Best MBA Colleges in Punjab - Other - 2026 Admissions, Fees, Placements

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER), Mohali, offers an MBA (Pharm) lasting two years. Admission to the programme is strictly entrance-based. Aspirants must appear for the NIPER JEE exam conducted for centralised admission process across all NIPERs. Further, it is compulsory for aspirants to appear for GPAT/GATE/NET/any other National Fellowship to be eligible for admission to all master's programmes at NIPERs. After appearing for the NIPER JEE, candidates are called for a Group Discussion (GD). Furthermore, they must fulfil the course-specific eligibility criteria prescribed by the institute and present all the supporting documents during the physical counselling. Hence, No, direct admission to the MBA programme of NIPER Mohali is not possible.

The first-year fees for MBA are INR 80,750. For the second year, the fees are INR 76550.Our college fees are affordable but still, our college also offers scholarships through various schemes like Saksham Scholarship Scheme for Specially-Abled through National Scholarship Portal, Pragati Scholarship Scheme for Girls through National Scholarship Portal, Merit cum Means Scholarship for Professional and Technical Courses CS through National Scholarship Portal, Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for Minorities through National Scholarship Portal, Post Matric Scholarship Scheme for Uttar Pradesh candidates.

Central University of Punjab University's MBA admission is conducted through the CUET PG exam. Candidates must fill out the online application form available on official website of the exam. While filling out the application form candidates must make selection of the university and programme they want to apply for. Candidats can follow the below steps to for Central University of Punjab University MBA admission:

Step 1: After adding the exam centre city preferences, candidates will then have to select the University/Programme selection.

Step 2: In this section, candidates are required to select the Central University of Punjab University first and then select the MBA programme.  After adding the university programme choices, save the details and move on to the next sections.

Step 3: In this section, candidates need to add the test details. Add the test paper subject code from the drop-down options mentioned in the window. After adding all the respective test paper codes of the university programme list which was selected in the previous step, save the details.

Desh Bhagat University offers various government and its own scholarships. Students can check out some of the scholarships offered at DBU listed below:

• Shakti Scholarship (For Gen/OBC Girl Child)
• Mata Jarnail Kaur Scholarship /Freeship Scholarship
• DBEST Score Scholarship
• JRF   (UGC )
• Inspire Programme Division Department of Science and Technology
• Post Matric Minority Scholarship
• Post Matric Scholarship for SC/ST Students (Odisha)
• Gujarat State (On Digital Gujarat Scholarship Portal)
• J & K Social Welfare (J&K)
• National Tribal Fellowship for ST (UGC)
• Post Matric SC/BC/EBC Scholarship (Bihar)
• Post Matric SC/OBC Scholarship (Punjab)
• Post Matric Scholarship Schemes BC/OBC/EBC/SC (Manipur)

XAT 2025 was held on the first Sunday of January 2025, which was January 5. The exam dates had been officially announced by XLRI Jamshedpur on July 15, 2024, by the XATONLINE website. The exam was conducted in 72 cities from 2 pm to 5:30 pm. The registration process continued until the first week of December 2024.

Online application submission only. XAT fee is INR 2,200 for all candidates. Fee to be submitted at the time of application form submission Graduation degree must for filling the XAT form (final-year candidates can also apply).

Major fee components for MBA at Chandigarh University are mentioned below:

 Punjab Agricultural University has MBA programme for agriculture business and to get admission in this programme one must take CUET PG. It is a 400 marks exam and scoring above 250 is considered good. For MBA cutoff are high in the latest trends for general more than 230 are good in first round. In further round cutoff can get lower and for category students cutoff was around between 200 to 140.

LPU does not offer direct admission. However, admission to few courses is merit-based.  Aspirants scoring a 65% aggregate have a good chance of getting admission in LPU. Candidates seeking admission must visit the official website of the university to apply online. To apply for LPU, aspirants need to register for LPUNEST for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate courses. LPU admission to most of the courses is based on LPUNEST score. However, national-level entrance exam scores are also accepted for admission to BA LLB (Hons), MBA, BTech, etc. Candidates must complete Class 12 for UG courses and graduation for PG courses. The selection rounds are followed by counselling and document verification.

For the full MBA programme at LM Thapar School of Management (LMTSM), tuition, examination fees, library fees, and registration fees total about INR 8–9 lakhs. The cost of the MBA programme in Big Data and Business Analytics is approximately INR 8.99 lakhs. Without housing costs, the cost of the PhD Executive programme at LMTSM is approximately INR 98,000 per semester. Separate costs apply to the hostel: INR 21,500 for dorm rooms and an extra INR 7,900 for air-conditioned rooms per semester. For hostelers, the mess fees are INR 15,000, while for day scholars, they are INR 5,000. The cost of the MBA programme is extremely low when compared to other universities offering business courses.

The number of companies that visited the institute campus over the past three years indicates an improving trend. The count of recruiters increased from 88 in 2021 to over 110 in 2022. The number further increased in 2023 placements. The infographic below depicts the IIM Amritsar placement trends for the past three years: