New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) said Monday that while an extended registration window propelled the Common Admission Test (CAT) registration numbers to nearly 231,000, these were still slightly below the 2016 numbers.
By the original deadline of 20 September, the IIMs had received around 211,000. They subsequently extended the deadline to 25 September.
In 2016, the IIMs received 232,434 applications for the test. Apart from the IIMs, several other business schools use CAT score for admission.
“The final registration numbers are around 2.31 lakh. Around around 20,000 (registrations) were added during the extended window,” said Neeraj Dwivedi, convener of CAT 2017.
Dwivedi, also a professor of IIM Lucknow, said exact numbers would be available on Tuesday.
India has 20 IIMs admitting nearly 4,000 students into their flagship post graduate programme in management.
IIM Lucknow, which is conducting CAT 2017, will allow candidates to correct errors in application between 27 and 30 September. CAT 2017 will be conducted across 140 cities on 26 November.
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