Brief note on Common Management Admission Test (CMAT)-2014-15

Preamble

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is a statutory body under Ministry of Human

Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India enacted by the Parliament through AICTE Act 1986 with

 view for proper planning and coordinated development of technical education system throughout the

country, the promotion of qualitative improvement of such education in relation to planned quantitative

growth and the regulation and proper maintenance of norms and standards in the technical education.

Genesis of CMAT

AICTE in its mission to reduce the burden of students in attending to multiple examinations has

launched the first national level Common ManagementAdmission Test (CMAT)-2012 for facilitating

institutions to select suitable students for admission in all management programs approved by AICTE

from year 2012-13. The initiative was taken to address the issue of physical, mental and financial stress

being imposed on the students through number of entrance examinations being followed by the

institutions for admission into all Management Programmes in AICTE approved institutions.

AICTE further decided to conduct CMAT twice a year from 2013 for facilitating institutions to select

suitable students for admission in all management programmes approved by AICTE. The first round is

conducted in September and second in February. The scores are awarded and All India Merit List is

prepared for both the examinations. Better of the two scores are used for admission.

AICTE has now decided to conduct CMAT in Foreign Countries for facilitating eligible NRIs/PIOs and

foreign nationals to appear in CMAT for seeking admission in institutions in India following CMAT

merit list for 2014-15 under special provisions defined in AICTE Approval Process and against all

vacancies left after completion of centralized admission in management institutions. 

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