Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

MDI Gurgaon is the Delhi NCR region’s fully documented heavyweight: an information brochure that itemises a Rs 26.55 lakh fee to the rupee, an admission process with every date printed, and a placement report that gives per-programme averages and medians. The 2027-29 application is live now — it opened 24 September and closes Saturday 28 November 2026 at 5 PM. We opened the brochure, the admissions pages and the 2024-26 placement report on 30 August 2026, and re-opened the live 2027-29 admissions page on 4 October 2026.

Next question, if you are comparing NCR schools: how IMT, IMI, FORE and BIMTECH stack up against each other.

How admission works

One exam door, now with a calendar and a formula in print. Indian candidates apply on CAT 2026 (test 29 November 2026) through a single unified online form that also covers MDI Murshidabad — open 24 September to 28 November 2026 (5 PM IST), Rs 3,000 inclusive of GST (Rs 3,590 both campuses; Rs 8,496 NRI/foreign/OCI/Gulf). One change this cycle: applicants applying exclusively to PGDM-IB may instead use a test-centre GMAT taken 1 January to 28 November 2026 — the only domestic GMAT route. For the first time the selection arithmetic is printed: the Stage-I shortlist weighs CAT/GMAT 65%, academics 15%, diversity 10% and work experience 10%; the final Stage-II weighs CAT/GMAT 35%, PI 20%, GD 10%, WAT 5%, behavioural assessment 5%, graduation 5%, diversity 7.5%, sports 2.5% and work experience 10%. GD-WAT-PI runs February to April 2027 at Bengaluru, Gurugram, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Mumbai, with final selection intimated in April 2027. The eligibility bar stays 50% in Class X, Class XII and the degree; PGDM-IB adds a four-year degree. No cut-off is published — but the placement report’s own batch profile says the cohort averaged the 96th CAT percentile, which is the honest bar to plan against. Note the trap: the form closes 28 November, a day before CAT sits — file before you know your score.

What it costs, itemised

Rs 26,55,310 grand total for 2026-28 — tuition Rs 9,61,505 a year, learning material Rs 62,000, student activities Rs 31,250, library Rs 37,700, a one-time Rs 15,000 alumni fee and Rs 27,500 refundable security, plus boarding Rs 1,04,200 and lodging Rs 1,09,750 a year (the programme is fully residential). Year one totals Rs 11,06,950 before boarding and lodging, year two Rs 10,64,450 — the front-loaded shape matters for loan planning. The brochure marks the schedule tentative subject to revision, and the PGDM-IB dual degree with emlyon/ESCP costs Rs 32,54,000 before Europe’s visa, insurance and living costs. Scholarships are real and published: 12 merit-cum-means awards a year worth a 50% tuition waiver, the O.P. Jindal scholarship of Rs 1,50,000, and the AICTE tuition-fee waiver for EWS students — aid inside a published fee, never a discount negotiated with an agent.

What it returned in 2026

The 2024-26 report covers 586 students across four programmes — 313 PGDM, 124 PGDM-HRM, 31 PGDM-Business Analytics, 118 PGDM-IB — with 157 recruiters, 75 of them new, and 189 pre-placement offers. Entire-batch figures: PGDM average Rs 29.5 lakh (median Rs 29.0); PGDM-HRM Rs 24.8 (Rs 23.0); PGDM-Business Analytics Rs 26.2 (Rs 25.7); PGDM-IB Rs 26.3 (Rs 25.0), with the PGDM top-10-percentile average at Rs 45.7 lakh. The highest CTC was Rs 97.50 lakh domestic and Rs 80.20 lakh international. The batch was gender-balanced 1:1, averaged 25 years of age and 27 months of work experience — a quarter were freshers. Per our placement-report method: denominators are visible, medians sit beside means, and per-programme splits are published — a strong evidence standard.

Where MDI sits in a shortlist

As the NCR’s published-evidence premium pick below the IIM tier. Against IMT Ghaziabad (Rs 23 lakh, wider exam door) MDI carries the higher fee and the higher published outcome; against the IIMs it trades a shade of ceiling for a fully residential, triple-accredited, one-application process. Nothing here is purchasable — the quota answer is the brochure itself — so the work is profile-building: a CAT plan at the 95th-plus percentile, academics consistent with the 50% bar, and interview preparation that survives a WAT-GD-PI built to differentiate.

How Udaan helps with MDI Gurgaon

By being honest about the bar first: a sub-90 CAT profile needs parallel doors, and we build them — IMT and FORE in the same region, Jaipuria and the state layer beyond — while strengthening the MDI attempt where it pays: exam strategy, the profile the application reads, and WAT-GD-PI practice with the institute’s actual format. For the money conversation, the instalment schedule, scholarship windows and loan timing are all published; we simply execute them in order.

Official sources: Information brochure 2026-28 (PDF) · Admissions page · Final Placement Report 2024-26 (PDF) · Placements page