BIMS Kolkata

Programmes

• MBA: 2-year full-time programme. Specialisations named on the institute site are Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, and Business Analytics, with dual specialisation under the affiliating university.
• BBA: 4-year full-time programme. Eligibility is 10+2 in any stream from a recognized board, with English as a compulsory subject.
• BCA: 4-year full-time programme. Eligibility is 10+2 with Mathematics, Computer Science, or Statistics, and English as a compulsory subject.

MBA structure: Four semesters. Semesters 1 and 2 are core subjects. Semesters 3 and 4 are specialisation semesters. A summer internship project is part of the curriculum. The medium of instruction and examination is English. A candidate needs 75 percent attendance in lectures, tutorials, and seminars to sit the end-semester examination, unless an authority allows otherwise.

The MBA page records class hours of 10:30 am to 5:30 pm, Tuesday to Saturday. The about page records that the institute operates Monday to Friday.

MBA admission

Eligibility is graduation (10+2+3) in any stream from a recognized university, plus a valid score in a national or state entrance exam. The FAQ names CAT, MAT, CMAT, and WBJEMAT. Selection includes screening of applications, group discussion, personal interview, and the entrance score. The MBA page says the minimum cutoff percentile is decided by the institute. It does not print a percentile.

BBA admission

Pass in 10+2 in any stream from a recognized board, with English as a compulsory subject.

BCA admission

Pass in 10+2 with Mathematics, Computer Science, or Statistics as one subject, and English as a compulsory subject.

Scholarships

The site header refers to a BIMS Scholarship Day. The fee pages and the FAQ do not print a scholarship amount, a waiver percentage, or eligibility marks. No scholarship figure is stored here.

Training and placement cell

The cell is managed by Ms Sayori Podder, Placement and Training Officer. It arranges summer internships, corporate interaction, industrial visits, and mock group discussions and interviews. A corporate mentor scheme divides sections into groups of 10, with two groups allotted to one mentor. Saturday is described as Corporate Interaction Day.

Industrial visits named on the page include the Coca-Cola plant at Taratala, Kolkata, and Priya Biscuits, Dankuni. The page also says the institute has tied up with 3 NGOs for live project work, and that 5 members of the Board of Governors come from industry.

Recruiters named in the FAQ: TCS, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, ITC Ltd., ABFRL, SBI Life, Kutchina, Netscribes, and Ceasefire.

The present placement page is titled Partial Placement Record 2025. That page does not print a salary, a highest package, or a placement percentage in its text, so none is stored.

Cutoffs

The MBA page says the minimum cutoff percentile in the entrance exam is decided by the institute. No percentile, score, or rank is printed for CAT, MAT, CMAT, or WBJEMAT. No cutoff number is stored.

For semester examinations, the MBA page requires 75 percent attendance in the subjects concerned.

NAAC accreditation

NAAC accredited Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Institute of Management Science, Kolkata, in the first cycle. The certificate, EC(SC)/148/1st Cycle/WBCOGN111618, is dated 27 March 2023. Grade B. CGPA 2.22 on a seven-point scale. Valid from 27 March 2023 to 26 March 2028.

This is an accreditation grade, not a numbered rank list. The short ranking field is blank for that reason.

Notices on the institute site

• MBA and BBA first-semester batch launching and induction programme: 10 to 21 August 2026.
• National conference on sustainable trends and practices in management, commerce, humanities, and social sciences research, 17 and 18 November 2022. The site also records that abstract submission was extended to 31 October 2022.
• BIMS Journal of Management, ISSN 2456-222X, invited papers for Volume 10, Issue 1 (July 2025).

Programme fees printed on the institute site

The annual fee field is the MBA figure of Rs 3,25,500 a year. The three programmes do not share one annual fee. Figures below are the printed totals.

MBA TOTAL PROGRAMME FEE: Rs 6,51,000 for the 2-year programme. On admission Rs 51,000. Each of the four semesters is Rs 1,50,000. The total divides evenly by 2 (Rs 3,25,500 a year). The BBA and BCA totals are different and remain labeled TOTAL PROGRAMME FEE.

BBA TOTAL PROGRAMME FEE: Rs 3,52,000 for four years, 2026-2030. On admission Rs 24,000. Each of eight semesters is Rs 41,000. The total divides evenly by 4 (Rs 88,000 a year).

BCA TOTAL PROGRAMME FEE: Rs 4,17,000 for four years, 2026-2030. On admission Rs 25,000. Each of eight semesters is Rs 49,000. The total divides evenly by 4 (Rs 1,04,250 a year).