XAT, acronym for Xavier Admission Test is a national level admission test conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur to select students for admission to management courses. There are 35 other Management Institutes which selecting students on the basis of XAT. Some of them include XIMB (Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar), LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai), and BIM (Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy).

XAT is usually conducted on the first Sunday of January in 31 cities all over India. These include: Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Trivandrum, Vadodara, and Visakhapatnam.

• Application Form: Prospectus available at the University Enquiry Counter, Shimla 5 during working days on cash payment of Rs. 1000/- including test fee and by post Rs. 1100/- by sending IPO/Draft in favour of the Finance, Officer, H.P. University, Shimla 5 to the Deputy Registrar (Ent.Tests) H.P. University, Shimla 171005
• XAT Registration: You can get the XAT bulletin from the following sources:
  1) Selected branches of State Bank of India.
  2) The XAT office at XLRI, Jamshedpur.
  3) Candidates can also fill up the form online by logging onto the website www.xlri.com.