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).

Yes, Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Campus, Gurdaspur, does offer an MBA course for the duration of two years. Additionally, candidates can take the exit option after one year of the course and can receive a one-year PG Diploma in Management. To get enrolled in the course, candidates must have completed their bachelor's degree with a minimum aggregate of 50% (45% for reserved categories).

Cordia Institute of Business Management (CIBM, Punjab) has been rated 2 on placements.

 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.

The Chandigarh University admission process consists mainly of three steps. Find below the detailed  Chandigarh University Application Process:

1. Chandigarh University Application Process: Apply online on the official website of Chandigarh University. Candidates must also pay an application fee of INR 1,000 before submitting the application form.
2. Chandigarh University Selection Criteria via CUCET: The registered candidates are required to appear for the CUCET entrance exam on their chosen date. Chandigarh University admissions are entirely entrance-based for all courses. Candidates must qualify for CUCET to get admission. The final result will be released by the university after the commencement of the selection rounds.
3. Chandigarh University Final Seat Allotment: Candidates whose names appeared on the result list will be required to pay the admission fee to confirm their seats within a stipulated deadline.

In 2024, the MBA candidates secured good placements offers. LPU has been ranked at 38 under 'Management' category in NIRF 2024 Rankings. MBA is one of the recognised courses of LPU. After completing course from the university, students are open to multiple placement opportunities. Find below the key highlights for LPU Placements:

Particulars	Statistics
MBA Highest Package in 2024	INR 29.3 LPA
MBA average package in 2023	INR 7 LPA

Note: In the absence of course-specific data, generic placement data is taken.

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LM Thapar School of Management offers MBA courses in five specializations including Finance, Business Analytics & Informative Systems, Operations, etc. Total tuition fee for MBA courses is between INR 11.7 lakh for two years. As per 2025 placement data, the highest and average package offered was INR 24.81 LPA and INR 8.17 LPA.

No, IIM Amritsar MBA eligibility criteria does not require candidates have work experience prior to applying for admissions but, candidates that have it get an advantage during admission process.