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No, there is no entrance exam needed to be admitted to Santana Dharma College Chandigarh (SD College). Admission is merit-based at this university. Students need to apply to the official website of the college and fill out the admission form. They must also meet the eligibility criteria and are required to a non-refundable registration fee. After the process is completed, the final seat allotment is merit based.

Admissions to the MBA programme is based on the merit ranking in the entrance exam like CAT, MAT, NMAT, SAT, CMAT, etc. Candidates who hasn't appeared for these entrance exams can apply and appear for the Chitkara University test conducted by the university itself. This entrance exam is followed by group discussion and personal interview. The admission to students are decided by the institution. 12 years of schooling with a minimum of 50% aggregate and 50% in Undergraduate programme is the minimum eligibility criteria for the course.

Placements at Chandigarh University are better than PRIST University. The B.Tech placements at PRIST is INR 3.65 LPA to 4 LPA.

However, the B.Tech placements are very high at CU. The highest package offered was INR 150 LPA and 54.6 LPA for international and Domestic processes. The average package still remains at INR 20 LPA. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM, Arcesium, Adobe, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, Qualcomm, Philips, Goldman Sachs, Toshiba, etc are the top recruiters of the university. 

The highest salary package that was offered to the students of Chitkara Business School, Chandigarh is INR 42 Lacs per annum. The average package offered to the students was INR 8 Lacs per annum. The college has not released the placement report for the year 2023. However according to the report of 2022, over 100 students received PPO and more than 30 students received international offers. More than 250 companies hired students across 26 sectors. Above 110 students were given dream offers that were above 10 Lacs per annum. The top recruiters are Adobe, Zomato, Airtel, Nestle, HDFC Bank and Flipkart.