Kolkata, IN · 12 months · class of 90
IIM Calcutta MBAEx MBA: cost, salary and payback
The one-year MBA for Executives at IIM Calcutta publishes its graduates' pay but not its own price.
Paid back after graduation in
3.9 years
Total cost $402,342 · 10-year NPV $312,208
| Tuition and fees, whole program | $186,016 |
| Living budget | $84,866 |
| Salary given up, 21 months | $157,500 |
| Summer internship earned | −$26,040 |
| Total cost | $402,342 |
| Salary after: median base salary | $185,000 |
| Signing bonus × share receiving it | $14,400 |
| 10-year net present value | $312,208 |
| Return on the cost (present values) | 79% |
US dollars at the ECB rate of the last update. Raises of 5% a year with the MBA and 3% without, discounted at 5%, before tax. How this is calculated.
Fees and budget read on the school site · employment: 18th batch (placements 2025) (school standard) · Built by Radif Partners · Method
- Tuition and fees
- n/a
- Total cost, salary given up included
- n/a
- median total pay
- ₹3,288,000
- Payback, reference person
- not computable
IIM Calcutta's MBA for Executives, the one-year program once called PGPEX, is the only one of the 5 Indian programs on this site with no published fee: neither the official program pages nor the admission documents we read state the tuition, and the brochure sits behind a form. There is no living budget either, although the program is residential. This page therefore shows no total cost and no payback, for the reference person earning $90,000 or anyone else, until you type the fee you are quoted and your own salary in the calculator. What the institute does publish is pay. The 18th batch, which graduated in 2025, reported a median CTC of ₹3,288,000, a cost-to-company figure that includes variable and other components, not a base salary. Technology took 45.5% of the batch, the largest share, ahead of consulting at 18.2%. The class is small, 90 students in the current batch, and has the lowest share of women of any school on this site.
A package, not a base salary
Indian institutes often report pay as CTC, the cost to the company of a hire, which can include a variable bonus, retirement contributions and allowances. IIM Calcutta's ₹3,288,000 for the 18th batch is a median CTC in that sense. It is therefore not directly comparable with the base salary medians of American or European schools, nor exactly with IIM Ahmedabad PGPX, which reports an audited base median of ₹3,258,750. IIM Lucknow IPMX reports a CTC too, ₹2,700,000, which makes it the closer comparison. The institute shows the median rising in each of its last three batches, a trend worth more than a single year's figure.
The report is short. It gives no count of students placed or unplaced, no split by job function, no locations, and no salary by sector; no statistics for the batch graduating in 2026 were online when we read it. Sectors are listed for the 18th batch: technology 45.5%, consulting 18.2%, finance 9.1% and manufacturing 4.5%, with a large group of other sectors. The named recruiters are Accenture, Genpact, Infosys, McKinsey, Persistent and RPG.
IIM Calcutta MBAEx: where the class went
Share of the class
18.2%
| Salary reported | $34,509 (school-wide) |
| Graduates, about | 16 |
| Payback with that salary | n/a |
Reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA.
Working out the cost yourself
Without a published fee, the honest way to cost the MBAEx is to ask the admissions office for the current fee schedule and enter it in the calculator at the top, with the hostel and food you expect to pay over 12 months. Then type your current salary: the $90,000 reference used for the American and European schools on this site is far above what most Indian managers earn before a one-year program, and it would make the payback look much worse than it is. The program admits only candidates with several years of work behind them, so your current salary is the figure that matters most. The converter below helps if you are quoted in rupees and think in another currency.
A fee or a salary in US dollars
In US dollars
$111,880
| 1 EUR | $1.119 |
ECB reference rate of October 13, 2026. Prices on the ground do not follow exchange rates one for one.
A small, mostly male class
The batch profiles give only the number of students, the number of women and a count of industries represented. The 12.5% share of women is computed from the profile of the 18th batch. No other school on this site reports a lower share. For a broader peer group, the one-year MBA ranking lists the short programs that publish enough to be ranked.
Where IIM Calcutta MBAEx stands in our rankings
Not ranked: IIM Calcutta MBAEx does not publish a living budget for students or where graduates went to work, which our ranking needs. Its cost is complete above.
Our fit score, reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA (method). Third-party rankings play no part in it. For reference, IIM Calcutta MBAEx was ranked 53 in the FT Global MBA 2026.
What the IIM Calcutta MBAEx MBA costs
| Item | INR, and US dollars |
|---|---|
| Living budget | not published |
IIM Calcutta MBAEx employment report: 18th batch (placements 2025)
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Median total pay | ₹3,288,000 $34,509 |
IIM Calcutta MBAEx graduates by industry
| Industry, as the school names it | Share | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| IT & ITES + E-Commerce + Data & AI + Analytics & Tech | 45.5% | not published |
| Education + Logistics & Supply Chain + Conglomerate + Startup / Agri + Others | 22.7% | not published |
| Consulting | 18.2% | not published |
| BFSI | 9.1% | not published |
| Manufacturing | 4.5% | not published |
Employers named by IIM Calcutta MBAEx
Accenture · Genpact · Infosys · McKinsey · Persistent · RPG
Names only: the school gives no hire counts.
The IIM Calcutta MBAEx class
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Women | 12.5% |
| Class size | 90 |
Not published by IIM Calcutta MBAEx in the documents we read: a living budget for students; where graduates went to work; the split by job function. We leave these blank rather than fill them with an estimate.