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.
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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 | 72% | 100% |
Freshers | 28% | 0% |
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.
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
Source: IIM Sambalpur MBA Placement Reports and Summer Placement Reports
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 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%
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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