Admission Process

Sambalpur’s admission process is to identify meritorious candidates for admission under each category viz., General, EWS, OBC (Non-Creamy Layer), SC, ST, and PWD/DAP. While merit is the prime consideration, the Institute recognizes a possibility of skewed student structure in favour of male gender and engineering and related subjects at Graduation in the normal course. Hence, it strives to ensure a better gender balance. It is also part of IIM Sambalpur’s approach to duly recognize academic consistency and industrial experience.

The admission process of IIM-Sambalpur consists of:
(a) CAT Examination
(b) Short listing candidates for Personal Appearance (PA) process.
(c) Conducting the PA process composed of Personal Interview (PI)
(d) Preparing the Final Selection List (FSL) based on CAT score, PA score and profile score including Work Experience (WE) score as assessed during the PA process, score for Past Academic Performance (PAP) and any other criterion included.

Eligibility Criteria

The criteria for preparing the merit list will be as follows
• CAT Score*: 30 %
• Personal Appearance (PI): 25%
• Profile: 45%

*CAT Score of the candidate divided by Maximum CAT Score among candidates who have applied to IIM Sambalpur and attended PA process. It is clarified that the CAT scaled score would be used and not the CAT Percentile.
a. CAT Score: IIM Sambalpur will use CAT 2022 score
b. Personal Appearance (PI): 25 Percent
c. Candidates who do not obtain certain minimum scores in the PA process would not be considered for the merit list. The minimum scores would be decided by IIM Sambalpur at its discretion.
d. Profile: The following will be the breakup of the 45% component for Profile.
• Academic Profile: 15 %
• Work experience: 15 %
• Diversity: 15 %