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IIM A One Year MBA PGPX: Comparative Statistics For All Batches Till Date class profile gmat work experience comparison all years change past acceptance ratio pgp iim selectivity
IIM A One Year MBA (PGPX): Comparative Statistics For All Classes Till Date
2Planning to apply to IIM A’s One Year MBA (PGPX)? Then this page should be your Bible/ Gita/ Quran. The elves at OneYearMBA.co.in dug deep this Christmas and pulled out an all Class comparison for the last 9 Classes of the PGPX.
Below you will find a comparison between all past Classes of the PGPX on critical parameters such as applications received, applicants called for interviews, average GMAT, work experience and more.
Key Highlights
- Economic uncertainty over the past years seems to have impacted the number of applications – they are down to 690 as compared to a high of 1352 applications in 2008-09.
- The acceptance ratio in 2014-15 was 12.3%, in the ballpark for an MBA programme at top global B-Schools – for a comparison, Harvard averages a 10-11% acceptance ratio over the years.
- The acceptance ratio in 2014-15 was lower as compared to that for 2009-10, the year that recorded a peak in applications. The ratio for 2009-10 was 6.04% perhaps making IIM A’s One Year MBA the toughest MBA programme in the world to gain entry to. But doesn’t the PGP programme at IIM A hold that record with over 2 lakh applicants every year? Not the way we see it. Read this article in Business Standard authored by Shikhar Mohan, Founder, OneYearMBA.co.in for more on why comparisons between PGP and PGPX acceptance rates can be misleading and why PGPX’s acceptance rates have a higher correlation with that of MBA programmes (one-year and two-year ) at B-Schools in Europe and USA.
- The average GMAT score that seemed to be on the up and up till 2009-10 (728 in 2008-09 and 721 in 2009-10) and has taken a breather and a come down to a more applicant friendly 705-711 range over the last few years. This is not necessarily a bad thing. As used to we are in India in equating high scores with high ability, the GMAT is just one indicator of a candidate’s capability in the admissions to MBA programmes globally – thankfully the same is true for PGPX.
- A possible reason for the drop in GMAT could be the rising age of the average PGPX applicant – the average applicant age has risen from 33 in 2008-09, the year in which the average GMAT score stood at 728, as compared to 34 in 2014-15.
| PGPX: All Batch Comparative Stats | |||||||||
| Parameter | PGPX-I (2006-07) | PGPX-II (2007-08) | PGPX-III (2008-09) | PGPX-IV (2009-10) | PGPX-V (2010-11) | PGPX-VI (2011-12) | PGPX-VII (2012-13) | PGPX-VIII (2013-14) | PGPX-IX (2014-15) |
| Total Applications received | 773 (F 34) | 849 (F 40) | 1352 (F 122) | 1323 (F 86) | 982 (F 73) | 908 (F 63) | 942 (F 93) | 661 (F 93) | 690 (F 67) |
| Called for Interviews | 232 | 328 | 325 | 366 | 246 | 244 | 251 | 247 | 230 |
| Attended Interviews | 208 | 313 | 299 | 330 | 228 | 220 | 243 | 238 | 216 |
| Batch Size | 60 | 72 | 78 | 80 | 86 | 101 | 85 | 85 | 85 |
| Female | 5 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 13 |
| International Students | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
| Residing Abroad (5 to 8 countries) | 25 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 36 | 40 | 31 | 24 | 21 |
| Higher Degree Holders (Master’s, Professional) | 30 | 35 | 43 | 35 | 42 | 45 | 37 | 37 | 34 |
| Engineers | 49 | 51 | 58 | 56 | 55 | 82 | 65 | 68 | 71 |
| IIT / NIT graduates | 17 | 23 | 13 | 17 | 25 | 28 | 20 | 20 | 18 |
| GMAT | 699 | 695 | 728 | 721 | 712 | 714 | 717 | 711 | 705 |
| Age | 32 | 33 yrs | 33 yrs | 33 yrs | 33 yrs | 34 yrs | 34 yrs | 34 yrs | 34 yrs |
| International Work Exp | 3 yrs 4 m | 3 yrs | 4 yrs 6 m | 4 yrs 9 m | 4 yrs 4 m | 4 yrs 7 m | 3 yrs 2 m | 3 yrs 3 m | 3 yrs 0 m |
| Total Work Experience | 9 yrs | 9 yrs | 10 yrs | 10 yrs | 10 yrs | 10 yrs | 10 yrs 5 m | 10 yrs 2 m | 9 yrs 8 m |
| Sector Profile(%) | |||||||||
| BPO | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Energy/Power | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Financial Service | 5 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 9 |
| FMCG | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Govt. Engg. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Govt. Services | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Healthcare | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| IT and IT Services | 30 | 35 | 45 | 35 | 43 | 51 | 34 | 29 | 28 |
| Management Consultancy | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 |
| Manufacturing Engg. | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 13 |
| Media | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Projects/Design/ Construction | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Retail | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Shipping | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Telecom | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Airline/Travel | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Hospitality Services | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Manufacturing Process | 7 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Infrastructure | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Defence | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Education | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| NGOs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Industrial/Process Automation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 60 | 72 | 78 | 80 | 86 | 101 | 85 | 85 | 85 |
2 Comments
Regarding Acceptance ratios for 2 year programs, given that you can apply for free (or a nominal amount), the ratio can be reworked to:
Number of acceptances / Number of people who wrote the qualifying exam
Using this metric, you would have an acceptance ratio in Harvard (arguably the most sought after business program) of:
Number of admits / Number of people who wrote the GMAT
That is approximately 900 / 238,000 = 3.8%
http://www.hbs.edu/recruiting/mba/data-and-statistics/class-profile.html
3.8% is still an order of magnitude higher than the acceptance rate for the top 2 year programs in India. It would be interesting to see how many people would apply for CAT if they knew that they would need a minimum of 2 years of experience to be accepted. Cultural nuances and difference in acceptance criteria are difficult to adjust for.
you have hit the nail on the head senthil