How Udaan Verifies Every Figure: Fees, Cut-Offs, Seats and Deadlines

Most education websites ask for your trust. This page shows you the machine instead — the exact system that decides what may and may not appear as a number on Udaan’s MBA pages, written down so you can hold us to it.

The rule the whole site runs on

Every changing figure — a fee, a cut-off, a seat count, a deadline, a placement salary — lives in our system as more than a number. It is stored together with the official document it came from, the admission cycle it belongs to, the date we opened that document, and a flag that says whether we have personally read it. Nothing else counts as a source: not another website, not a PDF forwarded on WhatsApp, not what a college said last year, and never what an agent claims.

The flag is the honest part. If it says verified, someone working on this site opened that source and read the figure on the date printed. If it does not, the page physically cannot show you the number — the template renders the official link with a “confirm on the official page” note in its place, and our internal register counts the gap until it is closed. A page with a fallback is telling you something true; a page with an invented number never could.

What a verification pass looks like

Take a real one. For the UBS Panjab University profile, the school’s official courses page was opened and read in full: the seat matrix (64 flagship seats, 6 NRI, 16 foreign-national), the printed merit formula (CAT 85%, group discussion 7.5%, interview 7.5%), and the course fee of Rs 23,945 a year — including the university’s own “un-revised [2024-25]” label, which we carried onto our page because it is part of the truth about that figure. When SIBM Bengaluru’s fee page printed the rules and double-fee pricing for its Discretionary Quota Seats, we printed that too — because the honest job runs in both directions: we debunk the doors that do not exist, and we document the ones that do.

The library runs on a daily cadence. Each working day, a batch of money pages is re-opened against its official sources — exam calendars, fee schedules, admission notices — and refreshed, with the pass recorded in the page’s change log. When a body announces something material, a dated news post goes up and the deadlines tracker moves. When a source goes dark — a portal down for days, a site that renders only as scripts — the page says so and carries the official link rather than a stale number.

Who answers for it

Every page names one reviewer: Piyush Agarwal, the counsellor who founded Udaan in 2016 and still reads the files. One named person, reachable on WhatsApp, answering for every figure — that is the accountability model, and it is deliberately the opposite of an anonymous editorial desk. If you ever catch a figure that has drifted from its source, you are one message away from the person whose name sits under it.

And you never have to take our word alone. Every figure links to the document it came from, the content register lists every page with its verified and unverified fact counts, and the about page explains who we are and how the practice works. Check us the way we check the colleges — that is the whole point.