International Management Institute Bhubaneswar

IMI Bhubaneswar — the Odisha campus of the IMI group, AICTE-approved and NBA-accredited — is the city’s group-run PGDM option: one holistic merit process, a published Rs 14.98 lakh fee, and an admission FAQ candid enough to state that no fixed cut-off exists. For a family comparing Bhubaneswar’s own-process schools, this is the profile whose rules fit on one screen.

How does selection actually run?

You bring a valid CAT, XAT, CMAT or GMAT score (for the 2026-28 cycle: CAT 2025, XAT 2026, CMAT 2026, or a GMAT from January 2021 to January 2026). The institute then shortlists holistically — its own FAQ says there is no fixed cut-off, with past academics, work-experience quality, test scores and other factors in the mix. Shortlisted candidates take a video assessment of thought process and communication; those who clear it face the final personal interview. The published intake across the PGDM programmes is 180, and the 2026-28 cycle’s last round closed on 14 June 2026, with the programme beginning in July 2026.

One line in the FAQ matters more than any other for the quota question: the admission process, it states, remains the same for everyone irrespective of category. The only concession described is the AICTE Tuition Fee Waiver — up to 5% of seats for family incomes below Rs 8 lakh — and even that runs through the state’s central admission process.

What does it cost, and what does it return?

The official FAQ prints the programme fee as INR 14.98 lakh for two years, with bank tie-ups noted for education loans. On return, the admission portal displays a highest CTC of Rs 41.36 lakh, an average of Rs 14.35 lakh and a top-quartile average of Rs 21.07 lakh — displayed without a batch year on the page, which is exactly the kind of detail our placement-report reading guide tells you to nail down before comparing schools.

Where does IMI Bhubaneswar fit in a Bhubaneswar shortlist?

Between the ceiling and the wide net. It asks a lower graduation bar than XIM University (50% vs 55%) and a lower fee (Rs 14.98 lakh vs about Rs 25.8 lakh), accepts CMAT which XIMB does not, and returns a solid published average. Against KSOM it is the leaner, non-residential-priced option without the 10th-and-12th marks condition. All four city options, with sourced fees, sit in our Bhubaneswar city guide.

How Udaan helps with IMI Bhubaneswar

We calibrate your profile against the holistic shortlist — because “no fixed cut-off” cuts both ways: a modest test score with strong academics and articulation can clear it, and a high score with a thin profile can miss. We prepare you for the two evaluation artefacts that actually decide this admission — the video assessment and the interview — and we keep a parallel option open below it in the city stack. If anyone offers to sell you an IMI seat, the institute’s own FAQ is the document to show them.

Official sources: IMI Bhubaneswar admission portal · IMI Bhubaneswar PGDM admissions page · IMI Bhubaneswar main site