Top MBA Colleges in India by NIRF 2025 Ranking — and the CAT Percentile Each One Needs

Last updated: 4 September 2026 · CAT 2025 scores → MBA/PGDM 2026-28 batch · Reviewed by the bestmbacollegeswithlowcatscore.com editorial team

Quick answer

The NIRF 2025 Management ranking runs to 100 institutes. 84 of them accept CAT in the 40–92 percentile range for 2026-28, and 59 of those admit at 80 percentile or below. The lowest CAT floor of any NIRF top-100 management institute is 40 percentile (DoMS Anna University, rank 88).

A ranking on its own does not tell you whether you can get in. This page pairs the NIRF 2025 Management ranking with the CAT percentile each institute actually admits at, its total fee and its reported average placement — so you can see immediately which ranked colleges are within reach of your score rather than which ones are simply good.

NIRF-ranked MBA colleges you can get with a low CAT score

These 59 institutes sit in the NIRF 2025 top 100 and admit at 80 percentile or below. For anyone below the IIM cutoff this is the single most useful table on the site: brand and ranking without the percentile.

NIRF 2025CollegeCityStateCAT bandTotal feeAvg CTC
26Amrita CoimbatoreAmrita School of Business CoimbatoreCoimbatoreTamil Nadu50–65 %ile₹12.9 L8.4 LPA
28Jamia Millia IslamiaCentre for Management Studies Jamia Millia IslamiaNew DelhiDelhi65–80 %ile₹0.5 Ln/a
32Chandigarh UniversityUniversity Institute of Management Chandigarh UniversityMohaliPunjab50–65 %ile₹5.7 L5.5 LPA
33MICAMICAAhmedabadGujarat80–90 %ile₹28 L19.2 LPA
36UPES DehradunUPES School of BusinessDehradunUttarakhand60–75 %ile₹20.3 L8.3 LPA
37GLIM ChennaiGreat Lakes Institute of Management ChennaiChennaiTamil Nadu80–90 %ile₹22.5 L15 LPA
40IMI DelhiInternational Management Institute DelhiNew DelhiDelhi80–90 %ile₹23.5 L17.9 LPA
41Jaipuria NoidaJaipuria Institute of Management NoidaNoidaUttar Pradesh60–75 %ile₹15.8 L11.3 LPA
42IMI KolkataInternational Management Institute KolkataKolkataWest Bengal75–85 %ile₹15 L13.1 LPA
44LPULovely Professional UniversityPhagwaraPunjab60–75 %ile₹5.8 L6 LPA
46IBS HyderabadICFAI Business School HyderabadHyderabadTelangana70–85 %ile₹17 L9.8 LPA
46LM ThaparL. M. Thapar School of ManagementDera BassiPunjab50–65 %ile₹6 L8.2 LPA
48IIT ISM DhanbadIndian Institute of Technology (ISM) DhanbadDhanbadJharkhand80–90 %ile₹4.6 L10.5 LPA
49Amity NoidaAmity Business School NoidaNoidaUttar Pradesh80–88 %ile₹15.5 L7.4 LPA
50GLIM GurgaonGreat Lakes Institute of Management GurgaonGurugramHaryana75–85 %ile₹13.4 L11.8 LPA
52Graphic EraGraphic Era Deemed University School of ManagementDehradunUttarakhand60–75 %ile₹9.9 L6.6 LPA
53IMNUInstitute of Management Nirma UniversityAhmedabadGujarat70–80 %ile₹13.3 L11.1 LPA
55LIBALoyola Institute of Business AdministrationChennaiTamil Nadu80–88 %ile₹19.1 L11.2 LPA
56SRM ChennaiSRM Institute of Science and TechnologyChennaiTamil Nadu55–70 %ile₹8 L6.5 LPA
57DoMS NIT TrichyDepartment of Management Studies NIT TiruchirappalliTiruchirappalliTamil Nadu80–90 %ile₹2.9 L8.7 LPA
57Christ BangaloreChrist University Institute of ManagementBangaloreKarnataka60–70 %ile₹11.4 L7.9 LPA
61BIMTECHBirla Institute of Management TechnologyGreater NoidaUttar Pradesh75–85 %ile₹14 L10.1 LPA
62MNIT JaipurDepartment of Management Studies MNIT JaipurJaipurRajasthan75–85 %ile₹3.3 L8.3 LPA
63Saveetha ChennaiSaveetha Institute of Medical and Technical SciencesChennaiTamil Nadu50–65 %ile₹6 L5.5 LPA
66SOA BhubaneswarSiksha O Anusandhan IBCSBhubaneswarOdisha50–70 %ile₹5.5 Ln/a
67Jaipuria LucknowJaipuria Institute of Management LucknowLucknowUttar Pradesh55–70 %ile₹14.8 L8.8 LPA
68KSOM BhubaneswarKIIT School of ManagementBhubaneswarOdisha70–80 %ile₹18 L9.5 LPA
69AMU AligarhAligarh Muslim University Department of Business AdministrationAligarhUttar Pradesh60–75 %ile₹1 L6 LPA
70KLU VijayawadaKL Business School KL UniversityVijayawadaAndhra Pradesh50–60 %ile₹11 L8 LPA
71AllianceAlliance School of Business Alliance UniversityBangaloreKarnataka60–70 %ile₹15 L8.5 LPA
73CMS JainCMS Business School JAIN UniversityBangaloreKarnataka50–60 %ile₹13.8 L8.7 LPA
74Jaipuria JaipurJaipuria Institute of Management JaipurJaipurRajasthan55–70 %ile₹13.8 L8.9 LPA
75WeSchool MumbaiPrin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and ResearchMumbaiMaharashtra70–80 %ile₹14 L11.7 LPA
76USMS GGSIPUUniversity School of Management Studies GGSIPUNew DelhiDelhi60–75 %ile₹4.8 L5.6 LPA
76GGSIPUGuru Gobind Singh Indraprastha UniversityNew DelhiDelhi60–75 %ile₹4.8 L5.6 LPA
77BML MunjalBML Munjal University School of ManagementGurugramHaryana60–75 %ile₹15.1 L9 LPA
78ChitkaraChitkara Business SchoolRajpuraPunjab50–65 %ile₹8.5 L6.5 LPA
79BBAU LucknowBabasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar UniversityLucknowUttar Pradesh50–65 %ile₹1 L5 LPA
80TSM MaduraiThiagarajar School of ManagementMaduraiTamil Nadu50–60 %ile₹14.5 L6.4 LPA
81Manipal JaipurManipal University JaipurJaipurRajasthan50–65 %ile₹11.1 L7.3 LPA
82SMS CUSATSchool of Management Studies CUSATKochiKerala70–85 %ile₹2.2 L8.6 LPA
82CUSATCochin University of Science and TechnologyKochiKerala70–85 %ile₹2.2 L8.6 LPA
83MMMUT GorakhpurMadan Mohan Malaviya University of TechnologyGorakhpurUttar Pradesh50–65 %ile₹1.5 L5.5 LPA
84PSGIMPSG Institute of ManagementCoimbatoreTamil Nadu70–80 %ile₹11.5 L7.7 LPA
85NIT CalicutSchool of Management Studies NIT CalicutKozhikodeKerala75–85 %ile₹4.3 L11.5 LPA
86NDIMNew Delhi Institute of ManagementNew DelhiDelhi60–80 %ile₹13.8 L10 LPA
87Jamia HamdardJamia Hamdard School of ManagementNew DelhiDelhi60–75 %ile₹6.4 L6.1 LPA
88DoMS Anna UniversityDepartment of Management Studies Anna UniversityChennaiTamil Nadu40–55 %ile₹1.4 L6 LPA
89PDEUSchool of Management Pandit Deendayal Energy UniversityGandhinagarGujarat45–55 %ile₹9.5 L9.2 LPA
90JIMS RohiniJagan Institute of Management Studies RohiniNew DelhiDelhi75–85 %ile₹10.8 L10 LPA
91Rajagiri KochiRajagiri Business SchoolKochiKerala50–65 %ile₹7.9 L7.5 LPA
92UBS ChandigarhUniversity Business School Panjab UniversityChandigarhChandigarh80–90 %ile₹2.8 L12.4 LPA
93ABV-IIITM GwaliorABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management GwaliorGwaliorMadhya Pradesh80–90 %ile₹5.3 Ln/a
94IMI BhubaneswarInternational Management Institute BhubaneswarBhubaneswarOdisha70–80 %ile₹15 L12.7 LPA
95MANAGE HyderabadNational Institute of Agricultural Extension ManagementHyderabadTelangana75–90 %ile₹9.8 L12.4 LPA
97BIT MesraBirla Institute of Technology MesraRanchiJharkhand40–60 %ile₹7.8 L8 LPA
98IIT JodhpurSchool of Management and Entrepreneurship IIT JodhpurJodhpurRajasthan80–90 %ile₹8 L13 LPA
99IMT NagpurInstitute of Management Technology NagpurNagpurMaharashtra75–85 %ile₹13.5 L11 LPA
100University of LucknowUniversity of LucknowLucknowUttar Pradesh50–65 %ile₹1.2 L5 LPA

NIRF 2025 Management rank against the percentile band the institute actually admits in.

Full NIRF 2025 top-100 coverage on this site

Every NIRF top-100 management institute that takes CAT in a reachable band is listed below with its cutoff, fee and placement. Institutes above 92 percentile (the older IIMs, FMS, MDI Gurgaon, XLRI, IIFT, SPJIMR) are outside this site’s scope and are not repeated here.

NIRF 2025CollegeCityStateCAT bandTotal feeAvg CTC
12VGSoM IIT KharagpurVinod Gupta School of Management IIT KharagpurKharagpurWest Bengal90–94 %ile₹13 L22.8 LPA
15IIM RaipurIndian Institute of Management RaipurRaipurChhattisgarh94–96 %ile₹21.4 L18.8 LPA
16IIM TiruchirappalliIndian Institute of Management TiruchirappalliTiruchirappalliTamil Nadu94–97 %ile₹20.5 L18 LPA
18IIM RanchiIndian Institute of Management RanchiRanchiJharkhand94–97 %ile₹19.2 L19.3 LPA
19IIM RohtakIndian Institute of Management RohtakRohtakHaryana94–97 %ile₹19 L17.5 LPA
21IIM UdaipurIndian Institute of Management UdaipurUdaipurRajasthan92–96 %ile₹22.5 L17.6 LPA
23IIM KashipurIndian Institute of Management KashipurKashipurUttarakhand92–96 %ile₹17.5 L16 LPA
25IIM NagpurIndian Institute of Management NagpurNagpurMaharashtra92–96 %ile₹18.5 L17 LPA
26Amrita CoimbatoreAmrita School of Business CoimbatoreCoimbatoreTamil Nadu50–65 %ile₹12.9 L8.4 LPA
28Jamia Millia IslamiaCentre for Management Studies Jamia Millia IslamiaNew DelhiDelhi65–80 %ile₹0.5 Ln/a
29IIM VisakhapatnamIndian Institute of Management VisakhapatnamVisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh82–92 %ile₹23.6 L15.7 LPA
30IMT GhaziabadInstitute of Management Technology GhaziabadGhaziabadUttar Pradesh88–94 %ile₹23 L16.3 LPA
31IIM Bodh GayaIndian Institute of Management Bodh GayaBodh GayaBihar91–94 %ile₹9.6 L13.1 LPA
32Chandigarh UniversityUniversity Institute of Management Chandigarh UniversityMohaliPunjab50–65 %ile₹5.7 L5.5 LPA
33MICAMICAAhmedabadGujarat80–90 %ile₹28 L19.2 LPA
34IIM SambalpurIndian Institute of Management SambalpurSambalpurOdisha90–94 %ile₹21 L15.7 LPA
35IIM JammuIndian Institute of Management JammuJammuJammu and Kashmir89–92 %ile₹23.3 L15.5 LPA
36UPES DehradunUPES School of BusinessDehradunUttarakhand60–75 %ile₹20.3 L8.3 LPA
37GLIM ChennaiGreat Lakes Institute of Management ChennaiChennaiTamil Nadu80–90 %ile₹22.5 L15 LPA
38IIM ShillongIndian Institute of Management ShillongShillongMeghalaya92–96 %ile₹24 L17 LPA
39TAPMIT A Pai Management InstituteManipalKarnataka85–92 %ile₹20.1 L13.1 LPA
40IMI DelhiInternational Management Institute DelhiNew DelhiDelhi80–90 %ile₹23.5 L17.9 LPA
41Jaipuria NoidaJaipuria Institute of Management NoidaNoidaUttar Pradesh60–75 %ile₹15.8 L11.3 LPA
42IMI KolkataInternational Management Institute KolkataKolkataWest Bengal75–85 %ile₹15 L13.1 LPA
43GIM GoaGoa Institute of ManagementSanquelimGoa85–92 %ile₹21.5 L15.1 LPA
44LPULovely Professional UniversityPhagwaraPunjab60–75 %ile₹5.8 L6 LPA
45XIMBXIM UniversityBhubaneswarOdisha90–93 %ile₹26 L18.3 LPA
46IBS HyderabadICFAI Business School HyderabadHyderabadTelangana70–85 %ile₹17 L9.8 LPA
46LM ThaparL. M. Thapar School of ManagementDera BassiPunjab50–65 %ile₹6 L8.2 LPA
48IIT ISM DhanbadIndian Institute of Technology (ISM) DhanbadDhanbadJharkhand80–90 %ile₹4.6 L10.5 LPA
49Amity NoidaAmity Business School NoidaNoidaUttar Pradesh80–88 %ile₹15.5 L7.4 LPA
50GLIM GurgaonGreat Lakes Institute of Management GurgaonGurugramHaryana75–85 %ile₹13.4 L11.8 LPA
51IIM SirmaurIndian Institute of Management SirmaurSirmaurHimachal Pradesh88–92 %ile₹17 L16.5 LPA
52Graphic EraGraphic Era Deemed University School of ManagementDehradunUttarakhand60–75 %ile₹9.9 L6.6 LPA
53IMNUInstitute of Management Nirma UniversityAhmedabadGujarat70–80 %ile₹13.3 L11.1 LPA
54IRMAInstitute of Rural Management AnandAnandGujarat85–92 %ile₹16.4 L15.5 LPA
55LIBALoyola Institute of Business AdministrationChennaiTamil Nadu80–88 %ile₹19.1 L11.2 LPA
56SRM ChennaiSRM Institute of Science and TechnologyChennaiTamil Nadu55–70 %ile₹8 L6.5 LPA
57DoMS NIT TrichyDepartment of Management Studies NIT TiruchirappalliTiruchirappalliTamil Nadu80–90 %ile₹2.9 L8.7 LPA
57Christ BangaloreChrist University Institute of ManagementBangaloreKarnataka60–70 %ile₹11.4 L7.9 LPA
59FORE DelhiFORE School of ManagementNew DelhiDelhi85–92 %ile₹23.2 L16.4 LPA
60IM BHUInstitute of Management Studies Banaras Hindu UniversityVaranasiUttar Pradesh85–92 %ile₹2.1 L10.1 LPA
61BIMTECHBirla Institute of Management TechnologyGreater NoidaUttar Pradesh75–85 %ile₹14 L10.1 LPA
62MNIT JaipurDepartment of Management Studies MNIT JaipurJaipurRajasthan75–85 %ile₹3.3 L8.3 LPA
63Saveetha ChennaiSaveetha Institute of Medical and Technical SciencesChennaiTamil Nadu50–65 %ile₹6 L5.5 LPA
64IIM AmritsarIndian Institute of Management AmritsarAmritsarPunjab90–95 %ile₹17.5 L14 LPA
65KJSIMK J Somaiya Institute of ManagementMumbaiMaharashtra84–92 %ile₹23.9 L13.1 LPA
66SOA BhubaneswarSiksha O Anusandhan IBCSBhubaneswarOdisha50–70 %ile₹5.5 Ln/a
67Jaipuria LucknowJaipuria Institute of Management LucknowLucknowUttar Pradesh55–70 %ile₹14.8 L8.8 LPA
68KSOM BhubaneswarKIIT School of ManagementBhubaneswarOdisha70–80 %ile₹18 L9.5 LPA
69AMU AligarhAligarh Muslim University Department of Business AdministrationAligarhUttar Pradesh60–75 %ile₹1 L6 LPA
70KLU VijayawadaKL Business School KL UniversityVijayawadaAndhra Pradesh50–60 %ile₹11 L8 LPA
71AllianceAlliance School of Business Alliance UniversityBangaloreKarnataka60–70 %ile₹15 L8.5 LPA
72IMT HyderabadInstitute of Management Technology HyderabadHyderabadTelangana85–92 %ile₹16 L12.4 LPA
73CMS JainCMS Business School JAIN UniversityBangaloreKarnataka50–60 %ile₹13.8 L8.7 LPA
74Jaipuria JaipurJaipuria Institute of Management JaipurJaipurRajasthan55–70 %ile₹13.8 L8.9 LPA
75WeSchool MumbaiPrin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and ResearchMumbaiMaharashtra70–80 %ile₹14 L11.7 LPA
76USMS GGSIPUUniversity School of Management Studies GGSIPUNew DelhiDelhi60–75 %ile₹4.8 L5.6 LPA
76GGSIPUGuru Gobind Singh Indraprastha UniversityNew DelhiDelhi60–75 %ile₹4.8 L5.6 LPA
77BML MunjalBML Munjal University School of ManagementGurugramHaryana60–75 %ile₹15.1 L9 LPA
78ChitkaraChitkara Business SchoolRajpuraPunjab50–65 %ile₹8.5 L6.5 LPA
79BBAU LucknowBabasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar UniversityLucknowUttar Pradesh50–65 %ile₹1 L5 LPA
80TSM MaduraiThiagarajar School of ManagementMaduraiTamil Nadu50–60 %ile₹14.5 L6.4 LPA
81Manipal JaipurManipal University JaipurJaipurRajasthan50–65 %ile₹11.1 L7.3 LPA
82SMS CUSATSchool of Management Studies CUSATKochiKerala70–85 %ile₹2.2 L8.6 LPA
82CUSATCochin University of Science and TechnologyKochiKerala70–85 %ile₹2.2 L8.6 LPA
83MMMUT GorakhpurMadan Mohan Malaviya University of TechnologyGorakhpurUttar Pradesh50–65 %ile₹1.5 L5.5 LPA
84PSGIMPSG Institute of ManagementCoimbatoreTamil Nadu70–80 %ile₹11.5 L7.7 LPA
85NIT CalicutSchool of Management Studies NIT CalicutKozhikodeKerala75–85 %ile₹4.3 L11.5 LPA
86NDIMNew Delhi Institute of ManagementNew DelhiDelhi60–80 %ile₹13.8 L10 LPA
87Jamia HamdardJamia Hamdard School of ManagementNew DelhiDelhi60–75 %ile₹6.4 L6.1 LPA
88DoMS Anna UniversityDepartment of Management Studies Anna UniversityChennaiTamil Nadu40–55 %ile₹1.4 L6 LPA
89PDEUSchool of Management Pandit Deendayal Energy UniversityGandhinagarGujarat45–55 %ile₹9.5 L9.2 LPA
90JIMS RohiniJagan Institute of Management Studies RohiniNew DelhiDelhi75–85 %ile₹10.8 L10 LPA
91Rajagiri KochiRajagiri Business SchoolKochiKerala50–65 %ile₹7.9 L7.5 LPA
92UBS ChandigarhUniversity Business School Panjab UniversityChandigarhChandigarh80–90 %ile₹2.8 L12.4 LPA
93ABV-IIITM GwaliorABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management GwaliorGwaliorMadhya Pradesh80–90 %ile₹5.3 Ln/a
94IMI BhubaneswarInternational Management Institute BhubaneswarBhubaneswarOdisha70–80 %ile₹15 L12.7 LPA
95MANAGE HyderabadNational Institute of Agricultural Extension ManagementHyderabadTelangana75–90 %ile₹9.8 L12.4 LPA
96BIM TrichyBharathidasan Institute of ManagementTiruchirappalliTamil Nadu85–92 %ile₹17.6 L10 LPA
97BIT MesraBirla Institute of Technology MesraRanchiJharkhand40–60 %ile₹7.8 L8 LPA
98IIT JodhpurSchool of Management and Entrepreneurship IIT JodhpurJodhpurRajasthan80–90 %ile₹8 L13 LPA
99IMT NagpurInstitute of Management Technology NagpurNagpurMaharashtra75–85 %ile₹13.5 L11 LPA
100University of LucknowUniversity of LucknowLucknowUttar Pradesh50–65 %ile₹1.2 L5 LPA

What the NIRF rank does and does not tell you

  • It is not a placement ranking. NIRF weights teaching resources, research, graduation outcomes, outreach and perception. Two institutes twenty ranks apart can have identical placement averages.
  • Universities are ranked as universities. Where a large university appears in the management list, the rank reflects the whole management faculty, not the specific MBA programme you would join.
  • Participation is voluntary. Several strong PGDM institutes — including some with AACSB or AMBA accreditation — do not submit data at all, so an unranked college is not automatically a weaker one.
  • The 101–125 band is not published as individual ranks. Institutes shown as 101–125 on this site sit in that band rather than at a specific number.

Frequently asked questions

Which NIRF-ranked college can I get with a 50 percentile CAT?

Birla Institute of Technology Mesra sets the lowest published CAT eligibility floor of any NIRF top-100 institute that admits on CAT — 40 percentile, at rank 97. At 50 percentile you also clear Amrita Coimbatore (rank 26, the highest-ranked institute in India with a floor that low), L. M. Thapar (46), CMS Jain Bangalore (73), Thiagarajar Madurai (80) and Rajagiri Kochi (91). Some state-university entries here, such as Anna University’s DoMS, admit chiefly through their state test rather than CAT — each state page says which.

Is a NIRF-ranked college always better than an unranked one?

No. NIRF participation is voluntary and several AACSB- or AMBA-accredited PGDM institutes do not submit data. Compare the audited placement report and accreditation alongside the rank, and treat an unranked college with strong accreditation as a serious option.

How many NIRF top-100 MBA colleges accept a CAT percentile below 70?

33 of the NIRF 2025 top-100 management institutes covered here admit below 70 percentile, spread across 13 states.

NIRF 2026 is not out yet. This page uses the NIRF 2025 ranking. Follow the NIRF MBA ranking 2026 status for the release date and what changes.

For a 2026 view from a different ranking body, see the IIRF MBA ranking 2026, which we have matched against the same percentile bands.

Before you pay anything: check that the college is AICTE-approved and know the refund rules.

Sources & methodology

Cutoffs are the published shortlisting percentile where the institute publishes one, and otherwise the band in which it actually admits, taken from institute disclosures and the portals below. Fees are total two-year programme fees excluding hostel unless stated; placement figures are the latest institute-reported averages. Cross-checked against NIRF 2025 on 4 September 2026. Always confirm against the institute’s current admission brochure before paying any fee.

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