IIM Jammu vs IIM Rohtak: The Gender-Split Table Against the Flat 97

The two solo doors that treat gender most differently in print. IIM Jammu publishes a gender-split shortlist table — General men at 91, women and transgender candidates at 89 — and scores the final as CAT 42, PI 30, profile 28. IIM Rohtak asks a flat 97 with no concession beneath it, then spends a fifth of its final on academic and gender diversity. Both documents were re-read today, 18 October 2026. The printed bills sit Rs 4,90,756 apart.

The two bars, exactly as printed

	IIM Jammu (MBA 2026-28)	IIM Rohtak (PGP Batch 17, 2026-28)
General bar	91 male / 89 female and transgender	97 flat
Sectionals	72 male / 71 female	None printed — one aggregate bar
EWS / NC-OBC	74 male / 72 female (both)	93 / 83
SC / ST	54/52 male-female / 32/30	60 / 50
Process shape	CAP 2026 joint interview (with Bodh Gaya and Sirmaur)	Five solo stages; own registration 26 Dec-9 Jan at Rs 3,095
Seats	About 300	264
Printed fee	Rs 22,80,756	Rs 17,90,000

Jammu is the only institute in this series that prints different bars for men and women on its own policy page — a two-point concession built into the table itself. Rohtak’s 97 is the highest flat bar among the second-generation IIMs we have mapped; there is no way under it, only through it.

The formulas: the published arithmetic against the diversity block

Jammu prints everything. The CAT score converts at 0.42 times the absolute percentile for a maximum of 42 marks; the Personal Interview carries 30; the profile carries 28 — academic profile capped at 10 (Class X 2, Class XII 3, graduation 5), work experience at 10 (peaking at 24-36 months), gender diversity at 8. A candidate can read the policy page and compute their own position to the decimal — rare transparency even among IIMs.

Rohtak’s final is deliberately compact: CAT percentile 60%, Personal Interview 20%, and a combined academic-and-gender diversity block of 20% — the heaviest single diversity weight in this series, printed in a policy that states the institute’s intent to correct a skew toward male, engineering-heavy batches. One institute lets you compute your standing; the other tells you plainly what it is optimising for.

The bills: Rs 22,80,756 against Rs 17,90,000

Jammu prints Rs 22,80,756 for 2026-28 — tuition Rs 2,39,635 a term across six terms (Rs 14,37,810), plus other academic and non-academic charges of Rs 4,18,473 in year one and Rs 4,24,473 in year two; the refundable caution deposit of Rs 50,000 sits outside, and the Rs 50,000 offer acceptance adjusts against Term-1. Mess bills as per actuals. Withdrawal with refund runs to 5:30 PM on 21 June 2026.

Rohtak prints Rs 17,90,000 — Rs 8,95,000 a year in terms of Rs 3,55,000, Rs 2,70,000 and Rs 2,70,000 — with mess at Rs 48,000 a year, a one-time placement facility charge of Rs 40,000, a development charge of Rs 10,000 a year, alumni membership of Rs 6,500 and a refundable caution of Rs 10,000 on top. At nearly Rs 5 lakh cheaper on the printed figures, Rohtak’s bill is the lowest among the flat-bar second-generation IIMs we have priced.

The quota question, answered from print

Neither institute prints any management, institutional or discretionary route — no IIM does. Rohtak’s policy warns that admission offers are valid only when signed and sent from [email protected], and both admit through CAT under Government of India reservation law. An agent quoting a priced seat at either campus is selling the thing those sentences name.

Who should pick which

• Pick Jammu if your percentile sits in the 89-96 band, you want every weight printed in advance — the 42/30/28 arithmetic lets you compute your own standing — or the gender-split table moves your bar down two points. Budget for the higher printed bill.
• Pick Rohtak if you clear 97, want the nearly Rs 5-lakh-cheaper printed bill, and your profile strengthens under a diversity-weighted final. Registration is its own window: 26 December 2025 to 9 January 2026 at Rs 3,095 — miss it and the door is shut.
• Either way — Jammu interviews inside CAP 2026, Rohtak on its own calendar, so the post-result weeks are different shapes on the two sides. The institutes’ own pages carry the operative dates; no third party does.