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MBA Program Eligibility

Criteria

VGSoM’s MBA Program 2. Candidates appearing for the final year of bachelor’s
degree/equivalent qualification examination and those
Master of Business Administration (MBA) is the flagship who have completed degree requirements and are
postgraduate program of Vinod Gupta School of awaiting results can also apply. However, if selected,
Management (VGSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) the admission of such candidates to the program will
Kharagpur. It is a 2-year (spanning over four semesters) be provisional, only if (s)he submits a certificate latest
full-time residential program offered by Indian Institute by May 31, 2022 from the competent authorities
of Technology Kharagpur at VGSoM. More details of the of his/her university/college/institute (issued on or
program can be seen at: https://som.iitkgp.ac.in/MBA/ before May 31, 2022) stating that the candidate has
completed all the requirements for obtaining the
Minimum Academic bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification on the

Eligibility Criteria for date of the issue of the certificate.
Admission to MBA 3. Admission to reserved category candidates will be as
per Government of India rules.
Candidates seeking admission to the MBA Programme of 4. Applicants must be in good health. In case of any
the Institute should have Bachelor's degree in Engineering/ discrepancy found in the certificate of medical fitness
Technology or Master's degree in Science, Economics or to be submitted during registration, the opinion of the
Commerce (with Mathematics or Statistics at Bachelor's Institute Medical Officer will be final
level)* with the following criteria:
5. Candidates belonging to PwD category seeking
1. A candidate must have any of the following: admission to MBA are required to appear before a
1. A Bachelor’s degree of minimum 4-year duration medical board on or before October 31, 2022 at IIT
in engineering, technology, pharmacy, medicine, Kharagpur. The decision of the Medical Board is final
or similar disciplines; and becomes binding to the candidate
OR 6. Selection of applicants whose results in the qualifying
2. Master’s degree in Science/Economics/Commerce degree examination are yet to be declared will be
(with Mathematics or Statistics at Bachelor’s provisional, subject to the condition that all parts of
level); with: the examination must be completed in all respects
before the date of joining the Institute and the
 GE/NC-OBC: Minimum of 60% marks (or marksheet/certificate as evidence of passing the
CGPA of 6.5 on a 10-point scale)
qualifying examination are to be submitted latest by
 SC/ST/PwD: Minimum of 55% marks (or October 31, 2022
CGPA of 6.0 on a 10-point scale)
*Please Note:A 5-year integrated Bachelor’s and
 For both the above cases, if the CGPA is on a Master’s degree would be considered as equivalent to
different scale than 10.0, the eligibility of the a 4-year Bachelor’s degree for the Admission process
candidates will be calculated corresponding and the candidate would not get separate points in
to the equivalence stated above their Application Rating (AR) score for the above-
mentioned integrated Master’s degree
MBA Program Admission
Selection Process

The selection of candidates for admission to the 2022-
24 batch of MBA at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur is a two step
process. The applicants are shortlisted based on criteria to
be called for online Personal Interview (PI). Final admission
to the MBA program is offered on the basis of a cumulative
score of the application rating (AR), performance score in
CAT 2021, and the candidate’s performance in online PI
process.

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