Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon

Great Lakes Gurgaon is the NCR campus of Great Lakes Institute of Management — a two-year, fully residential PGDM that prints the sentence every family should want to see on a B-school’s website: the institute does not admit students under Management Quota or any other form of reservation, and anyone offering such seats is fraudulent. We profile it today from greatlakes.edu.in’s Gurgaon pages, opened 24 September 2026.

What should an applicant plan for?

The route has four printed stages: the Rs 2,200 online application (one common form can carry both the Gurgaon and Chennai choices), an accepted exam — GMAT in any edition, CAT or XAT, with no published minimum cutoff — then an AI-proctored video interview and an online personal interview. Eligibility asks for a bachelor’s degree with minimum 50% across 10th, 12th and UG, and the PGDM is reserved for freshers and candidates with strictly less than 36 months of work experience; with 2-3 years behind you, the institute steers you toward the one-year PGPM while keeping the PGDM door open.

One timing disclosure matters today: the admissions page title already reads “PGDM 2027-29”, but the four printed cycle deadlines — 4 December 2025, 10 January, 10 February and 15 March 2026 — are all past, and the eligibility header still says “PGDM 2026 Intake”. The page is mid-rollover; the new cycle’s dates are not yet republished. The Chennai page prints its 2027-intake block with deadlines marked ‘to be declared’. Watch the official page rather than any aggregator for the Cycle 1 date.

The fee table — Rs 19.82 lakh all-in for 2026-28

The official fee page prints the 2026-28 structure to the rupee: Rs 13,35,000 academic (tuition Rs 8,30,000 + programme fee Rs 5,05,000, books and online resources included) and Rs 19,82,000 in total once the mandatory twin-sharing AC accommodation of Rs 6,32,000, the refundable Rs 10,000 caution deposit and the Rs 5,000 alumni subscription are added. Vegetarian meals are included; the programme is AICTE-approved and refunds follow AICTE norms. That is Rs 2,68,000 less than Chennai’s printed Rs 22,50,000 for the same batch years — the full side-by-side sits on our Chennai vs Gurgaon comparison. The 2027-29 table is not yet published; any figure quoted for it today is a guess.

Placements — the class of 2026 on the institute’s own page

The placement-report page prints an average CTC of Rs 12.1 lakh and a highest of Rs 24 lakh for the PGDM class of 2026, with 30-plus new recruiters (JPMorgan Chase, Citicorp Services, Capgemini, Delhivery, ICICI Bank, TVS Motor Company, Mahindra Finance, Wipro among them) joining repeat names like Deloitte, EY, Bank of America, KPMG and Vedanta. Offers spread across IT/ITES (28%), BFSI and Fintech (23%) and Business Consulting (17%). Read the average against the batch size and the median wherever you can — our methodology guide shows how — and note the intake is not printed anywhere we opened, so we do not print one either.

The quota answer

There is no management quota at Great Lakes Gurgaon, and the institute publishes that position itself, in the paragraph quoted above on this page. Admissions run only through the online application; no third party is authorised to initiate one. If someone offers you a Great Lakes seat against a “donation”, the institute’s own word for that offer is fraudulent — walk away and, if you wish, forward the pitch to the admissions office.

How Udaan helps with Great Lakes Gurgaon applicants

We time the application around the republished cycle dates (the page is mid-rollover today), weigh the Gurgaon and Chennai tables against your budget on the comparison, benchmark the offer against the rest of the verified Delhi NCR options, and prepare you for both interview stages — including the AI-proctored video round most applicants have never practised.

Official sources: Great Lakes Gurgaon PGDM admissions · PGDM fee structure 2026-28 · PGDM placement report