Top 10 CAT Coaching Institutes in Rajkot (2026)

By the Online Coaching 4u team

Rajkot - Saurashtra's largest commercial hub and home to Saurashtra University and Marwadi University - has built a genuine CAT-coaching market over the past two decades, anchored by University Road as the city's main coaching corridor. The market mixes long-running national chains with institutes founded and run locally, led by Empower, which opened in 1999 as the first coaching centre in the wider Saurashtra region built exclusively around CAT and MBA/MCA entrance exams. Below is a fact-checked look at ten institutes actually training CAT and MBA-entrance aspirants in the city, each checked against at least one official or independently verifiable source.

How we picked this list

We looked for institutes with a genuine, checkable CAT-coaching presence in Rajkot: a real local address, confirmation across more than one independent source (institute or chain websites, plus education directories such as Hitbullseye and Chunocollege), and an actual CAT or MBA-entrance batch on offer rather than a passing mention. A couple of names that surface in generic "best coaching" round-ups for Rajkot, including one institute that is primarily an IAS/UPSC academy and another that is primarily an English-speaking class, were left off this list because CAT coaching is not genuinely their focus - we'd rather list nine solidly-verified institutes than pad to ten with a weak fit, but in Rajkot's case ten institutes did clear that bar.

1. Career Launcher

Career Launcher Rajkot has run CAT, CLAT, IPMAT and CMAT coaching from its University Road centre since 2015, led by director Javed Malek, a verbal-ability faculty member with over 16 years of experience. The centre offers personalised mentoring, national-level mock tests with topic-wise analysis, and a Student Information System dashboard for practice and doubt resolution, as part of Career Launcher's 225+-centre national network.

2. IMS (IMS Learning Resources)

IMS's Rajkot centre, on Sadhu Vaswani Road, extends a national management-entrance coaching network the company says has more than 42 years of history. The centre is led by Chief Mentor Rakesh Nathwani and covers CAT alongside GMAT, CMAT, XAT, NMAT, GRE and IELTS, backed by IMS's standardised test series and study material.

3. Endeavor Careers

Endeavor Careers' Rajkot branch, on Kalawad Road, has run since 2009 and has grown into one of the region's larger entrance-test hubs, coaching CAT, CMAT, CLAT, GRE and other management and law-entrance exams from a single Kalawad Road centre.

4. T.I.M.E. (Triumphant Institute of Management Education)

T.I.M.E., a national chain set up in 1992, runs its Rajkot centre near Sardarnagar Main Road, offering classroom CAT coaching alongside CLAT, SSC, banking and other competitive-exam batches, backed by the chain's standardised national test series.

5. PT Education

PT Education's Rajkot centre on University Road offers CAT and CMAT coaching with printed notes, structured test series and dedicated doubt-clearing sessions, serving students in the University Road coaching cluster alongside Career Launcher and Empower.

6. Focus Edu Care

Focus Edu Care runs a CAT-coaching centre near Hanuman Madhi Chowk, offering printed study material, test series and doubt-clearing sessions as part of its MBA-entrance preparation offering.

7. Ekoching

Ekoching, headquartered in Ahmedabad, runs a Rajkot centre in Jyotinagar (Crystal Mall) offering offline and online CAT, CMAT, CLAT and IPMAT coaching, with small batch sizes, an in-house study-material team and a dedicated student app for sectional tests and recorded lectures.

8. Empower

Empower, founded in 1999 by Mayank Batavia, was the first coaching centre in the Saurashtra region built exclusively for CAT and MBA/MCA entrance exams, and continues to run from its University Road-area centre with 100+ hours of classroom training and structured mock-test series.

9. Vision Institute of Professional Studies (VIPS)

Vision Institute of Professional Studies, on University Road, was founded by Vyomesh Parsana and Jasmin Mehta with the specific aim of giving Saurashtra-region students access to MBA-entrance training locally. Alongside CAT and other MBA-entrance exams, it also coaches for MCA, UPSC, banking, NDA/CDS and GRE/GMAT/IELTS for students planning to study abroad.

10. J.J. Tutorials

J.J. Tutorials, based in Sardarnagar, coaches CAT alongside CMAT, XAT, SNAP, MAT and banking-exam batches (SBI PO, IBPS), and is particularly well known locally for its CMAT coaching. It's a single-centre institute rather than part of a national chain, with printed notes and test series among its core offerings.

A note on choosing between them

No institute on this list is automatically the right pick for every student. Career Launcher, IMS, TIME and Endeavor Careers bring national-chain resources, standardised study material and large test series built over decades; Empower and Vision Institute of Professional Studies offer the longest continuous Rajkot/Saurashtra track records, both built specifically for the region's MBA aspirants; and PT Education, Focus Edu Care, Ekoching and J.J. Tutorials round out the market with locally run alternatives across different parts of the city. Treat every fee, founding-year and batch-size claim here as a starting point, not a fixed quote, and confirm current details directly with the institute before enrolling.

Compare full details and additional Rajkot institutes on our Rajkot coaching page.

Frequently asked questions

Which is the best CAT coaching institute in Rajkot?

There's no single 'best' - Empower has the longest continuous local track record (founded 1999, the first dedicated CAT/MBA institute in Saurashtra), while Career Launcher, IMS, TIME and Endeavor Careers bring national-chain infrastructure, standardised material and large test series. Vision Institute of Professional Studies and J.J. Tutorials suit students who want CAT prep alongside a wider spread of competitive exams. The right choice depends on whether you want a national chain's systems or a locally founded institute's closer attention.

Where in Rajkot are most CAT coaching institutes located?

University Road is Rajkot's main coaching cluster, home to Career Launcher, PT Education, Empower and Vision Institute of Professional Studies. Endeavor Careers and Focus Edu Care operate from Kalawad Road-area localities, IMS and TIME are based near Sadhu Vaswani Road and Sardarnagar respectively, Ekoching runs from Jyotinagar, and J.J. Tutorials is in Sardarnagar.

Do these institutes prepare for exams other than CAT?

Yes - most cover the full MBA-entrance spread. IMS, TIME, Endeavor Careers, Career Launcher and J.J. Tutorials all coach CMAT and XAT alongside CAT, and several also prepare students for CLAT, IPMAT and GRE/GMAT. J.J. Tutorials additionally runs banking and government-exam batches, so confirm a given institute's CAT-specific batch size and faculty directly before enrolling.

Is Rajkot a good base for CAT preparation compared to a bigger city?

Rajkot's coaching market is smaller than Ahmedabad's or Surat's, but it has a genuine two-decade history: Empower opened in 1999 specifically to give Saurashtra region students CAT/MBA coaching without having to relocate. Combined with national chains that have since opened branches, Rajkot aspirants can now access the same test series and study material as bigger-city students without leaving the region.