Indian Institute of Management (IIMU) Cutoff

IIM Udaipur’s published CAT percentile table is a minimum screening rule for its two-year MBA admission process, not a promise of a personal interview or an admission offer. The policy currently available on the official MBA admissions page is explicitly for the 2026-28 batch and uses CAT 2025 scores. The page tells applicants to check the institute site for the latest policy; the thresholds should not be carried forward to another batch without a new notice. (IIMU MBA admission policy)

CAT percentile minimums in the 2026-28 policy

The 2026-28 policy lists minimum section-wise and overall CAT percentiles for candidates to participate in the PI process: General 75 in each of VRC, DILR and QA, with 94 overall; EWS 55 in each section and 81 overall; NC-OBC 52 in each section and 81 overall; SC 45 in each section and 66 overall; ST and DAP 25 in VRC and DILR, 30 in QA, and 42 overall. These are percentiles, not raw marks. A candidate needs to meet the relevant category row across all three sections and the overall score. (IIMU MBA admission policy)

Registration is separate from the PI call

The first step is not an interview call. IIMU says candidates meeting the stated minimums receive an email inviting them to complete mandatory online registration after CAT results. Registration is a pre-interview requirement. Candidates who do not register within the given timeline are not considered further. Completing registration also does not itself mean that IIMU has invited the candidate to interview. Watch the email account used for CAT and check the institute’s current notice for the registration deadline. (IIMU MBA admission policy)

The PI shortlist is a later decision

After registration, the policy describes a second shortlist for the personal interview. It says IIMU considers CAT 2025 score and profile, with profile details including Class 10, Class 12, graduation, work experience and gender diversity information supplied in the CAT application. The institute then invites selected candidates to PI. So the percentile table is a floor for entering the process, not a published guarantee of how many candidates in each category will be called. The page says the Admission Committee sets the final number of candidates and may reduce or increase overall and sectional minimums if category-wise shortlist counts are below or above the desired level. A threshold may therefore change before that batch’s process is complete. (IIMU MBA admission policy) The policy gives a planned batch size of 375, but it does not publish a category-by-category PI-call count; applicants should not try to infer a personal call from the batch size. For this 2026-28 policy, invited candidates could indicate at least three PI-centre preferences among Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai and the IIMU campus. The institute retained discretion over the final centre allocation.

Final merit is calculated after PI

The same policy separates shortlisting from the final merit list. After PI, its stated composite uses normalised CAT score at 55%, PI at 25% and profile at 20%. IIMU defines the CAT component using the candidate’s CAT score divided by the maximum CAT score among applicants who applied to IIMU and attended PI; it explicitly says CAT score, not CAT percentile, is used for this calculation. The profile allocation is 6 points for academics, 6 for work experience and 8 for diversity. The page also says minimum PI scores may apply, with those minimums decided by IIMU at its discretion. Meeting the published CAT threshold therefore answers only an early eligibility question; it does not settle PI shortlisting or final selection. (IIMU MBA admission policy)

Category scope and reservations

The policy’s category table covers General, EWS, NC-OBC, SC, ST and DAP. It separately says reservation follows Government of India norms notified in the CAT 2025 advertisement and information bulletin; it lists 15% SC, 7.5% ST, 27% NC-OBC, 5% DAP and 10% EWS. Do not infer a separate threshold for a category the table does not list, or combine a reservation percentage with an individual CAT cutoff. The policy says non-notified reservations in CAT 2025 are not implementable. Applicants should use the category and documentation rules in the official CAT bulletin together with IIMU’s current policy. (IIMU MBA admission policy)

No later CAT year is established here

The available IIMU page labels its criteria for the 2026-28 batch and CAT 2025. It does not establish CAT 2026 thresholds or a 2027-29 MBA cutoff. Do not use the 2026-28 values as a forecast or as a current application target. Before applying, open the current MBA admissions policy, confirm its batch and CAT year, then follow any email registration instructions. If the page has changed, the newer official policy takes precedence over these archived values.

A practical reading sequence is: first match the right CAT year and category; then check every sectional percentile and the overall percentile; next distinguish the registration email from a PI invitation; finally read the PI and final-merit rules. Keep a copy of the current policy and your category documentation. If you are near a listed floor, treat it as an eligibility minimum only and wait for IIMU’s actual communication rather than assuming an interview call.