Cycle update · 5 October 2026
What Changed in MBA Admissions: 5 October 2026
By Piyush Agarwal, 10 years in direct admissions counselling · 5 October 2026
The short answer
On 5 October 2026, SNAP's Ethics, Morality and Values mock application closes today (mock 7 October, question bank 8 October); NMAT registration closes in five days (10 October) with NMIMS's portal now printing a placement block; MAT September scores stay unposted on day six; and IIM Sirmaur's main site still prints the 2025-27 Rs 20,00,000 fee table.
What changed?
| Item | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|
| SNAP — the Ethics-mock application closes TODAY | Homepage promoted the Ethics, Morality and Values mock: apply by 5 October, mock 7 October, question bank 8 October — one day left | Deadline day: the snaptest.org homepage, re-read this morning, still prints 'Complete your SNAP application by 5th October' for the 7 October EMV mock, with the question bank on 8 October and slot booking mandatory via the access link sent after application. The real registration stays open to 25 November; tests 13, 19 and 26 December; result 12 January 2027; 17 institutes, 32 programmes, 79 cities, best-of-3 all re-confirmed |
| NMAT — five days to the close, and the portal now prints a placement block | nmat.nmims.edu printed 'NMIMS MBA 2027 Application Closes: 10th October 2026' beside the Step-1/Step-2 flow | The portal re-renders in full today with the same close — 10 October, five days — and now displays a career-outcomes block on the official admissions page: average CTC Rs 24.60 LPA, highest Rs 41.28 LPA, top-10% average Rs 31.25 LPA, 190 recruiters (69 new, 76 Fortune 500). NMIMS counts only your first attempt; the Rs 3,000 university application must be complete before exam day |
| MAT — September scores day six; the September block is BACK beside December's | AIMA's page skipped the September 2026 block entirely while printing December's schedule and its 'first week of January 2027' score window | The page re-rolled again overnight: today's read shows BOTH the September 2026 block (PBT sat 13 September, CBT 20 September, scores promised 'by last week of September 2026' — expired 30 September) AND the December block with its January score window. No score-release notice exists anywhere; mat.aima.in 403'd again today — the applicant dashboard remains the only channel. The page has now oscillated four times in a week; our watch continues daily |
| IIM Sirmaur — the fee-page rollover watch continues, with a second stale page found | The main site's MBA fee page printed the outgoing 2025-27 table at Rs 20,00,000 while the admissions portal read 2026-28 at Rs 21,00,000 (9 September) | Still unrolled: /mba-fee-structure prints the 2025-27 table (Total A+B Rs 20,00,000; page last updated 28/04/2026). A second stale page surfaced today — /fee-structure prints a 2023-24 table at Rs 16,00,000, last updated 14/09/2023. The 2026-28 figure (Rs 21,00,000) stays with the dated 9 September admissions-portal read, disclosed on the CAP-triangle comparison and the Sirmaur profile |
| Watches — KMAT result day 15 (KPPGCA DNS day 15); SIMC dates day 12; Great Lakes Chennai rollover; MDI banner live | KMAT day 14 with KPPGCA DNS day 14; SIMC dates day 11; MDI's 2027-29 window resolved live | KMAT: fifteen days after the 20 September test, kmatindia.com serves with no result date on the homepage or the key-dates page; kppgca.karnataka.gov.in DNS-unresolved, day fifteen. SIMC's own 2027-29 dates still not republished, day 12 (the prospectus governs). Great Lakes Chennai's cycle page remains mid-rollover. MDI's 'Applications Open for 2 year full time PGP 2027-29 batch' banner stands (closes 28 November). NMAT closes 10 October — five days |
What should you do now?
- If you want the SNAP Ethics mock: the application closes TODAY, 5 October. Finish the SNAP application now, book the slot from the access link, sit the mock 7 October; the question bank lands 8 October. The real registration stays open to 25 November.
- If NMAT is your NMIMS door: registration closes 10 October — five days. NMIMS counts only your first attempt, and the university application (Rs 3,000) must be complete before your exam day.
- If you sat MAT September: day six, still no score. Check your mat.aima.in applicant dashboard across hours (the portal 403s intermittently); ignore anyone selling early access. December registration — PBT closes 14 December, CBT 21 December — is the re-entry route.
- If an agent quotes an IIM Sirmaur '2026-28 fee': the institute's own main site still prints the outgoing 2025-27 table, and a second stale page prints a 2023 table. The only 2026-28 reading is the dated admissions-portal one — ask which page they are reading.
- If MDI or SPJIMR is on your list: both forms run simultaneously now — SPJIMR closes 27 November, MDI 28 November, a day before CAT sits. File both before test day.
Deadline day for SNAP’s Ethics mock: the application closes tonight, and the official homepage still says so. NMAT’s five-day countdown continues, now with a placement block on NMIMS’s own portal. MAT September’s missing scores reached day six — and AIMA’s page flipped again, printing the September block beside December’s once more. IIM Sirmaur’s main site still shows the outgoing fee table, with a second stale page found today. Every item above was verified on official pages or official PDFs opened today, 5 October 2026.