Welingkar Institute, Bengaluru

The Bengaluru campus of WeSchool, the Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, offers the AICTE-approved PGDM, a diploma rather than a university MBA degree. PGDM 2026-28 shortlisting accepts CAT 2025, XAT 2026, GMAT (2023 onwards), CMAT 2026 or ATMA (February 2026); the published Bengaluru general-merit cutoffs — re-read from the official cutoff PDF on 17 September 2026 — are 75 percentile in CAT/XAT/GMAT or 80 percentile in ATMA/CMAT for the flagship group, and 70 percentile across tests for Business Design and Innovation, lower than the Mumbai campus bars. The institute describes a profile-based selection weighting academics, work experience, group discussion and personal interview alongside test scores, and hostel accommodation is mandatory at this campus. As an AICTE-approved PGDM institute, Welingkar must admit only exam qualifiers strictly on merit; there is no exam-free PGDM at any AICTE-approved institute, so a “no exam” Welingkar offer is not real.

The budget position, honestly stated

The official campus page last displayed Rs 7,50,000 per annum (tuition and other fees, marked subject to change) during the 2026-28 cycle, with the mandatory hostel at Rs 1,70,000 per annum plus a Rs 10,000 refundable deposit. On 17 September 2026 welingkar.org was unreachable from our network (CloudFront 403), so this profile carries those as dated reference figures, not current claims — the line-by-line sourcing story is on our WeSchool PGDM fees page. The Bengaluru hostel rule changes the arithmetic for this campus: budget tuition plus hostel every year, not tuition alone.

How Udaan helps with admission to Welingkar Bengaluru

CMAT and ATMA are the accessible doors here, and their windows matter: Udaan helps you pick the exam and attempt that can realistically clear the published Bengaluru cutoffs on your timeline, then positions your academics and work experience for the profile-weighted GD and interview stages. We will also tell you plainly that no consultant can bypass the exam requirement at an AICTE PGDM institute, and we ask you to confirm the current programme fee on Welingkar’s official pages because we do not republish figures we could not verify there today.

Details on this page are indicative and compiled from public sources; always confirm current eligibility, fees, seats and deadlines with the institute and the official authorities before applying.

Sources: welingkar.org PGDM Bengaluru · PGDM 2026-28 entrance cutoff PDF — re-read 17 September 2026 · AICTE Approval Process Handbook, Appendix-9