesh (12%) respectively top the state representation during this admission session. Explore the article below to learn more about the IIM Sambalpur MBA admission 2025-2027 to learn more including work experience as well as gender diversity among the students.

This Story also Contains

  1. 49% Non-Engineers in IIM Sambalpur MBA Admission 2025: Break-Up
  2. IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025: Engineers vs Non-Engineers Previous years - 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2021
  3. IIM Sambalpur MBA Academic Diversity(%): Past Trends
  4. IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025: Work Experience
  5. IIM Sambalpur MBA Admission 2025: Work Experience Break Up
  6. IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025: Gender Diversity Scenario
Engineering No Longer Dominates in IIM MBA Admission? 49% Non-Engineers in IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025 Batch
Engineering No Longer Dominates in IIM MBA Admission? 49% Non-Engineers in IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025 Batch

49% Non-Engineers in IIM Sambalpur MBA Admission 2025: Break-Up

This year is the 11th cohort for the IIM Sambalpur MBA course. At the same time, it is the inaugural session for the MBA in Business Analytics at IIM Sambalpur. The students admitted to the IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025 came from diverse academic backgrounds.

While for the IIM Sambalpur flagship MBA courses, non-engineers (50.32%) have a slight edge against the MBA after B.Tech students (49.68%), the divide is huge in the 1st MBA in Business Analytics (MBA-BA) course. Here is the complete breakup of the IIM Sambalapur MBA Admission 2025-2027 for these two courses.

IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025-2027

MBA 2025

MBA -BA 2025

Engineers

49.68%

61.7%

Non-Engineers

50.32%

38.3%

Male

62%

95%

Female

38%

5%

At least 1 year of Work
Experience

72%

100%

Freshers

28%

0%

IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025: Engineers vs Non-Engineers Previous years - 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2021

In the 2025-2027 session, students of the IIM Sambalpur MBA course came from different graduation degrees, as it went beyond engineering. According to the report of the Indian Express, among the non-engineers, 20% hold a B.Com. degree, 9 % have a B.Sc. degree.

Arts and management-related degrees have a 4 % and 8 % representation, respectively. Here is a table about the academic diversity for the IIM Sambalpur MBA courses in the past 5 years.

IIM Sambalpur MBA Academic Diversity(%): Past Trends

Year

B.Tech/

B.E

B.Sc

BA

B.Com.

BBA

BMS

Others

2024-2026

38

21

4

20

12

1

4

2023-2025

53

13

6

15

9

1

3

2022-2024

48

15

3

19

10

1

4

2021-2023

65

12

2

11

7

1

2

2020-2022

72

7

3

12

3

2

1

NC-OBC-Certificate-For-CAT

Source: IIM Sambalpur MBA Placement Reports and Summer Placement Reports

IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025: Work Experience

All of those who were admitted to the IIM Sambalpur MBA-BA courses have prior work experience, making students with experience 100%. On the other hand, for the IIM Sambalpur MBA courses 72% students have worked elsewhere before joining the MBA programme, while 28 % of the students are freshers.

IIM Sambalpur MBA Admission 2025: Work Experience Break Up

IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025-2027

MBA 2025

MBA -BA 2025

> 1 year

4%

-

1-2 years

19%

49%

2-3 years

43%

36%

3 years +

6%

15%

Total (Out of the students admitted)

72 %

100%

IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025: Gender Diversity Scenario

Out of the 363 students admitted to the IIM Sambalpur management course 2025, 33 % are female students. Contrary to the IIM Vizag MBA admission 2025, where this year female students exceeded the number of male students, the gap between the male students and the female students admitted in IIM Sambalpur widened. The situation is more dire in the first batch of the IIM Sambalpur MBA-BA 2025 course, where female students constitute only 5 % of the batch.

Total Male Students in IIM Sambalpur 2025 - 67%
Total Female Students IIM Sambalpur MBA Batch 2025 - 33 %

Male students in the MBA Course 2025 - 62 %

Female student in IIM Sambalpur MBA 2025- 38%

Male Student in MBA-BA courses - 95%

Female Students in MBA-BA Courses - 5%

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Here are some top MBA colleges in India with fees under Rs. 2 lakh and their exam/cutoff details:

  • SIMSREE, Mumbai – Fee around Rs. 1.3–1.4 lakh for 2 years. Accepts CAT, CMAT, MAH-CET, MAT, ATMA. Cutoff is very high, usually 99+ percentile in CAT/CMAT.

  • PUMBA (Dept. of Management Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University) – Fee around Rs. 1.2–1.3 lakh. Accepts CAT, CMAT, MAH-CET, ATMA. Cutoff approx. 75+ percentile in CAT, 90–95+ percentile in CMAT, high scores in MAH-CET.

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