Top B-Schools Accepting CAT Scores and Cutoffs
Top B-Schools Accepting CAT Scores and Cutoffs - CAT exam is one of the most coveted entrance examinations which is conducted at the national level for admission to the MBA program of various top B-schools. More than 2.5 lakh students appear for the CAT examination every year. Around 40, 000 seats are offered by top MBA colleges on the basis of CAT score and cutoff by CAT 2020 participating institutes. Students aspiring to take admission to top B schools accepting CAT score and cutoff must have appeared for CAT 2020 which was conducted on November 29, 2020. The conducting body IIM Indore will soon release the CAT 2020 result, based on which students will be shortlisted for the further selection process of various top b schools accepting CAT score and cutoff. The CAT cutoff range may vary from institute to institute. Check this complete article by Careers360 to know in detail about the top B-schools accepting CAT scores and cutoffs.
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List of Top B-Schools Accepting CAT Scores and Cutoffs
There are more than 600 B-schools that accept CAT scores and Cutoffs. Many participating institutes of CAT 2020 begin the registration process once the CAT entrance exam is conducted. Depending upon the candidate's percentile in CAT 2020, the respective authorities of B-schools grant admission for the MBA program. Check the list of Top B-schools Accepting CAT scores and cutoffs and their percentile in the table below:
Note: The B-schools are arranged according to Careers360 ranks, starting from the Public B-schools followed by Private B-schools. The ranks of the B-schools which have been referred to as 'Not Ranked' have not participated in the ranking or were not deemed eligible as per the Careers360 ranking eligibility criteria.
Top B-schools Accepting CAT Scores and their Cutoffs
College Name | Ownership | Overall Rank | State Rating | Cut off in Percentile |
Public | 1 | AAAAA | 98.75 | |
Public | 2 | AAAAA | 90 | |
Public | 3 | AAAAA | 90 | |
Public | 4 | AAAA+ | 90 | |
Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | Public | 5 | AAAAA | 98 |
Public | 6 | AAAA+ | 90 | |
Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | Public | 7 | AAAA+ | 99 |
Public | 8 | AAAA+ | 90 | |
Public | 9 | AAAA+ | 97 | |
Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | Public | 10 | AAAA | 90 |
Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | Public | 11 | AAAA+ | 96 |
Public | 13 | AAAA+ | 94 | |
Public | 14 | AAAA+ | 98.54 | |
Public | 15 | AAAA+ | 86.57 | |
Private | 2 | AAAA+ | 94 | |
Private | 3 | AAAA+ | 85 | |
Public | 16 | AAAA+ | 94 | |
Public | 17 | AAAA | 90 | |
Public | 18 | AAAA | 96 | |
Private | 18 | AAA+ | - | |
Private | 4 | AAAA | 85 | |
Private | 5 | AAAA | 95 | |
Private | 6 | AAAA | 91 | |
Public | 19 | AAAA | 96 | |
Private | 7 | AAAA | 90 | |
Private | 23 | AAA+ | 85 | |
Private | 2 | AAA+ | 94 | |
Private | 6 | AAAA | 96 | |
Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi | Public | 34 | AAA+ | 85 |
Private | 11 | AAAA | 96 | |
Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development, Mysore | Private | - | - | 75 |
Source: Respective B-School admission officials, websites, B-school reports and RTI Act.
Click here to check IIMs Cutoffs on the basis of CAT scores.
CAT Percentile
Students who have appeared for CAT 2020, can predict their CAT percentile by using Careers360 CAT pathfinder tool. Estimate your CAT percentile to know your chances of getting into the desired B-School accepting CAT scores.
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Questions related to CAT
which top b school i will get with 49.86 percentile in cat 2020? i am student of SC category.
Hey!
As per the previous years records, you might get tier2 or tier 3 college (very low chances), some of the colleges which you can get with decent chances are:
- ABV – Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior
- Indian School of Mines. Dhanbad
- SIES College of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai
- School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar
- Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur
To know more you can go through our article:
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/which-b-schools-will-you-get-based-on-your-percentile
Thankyou
Hii.. all... CAT 2020 93 pr (VARC below 60/ Rest are 95+) General Engineer Male (Not from IIT) 10th/12th/ Grad = 92/80/73 Should i fill a form of IIT Roorkee or not? And what other colleges i can expect call at this pr?
Hello Aspirant,
As per your category and percentile in CAT and especially in VARC section which makes you ineligible for admission to IIMs and even for some IITs as well, but you have good chances to get seat in some of the B-Schools other than IIMs or IITs for MBA/PGDM such as :-
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai
Prin. L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai
Institute of Finance and International Management, Bangalore
Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education, Mumbai
University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy
FORE School of Management, New Delhi
Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
DMS, NIT Trichy
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Alliance School of Business, Bangalore
Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad
To check the cut-off of all above mentioned B-schools and to get the details of some other B-Schools which you can get on such percentile, kindly check out the link given below :-
I hope this information helps you.
Good Luck!!
Hii.. Thank you in advance:) CAT 2020 93 pr (VARc 58/ Rest are 95+) 10th/12th/Grad = 92/80/73 General Engineer Male No work exp. as i see in artical 20% weitages given to Work exp. but i not have any work exp. What should i do? I fill a form of IIT kanpur or not?
Hello Aspirant,
As per your category and percentile in CAT and especially in VARC section which makes you ineligible for admission to IIMs and even for some IITs as well, but you have good chances to get seat in some of the B-Schools other than IIMs or IITs for MBA/PGDM such as :-
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai
Prin. L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai
Institute of Finance and International Management, Bangalore
Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education, Mumbai
University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy
FORE School of Management, New Delhi
Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
DMS, NIT Trichy
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Alliance School of Business, Bangalore
Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad
To check the cut-off of all above mentioned B-schools and to get the details of some other B-Schools which you can get on such percentile, kindly check out the link given below :-
I hope this information helps you.
Good Luck!!
can i apply for cat2021 as i am from BAMS stream ?and medical practice is recognized as work experience in cat ?
Hello Aspirant,
Yes of course you can apply for CAT 2021 because according to the CAT eligibility criteria candidates who have completed graduation with 50% of marks are eligible to apply for IIM CAT 2021. And your work experience will be considered as Medical background if you have worked in the same field.
Common Admission Test, in short CAT is conducted by any of the IIM in rotation every year , it is a computer-based entrance exam conducted for MBA/PGDM admissions at 20 IIMs and 1000+ B-Schools in India. Candidates who have completed graduation with 50% of marks are eligible to apply for IIM CAT 2021. As per the new paper pattern the paper is of total 228 marks and it will consists of 76 total number of questions divided in three sections namely VARC, DILR and QA. Out of these 76 questions, 54 question will be of MCQ type and other 22 will be Non-MCQ. For every correct answer 3 marks will be awarded and on incorrect answer -1 will be deducted only from MCQs not from Non-MCQs. For complete exam pattern(latest) of CAT kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-exam-pattern
For CAT 2021 no exact dates are out yet but it is expected that the application process for it will start in the month of August '21 and the tentative exam date is November 28th 2021.
You can get complete information about CAT 2021 from the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cat
Now let us discuss how to prepare for above three sections so that we can get the best score which can take us to the best B-Schools of the country.
For Quantitative Ability :-
> For this section your pre-requisite is the complete understanding of basics of Mathematics.
> You should have proper command on topics like profit and loss, number system, geometry.
> Practice as many as sample papers you can and go for some mock tests as well.
For complete details about preparation of QA section kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-quantitative-ability
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension :-
> Reading skill is the pre-requisite for this section, so try to read different English story books, magazines, etc.
> Go through newspapers, journals, blogs, articles, etc to enhance your reading skills and watch some English visuals such as English News, web series, movies and likewise.
> Try solving questions based on comprehension, inferences and para jumbles. You can purchase some booklets for the same from market.
For complete details about preparation of VARC section kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-varc
Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation :-
> This section seems to be the toughest section in CAT exam, but it is not if you practice a lots of questions on logical reasoning and practice solving different hard core problems so that your problem solving ability will increase, which is the pre-requisite for this section.
> Go through some basic topics like seating arrangements, blood relations, syllogisms, etc to get familiar with this section.
> For complete details about preparation of DI&LR section kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-di-lr
I hope this information helps you.
Good Luck!!
cat syllabus,pattern, booklist and for which college best for mba
Hello Aspirant,
Common Admission Test, in short CAT is conducted by any of the IIM in rotation every year , it is a computer-based entrance exam conducted for MBA/PGDM admissions at 20 IIMs and 1000+ B-Schools in India. Candidates who have completed graduation with 50% of marks are eligible to apply for IIM CAT 2021. As per the new paper pattern the paper is of total 228 marks and it will consists of 76 total number of questions divided in three sections namely VARC, DILR and QA. Out of these 76 questions, 54 question will be of MCQ type and other 22 will be Non-MCQ. For every correct answer 3 marks will be awarded and on incorrect answer -1 will be deducted only from MCQs not from Non-MCQs. For complete exam pattern(latest) of CAT kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-exam-pattern
CAT Syllabus - CAT Syllabus 2021 - Download Latest CAT 2021 Exam Syllabus PDF Section-wise Free (careers360.com)
Now let us discuss how to prepare for above three sections so that we can get the best score which can take us to the best B-Schools of the country.
Quantitative Ability :-
> For this section your pre-requisite is the complete understanding of basics of Mathematics.
> You should have proper command on topics like profit and loss, number system, geometry.
> Practice as many as sample papers you can and go for some mock tests as well.
For complete details about preparation of QA section kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-quantitative-ability
Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension :-
> Reading skill is the pre-requisite for this section, so try to read different English story books, magazines, etc.
> Go through newspapers, journals, blogs, articles, etc to enhance your reading skills and watch some English visuals such as English News, web series, movies and likewise.
> Try solving questions based on comprehension, inferences and para jumbles. You can purchase some booklets for the same from market.
For complete details about preparation of VARC section kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-varc
Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation :-
> This section seems to be the toughest section in CAT exam, but it is not if you practice a lots of questions on logical reasoning and practice solving different hard core problems so that your problem solving ability will increase, which is the pre-requisite for this section.
> Go through some basic topics like seating arrangements, blood relations, syllogisms, etc to get familiar with this section.
> For complete details about preparation of DI&LR section kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat-di-lr
For complete list of top colleges accepting CAT score for admission to their MBA/PGP programmes kindly check out the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/top-b-schools-accepting-cat-scores-and-cutoffs
You can get complete information about CAT 2021 from the link given below :-
https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cat
I hope this information helps you.
Good Luck!!