Indian Institute of Management Kashipur (IIM-Kashipur)

Indian Institute of Management Kashipur is one of the second-generation IIMs whose entire admission conversation fits on one honest page: the MBA runs through CAT and nothing else, the eligibility bar is CAT’s own, and the money is printed to the rupee — Rs 20,80,000 for the full two years, split across six terms with calendar due dates. For a candidate mapping the post-CAT landscape, it is the Uttarakhand campus in the Joint Admission Process network, with the MBA (Analytics) as its second flagship.

What should an applicant plan for?

One route only: take CAT, meet the same eligibility criteria CAT sets, and clear the institute’s published category-wise minimum percentiles to enter the Personal Interview shortlist. The page currently prints the CAT-2024 table as the reference — General candidates needed 75 in each section and 95 overall; EWS and NC-OBC 81 overall; SC 66; ST and DAP 42 — and states plainly that the 2026-28 batch cut-offs will be updated in accordance with JAP 2026 guidelines. Read the printed table as the shape of the bar, not as next year’s number.

The money is equally explicit. The grand total of Rs 20,80,000 breaks into a Rs 25,000 admission fee, Rs 20,46,000 of course fee and a Rs 9,000 caution deposit — Rs 11,20,000 in the first year and Rs 9,60,000 in the second, with Term I due 25 September 2026 and Term VI due 4 January 2028. Two scholarship layers soften it: the Government of India top-class schemes, and the institute’s own rule that 10% of MBA participants receive a full yearly tuition waiver across its Need-based, Merit-based and Need-cum-Merit scholarships. That waiver share is one of the most concrete published scholarship commitments we have opened at any IIM.

The page closes with the line every family should read before paying anyone: “If any person receives unsolicited or fraudulent communication offering admission in IIM Kashipur, do not respond.” An IIM seat has exactly one price — the printed fee — and exactly one seller — the institute itself, through CAT. Compare the bar and the money with IIM Kozhikode and IIM Visakhapatnam, or see where the total lands in our verified budget bands.