Media Release

Mangalore, Jan 12:  In the results of the Common Aptitude Test (CAT), conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management, announced yesterday a Mangalorean girl, Akansha Baliga has recorded a top score of 99.7 percentile. Around 1.85 lakh MBA aspirants took the test over a 20-day testing window across 36 cities from mid October. Out of these, the aspirational 100 percentile was managed by just nine students, while 1,800 students crossed the 99 percentile barrier. The Indian Institutes of Management published the results of CAT 2011 on their website on Wednesday.

Akansha Baliga is doing her final year engineering in Electronics & Communication at PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore and is a former student of St. Agnes School and St. Aloysius College, Mangalore.

Following her very high scoring, Akansha has now been shortlisted for admission to the country’s best management institutions including IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta.

CAT scores are accepted by the 13 IIMs, the country's premier institutes for management studies, and several others, including the management studies departments in the National Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institutes of Technology.

Akansha Baliga is the daughter of the eminent pediatrician Dr. B. Shantharam Baliga, Professor & Head of the Department of Pediatrics, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore and Dr. Shrikala Baliga, Professor & Head of the Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore