IIM Lucknow uses CAT scores for admission to PGP and MBA courses. The available cutoff data covers 2025 category-wise percentiles, along with trend figures for earlier years where given.

For CAT 2025, the PGP cutoff range across all categories is 60 - 90, while the MBA cutoff range is 60 - 85. General category closing percentile is 85 for both PGP Agri-Business Management and MBA Sustainability Management in Round 1.

CourseExamCutoff
PGPCAT60 - 90
MBACAT60 - 85

IIM Lucknow CAT Cutoff 2026

IIM Lucknow admits students to PGP and MBA programs through CAT. In Round 1 of IIM Lucknow CAT Cutoff 2025, PGP programs closed within the overall percentile range of 60 - 90 across all categories.

  • For MBA, the Round 1 overall closing percentile in 2025 is 60 - 85 across all categories.

PGP Agri-Business Management and MBA Sustainability Management are listed among the main CAT-based choices at IIM Lucknow. In 2025, the General category closing percentile for PGP Agri-Business Management is 85 in Round 1.

  • For MBA Sustainability Management, the CAT 2025 closing percentile for General category is 85 in Round 1.

The category-wise closing percentiles for PGP Agri-Business Management and MBA Sustainability Management are given below.

IIM Lucknow PGP Agri-Business Management Cutoff 2025

CategoryClosing percentile
General85
OBC77
SC65
ST60
EWS77
PwD60

IIM Lucknow MBA Sustainability Management Cutoff 2025

CategoryClosing percentile
General85
OBC77
SC65
ST60
EWS77
PwD60

IIM Lucknow CAT Cutoff Trends

For PGP programs at IIM Lucknow, admission in 2025 closed at 60 percentile across all categories, compared with 55 in 2024.

  • For MBA programs, admission in 2025 closed at 60 across all categories.

The category-wise and course-wise CAT closing percentile trends are shown below.

IIM Lucknow CAT PGP Cutoff Trends: Category-wise

Category2025202420232022
General
85
85
85
85
OBC
77
77
77
77
EWS
77
77
77
77
SC
65
65
65
65
ST
60
55
55
60
PwD
60
55
55
60

IIM Lucknow CAT PGP Cutoff Trends: Course-wise

CoursesClosing percentile 2025Closing percentile 2024Closing percentile 2023Closing percentile 2022
Agri-Business Management
60
55
55
60
General Management
60
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IIM Lucknow CAT MBA Cutoff Trends: Category-wise

Category2025
General
85
OBC
77
EWS
77
SC
65
ST
60
PwD
60

IIM Lucknow CAT MBA Cutoff Trends: Course-wise

CoursesClosing percentile 2025
Sustainability Management
60