IITs, IISc to use CAT-2011 for MBA admissions
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have decided to use CAT 2011 as part of the selection process of their MBA and management programmes from the 2012-13 academic year.
The Joint Management Entrance Test previously used for admission by the IITs and the IISc stands discontinued, according to a press release here.
The decision was taken after a recent review revealed that the relatively young JMET is not too dissimilar to CAT, and that the effort to organise JMET each year seemed enormous in relation to the approximately 40,000 candidates who took the test each year.
“The intersection of candidates who take both CAT and JMET in a single year is large. The decision to use CAT for admission into the IITs and IISc will minimize the test preparation and financial burden on candidates,” the release stated.
IITs in Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi and Roorkee are among India’s earliest institutions to have offered postgraduate and research programmes in management. CAT 2011 will be held over a 20-day window from October 22 to November 18 across 36 cities.
