IIFT Selection Criteria 2025
IIFT Selection Criteria 2025: IIFT has declared its shortlisting criteria for the admissions to its MBA (IB) and MBA (BA) 2025-2027 programs. While the shortlisting criteria for GDPI involves candidate's CAT Score and Gender diversity, the final shortlist will also include other factors like GDPI Score, academics, work experience etc. Read below for detailed information on IIFT Selection Process 2025.
IIFT Eligibility Criteria 2025
To be eligible to get shortlisted at IIFT, a candidate will need to fulfil the below criteria as prescribed by the college:
- Candidates must have a bachelor's degree of at least 3 years in any discipline with 50% score. Candidates belonging to ST, SC, or PwD categories must have a minimum aggregate score of 45%.
- Final-year undergraduate students are eligible to apply for IIFT, provided they submit their final degree results at the time of admission.
- Candidate must have a valid CAT 2024 score.
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IIFT Shortlisting Process 2025
Shortlisting for admissions at IIFT will be done in 2 stages namely Stage 1 Shortlisting where candidates will be called shortlisted for GDPI rounds on the basis of their CAT score and gender diversity. Stage 2 is Group Discussion and Personal Interview round the scores of which will be taken into consideration during Final Selection.
Following is the weightage of all parameters that will be considered during IIFT Selection Criteria:
Stage 1: IIFT Shortlisting for GDPI
This will be done on the basis of Overall and Sectional Cutoff of CAT score and Gender Diversity.
| Parameter | IIFT Shortlisting Criteria Weightage |
| IIFT 2025 CAT Score Weightage | 98 (CAT 2024 Score of the candidate / Maximum Score of CAT 2024) X 98 |
| Gender diversity (Females = 2) | 2 |
| Total | 100 |
Stage 2: IIFT Group Discussion and Personal Interview
The shortlisted candidates from stage 1 will be called for Group Discussion and Personal Interview round. The score from this stage will be included in the final selection process.
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IIFT Selection Process 2025
The final selection criteria at IIFT will include the additional criteria of Academic diversity,
Gender diversity, Work experience. Following table represents the weightage of each criteria as per diff MBA programs at IIFT:
| Parameters | MBA(IB) Weightage | MBA(BA) Weightage |
| CAT 2024 Score | 48 | 48 |
| Group Discussion | 21 | 21 |
| Personal Interview | 22 | 22 |
| Academic Diversity (Engg = 0, Non Engg = 3) | 3 | 3 |
| Gender Diversity (M=0, F=3) | 3 | 3 |
| Work Experience | 3 | 3 |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
IIFT 2025 Academic Diversity
IIFT will award 3 extra points to candidates who have done their under graduation in Non Engineering streams. IIFT will consider the following programs as 'Engineering Courses'.
| Engineering Programs | |
| B. Chem. Tech.-Bachelor of Chemical Technology | B. Tech -Bachelor of Technology |
| B. Architecture-Bachelor of Architecture | B.C.E.-Bachelor of Civil Engineering |
| B.Ch.E.-Bachelor of Chemical Engineering | B.E.-Bachelor of Engineering |
IIFT 2025 Expected Cutoffs:
| Category | IIFT CAT cutoff percentile |
| General | 98+ percentile |
| EWS | 96+ percentile |
| NC-OBC | 90+ percentile |
| SC | 85+ percentile |
| ST | 75+ percentile |
IIFT 2025 Work Experience Evaluation
The work experience will weights around 3% of the final selection. The final score for Work experience will be calculated as:
Score (acc to year of experience) X Score given by faculty in interview panel on 10 point Likert scale / 10
IIFT provides the following rating score based on which the Work experience of a candidate will be calculated:
| Work Experience (in Months) | Rating Score |
| Less than 12 months | 0 |
| >= 12 and <= 24 months | 2 |
| > 24 and <= 36 months | 3 |
| >36 months and <= 48 months | 2 |
| > 48 months and <= 60 months | 1 |
| More than 60 months | 0 |
Also Read, TISS Cut Off 2025, Check Sectional and Category-wise Cut off
IIFT Selection Criteria 2025: Conclusion
In conclusion, the IIFT Selection Criteria for the MBA batch of 2025-2027 places large weightage on candidate's CAT score and their performance in GDPI rounds. This year IIFT is not taking academic grades into consideration, rather points will be given to candidates with work experience and who come with academic and gender diversity.
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