IIM Sirmaur: Admission 2027, Fees, Courses, Cutoff, Ranking, Placement

Both IIM Sirmaur and GLIM Chennai are good colleges. However, they have lots of differences as well. Let's have a comparison between IIM Sirmaur and GLIM Chennai on various parameters

GLIM can look like a better option considering above points, but the fact that IIM Sirmaur despite starting 11 years late has managed to give better ROI and similar average CTC makes IIM Sirmaur a better option (assuming similar rate of growth continues for IIM Sirmaur)

The main reason for the difference in placements numbers of the New IIMs and the Baby IIMs is recognition in the industry. It's obvious that older and more established IIMs will have a better industry connection, better alumni strength and more experience in attracting quality roles. All these factors are important contributors in the placement of any college. If you look at the average salary stats for new IIMs, it was over 19 lacs for all 6 2nd generation IIMs and over 16 lacs for the baby IIMs for the batch of 2023. The difference is not that huge as such considering baby IIMs are just 5 years younger than 2nd generation IIMs. The gap is more evident in cases where one company is a loyal recruiter from new IIMs and has just started recruiting from baby IIMs. With time this difference will reduce as baby IIMs become more recognized in the industry. 

First of all, all the students will receive a mail on their official email ids provided by the institute from the Placement Committee about the arrival of a company. Each of these mails will have an eligibility criteria mentioned by the company, the CTC offered by the company, guidelines for the process to be followed as mentioned by the Placement Committee and a Google form to collect CVs and data asked by the company. The data is then sent to the HR who then replies with a list of the shortlisted candidates. These candidates receive another email on the same mail trail with a link to join a WhatsApp group maintained by the committee. Then, the company starts with its processes. Usually, the processes include a GD or an Assignment or a task mentioned by the company. Then, the candidates clearing the initial rounds appear for the final interview. The number of interviews also depends on the company itself. The selected candidates are then informed about their selection via a batch email. Some companies like Amazon, DE Shaw, etc also add an additional Aptitude round. Only the students clearing the cutoffs of the aptitude round are then called for further rounds. This practice of taking a written test is followed by almost all the good companies. Hence, it is advisable for the students to keep in touch with the basics of aptitude even after their CAT exam.

The companies coming to IIM Sirmaur usually don’t have any CGPA criteria. While some companies like HCL require a student to have a 60% criteria throughout their Academia including the first year of MBA, the number of these companies is very less. 1-2 companies like SAP labs, Lenskart, etc also ask the students to have a minimum of 7 CGPA in their first year. Hence, it is recommended that each student should at least maintain a CGPA criteria above 6. This will be enough for the students participating in the Final Placement Process.

Temporary Campus: The campus is situated in the Paonta Sahib City as it is just 2.5 Kms away from the nearest bus stand. The nearest Railway stations are Dehradun and Yamuna Nagar Railway stations which are around 45 Kms and 60 Kms respectively. The nearest Airports are the Chandigarh Airport and Dehradun Airport which are 122 km and 77 km away from the campus.

Permanent Campus: The Campus is located in Dhaula Kuan and is 19 kms away from the Paonta Sahib Bus Stand and 26 kms away from the Nahan Bus Stand. The nearest Railway station is Yamuna Nagar Railway Station 59 kms away and the nearest Airports are the Chandigarh Airport and Dehradun Airport which are 102 kms and 94 kms away from the Institute.

Since it operates from its temporary campus where the hostel facilities are outside the campus for boys, the institute does not promise the same level of rigor one expects from an IIM. The scope of surprise quizzes and assignments and preponement of deadlines is very less because of the lack of necessary facilities provided by the institute. However, on the bright side, this story is expected to change once IIM Sirmaur shifts its operations to the newly built permanent campus.

My Profile: Fresher, 9/8/8 Academics, Graduation in Computer Application.

There were two panelists and one of them was from a tech background. My interview started with a question about my introduction. Since I was a BCA graduate, my follow up questions were mostly like: Why is python widely used in the companies? Why do companies prefer Python over JAVA and C++? What is a List and a Queue? Basically, if you are a fresher, you should be well versed with the syllabus of your graduation. Later, I belonged to Jalandhar, so the rest of my questions were: Give me one USP of Jalandhar? What is Jalandhar famous for? Few of the most prominent questions asked to me were: Why MBA after BCA? Why not MCA?

So, I suggest all the students should at least prepare their syllabus from the graduation, thoroughly research about their city, state and about their interests, and must be very clear with the goals for pursuing an MBA.

At IIM Sirmaur and for that matter, in most IIMs, a following sample structure of grading is followed: - 

Please note that the marking scheme varies from faculty to faculty but the above mentioned components are the most used components used by the faculties to award marks to the students. Sometimes, when more than one faculty member teaches a course, the marking scheme splits into two or three and individual professors will have an individual marking scheme with the respect to the total marks bifurcated between the faculty members.

To be honest, it requires more effort by the student to fail a course than to pass a course. The reason being that a majority part of the grading system is mostly qualitative. This means that if a student completes his assignments, takes part in his group projects and actively participates in a lecture will never fail a subject. The term exams constitute very less and even if a student scores a 0 in his term exams, provided he is an active participant in the rest of the grading schemes, will still not receive even a D. The students suffer mostly because of the lack of enough attendance (which leads to a grade drop) and lack of listening and participation in a course.

IIM Sirmaur like most B-schools follow a relative grading. However, each student is required to score an overall 35 marks out of 100 at the end of the course. The grading system varies from faculty to faculty and is relative to the highest marks scored in the course. If a student is below 35 marks, he is considered a failure and awarded an F in the course. A student securing 2 Fs in a year is required to repeat the year. A student securing D, which is basically the lowest grade offered to a student based on the grading scheme, can have utmost 2 Ds in one year. A 3rd D will mean a repeat year. However, Ds are rarely awarded while Fs are common amongst the students.