Top Private MBA Colleges in India 2026: Ranking, Fees, Admissions, Courses, Placements

Find 60+ top private MBA colleges in India. This is the compiled list from the rankings of NIRF's India Rankings 2025: Management, Outlook-ICARE's Top Private B-Schools in India, and Times Private B School Ranking 2025.  MDI Gurugram and XLRI Jamshedpur remain in the top 10 among all 100 management schools in India in these rankings. But there are many more offering high-quality MBA programmes with exceptionally innovative curricula and across tier 1 and tier 2 cities in the country. Explore your choicest options here. 

Top Private MBA Colleges in India: Highlights 

The private MBA colleges in India in the best ranks across NIRF, Outlook-ICARE, and Times are listed as an overview. These have a wide diversity in fees, and usually higher than publicly owned ones. But what they offer better are international accreditations besides AICTE and NAAC, domain branding, near-IIM placements, location advantages, and industry ties.

Parameters	Statistics
No. of Top Private MBA Colleges	60+
Total Fees in Number of Private B-Schools	Above INR 5 Lakh in 50+ private B-schools
Top Private MBA Institutes in India (NIRF, Outlook-ICARE, Times 2025)	MDI Gurgaon SIBM Pune  SPJIMR  Great Lakes Institute of Management
Popular Specialisations at Top Institutes	Sales and Marketing Finance Business Analytics  International Business
Accepted Entrance Exams	CAT, MAT, XAT, and others at the institute-level, like NMAT
Accreditations	AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS, NBA, SAQ, NAAC, AICTE
Placement Rate	90% and above
Average Packages	INR 10 to 20+ LPA

Note: Check official sites for updated info.

Predict your chances here: MBA College 2025 Predictor

Top 10 Private MBA Colleges in India with NIRF Ranking 2025

The NIRF 2025 Management rankings are for all top B schools of India, private and public combined. See below for the top private B-Schools in India with locations. The placements, innovative learning resources and industry-aligned subjects, live projects, and industry ties are reasons why they are able to compete with IIMs and other prestigious public institutes offering MBA across India. As per this 10 best list, Delhi NCR and Mumbai are two cities with more top-ranking management institutes.  

NIRF-Management  2025	Private Management Colleges	City
9	MDI Gurgaon	Gurugram
10	XLRI Jamshedpur	Jamshedpur
11	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management	Pune
20	S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research	Mumbai
24	SVKM`s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies	Mumbai
26	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Coimbatore
30	IMT Ghaziabad	Ghaziabad
32	Chandigarh University	Chandigarh
33	MICA	Ahmedabad
36	UPES	Dehradun

Note: The info can change next year, and it’s best to cross-check the official site for updated info. 

Top 5 Private MBA Colleges in India: Outlook-ICARE Ranking 2025

The best private MBA colleges in India, as per the Outlook-ICARE rankings of 2025 have some overlaps with NIRF that ranks both public and private institutions. In this list below, XLRI Jamshedpur’s employability and student ratio are the highest among all the rest. 

Top Colleges	Outlook Ranking 2025
XLRI Jamshedpur	1
MDI Gurgaon	2
Great Lakes Institute of Management	3
TAPMI Manipal	4
IMT Ghaziabad	5

Note: This info has been published on the official Outlook site on 14th October 2024 as they do a year-ahead ranking. 

Top 10 Private MBA Colleges in India: Times Private B School Ranking 2025

The Times B School Survey of 2025 lists these top private B Schools in India, where Pune shows more institutes. You can use this table of the top 10 private MBA colleges in India solely based on the institutes participating in it and fine tune your choices and goals further. 

Top Colleges	Times Ranking 2025
S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai	1
Symbiosis Institute Of Business Management, Pune	2
Institute of Rural Management, Anand	3
LBSIM - Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management	4
IMT Ghaziabad - Institute of Management Technology	5
International School Of Business & Media (ISB&M), Pune	6
ASM - Apeejay School of Management	7
Institute Of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad	8
Jagan Institute Of Management Studies Technical Campus, Rohini, Delhi	9
Jagannath International Management School (JIMS), Kalkaji, New Delhi	10

Note: The Times B School survey research has been published in 2024 for the year 2025. For 2026, it’s yet to be out. 

Also, Times Ranking is a fine enough comparison along with NIRF and Outlook-ICARE, as it takes into account and gives more parameter weightage to the public perception of the B schools more than both of the other ranking bodies. So, with these in the top ranks, you get an idea of how the brand names of the institutes carry in the real market, region and employer-wise. 

General Eligibility for Best Private MBA Institutes for 2026

The general guidelines to follow to get into a top private MBA college in India. 

• Graduation with a minimum of 50% aggregate or similar CGPA in any subject. Work experience or professional certificate may be required in some. 
• Some top private institutes may need a higher CAT percentile with some personal and written interviews. Other national or state entrances for management schools can be alternatives to CAT exam.

Top Private B-schools in India Exam Schedules 2026

Find out which of the best private MBA colleges in India are accepting different entrances. When planning to register, have a look at the schedules, crosscheck with the ones you’re planning to sit for, and try our predictors.  

Exam Schedules 2026	Number of Private MBA Colleges Per Exam	Exam Predictors
CAT Schedule	Top MBA Colleges Accepting CAT	CAT Predictor
MAT Schedule	Top MBA Colleges Accepting MAT	MAT Predictor
XAT Schedule	Top MBA Colleges Accepting XAT	XAT Predictor

Top 5 Private MBA Colleges Accepting High CAT Scores in India

Find the top private MBA colleges in India accepting CAT scores and the relative cutoffs. 

Top Private MBAColleges	Percentile Cutoffs
MDI Gurgaon	85 percentile and above
SPJIMR Mumbai	85 percentile and above
MICA	80 to 85 and above
IMT Ghaziabad	90 and above
Chandigarh University	80 and above

Note: Info is taken from the official sites and can change. 

Top Private MBA Colleges in India: High to Low Fees, Seat Intake, and Entrance Exams

Compare the private MBA fees in India fees and the seat intakes. Note that some of these colleges take candidates appearing in different exams apart from CAT. 

Private Colleges	Total Tuition Fee/Seat Intake	Entrance Exams
Xavier School of Management Admission	INR 29 Lakh Seats: 900+	CAT, XAT, GMAT
Management Development Institute Admission	INR 26 Lakh Seats: 800+	CAT
VVISM Admission	INR 2 Lakh - INR 11 Lakh Seats: 800+	MAT, XAT, CAT
Amity University Noida Admission	INR 6 Lakh Seats: 100+	MAT, XAT, CAT
SPJIMR Mumbai Admission	INR 24 Lakh Seats: 800+	CAT
LPU Admission	INR 8 Lakh Seats: 500	LPU NEST, MAT, XAT

Note: These details are from the official sites and can change. 

Programmes Available in Top Private MBA Colleges Across India

All across the major states in India, there would some good private MBA college. If you are looking around the different regions of the country, check these options, listed with course links and fees for each. 

Top Private MBA Colleges in Delhi NCR: MBA Courses and Fees

Delhi NCR has the highest number of private MBA colleges that are in the top 100 of NIRF management rankings of 2025. 

Top MBA Courses in Delhi NCR Private B-Schools	Total Tuition Fee
MDI Gurgaon PGDM	INR 26 Lakh
Amity University Noida MBA	INR 6 Lakh
IMI New Delhi MBA	INR 21 Lakh
IMT Ghaziabad MBA	INR 21 Lakh

Note: This is from the NIRF list of 2025, and it can change next year and so can the fee.   

Top Private MBA Colleges in Maharashtra: MBA Courses and Fees

Besides Symbiosis Pune that stands out in public perception as one of the best private MBA colleges in India and in Maharashtra, there are some more with relatively low fees. 

Top MBA Courses in Maharashtra Private B-Schools	Total Tuition Fee
SIBM Pune MBA	INR 24 Lakh
SPJIMR Mumbai MBA	INR 24 Lakh
K J Somaiya Institute of Management MBA	INR 17 Lakh
Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research MBA	INR 14 Lakh

Note: This is from the NIRF list of 2025, and it can change next year and so can the fee.   

Top Private MBA Colleges in Karnataka: MBA Courses and Fees

Karnataka has some good private MBA colleges under affordable fee brackets. 

Top MBA Courses in Maharashtra Private B-Schools	Total Tuition Fee
TAPMI Manipal MBA	INR 17 Lakh
Christ University MBA	INR 9 Lakh
Alliance School of Business MBA	INR 15 Lakh

Note: This is from the NIRF list of 2025, and it can change next year and so can the fee.   

Do compare these institutes against the 6,000+ MBA colleges in India.