SIESCOMS vs SIMSREE: One MMS Degree, Two Completely Different Prices

The MMS is Maharashtra’s great leveller — one degree title, one entrance exam, one CAP counselling system. But the two ends of the Mumbai MMS market could not price a seat more differently. SIMSREE charges Rs 69,000 a year and sells nothing but merit; SIESCOMS charges Rs 2,35,000 at the regulator-fixed rate and prints, in its own notice, a management-seat price at up to three times that. Both documents were re-read today, 26 September 2026. This page is what the honest version of the “donation seat” conversation looks like.

The government end: SIMSREE, Rs 69,000, no door but CAP

SIMSREE’s official MMS page — serving live again today after weeks unreachable from our host — prints the whole proposition in four lines: 180 seats, filled through CAP rounds; fee Rs 67,000 plus Rs 2,000 library per year; the MAH MBA CET named first among qualifying exams (CMAT, CAT, MAT and ATMA also listed); a University of Mumbai degree the institute has run since 1983. The bar is 50% in graduation (45% for Maharashtra reserved categories). There is no SIMSREE application to buy, no interview to charm, no quota to price — the CAP merit list is the entire admissions office. The cost of that purity is competition: SIMSREE’s closing percentiles sit at the very top of the state table, which is why a Rs 69,000 year at Churchgate is the sharpest fee-to-brand ratio in the city after JBIMS.

The private end: SIESCOMS, the FRA rate — and the printed 3x

SIESCOMS Nerul runs the same MMS through the same CET. Its fee story lives in two official notices dated 1 August 2026, both re-read today. The first is the Fees Regulating Authority approval: MMS fixed at Rs 2,35,000 for 2026-27 (tuition Rs 2,04,348 plus development Rs 30,652). The second is the college’s own first-year fee notice — and this is the document the agent market hopes you never read: the Management Seats Fees row prints “upto 3 times”, i.e. Rs 7,05,000 for the year*, with Rs 25,000 caution money separate. The college also runs published institute-level and vacant-seat rounds with merit-number counselling, same-day payment and original documents — a legal, advertised process.

Two things are true at once, and the honest counsellor holds both: the SIESCOMS management seat is a printed, receipted transaction with the college itself — the polar opposite of a cash deal with an agent — and it costs three times the already-regulated fee for the same classroom. Whether the SIES brand justifies that premium against a second CET attempt is a family decision; what is not defensible is paying anyone else for it.

The comparison in one table

	SIMSREE (Churchgate)	SIESCOMS (Nerul)
System	Government of Maharashtra institute	Private unaided (SIES)
Regular fee per year	Rs 67,000 + Rs 2,000 library	Rs 2,35,000 (FRA-fixed 2026-27)
Institute-level seats	None — 180/180 through CAP	Yes — published ILS and vacant-seat rounds
Printed management price	Does not exist	”Upto 3* times” = Rs 7,05,000 + Rs 25,000 caution
Entry bar	Top-of-table CAP percentiles	CAP and institute-level rounds, far lower closes
Published outcomes	NIRF return and recruiter documents public	Institute claims; no salary table published

How to choose

If your CET percentile can reach SIMSREE’s closes, there is no decision — the Churchgate MMS at Rs 69,000 is the city’s best-value seat, full stop. Below that band, the honest options are SIESCOMS at the FRA rate through CAP or ILS rounds, SIESCOMS at its printed 3x with the trade-off understood, the wider Mumbai MMS set in our city guide, or a retake. What never belongs in the plan: an agent’s “SIMSREE quota seat” (the institute says none exists) or an agent’s markup on the SIESCOMS management seat (the college sells it directly, in writing, itself). Our quota-premium comparison maps every printed premium we have verified across India, and the Maharashtra institute-level rules page explains the law this all sits inside.