IIM Jammu vs Bodh Gaya vs Sirmaur: One CAP Interview, Three Different Machines

Three IIMs, one interview, and three genuinely different machines underneath. IIM Jammu, IIM Bodh Gaya and IIM Sirmaur are the CAP 2026 consortium: you clear the printed CAT minimums, sit one common offline Personal Interview, and then each campus ranks you with its own formula and bills you its own fee — Rs 22,80,756 at Jammu, Rs 17,96,000 at Bodh Gaya, Rs 21,00,000 at Sirmaur. Every figure below comes from official documents opened today, 4 October 2026.

The three bills, side by side

	IIM Jammu (2026-28)	IIM Bodh Gaya (2026-28)	IIM Sirmaur (2026-28)
Two-year fee	Rs 22,80,756	Rs 17,96,000	Rs 21,00,000
Year split	Rs 11,37,378 + Rs 11,43,378	Rs 8,98,000 + Rs 8,98,000	Rs 11,02,500 + Rs 9,97,500
Tuition	Rs 2,39,635 × 6 terms	Rs 1,60,000 × 6 terms	Rs 2,92,500 a term (Rs 2,90,000 in Terms 5-6)
Refundable deposit	Rs 50,000 caution	Rs 25,000 caution	Rs 30,000 caution
On acceptance	Rs 50,000, adjusts against Term I	Rs 20,000 EOI deposit	Inside the Rs 1,00,000 admission fee in Term I
Mess	On actuals	Refundable per-term deposit (Rs 26,000 first, then Rs 21,000)	As applicable

One label to keep honest: Sirmaur’s Rs 21,00,000 is the 2026-28 figure from the institute’s 2026 admissions portal, read 9 September 2026 — the portal was unreachable from this host today, and the main site’s fee page still prints the outgoing 2025-27 table at Rs 20,00,000. Read Rs 21 lakh as the current-batch figure and confirm in the offer letter.

One interview, three formulas

This is the part aggregators flatten into a single “CAP cutoff” — and it is where the decision actually lives.

IIM Jammu is the profile campus. Its final formula reads CAT percentile 42, PI 30, profile 28 — academics 10 (Class 10: 2, Class 12: 3, graduation 5), work experience 10, gender diversity 8. More than a quarter of your result sits outside the exam hall, which is why a strong profile survives a weaker CAT rank there. Its shortlist table is gender-split: General male 91 overall with 72 sectionals, female 89 with 71.

IIM Bodh Gaya is the CAT campus. The final merit list is scaled CAT score 50%, PI 25%, profile 25% (academics 15, work experience 10) — half your fate is the test itself, and the policy is explicit that it uses the scaled score, not the percentile. Its reference cut-off table prints General 95 with 75 sectionals, with the operational shortlist set after the CAT result.

IIM Sirmaur is the work-experience campus. Its composite reads CAT 35, PI 20, academics 15, work experience 20 — the heaviest experience block of the three, peaking at 23-35 months — plus 5 for gender diversity and a 5-point ‘Trailblazer’ bonus for engineering, medical, design, architecture, pharmacy and CA/CMA/CS backgrounds. It also prints the market’s clearest gender concession (General male 90, female 85) and runs the female-only Supernumerary Admission Process inside CAP.

Who should pick which

• Pick Jammu if your profile is stronger than your percentile — consistent academics, real work experience, or you benefit from the 8-point gender-diversity block — and you want the campus with the freshest official placement report (2024-26: average Rs 16.47 lakh, median Rs 15.00 lakh, 260+ organisations).
• Pick Bodh Gaya if your CAT score is your weapon and the budget matters: half the final score is the test, and at Rs 17,96,000 it is the cheapest of the three by a clear Rs 3-4.8 lakh.
• Pick Sirmaur if you carry 2-3 years of work experience (20 points), or you are a female candidate reading the plainest printed concession in this consortium — 85 against the male 90, with the SAP channel beside it.
• Either way — the three share one CAT and one interview. Registering for CAP 2026 costs you one form and one travel plan; the formulas then work for you differently at each campus. And if an agent offers a priced seat at any of the three, all three institutes’ own documents, opened today, print exactly one route: CAT, the CAP minimums, the joint interview, merit.