There is no fixed age limit to pursue the program. My sister did her PGDIE at 26 and she is now working at Amazon with a great CTC. As long as you are passionate about your career it doesn’t matter what your age is. However, before taking any decision, there are some important questions which you should consider:

• Know your future goals (professionally and personally) and how this program would help you to achieve them.
• Know your aspirations and be well aware of the opportunities you would get after completing the program.
• Does the program you chose to be recognized in the market where you want to make your career, as NITIE offers many specialized courses?
• Make sure that the ROI is good.
• Be well prepared if you lose your job and make sure you know how to tackle that situation.

Check some important statistics of PGDM at NITIE:

Consider all the above points before selecting a particular course or college. NITIE is quite famous among recruiters. Their frequent participating companies include Amazon, Flipkart, GlaxoSmithKline, Abbott Healthcare, Amway, Google, Vodafone, Nestle, and many more.

No, it is not difficult but that depends on who you are asking.

You will get a call-up letter for the interview in your email ID. A care package will be sent to you consisting of expected topics and a number of other things. The topics for the GD round include current topics. 

Going through newspapers on a daily basis will also help. GD round goes on for around ten minutes and you will be given time to think and prepare your answers.

You will receive a call from NITIE Mumbai based on your GATE score. You must have score 831 at the rank of 315.

The table represents the GATE cut off ranges of 2020 for PGDMM and PGDPM courses,

Part of your admission will also depend upon whether or not you are performing well in the interview sessions and GDs. The interviews are usually held between 22nd to 24th April every year. Thus, you should book the tickets when you still can for both routes. 

NITIE accepts GATE scores for PGDIE, PGDMM, and PGDPM courses. The GATE cutoff for NITIE varies each year depending on various factors such as category, students pools, etc. So, it’s difficult to predict the required GATE cutoff. 

NITIE relesed the GATE cutoff 2021 for PGDMM and PGDPM courses. It is as follows.

Going by this year’s cutoff trends it’s possible that you will get a call from NITIE. But in order to be selected for admission, you will need to do well in group discussion and personal interviews too. 

One of my cousins graduated from NITIE and a few people in his batch had a percentage around the 60s in their 12th boards. And you could find many too.

NITIE gives more weightage to your performance in GDPI rather than past academics at least for PGDIM and PGDISEM courses. You just need to score 97 percentile in CAT for getting a call. Then it all depends on your GD PI performance.

NITIE does consider academic scores in the selection process. However, you can compensate for your poor scores (if any) by performing well in GD and PI rounds.

In a nutshell, I can say that the emphasis on academic scores in NITIE selection criteria is lesser than that in IIMs and many other colleges.

One of my friends faced a similar situation as you and here are some tips for you regarding your question. My friend was placed in Maruti Suzuki after his graduation and then got selected in NITIE. He went with NITIE.

If you have a good academic profile i.e., good scores from 10th, 12th, B. Tech, and extracurriculars then you can directly go with NITIE.

If not then having one or two years of work experience may also help you in getting shortlists from the company on-campus placements.

One more thing you should be confident enough about is that you can convert to NITIE, Mumbai again if you want to have some work experience.

The admission process (criterion) followed by NITIE, Mumbai for the PGDISEM courses offered by the institution is as follows:

• The applicants must acquire a degree in an Engineering/Technology-related UG Course in any department with an aggregate of 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PD applicants).
• After this, you are required to appear for and attempt the CAT examination; the cut-off percentile for NITIE is around 95 for General candidates, 80 for NC-OBC candidates, and 70 for SC and ST candidates.
• The shortlisted applicants are invited for the Group Discussion and Personal Interview round conducted by the institution.
• Several seats for these programs of the institution are for Sponsored applicants.

After all the rounds of the admission procedure are completed, the status of his/her application is conveyed by the institution as per the norms or criteria followed. My brother received an offer letter from the institution a few days after he got selected for admission into the PGDISEM course of the institute.