GITAM Bengaluru MBA Fees in 2026: Both Published Figures, Sourced

Ask an agent what the GITAM Bengaluru MBA costs and you will get one confident number. Ask GITAM and you get two, because the university’s own pages currently disagree with each other. This page puts both official figures side by side, names the page behind each one, covers the published scholarship maths, and states plainly what GITAM has not published, including anything at all about a management quota.

What is the published GITAM Bengaluru MBA fee?

There are two official answers, and they do not match.

The first comes from the fee-structure page on gitam.edu, titled GITAM Fee Structure 2026, filtered to the Bengaluru campus. It lists the Master of Business Administration with first-year semester fees of Rs 2,26,900 for semester one and Rs 2,21,000 for semester two. That is a first-year total of Rs 4,47,900.

The second comes from the MBA programme page at programmes.gitam.edu, under a banner announcing admission for the 2026 MBA intake. Its “Program & University fee per campus” FAQ states the Bengaluru fee as Rs 3,87,000 for the first year and Rs 4,06,300 for the second year.

Official page	Year 1	Year 2
GITAM Fee Structure 2026, Bengaluru filter	Rs 4,47,900 (Rs 2,26,900 + Rs 2,21,000 by semester)	Not listed in our records
MBA programme page FAQ, 2026 intake	Rs 3,87,000	Rs 4,06,300

Both pages sit on official GITAM domains and both were checked in a live browser session on 13 July 2026. The gap for year one is about Rs 60,000, and the university publishes no note reconciling the two. That is not a scandal; universities do leave stale or differently-scoped figures on parallel pages. But it changes how you should use the numbers. Budget against the higher set, and treat the figure printed in your own admission paperwork, checked against the official fee-structure page, as the only one that binds anybody.

For context on what the fee buys: this is the two-year full-time MBA at GITAM School of Business, Bengaluru campus (GITAM MBA programme page), with a sanctioned intake of 120 per the AICTE Extension of Approval for 2022-23, the latest such document published on the university domain.

What has GITAM not published?

Three things that matter to your budget.

First, a single reconciled fee. As shown above, the two official pages disagree on year one, and the fee-structure page in our records carries no second-year figure for the MBA. There is no published document that resolves the conflict, so any site quoting one clean “GITAM Bengaluru MBA total fee” has picked a number for you without telling you it made a choice.

Second, a clearly dated application fee. GITAM’s FAQ page mentions an application fee of Rs 1,200 for candidates applying through the GAT route, but it states no admission cycle next to that amount, so we do not treat it as a confirmed current figure. Confirm the amount on the official FAQs page when you apply.

Third, and most important: anything about a management quota. GITAM’s FAQs, admissions pages and scholarship pages contain no mention of a management quota, a donation route or any payment beyond the published fee. A site-restricted search of the university’s pages on 13 July 2026 returned nothing either. The institution is simply silent, so the honest answer is “not published”. We do not infer a quota from silence, and neither should you. GITAM is a deemed to be university (MBA programme page), it publishes a merit process built on GBAT or accepted national and state scores, and that process is the only route its own pages describe. The stages are covered in our GITAM Bengaluru MBA selection process guide.

What scholarships does GITAM publish for the MBA?

A detailed merit table, a cap, and strict renewal rules, all in writing.

The MBA programme page publishes merit scholarship slabs of 15%, 25%, 40%, 60%, 75% and 100%, each mapped to score bands in the accepted exams: GBAT 2025 aggregate, CAT/XAT/GMAT 2025 percentile, MAT 2025 percentile, NMAT 2025 score, CMAT 2025 percentile, SNAP 2025 score, and AP/TS ICET 2025 ranks. The top slab is concrete: a GBAT aggregate of 85-100 or a CAT/XAT/GMAT percentile of 90-100 maps to a 100% scholarship.

The cap matters as much as the table. GITAM’s student-scholarships policy for AY 2026-27 limits scholarship admissions to 30% of sanctioned intake for the MBA, allotted first-come-first-served, with the 100%, 75% and 60% slabs exempt from the waitlist cap. Against Bengaluru’s sanctioned intake of 120 (AICTE EoA 2022-23), that is a real constraint for the lower slabs: apply early or the discount runs out before you do.

The same policy document lists the other published categories: a need-based upgrade of one slab where combined parental income falls within the stated tier limits (documents due by 31 July 2026), employee-children scholarships of 60%, 40% or 20%, a 10% loyalty scholarship, sports scholarships of up to 100%, and a hostel-fee scholarship that adds 20% off hostel fees for the 15%-60% merit slabs, while 75% and 100% slab holders get the same percentage off hostel fees as their tuition slab.

Renewal is the fine print people miss. The entrance-based scholarship is valid for the first year only. It continues in later years at a CGPA of 8.0 or higher and drops one slab at 7.5-7.99 (GITAM Student Scholarships policy 2026-27). Plan your budget assuming full fee in year two; let renewal be a bonus you earn, not a number you owe.

What does any figure above the published fee mean?

It means you have left the university’s process, because GITAM publishes no price above the fee structure and no quota to attach one to.

The arithmetic is short. GITAM’s published costs for the Bengaluru MBA are the fee figures above, minus any scholarship slab you qualify for under the published table. Every route in runs through GBAT or an accepted exam score, then the extempore and counselling rounds (GITAM MBA programme page). There is no published seat category that carries a premium, so a “package” quoted above the published fee is not a faster door. It is either capitation, which Karnataka’s Educational Institutions (Prohibition of Capitation Fee) Act, 1984 makes a criminal offence punishable with three to seven years’ imprisonment, or plain fraud built on a quota no GITAM page mentions. Promises of a certain seat are the signature of the scam, not a service.

The two-layer test from our management quota MBA guide applies cleanly here. Layer one is what exists: a deemed university’s published merit process at published fees. Layer two is what agents claim: a negotiable quota with an unpublished rate card. Where Karnataka law does create a legal management share, in private affiliated colleges through KMAT, the fees are still regulated and published; that layer is explained in our Karnataka KMAT guide. GITAM is not in that layer. Pay only GITAM, only against its published fee structure, only with a receipt. The wider legal frame is in Is management quota legal in India?

How does Udaan help with GITAM Bengaluru fees?

We keep you inside the published numbers, starting with the awkward fact that there are two sets of them. Udaan helps you put both official figures in front of the admissions office and get the binding one in writing, time your application against the scholarship cap and the 31 July need-based deadline, and pick the exam route, GBAT or a national score, that maximises your slab under the published table. We take no commissions from any college; every rupee of fees goes from you to GITAM directly, against its own fee structure and a receipt. And if the numbers and your budget do not meet, we will say so plainly and show you what else in Bangalore’s MBA landscape fits, including the answer “none of these”, if that is the true one. Start at our contact page.

All figures on this page carry their year and source inline. GITAM’s own pages conflict on the first-year fee, so confirm the current figure on the official fee-structure page and in your own admission paperwork before paying anything.