GITAM University Vizag: Courses, Fees, Admission 2026, Placements, Ranking

CSE student from GITAM Visakhapatnam secured the highest package of INR 46.50 LPA during placement in 2022. In the last year, more than 1,520 offers were made to students of GITAM School of Technology by various multinational companies across India. The total tuition fee for the BTech programme at GITAM Visakhapatnam ranges from INR 9.23 Lacs to INR 14.93 lakh. Considering the fee and package this seems to be a good return on investment.

To get into GITAM University Hyderabad for a MBA course, candidates must meet the eligibility criteria set by the university. Candidates must pass Graduation with a minimum of 60% aggregate. GITAM University Hyderabad offers full-time MBA courses of two years' duration. Candidates can get into this course based on a valid GITAM Business Aptitude Test (GBAT), CAT, MAT, NMAT, CMAT, SNAP, or AP/TG ICET entrance exam score, followed by GDPI round.

GITAM University offers MBA courses through Karnataka PGCET exam. There is no eligibility criteria regarding your 12th results. Candidates willing to get admission at GITAM University must adhere to the eligibility criteria below:

MBA admission based Karnataka PGCET exam is done for full-time and part-time programmes. Karnataka PGCET eligibility criteria for MBA admission is as follows.

Karnataka PGCET Eligibility Criteria for Full-Time MBA

• Candidates must pass a three-year bachelor’s degree or equivalent from a recognised institute.
• Qualifying marks in the bachelor’s degree examination is specified below based on the social category of the candidate
• Unreserved Candidates: 50% aggregate marks
• SC, ST and Category-I of Karnataka Candidates: 45% aggregate marks

Karnataka PGCET Eligibility Criteria for Part-Time MBA

• In addition to the Karnataka PGCET eligibility for a full-time MBA course, candidates must have a work experience of not less than three years as of the year 2025.
• The establishment or the workplace of the candidate must be within 40 KM radial distance from the institution he/she is seeking admission in.

Karnataka PGCET Eligibility Criteria for Government Seats

Candidates should have studied and passed from a government-recognised educational institution located in Karnataka for a minimum period of seven academic years commencing from 1st standard continuously or in broken period and must have passed class 10th or class 12th from a government-recognised institution located in Karnataka.

OR

The candidate should have passed the qualifying examination from Karnataka. In addition, either of the parents must have studied for a period of seven years in Karnataka

OR

Children of ex-servicemen who had declared a place in Karnataka as their home town at the time of joining the defence services. In addition, such candidates should have passed the qualifying exam from a University or Board located anywhere in India.

NOTE: Candidates are not permitted to round off the aggregate score

Candidates seeking admission to the BCom programme offered at GITAM University Visakhapatnam must appear for an entrance examination. Only those candidates who qualify GAT (UG Management) online test or UGAT can apply for admission for GITAM BCom course.   

Yes, MBA is available at GITAM University Hyderabad. The university offers entrance-based admission and has a total of 180 seats. Candidates seeking admission to MBA must have a Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline with 60% aggreagte from a recognised university. Further, candidates must appear and score well in the one exam such as GBAT/ CAT/ MAT/ NMAT/ CMAT/ SNAP/ AP/TG ICET, followed by GDPI round.

Candidates seeking admission to MBBS course must have valid NEET UG scores and they must also qualify the NEET qualifying cutoff. Going as per the last three year cutoff trends, the cutoff is continously decreasing year-on-year. For the General category, NEET last-round cutoff stood at 32355. So, after analysing the trend, we can say that the expected cutoff can stood between 20000 to 80000 in 2025.

No, free seat is not available at GITAM University Vishakhapatnam but there are scholarships available for students. These scholarships help students in paying the fee timely that too at discounted prices. Students must apply for the available scholarships if they need any financial support. 

GITAM University Vishakhapatnam Campus, through various schools of study, offers UG, PhD, and PG courses to students. The below-mentioned are schools of study under the GITAM University Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh:

Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) conducts Karnataka Common Entrance Test 2024 for the admission to BTech and BTech Integrated courses at GITAM University. The university has reelased the cutoffs for various All India and Home State category quotas. Taking into consideration the General All India category, the needed rank for BTech courses stood between 64268 and 217321. If we analyse the cutoff we can say that 60000 is more than enough to secure a seat at GITAM University in 2024 through KCET.

NEET exam is conducted for the admission to medical courses such as MBBS and BDS. NTA declares the result of the candidates attempting to secure a seat at various colleges in India. Moreover, candidates willing to get admission must need to keep in mind the below pointers as the result declared by the authorities:

• Candidates first need to check whether they have qualified for the exam or not, by comparing their obtained score with the qualifying or cutoff marks.
•  In case, if they qualify, they must get ready for the NEET counselling process with all the necessary documents which are to be used in the verification.
• Beside that, it is advisable to the candidates to keep an eye over national and state-level counselling websites to avoid missing important notifications.
• Furthermore, in case if they don't qualify the NEET cutoff, they must go for any other courses offered by UGC recognised universities where admission is allowed on the NEET UG score. In addition to that, candidates can also think of giving another try to crack NEET exam.

Yes, candidates who have not appeared for the NEET-UG entrance exam can take admission in the GITAM Vishakhapatnam BPharm programme. They will have to apply for admission through the GITAM GAT entrance exam. The results for the exam are announced as soon as the exams are over and is comparatively easier than NEET-UG as the competition is not that high. Candidates who feel NEET-UG is harder for them should apply for this exam to secure admission into the programme.

If a candidate has a minimum aggregate of 50% in Class 12 then they are eligible for admission in the GITAM Vishakhapatnam BPharm programme. Selection is done on the basis of the merit secured in the GITAM GAT and NEET UG entrance exams. Candidates can  apply for either of the exams to secure admission into the programme. A higher rank would ensure candidates get selected into the BPharm programme easily.

No, candidates can not take admission into the BPharm programme at GITAM Vishakhapatnam with only Class 12 marks, as admission into the programme only takes place through the GITAM GAT and NEET UG entrance exams. Candidates who have secured a minimum aggregate of 50% in their Class 12 are eligible for admission into the programme but they would have to appear in the GITAM GAT or NEET-UG entrance exam to get selected into the programme.

GITAM Vishakhapatnam offers merit based scholarships to students who fall in the following categories:

1. Students who clear the National level, State Level, GITAM GAT entrance exam
2. Score a CGPA of 8 for batches starting in 2020-21
3. Score a CGPA of 8.5 for batches starting from in 2019-20

If we look for the most expensive BPharm course out of the three universities we will see that GITAM Vishakhapatnam has the most expensive tuition fee for its BPharm programme out of three universities. The starting tuition fees of a BPharm course is INR 6.8 Lacs while for Andhra University and Acharya Nagarjuna University it is INR 1.4 Lacs and INR 1.2 lakh, respectively. Candidates should make their decision accordingly.

GITAM Vishakhapatnam BPharm placements data has not released yet. According to the placements data in 2024 available for the whole institution the highest package secured was INR 46.50 Lacs out of the 3,500 job offers that were given at the institute. Therefore, candidates can expect good BPharm placement from the university. The major recruiters of GITAM Vishakhapatnam placements in 2024 were Accenture, LG, Cognizant, Amazon, Dell, HCL, ICICI Bank, Infosys,  etc..

BPharm at GITAM Vishakhapatnam is completely offline. The classes and the evaluation for the exam take place in full-time offline mode. Students have to appear for classes at the university campus to be eligible for semester-end evaluations.

Coursework, project work, and evaluations also are done offline. There is a hostel facility in multiple accomodations on a first come first serve basis. Candidates can apply for hostel facilities at the university if they are travelling from outside Visakhapatnam for this course.