IIT Delhi DoMS: 20% seats vacant at ‘top’ B-school or fudged placement data? NIRF raises questions
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IIT Delhi DoMS: 20% seats vacant at ‘top’ B-school or fudged placement data? NIRF raises questions

Maheshwer PeriUpdated on 15 Sep 2025, 12:49 PM IST

To the Careers360 investigative report on MBA offered by Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), there has been a response from the IITs, especially IIT Delhi. The question that we were asking was whether Departments of Management Studies (DoMS) of the IITs are indeed better than the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), as ranked by the NIRF. And the answer is still a loud NO. The DoMS of IITs haven’t beaten the IIMs on merit or student outcomes but more by data presentation, data manipulation and even faking data.

IIT Delhi DoMS: 20% seats vacant at ‘top’ B-school or fudged placement data? NIRF raises questions
IIT Delhi DoMS: 20% seats vacant at ‘top’ B-school or fudged placement data? NIRF raises questions

Let us look at data and how it has changed over the years:

Academic Year

Sanctioned intake

Actual admitted

Graduated

Placed

% Placed/ Sanctioned

2016-17

115

91

91

91

79%

2017-18

115

111

111

111

97%

2018-19

115

68

68

68

59%

2019-20

144

129

124

124

86%

2020-21

144

117

112

112

78%

2021-22

144

128

124

124

86%

2022-23

144

93

89

89

62%

Total

921

737

719

719

78%


  1. The IITs are unable to fill their MBA seats, in a country where 5 lac students enrol for MBA and 2500+ students score 99 percentile in CAT, IIT Delhi could only fill in 80% of its seats. An examination of the past 7 years data suggests that while the sanctioned intake across these 7 academic years was 921 students, the actual admitted students was just 737 students or 80.02% of the sanctioned intake. You will never see this anomaly in the IIMs where even the last seat is taken. In fact, you will not see this data even in IITs for their B.Tech offerings.

  2. With the actually admitted students reduced to 80% of the sanctioned intake, it was responsible for placing only so many students. So, of the 737 students that DMS of IIT Delhi admitted, only 719 students passed and all 719 students were also placed, thus claiming a 100% placement.

  3. The question that bothered us is why DMS of IIT Delhi, which claims to be the 4th best B school in India could not admit to full capacity? For the year 2022-23, they could admit only 93 students from a sanctioned intake of 144 (64.58%). In fact, even in the year 2018-19, the institute admitted just 68 students from a sanctioned 115 (59.13%).

  4. The devil is in the details. For the years 2022-23 and 2023-24, IIT Delhi had a sanctioned capacity of 144 and 158, respectively. This totals to 302. In the column on the gender ratio, the institute declared 165 boys and 137 girls, totalling 302 students. This meant the institute had actually filled in 100% of its seats as it also knew the gender of all the 302 students. This included 144 seats for the year 2022-23.

  5. However, when it came to declaring placements, IIT Delhi declared that only 93 students were admitted and showed 89 students getting placed. But they had already declared the gender ratio of the 144 students! And if we consider the disclosure on gender of admitted students, the total number of students admitted was 144 of whom 89 students were placed. That is a placement of 62% only.

Looking at this data, this is what is clear:

  1. If DoMS IIT Delhi, which is the 4th best B School in the country, could not fill in 20% of its seats, we should all be really concerned.

  2. If DoMS IIT Delhi isn’t able to place the students that it actually admitted (proven by Point 5 above), we should be worried.

  3. If DoMS of IIT Delhi is actually faking data when it concerns placements just to show a 100% placements, it should be investigated.

In any case, students and parents deserve a lot more clarity and many answers.

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To get admission in IIT Delhi in the MBA course the candidate must get a minimum of 60 CAT percentile with breakup of 53.3 in VARC, DILRand Quant. This information is based on the past trends. For more information go to the following link-

https://www.careers360.com/colleges/department-of-management-studies-indian-institute-of-technology-delhi

Ayush, IIT Delhi hasn't officially released its cut offs for the Academic session 2020-22. But going by their previous short listing criteria, the Shortlisting Index may be as follows: These are just the minimal percentiles required

Category

QA

VARC

DILR

Overall

General

60

60

60

95

OBC

50

50

50

85

There is no minimum CAT percentile for SC,ST,PWD.

Now Shortlisting Index is calculated using the formula:

SI = 80 x (Overall CAT score /Maximum CAT score of 2019) + weights for Bachelor Degree Marks + weights for Class 12 + weights for Class 10th Marks + weights for Additional Qualification Such as Master degree, Diploma + weights for Work Experience if any.

Based on your Graduation, 12th and 10th scores, additional points will be given and you can check them at the official page: http://dms.iitd.ac.in/html/MBA2018/Shortlisting%20Criteria%20for%20WAT%20&%20PI%20for%20MBA%20&%20MBA%20%28Telecom%29%202018-2020.pdf