IIM Rohtak vs IIM Ranchi: the flat 97 against the JAP partner

The highest flat bar in the new-IIM series against one of the cheapest JAP doors. IIM Rohtak gates registration at a flat CAT 97 percentile and prints a Rs 17,90,000 fee. IIM Ranchi’s most recent published table reads 95 with 75 sectionals, and its signed fee of Rs 19,20,000 becomes about Rs 20,90,100 once the mess bills count. Rohtak’s website has been unreachable from our vantage for three consecutive days, so its PDFs were re-read today, 21 October 2026, through the extraction mirror — disclosed, and re-verification on the direct site follows when it returns. Ranchi’s documents were re-read today directly.

The two bills, side by side

	IIM Rohtak (PGP Batch 17, 2026-28)	IIM Ranchi (MBA/MBA-HR/MBA-BA 2025-27)
Printed total	Rs 17,90,000	Rs 19,20,000 (excluding mess)
Structure	Rs 3,55,000 + Rs 2,70,000 + Rs 2,70,000 a year	Term 1 Rs 3,45,000; Terms 2-6 Rs 3,15,000
Components printed	Term charges only	Acceptance Rs 1,10,000 (adjusted as Term-1 tuition) + tuition Rs 17,80,000 + caution Rs 20,000 + alumni Rs 10,000
Mess	Rs 48,000 a year, outside	About Rs 28,350 a term, outside — Rs 1,70,100 over six terms
Other lines	Placement facility Rs 40,000; development Rs 10,000/yr; alumni Rs 6,500; caution Rs 10,000	Caution refundable at leaving
All-in as printed	About Rs 18,86,000 with both years’ mess	About Rs 20,90,100 with six terms of mess
Document vintage	Batch 17 (2026-28), current cycle	2025-27, the most recent published, disclosed
Document	Official fee PDF (via mirror; site down day 3)	Official signed fee PDF

The honest label: Rohtak is the cheaper bill by roughly Rs 2 lakh once both mess lines count — and its fee document covers the current 2026-28 cycle, while Ranchi’s signed table is the 2025-27 one, the most recent the institute has published.

The 97 wall against the JAP door

Rohtak prints the steepest entry gate in this comparison series: General 97 flat — EWS 93, NC-OBC 83, SC 60, ST 50 — with no gender concession beneath it, then a solo five-stage process with its own Rs 3,095 registration window from 26 December 2025 to 9 January 2026. Ranchi’s last published campus table (8 May 2025, the CAP era) printed General 95 with 75 sectionals; this cycle Ranchi admits through JAP 2026, so the operative shortlist travels with the joint process IIM Raipur hosts. The practical read: at 95-96.9 percentile, Ranchi’s door is the only one of the two that print has ever opened; at 97 and above, both are live, and the decision moves to formula and fee.

The formulas — the diversity block against the section-weighted CAT

Rohtak’s final list is three printed blocks: CAT percentile 60%, Personal Interview 20%, academic-plus-gender diversity 20% — the policy states plainly that the diversity block exists to balance a classroom that would otherwise skew male and engineering-heavy. Ranchi’s most recent published formula scored the CAT at 65% broken by section (Verbal 15, Quantitative 35, DILR 15 of scaled maximums), Profile 20% and PI/WAT 15%, with 5 bonus marks for gender diversity; under JAP 2026 the common policy now governs. A quant-heavy candidate reads Ranchi’s old 35%-quant block kindly; a candidate whose strength is profile breadth reads Rohtak’s 40% non-CAT block kindly.

The quota question, answered from print

Neither institute prints any management, institutional or discretionary route — no IIM does. Rohtak’s policy adds the sharpest anti-fraud line in the series: offers arrive only from [email protected], and an offer from any other address is invalid. Both admit through CAT under Government of India reservation law; an agent quoting a priced seat at either campus is selling fraud.

Who should pick which

• Pick Rohtak if you hold a 97-plus percentile, want the lower all-in bill by about Rs 2 lakh, and carry the academic or gender diversity its 20-mark block rewards. Note the process is solo — a separate form, fee and interview from the JAP set.
• Pick Ranchi if your percentile sits in the 95-96.9 band where only its door has printed open, or if the JAP registration already covers your other targets — one form reaches Ranchi, Raipur, Kashipur and Trichy.
• Either way — read each campus’s own document, not an aggregator: Rohtak’s printed cycle is current but its site is down for re-verification at the moment (mirror reads disclosed), and Ranchi’s campus table is last cycle’s with JAP 2026 governing this one.