Admissions

Important Announcement:

The last date for submission of online applications for EDPM 2025 has been extended to Friday, 14th March 2025.

ADMISSION

For its Executive Doctoral Programme in Management (EDPM), IIM Indore seeks high-quality candidates with strong academic background, preferably with professional experience, and intellectual curiosity needed for scholarship in management. The last date for submission of online application is end-February.

Areas of Study (Specialization)

The institute presently offers EDPM in the following areas of specialization

• Communication
• Economics
• Finance & Accounting
• Information Systems (Information Systems Management, Emerging technologies, and Data Science / Analytics)
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Marketing Management
• Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques (Operations Management, Operations Research, Statistics and Mathematics)
• Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
• Strategic Management (Strategic Management, International Business and Entrepreneurship)

Out of the aforementioned areas, an applicant can choose any two areas of specialization only and submit his/her application along with all attachments as required and mentioned in the online Application Form. Candidates are encouraged to check the individual faculty research profiles in their areas of specialization to understand the research interests of the faculty.

Eligibility (Work Experience and Academic)

Candidates must have a Minimum 5 years of managerial/ entrepreneurial/ professional experience after graduation as on the application deadline date (refer to Admission Brochure) and also fulfil the requirement of the academic eligibility as mentioned below:

Master’s degree in any discipline with at least 60 percent aggregate marks or equivalent grade point average.

(OR)

Postgraduate Diploma (2 years) with at least 60 percent aggregate marks or equivalent grade point average.

(OR)

Professional qualifications CA, ICWA, CS with at least 50 percent aggregate marks.

(OR)

A five-year integrated Master’s degree program in any discipline, with at least 60 percent aggregate marks or equivalent grade point average.

(OR)

First Class/ equivalent Bachelor’s degree (4 year/8 semesters).

Note:

In addition to the above academic eligibility criteria, the candidate should have a minimum of 60 percent marks either in Secondary (Class X) or Senior Secondary (Class XII) with second class marks in other.

The candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree, awarded by any of the universities incorporated by an act of the central or the state legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.

The equivalence of the foreign degree needs to be certified by the Association of Indian Universities. The bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification obtained by the candidate must entail a minimum of three years of education after completing higher secondary schooling (10+2) or equivalent.

The percentage of marks obtained by the candidate in the bachelor’s degree would be based on the practice followed by the institution/university from where the candidate has obtained the degree. In case of the candidates being awarded grades/CGPA instead of marks, the equivalence would be based on the equivalence certified by the institution/university from where they have obtained a bachelor’s degree.

In case the institution/university does not have any scheme for converting the CGPA into equivalent marks, the equivalence would be established by dividing obtained CGPA by the maximum possible CGPA and multiplying the result by 100.

The percentage of marks obtained in Class X and Class XII would be the aggregate marks of all subjects that appear in the mark sheet of grade sheet, irrespective of whether the Board considers them for calculation of percentage.

Acceptable Standard Test Scores

Candidates require a standard test score, from any one of the acceptable tests for the area(s) of specialization they are applying to, as shown in the following table.

The validity of the CAT and the other standard test scores are given in the following table. Note that the scores should be valid on the deadline for submission of the application form.

CAT – 3 years
GRE – 3 years
GMAT – 3 years
GATE – 3 years
JRF – 3 years

Online GMAT/GRE (Take home) exam scores are not valid. Only test centre-based GMAT/GRE scores are valid.

Research Aptitude Test (RAT)*- In the event of not having a standard test score, candidate may apply based on the Research Aptitude Test (RAT) of IIM Indore which will be conducted in last week of March.

Research Aptitude Test (RAT) will test candidates on quantitative ability, verbal ability and research aptitude.

Application Procedure

Candidates seeking admission to the Executive Doctoral Programme in Management (EDPM) of IIM Indore should submit their application online between end December and end January, and pay the online non?refundable/non-transferable application fee of Rs. 3000/- (Rupees Three thousand only) + GST extra. If applying for two areas pay online non-refundable/non-transferable fee of Rs. 4500/- (Rupees Four Thousand Five Hundred only) + GST Extra.

Selection Process for EDPM

The candidates will be shortlisted (on the recommendation of the respective areas) on the based information provided in the application form. The selection process is as follows:

Stage 1: The candidates satisfying the academic eligibility criteria as mentioned above should submit their application online.

Stage 2: Based on the applications received, candidates satisfying Academic eligibility criteria and acceptable standard test the shortlisting will be done by the respective Areas and candidates will be called for Personal Interview (PI), to be conducted at IIM Indore during March/ April.

Note: Candidates who are applying based on the Research Aptitude Test (RAT) of IIM Indore which will be conducted on April 19, 2025 and will be required to be present in the IIM Indore campus on the test day by 8:30 am, shortlisting of the candidates will be published on the same day. Candidates shortlisted after the RAT will be appearing for the Interview either on the same day or next day.

Stage 3: IIMIndore also expects a consistent and minimum performance in the different parameters of Personal Interview (PI), which will be decided by the Admissions Committee. Candidates not meeting the minimum performance in any of PI parameters will not be considered for the next stage of the selection process i.e. Stage-4.

Stage 4: Final selection will be based on the requirements of the academic area to which the candidate has applied and an area-wise offer list will be prepared by the Areas only.

Only the candidates satisfying the requirements mentioned in earlier stages will be considered for the final selection. Academic Area-wise merit list will be generated based on the performance in the Personal Interviews and the provisional admission offers will be made.

All matters pertaining to admission into the EDPM at IIM Indore is governed by the decisions taken by the Admissions Committee.

Instructions

A candidate can submit the Online application with all the attachments by the application deadline date (as required on or before application deadline date up to 23:55:00 hour (Refer to Admission Brochure)

Please note that the mailing address and email id provided by the candidate shall be considered for all correspondence by the Institute.

All fields marked with * are mandatory.

While filling the online application form, a scanned copy of the documents must be uploaded wherever it has been asked for.

The applicant must provide the correct and valid email id and mobile number

Giving false information will affect your candidature negatively, if you are admitted to the programme on the basis of false information furnished by you, it will lead to your expulsion from the institute.

Please note that mere fulfilling of the minimum qualifications will not make a candidate eligible for admissions into EDPM

Your complete application should include

• Personal details
• Educational qualification
• Standard test score details
• Employment history & References
• Academic Achievements
• Statement of Purpose
• Payment of application fee (as applicable)