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IIM A One Year MBA (PGPX): Comparative Statistics For All Classes Till Date

Planning 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. 

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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.
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  • 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
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  • 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.

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    • you have hit the nail on the head senthil

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