Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Cost and pay

The total fee for IIFT’s MBA (IB) is ₹21.82 lakh including hostel, and the median package for the 2025 season was ₹26 lakh — both as published by the institute.

Total fee

₹21.8L (incl. hostel)

Median package

₹26L

Average package

₹31.3L

Highest package

₹1.2Cr

Seats

720

Who can apply

Degree · every category

A recognised bachelor's degree of at least three years in any discipline

Graduation · every category

Minimum 50% (45% for SC, ST and PwD)

Also eligible · every category

CA, CS, CMA (ICWA) or FIAI with the same minimum marks

Final-year students · every category

May apply; proof of the degree is due by 31 October 2026, and admission is cancelled if the minimum is not met

A floor to be considered, not the percentile that got admitted.

Getting the call → Getting the offer

CAT decides 98% of the shortlist but only 48% of the final offer — once you are called, everything else together carries more than the exam does.

Getting the call

CAT

98%

Gender diversity

2%

Note: IIFT's shortlist score for the 2025–27 intake: the CAT 2024 score as a share of the highest CAT 2024 score, scaled to 98, plus 2 marks for women. Candidates also had to clear sectional cut-offs, which IIFT did not print. No 2026–28 table is on IIFT's site.

Getting the offer

CAT

48%

Personal interview

22%

Group discussion

21%

Gender diversity

3%

Academic diversity

3%

Work experience

3%

Note: Final score for the 2025–27 intake, the same for MBA (IB) and MBA (BA). Academic diversity gives its 3 marks to non-engineers and gender diversity to women; work experience is rated by months (highest for 25–36 months) times the interview panel's score out of 10.

What actually converted

For the 2025–27 batch, General candidates converted the MBA (IB) at 97 percentile, according to third-party figures.

Unit: CAT percentile · IIFT MBA (IB)

Note: BSchoolZone also gives minimum sectional percentiles for this batch: 55 for General, 50 for EWS and NC-OBC, and 30 for SC, ST, PwD and Kashmiri migrant candidates.

Who’s in the batch

About 1 in 3 students in the batch are women (33.2%) and the average student arrives with 1.8 years of work experience.

Women

33.2%

Average work experience

1.8 yrs

Residential

Yes

Cost and pay

The total fee for IIFT’s MBA (Business Analytics) is ₹17.88 lakh (tuition only), and the median package for the 2025 season was ₹20 lakh — both as published by the institute.

Total fee

₹17.9L (tuition only)

Median package

₹20L

Average package

₹25.3L

Seats

60

Who can apply

Degree · every category

A bachelor's degree with Mathematics or Statistics as a subject; or a B.Tech or B.E. in any discipline; or any bachelor's degree with Mathematics (not Applied Mathematics) at 10+2

Graduation · every category

Minimum 50% in aggregate, or CGPA 5.0 out of 10

Also eligible · every category

CA, CS, CMA (ICWA) or FIAI with minimum 50% (45% for SC, ST and PwD)

Final-year students · every category

May apply; proof of the degree is due by 31 October 2026

A floor to be considered, not the percentile that got admitted.

Getting the call → Getting the offer

CAT decides 98% of the shortlist but only 48% of the final offer — once you are called, everything else together carries more than the exam does.

Getting the call

CAT

98%

Gender diversity

2%

Note: IIFT's shortlist score for the 2025–27 intake: the CAT 2024 score as a share of the highest CAT 2024 score, scaled to 98, plus 2 marks for women. Candidates also had to clear sectional cut-offs, which IIFT did not print. No 2026–28 table is on IIFT's site.

Getting the offer

CAT

48%

Personal interview

22%

Group discussion

21%

Gender diversity

3%

Academic diversity

3%

Work experience

3%

Note: Final score for the 2025–27 intake, the same for MBA (IB) and MBA (BA). Academic diversity gives its 3 marks to non-engineers and gender diversity to women; work experience is rated by months (highest for 25–36 months) times the interview panel's score out of 10.