Sales & Marketing

Yes, you get weight.
The application form does ask for work experience details but it is not mandatory. However, during the final selection of candidates, work experience is given some weightage by the Iims. The exact weightage given to work experience is never revealed by the Iims but it varies from IIM to IIM.

How do you know you are good in the marketing field? Have you worked previously? Marketing is a vast field and what is your strength- is it a market survey, product design, product management, pre-sales, branding, promotion, marketing design, public relation, digital planning, media buying, media planning or something like that? Well, it depends on the institute to institute. Some organisation offer single specialisation and some offers dual specialisation. You can opt maximum 2 specialisations.

Alliance is better in terms of academics among the mentioned above. They have quite qualified faculty members.

If you want to opt MBA as your career then you should go for BBA field as it will cover your half basics of MBA.

There could be chance of happening of centralized placements.
MITSOT is an decent institute where they provide 5.5 lakhs per annum package.
You can also go for MITSOB as that is one of the better institute in finance but they provide dual specialization.

It totally depends upon your interest but placement wise marketing may have an upper hand.

It is around 8.50 Lacs. Also, depends on college which you are looking for.

Hospitality Industry is upcoming and growing industry and with the MBA marketing experience, you can have a good career in the same field. However, hospitality industry prefers the same education most of the time but it's not mandatory.

You want to do MBA in retail marketing then you have to give CAT, CMAT and SAT examination and if you clear it with a good percentile of above 75%, you will get the best colleges to pursue MBA. Good luck and thank you!