49% of non-engineers in IIM Sambalpur's fresh MBA batch

IIM Sambalpur, one of India's younger IIMs, has welcomed 363 students to its pioneering MBA and new MBA in Business Analytics (MBA-BA) programme in the 2025-27 academic batch. The institute has this year noticed a bias, albeit small, towards engineers since 51.24% of the new batch were engineers -- a 5% hike over non-engineers.

The shift is more dramatic in the MBA-BA course, with 61.7% of the students having an engineering background. But in the flagship MBA course, the ratio is quite even: 49.68% engineers and 50.32% non-engineers.

One of the unique features of the new MBA-BAs is that all the students arrive with corporate experience across streams.

The institute also added that this is most likely to facilitate peer learning and application of principles in practice in the classrooms.

GEOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION ACROSS INDIA

Geographic diversity of the new batch is also important. Students belong to almost all states and union territories of India, including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh are the most represented at 13% and 12%, respectively, while Odisha, Delhi, Telangana, Kerala, and West Bengal follow.

In line with its avowed philosophy of inclusivity and innovation, the institute has offered admissions to International Business/Organizational Behavior in a total of three candidates with disability in physical or mobility.

NATIONAL THEMES, GLOBAL ASPIRATIONS - IIM Sambalpur Director Professor Mahadeo Jaiswal greeted students at the foundation day ceremony stated that the institute's vision is in line with national initiatives like International Business/Organizational Behavior 'Digital India' and 'Make in India'.

"We must now include 'Brand in India' in this list," said Jaiswal, pointing out that the institute's AI classrooms and Master Weaver programme are the hallmark of a socially relevance-driven new-generation IIM.

Chief guest V. Srinivas, IAS, Secretary, DARPG, Government of India, said that the MBA-BA programme is an extension of India's larger digital drive. 

"These students will create Viksit Bharat with innovation and ethics," he observed.

Other corporate executives like Vedanta Aluminium's Rajiv Kumar and Samir Kumar from Amazon India also spoke to the audience, discussing leadership and future manpower needs.

ABOUT IIM SAMBALPUR

IIM Sambalpur is one of the top management schools in India and is highly well-known for its quality of education. Located in a huge campus of about 200 acres, the IIM Sambalpur was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, on 3rd February 2024.

It also has partnerships with Flipkart, Amazon, and SIDBI for empowering, enabling, and connecting local weavers to global platforms.

With green concepts and new infrastructure, the campus commemorates its local art by placing IKAT, textile-printing artwork of patterns over the brick face.

IIM Sambalpur has excellent reputation for its flagship two-year MBA Programme, and the admissions are carried out through CAT. It also contains an MBA for working professionals at the Delhi Centre in ISID, Vasant Kunj, with dual-degree Programme possibilities with French institutions.

Apart from the Executive MBA Programme, the world-class institute has PhD, Executive PhD, and Management Development Programme (MDP).

IIM Sambalpur has been a leader in terms of the other IIMs when it comes to gender-diverse classrooms. IIM Sambalpur cut-off is 92 percentile.

IIM Sambalpur MBA fee is INR 13.04 Lakh, and IIM Sambalpur average package was INR 16.64 LPA and IIM Sambalpur highest package was INR 64.61 LPA for batch 2023.