Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad

IPE Hyderabad is the city’s budget-conscious AICTE PGDM door: a six-exam admission menu, a printed Rs 9,15,000 two-year bill and an institute-published placement table you can check yourself. Every figure below comes from ipeindia.org pages opened 25 September 2026.

What should an applicant plan for?

The printed route is three steps: register on IPE Admissions online, carry any one of CAT, XAT, MAT, ATMA, CMAT or GMAT, then attend the personal interview — at IPE Hyderabad or in major cities, physical or online. The eligibility bar is a bachelor’s degree with at least 50% (45% for SC/ST/PC) from a UGC-recognised university. Six accepted exams is the widest menu among Hyderabad’s established PGDM schools, and the practical effect is that the door stays open all cycle: missed CAT and XAT windows still leave MAT, ATMA, CMAT and GMAT.

The fee, in arithmetic

The official 2026-28 table prints a grand total of Rs 9,15,000: Year 1 Rs 5,15,000 (admission fee Rs 50,000, tuition Rs 3,10,000, IT/library/activities Rs 1,40,000, refundable caution deposit Rs 15,000) and Year 2 Rs 4,00,000 (tuition Rs 3,10,000, IT/library/activities Rs 90,000). Hostel is extra and printed beside it: Rs 1,50,000 single or Rs 1,20,000 double occupancy per year with food and accommodation, 2026-27, subject to revision; transport is Rs 45,000 a year. Two need-and-merit instruments sit on the same page — the AICTE Tuition Fee Waiver for parental income within Rs 8 lakh (tuition only, up to 5% of intake) and merit scholarships of Rs 60,000 to Rs 4,00,000 keyed to CAT and XAT/GMAT percentiles, with no cap on the number offered.

Placements: the institute’s own table

IPE publishes a plain three-year table rather than a glossy report: 2025 — 81.4% placed, average Rs 7.02 LPA, highest Rs 20 LPA; 2024 — 91.5%, average Rs 7.02; 2023 — 85.9%, average Rs 7.1. The course-wise breakup for 2025 (in process, per the institute’s own note) runs from PGDM-BFS at 89.6% placed down to PGDM-IB at 77.5%. Averages around Rs 7 lakh against a Rs 9.15 lakh ex-hostel bill make this a mid-market value case — respectable, disclosed, and not to be confused with the Rs 20-lakh-plus averages of the city’s premium tier. Our placement-report methodology explains the questions to ask before weighing any average.

The quota answer

No management-quota, institute-level or discretionary route prints on any IPE page we opened — the admission procedure, the fee page and the scholarship section all describe the same open process for every applicant. The honest concession instruments are the TFW and the scholarship grid, both printed. Anyone selling an IPE “management-quota seat” is contradicting the institute’s own pages; verify directly with IPE Admissions before paying anyone anything.

How Udaan helps with IPE applicants

We map your strongest exam score against the six-exam menu before you register, run the honest total (tuition Rs 9.15 lakh, hostel Rs 2.4-3 lakh across two years, transport if day-boarding) against the Hyderabad field, and check the TFW income line and percentile-keyed scholarships you may qualify for. Where IPE fits, we say so; where a state route or another PGDM fits better, we say that instead.

Official sources: IPE admission procedure for Indian students · IPE tuition fee and financial aid (2026-28 table) · IPE placement details for the last three years · IPE programmes