IIFT 2025: Application form, Important Dates and Eligibility Criteria
IIFT is also known as Indian Institute of Foreign Trade which takes admission through CAT score exam and provides admissions to only those candidates who are eligible through the CAT exam score. This entrance exam was conducted by the NATA earlier and it is a national level exam which provides admission in the courses such as MBA – IB (International Business) and MBA-BA (Business Analytics) . For this institute candidates take admission through CAT / GMAT scores as examinations are canceled. After appearing for CAT / GMAT scores then the candidate needs to proceed further for WAT / Extempore / GD and PI round. And those candidates are eligible to get admission in the campuses of Delhi and Kolkata.
In this article we are provided details of IIFT 2025 such as Application form, Important Dates, Eligibility Criteria and many more.
IIFT 2025 Overview
Admission Name | IIFT 2025 |
Full Form | Indian Institute of Foreign Trade |
Level of Admission | National level |
Admission Through | CAT / GMAT scores |
Courses Offered | MBA – IB (International Business) |
Registration Mode | Online Mode |
IIFT 2025 Important Dates
Here is the below table which provides the important dates of IIFT 2025
Events | Date (Tentative) |
Availability of Registration form | 4th week of September 2024 |
Last date to registration | 2nd week of March 2025 |
Release of Merit list / List of shortlisted candidates for 2nd round admission | 4th week of January 2025 |
WAT / Extempore / GD and PI round | March / April 2025 |
Classes commencement | 1st week of July 2025 |
IIFT 2025 Application form
- Visit the official website and the candidates can fill the application form through online mode only and there is no offline facility available.
- Now the candidate must start filling the registration form of IIFT 2025 from the fourth week of October 2024
- All the eligible requirements must be fulfilled by the candidate before filling the details of the application form.
- The candidates need to verify all the details before submitting the application online as the candidate cannot make any changes once the form is submitted.
- For registration start filling details such as name, contact number, email id etc
- When the candidates submit their registration details, the registration password and number will be generated.
- The candidates can start login by using allotted details such as application number and password after this press save and next button.
- The candidates start to fill the application form by providing details such as personal, academic, exam city preference, date of birth, email id, institute choice etc.
- After this the candidate need to upload the scanned passport size photograph under 1 MB data
- The application form will be submitted the second week of March 2025.
- For the exam there will be no need to send any hardcopy of the registration form by post to the authority.
- After this the students can submit the form and take the hardcopy with them for their future preferences.
Application Fee
- The students can pay their application fees through online mode and no offline mode facility is available to them.
- The candidates can pay the application fees of Rs. 3000 for General Category, for SC / ST / PWD / Transgender candidates the application fees is of Rs. 1500 and for the foreign national candidates of India the application fees is of Rs. 15,000
- For the application fees they can do payment through debit card / credit card / net banking / UPI method
- The application will be refundable to students in any situation.
Category | Application fees |
General / OBC-NCL / EWS candidates | Rs. 3000 |
For SC/ ST/ PWD/ Transgender candidates | Rs. 1500 |
For foreign national candidates | Rs. 15,000 |
Steps to Apply for IIFT 2025
Below are the given steps to apply for IIFT 2025:
- The candidates need to go to the official website of IIFT exam
- Then they can register by using their name, email and password.
- For filling the registration form now, the students need to click on the LOGIN and provide login details.
- Then they need to require the personal details such as address, contact, gender, academic, communication etc.
- Go through the document upload section.
- Then the candidate need to upload image of photograph, signature and category certificate in the given format.
- After completing all the details for application form now the candidate needs to make payment through online mode such as debit card/ credit card/ net banking etc.
- The candidates now keep the hardcopy of the application form with them for further use.
IIFT 2025 Eligibility Criteria
Below are some eligibility criteria 2025 which candidates need to fulfill before filling the exam form such as Nationality, Qualification, Marks, Age Limit and appearing.
- Nationality: Applications are accepted from the candidates of Indian/ Foreign National/ NRI that are eligible for the exam.
- Qualification: The candidates must hold a bachelor degree of minimum 3 years of duration from any recognized institute / college are eligible to apply.
- Marks: For applying in the exam the candidates must have at least 50% marks and for reserved category 45% marks are required for the exam.
- Appearing: Those candidates in the final year of graduation are also eligible to apply.
- Age limit: For IIFT 2025 there will be no age limit criteria.
IIFT 2025 Merit list
The Merit list will be available to candidates in the PDF format and those who are shortlisted can check the merit list through the website. The released date of IIFT 2025 will be in the fourth week of January 2025. The merit list contained some details of the shortlisted candidate such as name, rank, scores obtained etc.
As the merit list is based on the CAT/ GMAT scores so it will be prepared by the authority. Then IIFT authority makes the call to the shortlisted candidate for the further round conducted by the authority. The merit list will be prepared according to the marks secured by the candidate in the exam.
Now the candidates can download their merit list for the future preference.
IIFT Cut-off 2025
The cut-off 2025 list will be released through the website and available to the students from the fourth week of January 2025. The cut-off list will be released separately according to the category of candidate.
The cut-off will be prepared by the authority which includes some factors such as number of seats available, previous year cut-off trends, number of qualified applicants etc . After considering these factories they release the cut-off in the online mode. For the cut-off candidates must have minimum qualification so that they can be qualified in the cut-off marks.
Selection criteria through CAT score are as given below
Parameters | Weightage |
CAT Score 98 | (Score of the candidate / Maximum CAT Score of 198 x 98) |
Gender Diversity (M=0, F= 2) | 02 |
Total Score | 100 |
Category Wise Sectional Cut-off are as follows
Category | Sectional Cut-off | Composite Cut-off |
General | 55 | 30 |
Gen-EWS/ OBC-NCL | 50 | 25 |
SC/ ST/ PWD/ Kashmiri Migrants/ Kashmiri Pandits | 30 | 20 |
IIFT 2025 Admission
This entrance exam was conducted by the NATA earlier and it is a national level exam which provides admission in the courses such as MBA – IB (International Business) and MBA-BA (Business Analytics) . This institute candidates take admission through CAT / GMAT scores as examinations are cancelled. After appearing for CAT / GMAT scores then the candidate needs to proceed further for WAT / Extempore / GD and PI round.
When the second round of the admission has been started then only the final admission are given to the shortlisted candidates. The seat allotment is based on the basis of the First round that is CAT score and second round of GD/ PI. On the day of exam the candidates need to report at the allotted campus for the further formalities. The candidates need to bring the original as well as photocopies for the verification.
Here we are provided the list of document that will be required for the verification:
- Academic marksheet and certificate
- IIFT admission/ call letter
- CAT 2024-2025 admit card
- CAT 2024-2025 score card
- Income certificate
- Category certificate
- EWS Certificate
- Migration Certificate
- Coloured passport size photographs