KIIT School of Management

KIIT School of Management — the business school of the KIIT deemed-to-be university — is Bhubaneswar’s all-inclusive residential option: one published fee that bundles tuition, AC hostel, mess, laundry, books and even a laptop, the city’s joint-widest entrance-exam menu, and a scholarship table that can cut tuition in half for strong test scores.

How does selection actually run?

Six doors in: CAT, XAT, CMAT, MAT, GMAT, or KIIT’s own KIITEE Management — so a candidate with only a MAT score, or with no national score at all, still has a legitimate route. Shortlists are drawn from the entrance score, and the evaluation stage is a Group Discussion, Personal Interview and Writing Ability Test held at New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jamshedpur and Bhubaneswar. The final selection weighs the GD and PI, the WAT, career marks and the entrance score, and closes with a formal offer and acceptance letter.

Two filters deserve attention before the application fee: KSOM asks 50% in graduation and 50% in each of the 10th and 12th boards — an academic-consistency bar most of the city does not publish — and final-year candidates must finish the degree by 30 June 2026 with documents by 30 September 2026.

What does it cost, and what does it return?

The official 2026-28 fee page prints Rs 18,00,620 for the whole two years — tuition, administration, development fee, AC hostel, mess, laundry, activity fees, books, materials and a laptop, in a Rs 1,00,000 plus 4 × Rs 4,25,155 schedule. There is no separate hostel bill to discover later. The scholarship table cuts tuition by 50% for the top 5 KIITEE Management scorers, for CAT/XAT scores at or above the 80th percentile, and for MAT at or above the 95th percentile.

The official placement-statistics page records for 2025-26 a highest international salary of Rs 23.00 lakh, highest domestic of Rs 35.00 lakh and an average of Rs 9.50 lakh — and states that all eligible students with an acceptable CGPA secure placement.

Where does KSOM fit in a Bhubaneswar shortlist?

As the predictable-total-cost option with the widest exam door. It costs more than Birla Global University (Rs 18 lakh all-inclusive against Rs 11 lakh plus housing) and less than XIM University’s about-Rs-25.8-lakh stack, and unlike both it asks after your 10th and 12th marks. For a candidate whose strength is consistency rather than a single peak percentile — or who needs the MAT/KIITEE door — it is often the right middle rung, mapped beside the others in our Bhubaneswar city guide.

How Udaan helps with KSOM

We run the scholarship arithmetic first — an 80-percentile CAT or XAT score halves the tuition line on a published rule, which changes what this MBA costs your family — then sequence KIITEE Management as insurance if your national-test calendar went badly. And because the fee is all-inclusive and published, any quote you receive that differs from Rs 18,00,620 is a question to ask the school, not a bill to pay.

Official sources: KSOM eligibility and selection process · KSOM course fees and scholarship · KSOM placement statistics