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Wondering which B-schools will accept 90+ for MBA admission? Worried if you miss out the chance to join your dream b – school even after scoring 90+ percentile? While some may think there aren’t many options to choose from with this score, but the actual story is slightly different. Read on to know the full story!

1. IMT, Ghaziabad

IMT Ghaziabad is a pioneer in offering a top class management education in India. It is one of the oldest B – schools in India with a legacy of around 4 decades. It has been one of the most sought after MBA colleges, and is the most popular for its MBA in Marketing. Over the last few years, the ranking has dropped a few places because of a lot of reasons. Opening up of new IIMs, improved performance of many non IIMs and the increasing batch size. It accepts CAT scores and the cut-off varies every year but it is always above 90 percentile.

2. XIM, Bhubaneswar

XIM, Bhubaneswar is a very old brand and has reputation of producing very good management graduates in industry. The placements have also been consistent. If you don’t have offer from other top B-schools then you should definitely consider this college.

3. IMI, Delhi

In the last few years IMI has brought in an eclectic batch of students and good set of faculty to boot and the location advantage of Delhi is always there to boot. The placements in the recent years and it has been moving from strength to strength. The curricula are in-depth and the guys hemming the stuff know their business quite well.

4. MICA, Ahmedabad

MICA has carved a niche for itself in generating business stalwarts in the domain of strategic management and digital marketing. MICAT is held for selecting candidates for admission in MICA Ahmedabad. The flagship course that accepts the MICAT Score is the PGDM-C course or the diploma course in Communication. The PDGM-C (Post graduate diploma in Communication) focuses on developing strategic marketing professionals. MICA Ahmedabad is acknowledged to be one of the best colleges in the field of marketing.

5. GLIM, Chennai

Great Lakes Institute of Management (GLIM) is one of the leading business schools in India. The management institute offers many full-time courses in management, such as PGDM & PGPM. With the help of its exceptional faculty Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai has managed to consistently rank amongst the top private B schools in the country. Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai boasts of one of the best placement records amongst the top business schools in the country. Its association with marquee recruiters, such as Deloitte, Accenture (Strategy & Technology), TCS, Infosys, Airtel, JP Morgan Chase, World Bank, etc. ensures that students get placed across diverse sectors and functional areas.

6. Goa Institute of Management

Goa Institute of Management is one of the leading Bschools in India. It offers a two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme in eight different specializations along with two other programmes which are Executive and Fellowship Programme in Management (FPM). The curriculum, comprising six terms, constitutes a judicious mix of core and elective courses. In terms of the placements, the average salary is decent. Although the fees has been increased recently but then there are several companies coming during placement which offer you decent packages.

7. Baby IIMs

The IIM brand is one of the strongest brands in the corporate world, and students graduating from these institutes are usually the creme de la creme of India’s talent pool. With the objective of expanding the scope of management education in India, the government set up seven more third generation IIMs post-2011, which came to be known as the ‘baby IIMs’. Even though the new IIMs might not match the reputation of the older IIMs, but they are still better than some other B-schools that claim to offer you the best facilities but fall short on multiple fronts. Baby IIMs have proved that they belong amongst the leading management institutes, but there is still a long way to achieve the at-par status with the established IIMs and other leading business schools. So, students who wish to access the best education facilities and infrastructure of the IIMs will do good to join any of the baby IIMs over some lesser-known private institutes.

Disclaimer : Undoubtedly these are gray areas, we want you to do your bit of research before apply into these colleges. Majority of these colleges are charging a fees of as high as 18 lakhs to 20 lakhs. so discretion should be applied. We can serve you as far as the research that we have done at our end is concerned, so take it with pinch of salt.

At this point, you might also like to watch this video which talks about which colleges to target at different percentiles.

Best wishes for CAT!!

Abhishek Mukherjee works for 2IIM. Apart from solving interesting math questions he likes to eat biriyani and watch movies.