The admission process will differ depending on the course you are applying for. If you are planning on joining PGDIM, here is the basic admission process:

• Appear for CAT.
• Write a few essays and pay the fee when the application form for NITIE becomes available.
• Wait till you get shortlisted as it depends on your CAT percentile, your essays, and finally, your profile. 
• If you get shortlisted, you will have to appear for a group discussion and another personal interview round.
• If you do really well, you will be given a seat at NITIE or you will be put on a waitlist. If your case is the latter, rest assured. The lists move relatively quickly since a lot of good candidates apply to multiple top b-schools.
• After you qualify for your admission, you will be given a short window of a few days to pay the fees. Your seat will be confirmed then.
• Your classes will begin around mid-June.

It is a relatively simple process. Just ensure that you give your best in your essays, the personal interview, and ground discussions rounds. These would be the deal breakers for your admission. 

If you want to pursue a higher degree that too in MBA then go for NITIE. If you have got a call or if you are inclined towards doing a job you can opt for that. It depends completely upon your decision.

I would like to share one of my friend’s experiences, who was in a same dilemma of choosing between one, but ultimately he chose to join NITIE PGDIE. 

• After he joined, he got an offer letter from IOCL as well but he chose to stay at NITIE. 
• The only factors that matter here are time and money. 
• If you want to go for PSUs and would leave this course in the middle or if either of the calls gets converted, then, you would have to compromise the whole year as well as the fee submitted for it.
• But if you are financially strong, you can consider NITIE as a backup. 
• A lot of people change their minds as my friend did after coming to NITIE. It’s a different life here.

So, in case you don’t make it to the PSUs, then you must know that you can definitely join NITIE which would be completely worth it.

NITIE does not look to build a brand image and does advertising as other B-schools often do. They have confidence in their administration. Their KPIs are very different. 

• NITIE boasts of informal communication, an amazing record of placements, various coaching centers, and a strong network of alumni. 
• It also has a positive effect on the industries and an ever-present social media team. 
• With MOUs with foreign universities and exchange programs between the students and the faculty, NITIE has been consistently amongst the best institutes in the country in both perception and rankings.

Apart from the coaching centers the other factors mentioned previously still somehow are instrumental in making NITIE popular outside India. It enjoys high respect among industries as well. In recent times, many guest lecturers have visited NITIE from foreign abroad.

Yes, NITIE takes admission for PGDPM and PGDMM through GATE. In order to take admission, you need to follow the steps mentioned below. 

• At first, apply for admission by filling the application form
• Then based upon your GATE score and marks scored in 10+2 and engineering, you will be shortlisted for Group Discussion or Personal Interview which will be called in the ratio of 1:3 or 4 depending on their requirements. Here are the cutoff trends for 2021.

After going through all the above steps you will be shortlisted for admission based on your performance in Group Discussion or Personal Interview and GATE score also.

The minimum percentile to get admission in PGDISEM depends upon the number of applications received. In 2021, the cut-off for General was around 86, for OBC it was around 75 and for SC/ST it was 65. 

The batch size is very small which is an advantage here. Only 44 seats are available for this program. The placement drives are quiet and relaxed compared to other branches and there are chances for every student to get shortlisted. Some companies hire students only from PGDISEM courses for certain roles such as EHS and sustainability and the average package offered is very good compared to other branches.

The percentile required to get admission in this course is definitely on the higher side, but the amount of facilities and freedom you get while pursuing this course is a big advantage over other courses. 

One of my friends is pursuing PGDIM at NITIE, and here is his insight regarding admission.

• He arrived as a fresher from an Electrical and Electronics background. He didn’t have any particular technical skills.
• The only technical experience he had were his industrial training with a time period of 6 months at a certain chemical firm, his projects based on the transmission of energy via laser, and a few of the academic projects that he completed during the course.

He mentioned the same on his CV. According to him, it is vital that you focus more on the GDPI and GATE score, instead of the technical skills, since you are applying for admission and not a job.

Your technical skills may not be needed in the academic curriculum designed by the institute. However, colleges usually look for a diverse set of students, thus if you have a certain technical skill, then it only might add value to your profile.

Not all three companies visit NITIE for campus placements every year. There are many others as well. 

Your selection will highly depend on your profile and if you are shortlisted according to the company’s placement process. At NITIE, you will get the opportunity to try and sit for placements of these big names but eventually, it boils down to how well your profile is presented. This definitely has a big role to play.

If you do not get into your dream company using this process, don’t worry. NITIE is known for its huge alumni base. They are present across various sectors and different firms. So you can gain some experience first and then decide to join your dream company via networking a few years down the line.

For admission in NITIE Mumbai CAT examination scores are considered. The cutoff varies for every year and also according to courses. For the IM course, the cutoff is near about 98 percentile overall and 92 percentile for sectional. For the past few years, the average general cutoff was around 96 percentile and near about 85 percentile for OBC in the PGDIM Course - Main course

For the ISEM, the overall cutoff is around 93 percentile and the sectional will be around 76 percentile.