CAT Percentile Wise Colleges: B-Schools Based on CAT Score 2025

The CAT percentile wise colleges to get into the listed top IIMs or non-IIMs to pursue their management degree with a holistic educational experience. Where the admissions in IIMs requires 90 and above percentile, the other B-schools considers 50 and above for the admissions.

Add Getmyuni as a Trusted Source

The CAT percentile-wise college list gives the candidate an idea of the required percentile to enter a particular institution. The CAT score achieved by the candidates will be transformed into a percentile, and it acts as the deciding factor in their admission to the IIMs and other prestigious management and top business schools in India accepting CAT scores.

The Common Admission Test (CAT) is conducted annually and administered by the IIMs on a rotational basis. The CAT 2025 exam is one of the most revered and challenging entrance examinations for postgraduate studies in management. The CAT 2025 result has been declared on Dec 24, 2025.

CAT Percentile Wise College List for IIMs

IIMs are the premier management colleges in India that aspirants aim to get admission to. However, the percentile required to be eligible for admission to the IIMs is very high. The minimum percentile requirement differs for each IIM. The following CAT percentile-wise college tabulation gives the expected required percentile range for admission to IIMs through the CAT 2025 examination.

CAT 2025 Percentile Wise Colleges: IIMs
IIMs	Percentile Range
IIM Ahmedabad	99-100
IIM Bangalore	99-100
IIM Calcutta	99
IIM Lucknow	97-98
IIM Indore	97-98
IIM Kozhikode	97-98
IIM Amritsar	95-96
IIM Nagpur	95-96
IIM Sambalpur	95-96
IIM Trichy	94-95
IIM Raipur	94-95
IIM Ranchi	94-95
IIM Kashipur	94-95
IIM Vizag	92-94
IIM Udaipur	92-94
IIM Bodhgaya	92-94
IIM Shillong	90
IIM Sirmaur	90
IIM Rohtak	94-95
IIM Jammu	94-95

Also Read: How to Score 95 Percentile in CAT?

CAT Percentile Wise Non-IIMs Colleges

Most of the other prestigious premier management colleges other than IIMs also consider the CAT percentile for the admission of candidates. The CAT colleges list with percentile for Non-IIMs with the required percentile range to be eligible for admission to top management institutions other than IIMs.

CAT Percentile Wise Colleges: Non-IIMs
Non-IIMs	Percentile Range
IRMA Anand	80
FORE New Delhi	85
MDI Gurgaon	98
LIBA Chennai	70
IFMR Chennai	80
TAPMI Manipal	80
JBIMS Mumbai	96
IMI New Delhi	90
SPJIMR Mumbai	95-99
XIM Bhubaneshwar	91
FMS Delhi	98-99
SPJIMR Mumbai	85
JBIMS Mumbai	95
IMT Nagpur	50
NIIE Mumbai	97
XIME Bangalore	70
BIM Trichy	85
DoMS IIT Delhi	98.04
IILM Institute for Higher Education, Delhi	60
AIMS Institutes New Delhi	60
Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Mumbai, Maharashtra	97.5
XIME Bangalore	70
IIT Kharagpur	95
Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Bengaluru, Karnataka	85
GIM Goa	85
Amity Business School Mumbai	85
International Management Institute, Delhi	85
Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh	75
Fortune Institute of International Business, Delhi	50
National Institute of Technology, Trichy	90
IMNU, Ahmedabad	80.04
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi	87
TAPMI, Karnataka	80
Goa Institute of Management, Satari, Goa	90
Manipal Management Development Institute, Manipal, Karnataka	97
K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai	90
MICA, Ahmedabad	80
IMT, Ghaziabad	95-97

Also Read: Major Advantages of taking CAT Entrance Examination

How to Calculate the CAT Percentile?

The CAT percentile is the relative score in which a candidate’s percentile is calculated based on the score of all the candidates who have appeared for the exam. The formula to calculate the CAT percentile is as follows.

P = (R/N) * 100

Here,

P is the percentile score.

R is the number of candidates with raw scores equal to or less than the score of the candidate and

N denotes the total number of candidates present for the exam.

NOTE: To allot ranks, the percentile scores are rounded to two decimal points.

Also Read: Top 10 Colleges Accepting Low CAT Scores in India