Hotel / Hospitality Management

To become a Chef in India, you would primarily need to attend a culinary school/institute to obtain the Bachelor's Degree in Catering Technology & Culinary Arts, the reason I'm saying culinary school is because a Hotel Management College/Institute would make you study all 4 Core Depts., and that at the end of the course there is no guarantee that you will get placements into 5 Star Hotels as a chef because when companies and Hotels come to recruit at a Hotel Management Institute they come prepared for all depts and generally do not take the students choice preference for the core dept selection, whereas in a Culinary Arts Institute, Hotels come to recruit with the thought of taking students as Chefs, also you get better offers and placement opportunities, there are Various Culinary Arts Institutes all over India with The Culinary Academy of India, Hyderabad being number one Culinary Arts Institute of India & also the 8th Best in the world.

If you are talking about affordable college for hotel management, then there are many colleges, for example in Lovely Professional University. You need to clear entrance test LPU-NEST, and your marks in that test will decide your scholarship, as my friend got 90% marks in 10 +2 and 98% marks in LPU-NEST. So, as result they gave him scholarship of INR 30,000. So, below given are the points you should look for, while choosing a university. Infrastructures of all, University infrastructure should support, enable, and enhance the work of its faculty, staff, and students. People and processes will be responsive and customer oriented. It's facilities and it's information resources and technologies will fully support it's missions of teaching, scholarship, and community outreach and engagement.
Accreditation:
Institution and university should be recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC), a statutory body of the Government of India. Other accreditation for the Act of Granting Credits.
Association of Indian Universities (AIU)
Placement:
Before choosing any institution to check the previous year records, which organizations visited for selecting freshman. Try to contact your seniors and ask about the placement, internship etc.