Department of Management, BITS

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<p><b>BITS Pilani&rsquo;s Department of Management</b> offers an MBA in Business Analytics and a PhD in Management. Admissions are strictly merit-based.</p>

<div><b>MBA Admission Snapshot</b></div>

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<div>Candidates seeking admission must write the Business Analytics Aptitude Test (BAAT), a 3-hour MCQ-based exam.</div>
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<div>Shortlisted candidates will then be evaluated on personal interview, GD, extempore, work experience and academic record.</div>
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<th>Program</th>
<th>MBA (Business Analytics)</th>
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<td>Educational Qualification</td>
<td>60% in graduation</td>
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<td>Entrance Exam</td>
<td>BAAT (50 point weightage)</td>
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<td>Other Exams Accepted</td>
<td>CAT/ XAT/ GMAT (10 point weightage)</td>
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<li><a href="#1">BITS Pilani MBA Dates 2026</a>

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<li><a href="#3">BITS Pilani MBA Admission 2026</a>
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<li><a href="#7">BITS Pilani PhD Admission 2026</a>
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<li><a href="#10">How to Apply for MBA at BITS Pilani (DoM)?</a>
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<li><a href="#11">BITS Pilani (DoM) FAQs</a>
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<h2 id="1">BITS Pilani MBA Dates 2026</h2>

<p>BITS Pilani has not released the 2026 admission timeline. But based on the previous patterns, the tentative admission schedule for 2026 is as follows:</p>

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<td>Start of Application Form</td>
<td>Dec 16, 2026</td>
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<td>Date of Business Analytics Aptitude Test (BAAT)</td>
<td>March 26, 2026</td>
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<td>GD/ PI WAT/ Extempore</td>
<td>April 14, 2026</td>
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<h3 id="2">CAT/ XAT/ GMAT Dates 2026</h3>

<p>BITS Pilani gives 10% weightage to CAT, XAT or GMAT scores during the final selection process.</p>

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<td>XAT Admit Card</td>
<td>Dec 20, 2025</td>
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<td>XAT Exam Date</td>
<td>Jan 04, 2026</td>
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<td>XAT Result</td>
<td>Jan 15, 2026 (Tentative)</td>
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<td>CAT Result</td>
<td>22-23 Dec, 2025</td>
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<h2 id="3">BITS Pilani MBA Admission 2026</h2>

<h3 id="4">MBA Eligibility Criteria</h3>

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<li>Bachelor&rsquo;s Degree or equivalent, with a minimum 60% aggregate or 6.0 CGPA in the qualifying degree.</li>
<li>The applicant should have taken mathematics/statistics as a subject in 12th standard or higher level.</li>
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<h3 id="5">MBA Selection Process</h3>

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<div>Candidates are required to appear for the Business Analytics Aptitude Test (BAAT).</div>
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<div>Based on the test performance, candidates are shortlisted candidates for a personal interview.</div>
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<div><b>Final Merit List</b></div>

<div>Final selection will be based on:</div>

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<div>BAAT</div>
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<div>Personal interview</div>
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<div>CAT/ XAT/ GMAT (if available)</div>
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<div>Work experience (if any)</div>
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<div>Previous academic record</div>
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<h3 id="6">Business Analytics Aptitude Test (BAAT) Syllabus</h3>

<p>The Business Analytics Aptitude Test (BAAT) for admission to MBA in Business Analytics in the academic year 2025-26 comprise of:</p>

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<li>Management Aptitude Section</li>
<li>Analytics Aptitude Section</li>
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<p><i>The duration of BAAT is 3 hours; the questions are multiple choice</i>.</p>

<p><strong>The syllabus and pattern are as follows:</strong></p>

<p><b>Management Aptitude Section</b>: This section will measure management aptitude in three areas&ndash;Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability &amp; Reading Comprehension and Data Interpretation &amp; Logical Reasoning.</p>

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<p><b>Verbal Ability</b>: Verbal Reasoning, Sentence completion, Grammar, Syllogisms, Jumbled paragraphs, Para Completion and inference, Contextual usage, Foreign language words used in English, Reading Comprehension, Analogies, Sentence correction, Verbal Logic, Different usage of the same word, Idioms, Parajumbles, Antonyms.</p>
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<p><b>Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning</b>: Blood Relations, Series, Proposition, Direction Sense, Coding-Decoding, Assumptions, Puzzles, Clocks and Calendars, Statements, Data Arrangement, Family Tree, Binary Logic, Seating Arrangement, Sets &amp; Caselets, Syllogism, Venn Diagram, Data Structures, Tables &amp; Pie Charts, Data Sufficiency, Bars &amp; Line Graphs.</p>
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<p><b>Quantitative Aptitude</b>: Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, Mensuration, Partnership (Accounts), Profit &amp; Loss, Ratios and Proportion, Inequalities, Quadratic and linear equations, Surds and Indices, TimeSpeed-Distance, Number System, Geometric Progression, Work and Time, Percentages, Logarithms.</p>
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<p><b>Analytics Aptitude Section</b>: The questions will be from Matrices, Linear Algebra, Coordinate geometry in two dimensions, Basic Differential and Integral Calculus, Numerical Analysis, Probability and combination, Fundamental Programming Concepts, Basic Data Structures (arrays, lists, stacks, and queues), and Boolean Algebra.</p>
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<p><strong>The subject-wise distribution of the questions for BAAT is as follows:</strong></p>

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<th colspan="2">Section</th>
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<td rowspan="3">Management Aptitude</td>
<td>Verbal Ability</td>
<td>16</td>
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<td>Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning</td>
<td>19</td>
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<td>Quantitative Ability</td>
<td>17</td>
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<td colspan="2">Analytics Aptitude</td>
<td>40</td>
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<td colspan="2">Total Questions</td>
<td>92</td>
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<h2 id="7">BITS Pilani PhD Admission 2026</h2>

<p>Department of Management, BITS, Pilani, offers part-time and full-time PhD programs in the following research areas:</p>

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<li>Finance &amp; Accounting</li>
<li>Marketing</li>
<li>Organisational Behaviour &amp; HRM</li>
<li>Operations</li>
<li>IT &amp; Technology Management</li>
<li>Strategy &amp; Entrepreneurship</li>
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<h3 id="8">Eligibility Criteria</h3>

<p><b>Full-time candidates </b></p>

<p>60% aggregate or 6.0 CGPA in:</p>

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<li>MBA</li>
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<p>Or</p>

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<li>2-Year management program</li>
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<p>Or</p>

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<li>Any higher degree of ITS Pilani</li>
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<p><b>Part-time Candidates </b></p>

<p>60% or 6.0 CGPA or above in:</p>

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<li>MBA</li>
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<p>Or</p>

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<li>Two-year Management Program,</li>
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<p>Or</p>

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<li>Candidates having M.Phil. (Social and Behavioural Sciences)</li>
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<p>Or</p>

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<li>M.E/M.Tech in Industrial Engineering</li>
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<p>Or</p>

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<li>Any Higher Degree of BITS Pilani</li>
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<p>Candidates must be working professionals.</p>

<h3 id="9">Selection Procedure</h3>

<p>All Candidates shortlisted for the PhD programme in the Department of Management, Pilani campus, need to appear in the following test(s):</p>

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<li>One-hour subjective test. The nature of the written test will be application-based in the areas of Business &amp; Management to test basic management knowledge and research aptitude.</li>
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<p>Based on the test results, there may be a shortlisting of candidates for Interviews.</p>
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<h2 id="10">How to Apply for MBA at BITS Pilani (DoM)?</h2>

<p>Candidates can submit the application fees by one of the following methods.</p>

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<li>Payment by Credit Cards or Debit Cards</li>
<li>Payment through Net Banking</li>
<li>Payment by cash at all ICICI bank branches through a Challan</li>
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<p><b>Documents during reporting </b></p>

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<li>Admission letter</li>
<li>Proof of payment (admission fee and other fees)</li>
<li>Original mark sheets</li>
<li>Transfer/ Migration certificate</li>
<li>Affidavit on anti-ragging</li>
<li>Medical report</li>
<li>Proof of work experience (if any)</li>
<li>Photo ID</li>
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<h2 id="11">BITS Pilani (DoM) FAQs</h2>

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<p class="accordio"><b>Ques. What is the application procedure for the Department of Management, BITS Pilani Admission?</b></p>

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<p><b>Ans</b>. The application form of BITS Pilani for the MBA program has to be filled out online.</p>

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<li>Visit the official website<a href="http://bitsadmission.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.bitsadmission.com/mbamain.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bitsadmission.com/</a></li>
<li>Tap on &ldquo;Apply&rdquo;</li>
<li>Enter all the asked Personal and Academic details</li>
<li>Go to the payment option</li>
<li>Pay the required application fees</li>
<li>Submit the filled application form and take a printout of it</li>
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<p class="accordio"><b>Ques. What are the required documents for admission to the Department of Management, BITS Pilani MBA?</b></p>

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<p><b>Ans</b>. The required documents for admission to the Department of Management, BITS Pilani MBA program are as follows:</p>

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<li>Marksheet of 10th and 12th class</li>
<li>Marksheet of Qualifying Examination</li>
<li>Residence Proof</li>
<li>Photo ID Proof</li>
<li>Valid <a href="https://collegedunia.com/exams/cat" target="_blank"><b>CAT</b></a>/XAT/<a href="https://collegedunia.com/exams/gmat" target="_blank"><b>GMAT</b></a> scorecard</li>
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<p class="accordio"><b>Ques. Do I need to write an essay in the application process at the Department of Management, BITS Pilani?</b></p>

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<p><b>Ans</b>. Apart from the personal, educational and work experience details, you need to fill in the answers to the following three questions as well while filling the application form:</p>

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<li>Why do you want to pursue an MBA in Business Analytics? (Max. 300 words)</li>
<li>What do you expect to learn while pursuing an MBA in Business Analytics? (Max. 300 words)</li>
<li>What makes you a suitable candidate for an MBA in Business Analytics? (Max. 300 words)</li>
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