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Cycle update · 17 October 2026

What Changed in MBA Admissions: 17 October 2026

By Piyush Agarwal, 10 years in direct admissions counselling · 17 October 2026

The short answer

On 17 October 2026, NMIMS's extended 25 October application stands on day seven of the extension — eight days to the close. MAT September scores stay missing on day seventeen; SNAP's promised question bank is nine days late; KMAT's September result is twenty-six days late with the government portal still dark.

What changed?

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This desk — back after a five-day provider silenceThe last daily verification ran on 12 October; a provider-side quota failure then silenced every scheduled job on this host for four daysThe daily verification cadence resumes today with every watch re-read against its official source this morning. Nothing was published in the gap and nothing is being double-published to catch up: today carries today's increment only. Every figure on the four new comparisons below was re-opened against its official document today, not carried from last week's reads
NMAT — the extended window holds, day sevennmat.nmims.edu printed 'Extended Till: 25th October 2026' on 12 October, day two of the extensionThe portal's raw HTML re-read this morning still prints 'Extended Till: 25th October 2026' — day seven of the extension, eight days to the close. The replacement handout's internal inconsistency (schedule table 25 October, summary table 10 October) is unchanged; the live portal banner governs. NMIMS still counts only your first NMAT attempt, and the exam-delivery window runs 2 November-20 December
MAT — day seventeen, the page steady at the December blockAIMA's governing URL had flipped eight times in eleven days, then held the December 2026 block for two consecutive readsThe content page re-read today still prints the December 2026 candidate block — PBT registration closes 14 December, test 20 December; CBT closes 21 December, test 27 December; scores 'by first week of January 2027' — and no September score notice exists anywhere, seventeen days past the expired promise. mat.aima.in serves with its December-registration banner. The applicant dashboard remains the only channel that matters
SNAP — the question bank is nine days late; dates re-verified at the canonical URLThe EMV question bank promised for 8 October was five days late on the public mock pageDay ten of the watch, nine days late: /snap-mock re-read this morning still prints the first (24 September) mock's instructions with no EMV block anywhere. The dates were re-verified today at the canonical /snap-important-dates URL (the /important-dates shortcut 404s today; the site's own navigation points to the canonical page): registration closes 25 November 2026, admit cards 7/11/18 December, tests 13/19/26 December, result 12 January 2027. Registered candidates should watch email, SMS and the mock portal for the bank
Watches — KMAT day twenty-six; SIMC day twenty-threeKMAT steady with registration to 31 October and test TBA; SIMC's 2027-28 dates unpublishedKMAT's key-dates page re-read today still prints registration to 31 October with admit card, practice test and test date all TBA; the homepage is byte-identical (35,421 bytes) and the September result is twenty-six days late with kppgca.karnataka.gov.in still DNS-unresolved (NXDOMAIN re-confirmed today, day twenty-six). SIMC's MBA-CM page re-read today still prints 'Admission Open for 2027-28' with the Rs 3,75,500-per-instalment table and no date table — day twenty-three; the prospectus governs
Four new fee-verified comparisons join the libraryThe comparison library last grew on 12 October (the Rohtak-Raipur, Sambalpur-Rohtak, Nagpur-Kozhikode and Udaipur-Kozhikode pairs)Today adds four pairs, every figure re-read against official documents this morning: IIM Sambalpur vs IIM Udaipur (the 85-concession bar against the 94 invitation; an unpublished fee against Rs 21,51,258 residential), IIM Jammu vs IIM Kashipur (the gender-split 91/89 table against the JAP-era 95/75 reference; Rs 22,80,756 against Rs 20,80,000), NIBM vs TAPMI (the RBI institute's Rs 17,84,000 all-in against Rs 9,75,000-a-year tuition across seven programmes), and IPE vs XIME (the sub-10-lakh south doors: Rs 9,15,000 with a laptop inside against Rs 9,90,000 at Kochi-Chennai)

What should you do now?

  1. If NMIMS is your target: the extended window closes 25 October 2026 — eight days. Complete Step 2 on nmat.nmims.edu (Rs 3,000) on or before the day preceding your NMAT exam date; NMIMS still counts only your first attempt.
  2. If you sat MAT September: day seventeen, no score anywhere. Ignore the public pages and check your mat.aima.in applicant dashboard directly.
  3. If you are tracking SNAP dates: the calendar sits at snaptest.org/snap-important-dates (the /important-dates shortcut 404s today) — close 25 November, tests 13/19/26 December, result 12 January 2027. The EMV question bank is nine days late; do not pay anyone selling it on the side.
  4. If KMAT is your Karnataka door: registration stays open to 31 October with the test date TBA. The September result is twenty-six days late with the government portal still dark; hold plans loosely and distrust anyone selling early score access.
  5. If you are weighing the budget doors: today's IPE-vs-XIME comparison prices the sub-10-lakh south options from the two official documents — read it before paying a deposit anywhere.

This desk went silent for four days when a provider-side quota failure stopped every scheduled job on this host; the daily verification cadence resumes today. Nothing was published in the gap, and nothing is being double-published to catch up — today’s increment is the watch layer, re-read against official sources this morning, plus four new fee-verified comparisons.

The standing watches, all re-read today: NMIMS’s extended application holds at its 25 October close on day seven of the extension (eight days out); MAT’s September scores remain unposted seventeen days past the expired promise with AIMA’s page steady at the December block; SNAP’s promised Ethics-question bank is nine days late with the calendar re-verified at its canonical URL; KMAT’s September result is twenty-six days late with the government portal still DNS-dead; SIMC’s 2027-28 dates remain unpublished on day twenty-three.

The four new comparisons: IIM Sambalpur vs IIM Udaipur (the most concessional printed bar in the IIM series against the 94 invitation; an unpublished fee against the fullest residential table we carry), IIM Jammu vs IIM Kashipur (the only gender-split shortlist table in the series against the JAP-era reference), NIBM vs TAPMI (the comparison where the per-year figure hides the ordering — the RBI institute’s all-in bill undercuts the platform’s tuition alone), and IPE vs XIME (the sub-10-lakh south doors, priced from the two official documents).

Where does this fit?

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