IIFT Delhi Admission 2027: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

IIFT is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, set up to build skills for India’s external trade sector. As a deemed university, its full-time programmes lead to MBA degrees.

Other programmes include a weekend MBA (IB) at Delhi and Kolkata, an online MBA (IB) at Delhi, MA Economics at Delhi and Kolkata, and a five-year Integrated Programme in Management at Kakinada; the campus section sets out how the four sites differ. The alumni network numbers more than 50,000 across 30+ countries, and in 2024-25, 53 IIFT students went abroad on two-way exchange programmes, which run with 29 international business schools.

Both full-time MBAs admit on the CAT score: for the 2026-28 batch IIFT shortlisted on CAT 2025 and other defined parameters, then held a group discussion and personal interview in person at Delhi, Kolkata, Kakinada, GIFT City, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Indore, Lucknow and Mumbai. The IIMs have no role in IIFT’s selection or in running its programmes.

IIFT publishes no CAT cut-off, and the weights of the other shortlisting parameters are not published either, so a CAT score earns an interview call rather than a seat. A CAT score alone also does not enter you into IIFT’s pool: you file IIFT’s own online application and pay its fee.

As of 3 October 2026 IIFT has published no admission notice for the 2027-29 batch; CAT 2026 is on 29 November 2026. The category entered on the application cannot be changed later, and NRI and foreign-national applications were due to open in February 2026, subject to regulatory approval.

The MBA (International Business) needs a recognised bachelor’s degree of at least three years in any discipline with at least 50% marks, or 45% for SC, ST and PwD candidates. The MBA (Business Analytics) needs a bachelor’s degree with 50% or a CGPA of 5.0 out of 10 plus one of the following: mathematics or statistics as a graduation subject, a B.Tech or B.E. in any discipline, or mathematics at 10+2, where applied mathematics does not count.

Final-year students may apply if they submit proof of the qualification by 31 October 2026, and a provisional admission is cancelled if the minimum percentage is not met. There is no age limit, and work experience is not part of the eligibility for either programme. Seats are reserved as per Government of India norms, and candidates in the SC, ST, PwD, OBC-NCL, EWS and Kashmiri Migrant categories upload their certificate with the application.

For the 2025-27 batch the two-year fee was ₹21.82 lakh for the MBA (IB) at Delhi, including boarding and lodging, and ₹17,87,506 for the MBA (BA), which is non-residential. The exact fee for the 2026-28 batch is given to students with the offer letter.

The MBA (IB) fee covers tuition, boarding and lodging, and charges for the library, computer and internet facilities, medical insurance and the alumni and student bodies, and it changes if a single or triple room is allotted. SC, ST and PwD students get a 50% concession on tuition only. A refundable ₹5,000 library deposit is also taken, and on withdrawal the fee is refunded under UGC guidelines, a process that takes at least two months.

Scholarships. Under the merit-cum-means scheme, 10% of admitted students receive 20% of the tuition fee if their family income is below ₹8 lakh a year. Two payment rules are published: on completion of each trimester, and after the programme is completed, with applicants scored 70% on income and 30% on final CGPA. Exim Bank pays the top SC or ST student at Delhi the first-year MBA (IB) tuition, up to ₹3.5 lakh, and central scholarships for SC, ST, OBC and disabled students are applied for through the National Scholarship Portal.

The MBA (International Business) is fully residential: every student must live in the hostel, and IIFT alone decides whether the room is single, double or triple. There is no separate hostel fee, because boarding and lodging sit inside the Delhi and Kolkata totals, while the Kakinada and GIFT City totals exclude them. The MBA (Business Analytics) is non-residential, so accommodation in Delhi is the student’s own arrangement and cost.

IIFT admits to one MBA (International Business) through one CAT-based process and teaches it at four campuses; Delhi is described above, and the other three differ mainly in how settled they are.

What changes by campus

• Admission: one application, one CAT-based shortlist and one GD/PI round for all four; how a candidate is placed at a campus is not published, so confirm it with the admissions office before accepting an offer
• Placements: reported for all four campuses together; there are no campus-wise figures
• Programmes: the MBA (Business Analytics) runs at Delhi only; the five-year IPM runs at Kakinada only
• Kakinada site: two sites are described — the permanent campus about 27 km from Kakinada town station, and classes at JNTU Kakinada with rented hostels — so ask which site your batch will use
• AICTE conditions: the 2026-27 approvals for Kolkata, Kakinada and GIFT City each list a faculty shortfall the institute disclosed, to be made good within six months, and Kakinada and GIFT City do not yet run from a permanent site

The MBA (International Business) batch of 2023-25 averaged ₹31.30 lakh with a ₹26 lakh median, and the MBA (Business Analytics), in its first graduating batch, averaged ₹25.30 lakh with a ₹20 lakh median.

• The MBA (IB) figures cover all four campuses together; no campus-wise split is published.
• The graduate counts and medians by graduating year cover every IIFT two-year PG programme, not the MBA (IB) alone.
• Final placement figures for the 2024-26 batch had not been published as of 1 October 2026; its summer stipends above are the latest figures for that batch.
• The 2024-25 graduating year is the batch of 2023-25.

Among Delhi-NCR MBA options that admit on CAT, IIFT’s Delhi MBA (IB) fee for the 2025-27 batch is below MDI Gurgaon’s for 2027-29, both with hostel included, while FMS Delhi charges a University of Delhi semester fee and has no hostel.

The medians belong to different batches — IIFT’s to 2023-25, the others to 2024-26 — so read the gap with that in mind. In NIRF Management 2025, MDI Gurgaon ranked 9th and IIFT 17th. FMS Delhi is the low-fee option of the three, and IIFT is the only one of the three that runs its MBA across four campuses. All three admit through CAT; for other options, see our MBA admission guide.