ITM Business School, Kharghar (ITM Skills University)

ITM Business School at Kharghar answers the “no score, now what?” question structurally: its own iSET test sits beside eight national and state exams — CAT, XAT, NMAT, CMAT, MAT, ATMA, CUET and the State CETs — as an equally valid published route into the MBA iConnect 2026-28. That is the widest verified exam menu we have mapped at a Mumbai-region school, and it is the honest form of what agents advertise as “direct admission in Mumbai”: a test the university itself runs, followed by its own selection rounds.

What should an applicant plan for?

The bar is a 50% graduation aggregate from a UGC-recognised university, with final-year students welcome. Applications run on the institute’s portal at Rs 1,500, in multiple rounds, with early applicants favoured in print. The selection is deliberately holistic — academics, entrance score, interview or case exercise, work experience and extracurriculars — and the page warns that a high test score alone guarantees nothing. Provisional offers are confirmed with Rs 25,000 by demand draft or cheque, refundable subject to university and UGC terms. The one thing the public pages do not print is the full programme fee: it sits behind a download after an enquiry, so this profile carries it as a disclosed gap — ask the institute for its own fee schedule and read the offer letter against it.

On outcomes, the institute prints 400+ visiting companies, a Rs 21 LPA highest CTC and an Rs 8.65 LPA average on its programme pages — its own unaudited claims, which we label as such. The ten-specialisation menu (FinTech, Business Analytics, Digital Marketing & Media, Retail & E-Commerce among them) with 35+ integrated certifications is the substantive part of the pitch. The Mumbai city guide keeps ITM beside the metro’s other verified doors, and the Mumbai direct-admission map shows where this own-test route sits among the city’s three legal layers.