SVKM's NMIMS Bengaluru — School of Business Management

NMIMS Bengaluru is the piece of the NMIMS system most applicants meet only through aggregator noise — a strong national brand, a Bangalore address, and very few pages that quote the campus’s own documents. This profile records exactly what the campus publishes: one exam door, a printed fee, and its own placement report.

How does the selection machine actually run?

One door, printed in the campus’s own words: NMAT by GMAC only. The PG admissions page states that all PG admissions happen through NMAT and that Bengaluru “accepts only NMAT Scores for admission to the MBA program” — no CAT, no CMAT, no XAT. Two system-level rules from the official handout matter more than any coaching-institute cut-off estimate: NMIMS considers only the first NMAT attempt, and cut-offs are set at NMIMS’s sole discretion after the cycle. Register with NMIMS in the same window (2026: 20 August to 10 October, Rs 3,000, non-refundable). The handout also prints a 30% women’s share across NMIMS MBA programmes — a published provision inside the merit process. Our NMAT guide maps the full calendar and attempt strategy.

What does it cost, and what does it return?

The handout’s fee table prints Rs 11,00,000 per annum for the Bengaluru MBA (2026-28, “for information only”; the second year is intimated at admission). Within the same table, Mumbai’s flagship reads Rs 13,50,000 and Indore Rs 10,00,000 — the campus ladder inside one university. On returns, the campus publishes its own report, read in full today: for the 2024-26 batch, highest Rs 30 LPA, average Rs 13.5 LPA, median Rs 12 LPA, 122 recruiters, 24 PPOs, 200+ offers for a 400-strong cohort — and for the 2025-27 summer batch, stipends to Rs 1.08 L a month. Read the median and the top-slice averages together: the Top 10% at Rs 22.41 LPA shows the ceiling, the median shows the floor.

Where does NMIMS Bengaluru sit in a Bangalore shortlist?

As the NMAT door of the city’s deemed-university tier — below IIM Bangalore’s CAT ceiling and beside SIBM Bengaluru’s SNAP door and Christ’s multi-exam menu. If your CAT season is gone, the November-December NMAT window is a genuine second act here, at a printed fee Rs 2,50,000 a year below the Mumbai flagship. The full stack is mapped in the Bangalore city guide, and the Mumbai-vs-Somaiya comparison shows how we weigh printed evidence against brand.

How Udaan helps with NMIMS Bengaluru

By holding every number to the campus’s own paper. The fee, the first-attempt rule and the refund terms come from the handout; the placement figures come from the campus’s own report — and if anyone quotes you a “package” or a “quota seat” that appears in neither, we reconcile it against the university’s published no-quota notice before any money moves.

Official sources: Bengaluru PG admissions · Admission Handout 2026 (PDF) · Placement Report 2025-26 (PDF) · MBA programme page