A government appointed panel was recommended single entrance test for admission to all engineering institutes under All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and a common entrance examination for all business schools.

More than 11, 000 engineering and management institutes, come under the AICTE.

The report of AICTE review committee stated “There shall be a single National Testing Service which shall conduct a Joint Entrance Examination for engineering programs and a Common Entrance Test for the management courses,

MAH CET or the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test is the management entrance exam for Maharashtra. The scores of MAH CET will be accepted by over 400 B-schools across Maharashtra.

Name of CET exam accepting AICTE institutes:

Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai

Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE), Mumbai

K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research (KJSIMSR), Mumbai

Pune University Department of Management Studies (PUMBA)

Prin. LN Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research

ITM Group of Institutes

MAH CET institutes with Cut-Offs:

Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai - 140

Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research & Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE), Mumbai - 134

University of Pune – DMS (PUMBA), Pune - 126

K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research (KJSIMSR), Mumbai - 149

Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Management & Research, Pimpri - 85

Institute of Management Development and Research, Pune - 98

N.L Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai - 138

Sinhgad Institute of Management, Pune - 100

MET's Institute of Management, Mumbai - 132

Xavier Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai – 131