IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management

IIM- Ahmedabad do not have a 0 fee admission. Students have to pay the complete course fee to study at IIM-A i.e. Rs 19.5 lakhs for 2016-2018 batch. IIM-A do have scholarships based on academic performance or financial status which subsidizes the course fees to some extent.

Target a CAT score of above 95 percentile if you want to get into top 25 B-schools in India. Usually, IIMs do not provide specialization and give a diploma in General Management. You will get a PGDM/MBA degree from such colleges. While colleges like S.P Jain gives MBA/PGDM with Marketing/Finance/Operations specialization.

Total expense is Rs 10-15 lakhs.

MBA in finance will give you a slight edge over others while grabbing initial concepts. While doing in marketing you will not get any such advantage. Choosing specialization should depend on your interest rather than expertise, because you can gain expertise with time, but your interest remains for long term.

It depends, how do you define normal. It varies from Rs 20,000 for the whole program to Rs 20 lakhs in case of IIM-A. On an average, considering top 25 B-Schools, it would hover around Rs 10-15 lakhs.

You will get calls for WAT/PI depending on which all colleges you have applied for. With your mentioned percentile you might get calls from IMT, IMI, baby IIM's and likes. If you convert them, you get an admit to join these colleges.

It's all about justifying the gap. If you have any genuine reason and you are able to justify it, then no problem.

IIM A provides PGP & FABM program only. Referring to placements, you can secure a consulting role in PGP program, but consulting role are not that plausible in FABM program. In short, you are coming from food technology and joining PGP then the answer is yes or else FABM no.

Yes, you can. Refer the selection criteria for IIM A for further details.