IIM Lucknow 2022: Ranking, Admission, Eligibility Criteria, Cut Off, Courses, Fees, Placement & Packages, Scholarships, Facilities

IIM Lucknow 2022: Ranking, Admission, Eligibility Criteria, Cut Off, Courses, Fees, Placement & Packages, Scholarships, Facilities

ByAditi Joshi  |  Updated on: Feb 4, 2022
IIM Lucknow 2022 :Check the details below for the Highlights, Admission, Eligibility Criteria, Cutoff, Courses, Fees, Scholarships, Facilities offered at IIM Lucknow

About IIM Lucknow

IIM Lucknow offers a myriad of academic activities to create, apply, and disseminate management skills, practice, and pedagogy. It drives its students to become global players, leaders, and managers. More than 1000 students study at IIM Lucknow. The college has been ranked 7th among the management colleges by NIRF 2021. Its flagship program is its two-year, full-time, residential MBA/PGP, which eventually grants a Master of Business Administration degree to the students after course completion

IIM Lucknow History:

IIM Lucknow was established in 1984 and was the fourth member to be added to the list of IIMs, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). It is a Public Business School, recognized as an "Institution of Excellence" by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India, and is located in Uttar Pradesh. Currently, it serves as a mentor institute for IIM Jammu, IIM Rohtak, IIM Kashipur, and previously mentored IIM Sirmaur till it settled on its own. It offers various post-graduate and doctoral level programs in the field of management.

Important Details of IIM Lucknow:

Parameters

Stats

IIM Lucknow fees

Rs.19.25 Lakhs for 2 years full-time PGP program

IIM Lucknow admission

Based on CAT

IIM Lucknow placement

Placement Drive 2019-2021 :

The highest domestic salary stood at Rs.51 LPA

Highest International Salary stood at Rs.56 LPA

The average salary has gone up to Rs. 26 LPA from Rs.24.25 LPA last year

Median salary has gone up to Rs. 23.5 LPA from Rs.23 LPA last year

IIM Lucknow Key Highlights 2022

  1. IIM Lucknow has been accredited by AACSB and AMBA.
  2. It was the first IIM to initiate a satellite campus at NOIDA in Delhi NCR in 2005.
  3. Ranked 7th, among top 100 Management Institutes in India, in the Ministry of HRD by NIRF Ranking 2021.
  4. International Exchange offering studies in 35+ international business schools.
  5. Located at a 200-acre site in Lucknow and a 20-acre satellite campus located in Noida exclusively for executive education.
  6. IIM Lucknow has nurtured start-ups working on financial inclusion aided by technology (FinTech) after collaborating with SIDBI Center for Innovations in Financial Inclusion (SCIFI).

IIM Lucknow Highlights :

Below mentioned are the major highlights of IIM Lucknow:

Particulars

Statistics

Establishment year

1984

Ownership

Public/ Autonomous

Ranking

7th Rank (NIRF 2021)

Location

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Faculty members

70+

Membership and accreditations

AACSB, AMBA

Type of courses offered

Post Graduate Programme

PGP for Executives

Fellow Programme

Exams accepted

  

  • PGP, PGP-ABM, PGP-SM: CAT
  • PGPWE: PGPWE Entrance Exam, CAT, GATE, GMAT, GRE, XAT
  • IPMX: GMAT, GRE
  • FPM: CAT, GATE, GMAT, GRE or JRF, SRF (UGC NET, or, CSIR NET, or ICAR)
  •  E-FPM: CAT, GRE, GATE, GMAT, XAT, JRF (qualified), or PGPWE Entrance Exam

Scholarships

Need-based, Fellowship Grants

Top recruiters

Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Adobe, Alvarez & Marsal, Amazon, Arthur D Little, Avendus Capital, Axis Bank, Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Coca Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Kimberly Clark, MasterCard Advisors, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, PepsiCo, among others 

Highest salary (2021)

Rs 51 LPA (Domestic)

Rs 56 LPA (International)

Average salary (2021)

Rs 26 LPA

Mode of education

Full-time, Part-time

Mode of education

Full-time, Part-time

Official website

www.iiml.ac.in

IIM Lucknow Ranking 2021-22

For so many years, IIM Lucknow has been proving its worth with numerous awards and rankings. Here are some of the prominent ones:

Ranking Agency

Year

Rank

QS World Top University Ranking

2022

201-250

Outlook-ICARE

2021

4 out of 25

QS Global MBA Rankings

2021

#150-200

NIRF

2021

7 out of 100

Economic Times

2020

8 out of 50

IIM-L Previous Years Rankings:

    • Ranked 5 for MBA by Outlook 2020
    • Ranked 3 for MBA by The Week 2019
    • Ranked 3 for MBA by BW Business World 2019
    • Ranked 4 for IIMs by NIRF 2019
    • Ranked 5 for MBA by Composite Rank 2019
    • Ranked 8 for MBA by Economic Times 2019

IIM Lucknow Admission Process and Eligibility 2023-25

IIM Lucknow offers online admission to all its courses to candidates after they have appeared for the course-specific entrance exam for selection. Final admission is granted based on the written assessment and interview. Details are as follows:

Step 1 – Candidates need to fill the Online Registration Form available at the official website of IIM-Lucknow and submit their CAT score to check eligibility.

Step 2 – Shortlisted candidates are required to submit a Statement of Purpose (SOP) with the Application form.

Step 3 - Shortlisted candidates will be asked to appear for the final selection process of PGP and/or PGP-ABM, followed by a Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD), and Personal Interviews (PI).

Note: WAT has been excluded as an evaluative component from this year's selection process

Step 4 - Admission to PGPWE is based on the scores obtained by the students in GMAT, CAT, GATE, GRE, XAT, or the PGPWE Entrance Exam, followed by a WAT and PI round.

Step 5 - For the IPMX program, admission is offered based on GMAT/GRE scores after meeting the IIM Lucknow GMAT/GRE cut-off. Additionally, candidates are required to go through WAT and PI.

Step 6 – Final admission offer letter will be issued to students on the basis of merit post calculation of the final scores. Selected students have to pay the initial fee to confirm their seats.

IIM Lucknow Cut-Off

IIM Lucknow CAT cut-offs can be categorized into two parts – qualifying cut-off (or shortlist cut-off) and final cut-off (or call cut-off). The qualifying cut-off is announced as soon as the admission policy is released, but the final cut-off is not publicly announced. It is informed to the student's post result declaration.

IIM Lucknow CAT cut-off:

Table 1: Minimum Sectional and Total Cut-off Percentile for Shortlisting for WAT- PI Stage

Category

PGP

PGP-ABM

PGP-SM

VARC

DILR

QA

Total

VARC

DILR

QA

Total

VARC

DILR

QA

Total

General

85

85

85

90

80

80

80

85

80

80

80

85

EWS

77

77

77

82

72

72

72

77

72

72

72

77

NC-OBC

77

77

77

82

72

72

72

77

72

72

72

77

SC

55

55

55

65

55

55

55

65

55

55

55

60

ST

50

50

50

60

50

50

50

55

50

50

50

55

PwD

50

50

50

60

50

50

50

55

50

50

50

55

IIM Lucknow Packages and Placements

Again, IIM Lucknow witnessed a 100% placement for its 35th of and 16th Batch of MBA -ABM 2019-21. The IIM Lucknow highest package 2021 was Rs. 51 LPA (Domestic) and Rs. 56 LPA (International).

The top recruiters in 2021 were African Industries Group, Amazon, Microsoft, Flipkart, Landmark Group, Jio, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata Administrative Services, Mckinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Asian Paints, Nestle, American Express, KPMG, Deloitte, RPG, PayTM, etc. The placement drive saw new recruiters like Angel Broking, Morgan Stanley, Ernst & Young (MENA), Bayer, Bosch, Reliance Jio, JCB India, HDFC Securities, Sabre Partners, and Wells Fargo, among others.

The IIM Lucknow summer placements 2021-22 cycle also recorded a 100% placement with 567 offers and participation from over 140 recruiters. The highest stipend offered for the 37th Batch of PGP (2021-23) was Rs. 3.4 lakh from 2.5 lakh the previous year. The average stipend stood at Rs 1.3 lakh.

IIM Lucknow Placements 2021, Highest Package and Highlights:

Total no. of offers

447

Participating Companies

140

IIM Lucknow highest package 2021(international)

Rs. 56 LPA

IIM Lucknow highest package 2021 (domestic)

Rs. 51 LPA

IIM Lucknow average package

Rs. 26 LPA

IIM Lucknow median package

Rs. 23.5 LPA

IIM Lucknow Courses 2022

IIM Lucknow offers three PG programs, two executive programs, and two full-time doctoral programs in the field of management except for the E-FPM course. Details are as follows:

  1. The two-year residential, full-time IIM Lucknow MBA/PGP is the flagship course
  2. PGP-ABM and PGP-SM are also two-year residential programs in the field of management
  3. The two-year PGPWE includes a two-week immersive experience at a leading business school in Europe
  4. IIM Lucknow also offers a one-year Residential International Program in management for Executives or IPMX (one-year MBA) at its Noida campus
  5. IIM Lucknow offers a doctoral-level course - full-time, residential FPM program and a part-time, non-residential EFPM program, available across 12 areas out of which candidates are required to select any two, in five years (four years in case of direct admission to the second year). An extension is granted for a period of a maximum of two years so that the total duration does not exceed seven years

Course offered by IIM Lucknow

IIM Lucknow course fees

(in Rs lakh)

Duration

IIM Lucknow eligibility

IIM Lucknow Admission Criteria

PGP

19.25

2 Years

IIM Lucknow MBA Eligibility - Bachelor’s degree with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA (45% for candidates belonging to reserved category

CAT + WAT + PI

PGP-ABM

 19.25

2 Years

Bachelor’s degree with at least 50% marks (45% marks for SC/ ST/ PwD) or Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Science/ Agricultural Engineering or allied subjects

CAT + WAT + PI

PGP-SM

 19.25

2 Years

Bachelor’s degree with at least 50% marks (45% for SC/ ST/ PwD candidates) +

Min. two years of professional experience

CAT+ WAT and PI

PGPWE

 

13.55

2 years | Part-Time

Bachelor’s degree in any discipline or an equivalent academic pursuit (i.e., 10+2+3), with a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent CGPA + Min. three years of professional experience post-graduation

 

GMAT/ GRE/ CAT/ XAT/ GATE/ PGP-WE Entrance Exam + WAT and PI

IPMX (Noida Campus)

23.50

1 Year | Full Time

Bachelor’s degree in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent CGPA + Min. five years of professional experience post-graduation

 

GMAT/ GRE + WAT and PI

FPM

 

5 Years | Full-Time

Masters' Degree or it's equivalent in any discipline with minimum 55% aggregate marks, OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering with 65% marks or equivalent grade point

CAT/GATE/ GRE/ GMAT/ JRF/ SRF(UGC/ CSIR/ ICAR) + PI

EFPM

 

 7.5

5 Years | Part-Time

Secondary and Senior Secondary with 55% marks (50% for SC/ STcandidates)

Non-Engineering candidates with minimum 50% marks during graduation and 55% marks during post graduation.  Graduate degree with 65% marks for Candidates holding a B.Tech/ B.E Degree.

Minimum 7 years of full time work experience.

CAT/ GATE/ GMAT/ GRE/ JRF (Qualified)/ PGPWE Entrance Exam Score + PI

GMPE

 4

1 year | Part Time

Graduate or Postgraduate in any discipline or CA/ ICWA/ CS + Min. two years of professional experience post-graduation

 

PI

IIM Lucknow Fees 2021-22

 

IIM Lucknow fees structure for various courses offered by the institute are as follows:

COURSE

IIM Lucknow fees

IIM Lucknow PGP, PGP-ABM, PGP-SM Fees 2021

Rs.19,25,000 (Including Refundable and Alumni Membership Fees)

PGPWE

Rs. 13,55,000+ refundable caution money of INR 5,000 + Alumni membership fee of INR 5,000 + Convocation fee INR 5,000 + Taxes as per Government of India rules.

IPMX

Rs.23,50,000 + refundable caution money of Rs. 30,000. (includes tuition fee, cost of course material, basic accommodation, facility on campus, food charges, computing and networking, library services, career counseling, students’ activities, alumni association, and convocation.)

EFPM

Rs. 7,50,000 (candidates who complete the course requirement on time)

Rs. 5,00,000 (Candidates who are exempted and join directly in the 2nd year)

IIM Lucknow Scholarship 2021-22

IIM Lucknow offers the following scholarship schemes:

Need-Based IIM-L Scholarships -based on merit and family income. Students whose total annual gross family income does not exceed Rs 4 lakhs are eligible for consideration for this scholarship. The awardees are chosen based on merit for one year at a time in the form of a fee waiver.

Merit-Based or Industry Sponsored Scholarships are several industry-sponsored scholarships given at the end of each academic year based on merit. The value of these scholarships can range between Rs.6,000 - Rs.1,00,000. The benefactors are Reckitt Benckiser, Hindustan Lever Ltd., Ratan Tata, Aditya Birla, EXIM Bank, Citibank, Hughes Software Systems, Central Bank of India, Nestle India Ltd., Apeejay Trust, and Bharti Foundation.

Other scholarships - Students can avail various scholarships offered by various Central Governments, state governments, and other relevant bodies that are available on The National Scholarship Portal or NSP and the respective state government portals.

Fellow Program Scholarships:

Specific scholarships are provided to the students who want to pursue a Ph.D. Candidates interested in the program and are eligible, get a fellowship allowance for up to four and a half years. They are provided with a stipend amount of Rs 35,000 per month during the first and second years. For the rest of the program, 3rd year onwards, the stipend of Rs 40,000 per month is provided after completing the comprehensive exam after the second year.

Contingency Grant:

All resident Indian scholars admitted to the above program are given contingency allowance up to four and a half years. An amount of Rs. 10,000 per annum in I and II years, and Rs. 15,000 per annum during the III and IV years of the program is provided to the students for the purchase of books, stationery, computer hardware, etc. A one-time computer purchase grant of Rs. 50,000, can be availed before the end of course work.

Miscellaneous Financial Support:

The annual membership fee of only one national and only one international professional society during the III and IV years is reimbursed. Travel, lodging, boarding, and local conveyance expenses for case-writing and field-based research during III and IV years, subject to a maximum of Rs. 50,000 are reimbursed. Additional facilities for married FPM scholars whose families are residing on campus are also provided.

IIM Lucknow Infrastructure and Facilites

  1. Library – An air-conditioned library named 'Gyanodaya' stocked well with various resources on the discipline of management, technology, and related areas.
  2. Hostel - Air-conditioned rooms hostel accommodation for both boys and girls in two buildings.
  3. Sports Complex - Badminton Court, Basketball Court, Squash Court, Swimming Pool, Tennis Court, Yoga Facility, Billiards Table
  4. Labs
  5. Cafeteria
  6. Gym
  7. Hospital / Medical Facilities
  8. Wi-Fi Campus
  9. Convenience Store
  10. Seminar Hall
  11. Shopping Complex
  12. Bank
  13. Auditorium

IIM Lucknow Hostel:

There are two hostels on campus with one person per room policy. It is well equipped with all the essential amenities and offers accommodation for 500 students and 75 faculty. It has beautiful surroundings that add an edge to the existing lifestyle with 128 air-conditioned rooms.

The rooms are situated in two buildings – Chanakya and Patanjali with 64 air-conditioned rooms furnished with Wi-Fi connectivity, LCD TV, tea-coffee making facility, one common dining hall in Chanakya, and other basic amenities.

IIM Lucknow Faculty and Alumni

Key Features:

In 2019, 10 of the faculty members received international awards from highly-reputed organizations like Inchainge, Amazon and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences Netherlands, Hult Prize Foundation, etc.

Faculty Details:

Prof. Archana Shukla - Director

Other Faculty Details:

  1. Kriti Bardhan Gupta - Associate Professor, Department Of Agribusiness Management
  2. Chandan Sharma - Associate Professor, Department Of Business Environment
  3. Ashish Aggarwal - Associate Professor, Department Of Business Sustainability
  4. Nandita Roy - Assistant Professor, Department Of Communication
  5. Abhijit Bhattacharya - Professor, Department Of Decision Science

IIM Lucknow Alumni:

IIM Lucknow notable alumni are as follows:

  1. Rajdeep Grewal: Townsend Family Distinguished Professor of Marketing at Kenan-Flagler Business School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  2. Roopa Satish: Head - Institutions & Investment Banking at Indusind Bank
  3. Amitabh Thakur: Social and RTI activist and IPS officer
  4. Shreya Sachdev: Head of Marketing and Strategy at Puma
  5. Gayatri Iyer: Indian playback singer
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IIM Lucknow College Exam FAQs

  • The faculty/student ratio at IIM Lucknow is 1:15. 95 out of 97 faculty members are PhD holders from top colleges.

  • The IIM Lucknow MBA program has a fee of Rs. 20 lakhs and offers a good ROI to students with the highest domestic CTC of Rs. 51 LPA and the highest international CTC of Rs. 56 LPA. The mean CTC was Rs. 26 LPA.

  • For IIM Lucknow MBA 2022 admissions, CAT weightage has been reduced to 60% in the shortlisting process. The sectional minimum CAT percentile required for MBA admission will be 80 for PGP-ABM and PGP-SM and 85 for PGP. The minimum overall CAT percentile required for admission is 85 for PGP-ABM and PGP SM and 90 for PGP.

  • Let us look at a few details of both the institutes below: 

    Particulars

    IIM Indore

    IIM Lucknow

    NIRF Ranking 2020

    7

    4

    Cut off 

    90

    90

    Average CTC

    Rs. 22.92 LPA

    Rs. 26 LPA

    Highest CTC

    Rs. 50 LPA

    Rs. 56 LPA (International)

    Rs. 51 LPA (Domestic)

    Top recruiters

    Amazon, ACT Fibernet, DE Shaw, MagicBricks, Goldman Sachs, BCG, EY Parthenon, ABG, etc.

    African Industries Group, Jio, Deloitte, Amazon, Landmark Group, Flipkart, ZYNGA, etc.

  • No, the GMAT score is not compulsory, but candidates can show a valid score of CAT or the PGPWE exam to be eligible for the PGPWE admission process.

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