Overview
- Reporting on July 21–22 shows several Indian Institutes of Management have started active undergraduate admissions that use JEE Main or JEE Advanced scores to identify Class 12 applicants for degrees in AI, data science, digital business and entrepreneurship.
- IIM Mumbai requires only JEE Main Paper 1 for its four‑year BS in Digital Science and Business Management, has a 70‑seat inaugural cohort, and gives a Personal Interview 30% weight in final selection.
- IIM Lucknow’s new BS in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics uniquely accepts JEE Advanced scores, sets a maximum age of 21 and offers a 5% marks relaxation for SC/ST candidates.
- IIM Bangalore lets applicants choose among three routes—JEE Main, CUET or an institute test—for its BBA in Digital Business and Entrepreneurship while IIM Kozhikode treats a JEE Main percentile of 80 or above as a waiver for its aptitude test and IIM Sambalpur uses JEE Main for shortlisting followed by a Personal Interview with an upper age cap of 20.
- The move repurposes India’s high‑stakes engineering exams to screen quantitative aptitude, follows the multidisciplinary push of NEP 2020, and could reshape students’ choices, access to premier campuses and the supply of tech‑fluent managers in the job market.