Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics.
A joint program of the Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, IIM Calcutta, and IIT Kharagpur — training analytics leaders through a rigorous, data-driven curriculum.
What is PGDBA.
The Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) is a full-time, 24-month program jointly offered by three of India's premier institutes: theIndian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, theIndian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, and theIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Students spend time at all three campuses, combining statistical rigor, management perspective, and engineering/technology depth into a single analytics curriculum.
Admission is highly selective — a written test followed by a personal interview conducted by faculty from all three institutes. This site exists to help aspirants understand what that interview actually looks like, in the words of students who've been through it.
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- Batches covered
- 486+
- Interview experiences
- 2015–present
- Years archived
- 2025-27
- Most recent batch
Why this site exists.
This is an alumni-run, free resource for PGDBA aspirants — a rebuild of interview experiences originally collected on the program's old WordPress site. Every batch from 2015-17 through 2025-27 is archived here, organized and searchable by year, so future applicants can prepare with a clear sense of what to expect.
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