International Management Institute Kolkata (IMI Kolkata)

International Management Institute Kolkata is the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group’s management campus in Alipore — the Kolkata sibling of IMI New Delhi, and the city’s strongest private PGDM option that still runs a clean, published admission process. The two-year PGDM is AICTE-approved, NBA-accredited and AIU-certified as MBA-equivalent, and everything about admission lives on one official page: the exams accepted, the 50% bar, the Rs 2,250 application and the full fee table.

What does the admission route look like?

Four accepted exams — CAT, XAT, GMAT or CMAT — one online application, and a Personal Interview. The 2026-28 cycle runs on CAT 2025, XAT 2026 and CMAT 2026 scores, with the GMAT route reserved for foreign-national candidates. The academic bar is 50% in graduation, with final-year candidates given until 30 September 2026 to prove eligibility; the institute itself cautions that the effective cut-off can rise with application volume. Two categories sit beside the general pool without bypassing anything: company-sponsored candidates, whose employers pay fees and who interview like everyone else, and foreign nationals. Neither gets placement assistance.

The money, in official numbers

Rs 14,98,000 total for the 2026-28 self-sponsored category — tuition Rs 12,08,000 across six trimesters, plus learning materials, library, IT, activities and alumni membership, with a Rs 15,000 refundable security deposit inside the total. That is the figure on the admissions page’s own Fee Structure tab, not an aggregator’s estimate.

On outcomes, IMI Kolkata does something rare: it publishes a student-by-student placement list for 2023-24, signed by the Director, naming every placed student, the employer and the appointment number — Deloitte, PwC Acceleration Centers, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Dabur, Godrej & Boyce, Infosys, Wipro and more. What it does not publish is a headline average CTC, so we do not invent one; our placement-report reading guide explains why a signed offer list is actually stronger evidence than an unsourced average.

Where does IMI Kolkata fit in the city?

Above the own-process private layer on brand and accreditation, below IIM Calcutta on selectivity — and with a meaningfully different ask: IIMC wants a top CAT percentile and a killer interview; IMI-K gives you four exam options and a 50% graduation bar. Families comparing it with the Delhi PGDM cluster should read our IMT vs IMI vs FORE vs BIMTECH comparison — the Kolkata campus shares the IMI selection machinery. The full city map is in our Kolkata guide.

How Udaan helps with IMI Kolkata

We tell you whether your entrance score is genuinely competitive for IMI-K this cycle — before you spend the application fee — and which of the four accepted exams gives your profile the best shot. Applications stay on IMI’s own portal; if an agent offers you an IMI Kolkata seat directly, the institute’s published process is the proof that no such seat exists.

Official sources: IMI Kolkata PGDM admissions page · IMI Kolkata homepage (accreditation certificates) · Director-signed placement list 2023-24