IIM Nagpur vs IIM Visakhapatnam: the 95 solo with twenty scholarships against the 82 door

Two solo doors, two opposite ideas of what should carry the final score — and both read the CAT score itself somewhere in it. IIM Nagpur shortlists at 95 overall and reads the CAT score at 45% of the final; IIM Visakhapatnam shortlists at 82 — the lowest printed bar in this series — and weights the interview 48 of 100. Nagpur prints Rs 21,00,000 with twenty scholarships on the page; Vizag prints Rs 23,58,590 before its outside-the-headline extras. Both official pages were re-read today, 23 October 2026.

The two bills, side by side

	IIM Nagpur (MBA 2026-28)	IIM Visakhapatnam (PGP 2026-28)
Printed total	Rs 21,00,000	Rs 23,58,590 grand total (Rs 11,79,295 x 2 years)
Acceptance	Rs 1,00,000, adjusted inside the total	Inside the schedule
Structure	Term-wise table in the downloadable fee structure	Rs 3,79,765 tuition x 6 + Student Welfare Rs 40,000 in terms 1 and 4
Extras	The fee structure document carries the details	Caution Rs 40,000 + a Rs 25,000-per-term mess/AC advance, both outside the headline
All-in as printed	Rs 21,00,000 as printed	About Rs 25.5 lakh with the deposit and six terms of advances
Aid	Twenty printed scholarships (10 Merit + 10 Need-cum-Merit) on the fee block	Financial-aid pages linked from the fee page
Document	Official fees-financial-aid-scholarship page	Official program-fee page

The honest label: Nagpur’s number is the flatter read — one printed total with the acceptance inside — while Vizag’s headline needs about Rs 1.9 lakh of extras added before it is true. Like-for-like, Nagpur is roughly Rs 4.5 lakh cheaper, and it is the only one of the two printing scholarship seats.

The bars: 95 against 82

Nagpur’s Table-2 prints General 95 overall with 70 in each section (EWS 55s/85, NC-OBC 55s/85, SC 40s/65, ST 30s/40, DAP 25s/40) beneath a 340-seat batch matrix (General 120, EWS 34, NC-OBC 92, SC 51, ST 26, DAP horizontal 17). Vizag’s Phase-1 table prints General 82 overall with 70 sectionals (EWS/NC-OBC 72, SC 50, ST/PwD 40), explicitly as shortlist bars, not admission bars. Thirteen percentile points separate the doors at the first cut — the whole 83-94 band has a printed path at Vizag and none at Nagpur.

Two formulas that both read the CAT score

Nagpur’s Final Score, printed with each component normalised: CAT Score 45%, PI 25%, Past Academic Performance 6%, work experience 9%, academic diversity 5%, gender diversity 10% — the heaviest printed gender block at any IIM, with an extempore round inside the PI. Vizag’s final aggregate: PI 48, CAT 25, Class X 4, XII 4, Bachelor’s 4, gender diversity 5, work experience 10 — the heaviest interview block in the series, plus the rule importing the average of IIM Bangalore, Kozhikode, Lucknow or Indore PI scores for candidates those institutes shortlisted. Both machines read the CAT score rather than stopping at the percentile gate; Nagpur lets it write 45% of the outcome, Vizag 25.

The Phase-2 middle at Vizag

Between the bar and the interview, Vizag scores a detailed application out of 100: CAT 50 (VARC 18, DILR 14, QA 18), Class X 10, XII 10, Bachelors 10, gender diversity 10, work experience 10 on the printed curve — zero under 12 months, the full 10 across 24-36 months, tapering to 2.5 beyond 48, measured to 31 December 2025. Nagpur’s three stages move from the shortlist to the PI-with-extempore to the 45/25 final with no equivalent middle layer published.

The quota question, answered from print

Neither institute prints any management, institutional or discretionary route — no IIM does. Both admit through CAT 2025 and their solo published processes under Government of India reservation law; Nagpur’s policy prints the full 340-seat reservation matrix. The only priced concession on either page is Nagpur’s scholarship block — twenty full-tuition schemes. An agent quoting a priced seat at either campus is selling fraud; the official pages are the verification.

Who should pick which

• Pick Nagpur if you carry a 95-plus percentile and want the settled bill — Rs 21,00,000 with the acceptance inside — on a 340-seat batch with twenty printed scholarships and the heaviest gender-diversity block at any IIM.
• Pick Vizag if your percentile sits in the 82-94 band — Nagpur’s door is closed to you in print — or if you interview well: a 48-weight PI is the largest single lever in this series.
• Either way — both are solo doors outside JAP and CAP, so one CAT 2025 registration can hold both. Women candidates should model both gender blocks: Nagpur prints 10%, Vizag 5 in the final plus 10 in the middle layer.