IIT Madras Executive MBA Admissions 2025: Registration begins for 2-year weekend programme

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has opened the registration process for admission to its executive MBA programme for working professionals. The two-year in-person management course is aimed at training mid-career working professionals to lead a modern business organisation.

The programme has been designed by IIT Madras ’ Department of Management Studies (DoMS). The application link to apply for the course is active at doms.iitm.ac.in till October 19, 2025.

Explaining the pedagogy of the programme, S Srinivasan, associate professor, and executive MBA programme coordinator, DoMS, IIT Madras, said: “This program will talk about how the current professionals can start implementing the tool they will be learning during the course of this EMBA. The students will also learn inter disciplinary areas in this course, which will add a lot of value to the working professionals.”

“Our program is highly driven by a case study approach in the classrooms. Faculty use even Ivy league and Harvard Business School cases where the students will have a scenario to learn certain challenges and best practices and how to take decisions in a given situation. They will be given a simulated environment to work on a business program,” he added.

Notably, the classes for the programme will be held over alternate weekends and the working professionals will be trained from a functional, integrative perspective in view of the current management knowledge.

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EMBA 2025: Eligibility, selection process

Working professionals with 60% and above in bachelor’s degree in any discipline with a minimum three years of work experience after undergraduate are eligible to apply.

MBA aspirants, applying for the EMBA at IIT Madras will be selected on the basis of a written test and personal interview, held on November 8 and 9, 2025.

The written test will have subjects such as business aptitude, logical reasoning, quantitative ability, and verbal ability. The selection results will be announced by December 2025 and the programme will begin from January 2026.

The curriculum involves three field capstone projects, experiential based, enabling students to take what they have learnt throughout the programme and apply it to examine a specific issue.

“The mission of this program is to equip its students with deep functional and broad industrial domain knowledge, enrich them with an integrated perspective of boundary spanning business decisions and empower them to lead and contribute to global businesses,” according to the official statement by the institute.