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    Top IITs & NITs MBA Cut Off 2026: CAT Percentile, Category-Wise Cutoff & Selection Process

    Top IITs & NITs MBA Cut Off 2026: CAT Percentile, Category-Wise Cutoff & Selection Process

    SundararajanUpdated on 24 Dec 2025, 05:21 PM IST

    Top IITs MBA Cut Off and NITs MBA Cutoff: IITs and NITs in India offer MBA programmes at moderate fees, and their management departments rank higher than many of the top IIM colleges in India. The top IITs and NITs MBA cut off for CAT ranges from 80-95+ percentile for admission. After the declaration of CAT 2025 results, IITs and NITs will release the CAT 2025 cutoff for MBA admissions. Read this article to know the category-wise top IIT and NITs MBA cutoff and selection process.

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    1. Top IIT and NIT MBA Cut Off
    2. IIT CAT Cut Off for MBA Admission 2026-28
    3. NIT MBA Cut Off for Admission 2026: Category-Wise
    4. IITs & NITs Selection Criteria for MBA Admission 2026
    5. MBA from IITs & NITs: Selection Parameters
    Top IITs & NITs MBA Cut Off 2026: CAT Percentile, Category-Wise Cutoff & Selection Process
    Top IITs and NITs MBA Cutoff

    Top IIT and NIT MBA Cut Off

    The Indian Institute of Technology offers MBA admissions through their respective Department of Management Studies (DoMS). Top IITs and NITs, including IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, NIT Trichy, and NIT Warangal etc., have their own CAT cut-off for MBA admissions. Know more about the IIT and NIT cut-off for MBA programmes in the pointers below.

    • IITs and NITs will open applications for MBA admissions 2026 after the declaration of the CAT results.
    • The range of CAT cut-off accepted by the 8 IITs is between 80 and 99 percentiles.
    • For the National Institutes of Technology, the MBA cutoff is around 40 to 80 percentile.
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    IIT CAT Cut Off for MBA Admission 2026-28

    IITs accept the CAT score for admission to MBA courses. Below is the table of CAT cut-off for general category students. For students in the reserved category, the cut-off percentile is much lower.

    Qualifying IIT MBA CAT Cut Off 2025: Minimum expected

    Check out the expected CAT cut off for IIT below, which has the IIT Delhi CAT cut off, IIT Kanpur CAT cut off, and the other IITs' cutoff category-wise.

    IITMBA Cut Off (General Category)MBA Cut Off (SC/ ST/ PwD Category)

    IIT Kharagpur

    90 percentile

    60 percentile

    IIT Roorkee

    95+ percentile

    70+ percentile

    IIT Bombay MBA cut off

    95+ percentile

    75+ percentile

    IIT Delhi MBA cut off

    95+ percentile

    60 percentile

    IIT Kanpur MBA cutoff (official)

    80+ percentile

    50+ percentile

    IIT Dhanbad MBA cutoff

    70-80+ percentile

    55-65+ percentile

    IIT Madras MBA cutoff

    85 Percentile

    NA

    IIT Jodhpur MBA cut off (2025-27)

    75-85

    56.10

    NIT MBA Cut Off for Admission 2026: Category-Wise

    NITs accept CAT scores for admission to MBA courses. Take a look at the table below to find out the expected NIT MBA cut-off for CAT.

    Qualifying NIT CAT Cut Off 2025: Expected

    NIT

    MBA Cut Off (General Category)

    MBA Cut Off (SC/ ST/ PwD Category)

    NIT Trichy MBA cut off

    80 percentile

    65 percentile

    NIT Warangal

    85-90 percentile

    80 percentile

    NIT Silchar

    50 percentile

    NIT Rourkela MBA cut off

    70 percentile

    60 percentile

    NIT Durgapur

    Based on a valid CAT/ MAT/ GMAT/ CMAT score

    NIT Kurukshetra

    MNIT Jaipur

    60-70 percentile

    55 percentile

    NIT Jalandhar

    40+ percentile

    IITs & NITs Selection Criteria for MBA Admission 2026

    All B-schools in India follow the same admission process for the MBA programme. It includes Group Discussion (GD), Written Aptitude Test (WAT), and Personal Interview (PI). There are generally three stages in MBA admissions:

    • Stage 1: Selection of candidates based on entrance exam score (CAT, MAT, GMAT, CMAT)
    • Stage 2: Conduct of GD/WAT and PI
    • State 3: Final selection based on overall score/ performance of stages 1 and 2
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    MBA from IITs & NITs: Selection Parameters

    Given below is the weightage of IITs and NITs MBA selection parameters based on past trends:

    ParticularsWeightage

    Class 10 Marks

    1

    Class 12 Marks

    2

    CAT Score/ Percentile

    50

    Extracurricular Activities

    5

    Aggregate Graduation Marks

    4

    Personal interview (PI)

    25

    Work Experience

    3

    Written Aptitude Test (WAT)

    10

    Total

    100

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