Converted IMT Ghaziabad or IMI Delhi PGDM, which one should I prefer?

International Management Institute has been ranked 9th and 28th for private MBA by Outlook and NIRF respectively. The college offers Post Graduate Diploma in Management as a two-year course. The fees for the course is 17.68 lakhs for the full period.

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad has been ranked 1st and 37th for private MBA by Times and NIRF respectively. The college offers Post Graduate Diploma in Management as a two-year course. The fees for the course is 17.55 lakhs for the full period.

Admission Procedure

IMI Delhi:

• The basic eligibility criteria for admission is securing 50% in graduation. Further, students are shortlisted on the basis of scores in CAT/ XAT/ CMAT/ MAT/ ATMA/ GMAT. 
• Students are finally selected on the basis of their performance in Extempore Speaking, Psychometric Test, Essay Writing, and Personal Interview. 
• The course has a total of 240 seats available.

IMT Ghaziabad:

• The basic eligibility criteria for admission is securing 50% in graduation. Further, students are shortlisted on the basis of scores in CAT/ XAT/ CMAT/ MAT/ ATMA/ GMAT. 
• Students are selected on the basis of their performance in Extempore Speaking, Psychometric Test, Essay Writing, and Personal Interview. 
• The course has a total of 360 seats available.

Infrastructure

IMI Delhi:

• The college is built over a 3-acre campus and is home to a well-equipped library which includes journals, study material, magazines and various e-learning facilities. 
• It has separate boys and girls hostels with sporting facilities and sporting grounds available. 
• Other facilities such as an auditorium, gym, cafeterias, air-conditioned classes and Wi-Fi are also available to the students.

IMT Ghaziabad:

• The college is built over a 14-acre campus. The college has separate boys and girls hostels. The college has sporting facilities and sporting grounds available. The institute also has a number of laboratories. Other facilities such as an auditorium, library, gym, cafeterias, air-conditioned classes, and Wi-Fi are also available to the students.

Placements

IMI Delhi:

• The college has a perfect placement rate of 100%.
• Top recruiters include Reliance, Nestle, Gartner, Google and Deloitte. 
• The average offer received to students is 13 LPA. The highest package goes up to a whopping 21 LPA.

IMT Ghaziabad:

The college has a perfect placement rate of 100%. Top recruiters include Adobe, Amazon, Axis Bank, and Cognizant. The average offer received by students is 12LPA. The highest package goes up to a whopping 56LPA.

Both colleges stand toe-to-toe with one another, being the top private MBA institutes in the country. The colleges have an identical admission procedure and fee structure. IMT has a bigger campus and has higher placement packages compared to IMI. However, IMI ranks better in NIRF Rankings, making a choice between the two largely dependent on one’s preferences of the parameters.