The Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) will be conducting the Common Admission Test or CAT 2021 on November 28, 2021. CAT is an entrance test that is conducted every year to grant admissions to the MBA and PGDM programmes in the IIMs and other top management colleges in the country. Candidates appear for this test intending to get into the finest MBA colleges in the country. Moreover, if one wants to get the 100 percentile, then they have to choose wisely the MBA College they want to get in afterwards.
One of the best ways to choose an MBA College is to have an idea about where the previous CAT toppers have landed after scoring the top percentile. This will help them in analyzing their decisions and secure a good place in a good college.
In 2020, Aaryan Kapoor emerged to be the CAT topper with a perfect 100 percentile. He was among the nine candidates to score the highest percentile. Kapoor studied Electronics and Instrumental Engineering at BITS Pilani. He was hopeful about getting a 99 percentile but fate had something else for him. He is now enrolled in IIM Bangalore where he is currently pursuing his MBA. IIM Bangalore ranks second in the National Institution Ranking Framework 2021 under the Management category. It offers a range of MBA programmes, executive management education and doctoral programmes. The institute has partnerships and collaborations with some of the best companies.
Sai Teja, who is presently enrolled in IIM Ahmedabad, is also a CAT 2020 topper who scored 100 percentile. He graduated from IIT Madras with a degree in electrical engineering. IIM Ahmedabad ranks first in the 2021 NIRF ranking for Management. The institute is a much-coveted one for most CAT aspirants. In 2017, IIM Ahmedabad even got the status of an institute of national importance by the Ministry of Human Resources.
CAT 2020 topper Jitesh Mittal is also among the nine candidates to have scored a perfect 100 percentile. He hails from Jaipur and holds a civil engineering degree from IIT Gandhinagar. As per social media sites, Mittal is now studying at IIM Calcutta. This institute has been ranked the third best management institute under NIRF 2021. Just like IIM Ahmedabad, it also got the status of an institute of national importance by the Ministry of Human Resources in 2017.
It is clear that the top choices of the CAT 2020 toppers have been the IIMs. These institutes have produced the finest business management experts and thus remain to be the coveted MBA colleges. Read more about the top MBA colleges and to make an informed decision.