I don't have any work experience. Will I get admission in IIM?

Yes, you can. IIMs have a good proportion of freshers (almost up to 40%). Some in fact do not count experience as a criteria while shortlisting candidates for interview round or for final selection (or allocate lower weight-age to them). Some of them award extra points to females and candidates from non-engineering background to maintain the diversity of the batch. The IIM calls that you can expect depends on your CAT score, profile and academic background. For instance, if you have a good academic background, you can expect interview calls from Indore and Kozhikode at 93+ percentile (General category). This however is subject to change from time to time.

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Dear Taniya, Pursuing MBA from IIM University is a good option as there are lot of job opportunities in this field as now a days, MBA is one of the most popular as well as widely chosen courses amongst the other entire business related course but admission to this program depends upon eligibility criteria set by the institute where you want to enroll yourself and there is no requirement of job experience also. So, as a backup, you should also apply in other better universities like: 1. Banaras Hindu University. 2. Lovely Professional University- Punjab. 3. Xavier Institute of Management- Bhubaneswar, etc. where you could get good education and have good placement record as well. I have heard that LPU is giving maximum scholarship to students on the basis their qualifying marks/ National level test/ on their own admission test. For more details, you can go through their websites.

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Hi Taniya, Job experience is not a mandate for getting admission in an IIM. IIMs do give a weightage to your work experience, but that should not hinder your chances of getting into it as IIMs always try to keep diversity in their batch. Diversity in terms of work experience and being a non-engineer also acts positively for the diversity.

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