MBA at an IIT: The Seven Management Departments Compared, From Official Pages

The IIT system’s management departments are the quiet value end of elite Indian management education: CAT-only admission, published marks bars, government-institute fee sheets — and not one printed quota route across the seven we have mapped. This page puts all seven side by side from official pages, so an aspirant comparing “IIT MBA” options can see the actual spread instead of a ranking listicle.

The seven doors, compared

Department	CAT bar in print	Graduation marks bar	Two-year fee (verified)	Application window shape
SJMSOM IIT Bombay	CAT shortlist, no public floor	60% (55% SC/ST/PwD)	Rs 15,55,800 (Rs 7,55,800 for SC/ST/PwD)	Opens after CAT results
VGSoM IIT Kharagpur	90 General/EWS, 81 OBC, 60 SC/ST/PwD	60% (55%), four-year technical degree or specified master’s	Rs 13,03,924 incl. hostel and mess advance	ERP form opens the day after CAT results
DMS IIT Delhi	CAT shortlist, no public floor	60% (55% SC/ST/PwD)	Rs 12,00,000 full programme	Closed 1 February last cycle
DoMS IIT Madras	CAT shortlist, no public floor	60% (55% SC/ST/PwD); IIT 8.0-CGPA graduates CAT-exempt	Not published on reachable pages	Post-results window
DoMS IIT Kanpur	80 overall, no sectionals	65% in X and XII, 60% in graduation, Mathematics rule	Not published currently	Ran 25 December-10 February last cycle
DoMS IIT Roorkee	CAT shortlist, no public floor	60% any discipline (55% reserved); IIT CGPA-7 graduates CAT-exempt	Rs 9,74,200 dining-and-residing	Interviews in March
DoMS IIT (ISM) Dhanbad	CAT shortlist on percentile, no public floor	60% any discipline (55% SC/ST/PwD); B.Tech/B.E. only for the Business Analytics track	Rs 1,16,400 at admission + Rs 86,700 + Rs 95,700 x 2 = roughly Rs 3,85,500 before mess — the cheapest verified IIT MBA	Form ran 24 December-31 January last cycle

Every fee row above is a sourced number from an official document with its read date in our profiles; where the institute publishes no current fee (Madras, Kanpur), this page says so rather than borrowing a figure from an aggregator. That is the difference between a map and a listicle.

The three filters that actually decide admission

The percentile layer. Only two departments print a public CAT floor: VGSoM at 90 for General/EWS and IIT Kanpur at 80 with no sectionals. The rest shortlist silently — your CAT score competes inside a composite, so a “no printed bar” campus is not an easier campus.

The marks layer. All seven print a graduation-marks bar — 60% for General at Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Roorkee, Kharagpur and Dhanbad, with Kanpur layering 65% in Classes X and XII plus a Mathematics rule. This is the filter that quietly disqualifies more candidates than CAT does, and we map every printed bar on the low-graduation-percentage page.

The degree layer. VGSoM’s rule is the narrowest in the group: a four-year engineering/technology/pharmacy degree, or a master’s in Science, Economics or Commerce with Mathematics or Statistics at bachelor’s level. A plain three-year BA or BCom does not qualify there — but does at Roorkee and Kanpur. Read eligibility before percentile.

The shared timing trap

All seven windows cluster around CAT results — CAT 2026 results are due the first week of January 2027, tentative, per the official advertisement, and Dhanbad’s form historically opens in late December, even before results. VGSoM’s form opens the day after results; Kanpur’s window ran roughly six weeks last cycle. If an IIT MBA is on your list, the application materials (transcripts, category certificates, work-experience proofs) should be ready in December, not collected in January. Our after-CAT registration map tracks these windows as they open.

The quota answer, once for all seven

No IIT management department publishes a management quota, institute-level paid seat or donation route. The only differentiated channels in print are lawful affirmative action — reserved-category bars, gender-diversity factors, tuition waivers (VGSoM waives tuition entirely for SC/ST/PwD; SJMSOM’s SC/ST/PwD total is Rs 7,55,800) — and the IIT-graduate CAT exemptions at Roorkee and Madras. Anyone selling an IIT MBA seat is selling something that does not exist in any of the seven departments’ paperwork.

How Udaan helps with this decision

We map your profile against all three filters — percentile, marks, degree — before you spend an application rupee, and we track the post-results windows so a two-week form period never catches you unprepared. The fee rows above are the verified totals as of their read dates; if a campus publishes its missing fee tomorrow, the profile updates the same day. Start the conversation on our contact page.

Figures on this page come from official institute pages and fee PDFs, each carrying its own read date — the freshest reads are 16-17 September 2026, the oldest 23 August 2026, and each profile shows its full changelog. Confirm current figures on the official pages before applying.