FMS Delhi MBA Admission 2027: Fees, Cutoff & Placements

Fees, AY2025-26

FMS charges its fee by semester, two semesters a year: in AY2025-26 the full-time MBA fee was ₹60,818 a semester for first-year students and ₹57,350 a semester for second-year students, paid online through the University of Delhi fee portal.

Semester II and IV fees were due by 30 January 2026. For Semester III, due by 31 July 2025, the fee was ₹57,350, or ₹14,338 for PWD students and ₹2,71,780 for foreign students.

For the 2026-28 batch the semester fee is approximately ₹60,818, and fees for every programme and category can be revised at any time before or during the programme on University of Delhi instructions. FMS publishes no two-year total. Four semesters at the first-year rate come to ₹2,43,272, our computed estimate; the second-year rate in AY2025-26 was lower, at ₹57,350.

The application fee for 2026-28 was ₹1,000, or ₹350 for SC, ST and PWD candidates; foreign nationals apply through a separate route, explained in the foreign nationals section. To see what a loan against these figures would cost each month, put your own numbers into the college fee EMI calculator.

Hostel and campus

FMS has no hostel of its own. Non-Delhi students of its full-time programmes can apply for a room in one of 11 University of Delhi hostels on North Campus, and allotment is not guaranteed.

FMS publishes no hostel charge, so budget separately for a University hostel or for private accommodation near North Campus. For orphan-quota students, the University Welfare Fund meets the cost of study, including hostel expenditure in the University.

The North Campus library holds more than 40,000 books and journals, including 60 foreign journals, and students can also use the Delhi University Library System, with more than 600,000 books and 8,000 journals, and 27 online databases such as ABI/INFORM and EBSCO. The computer centre has a finance lab with a Bloomberg terminal and the CMIE Prowess database, and both FMS campuses are Wi-Fi enabled.

Seats and reservation, 2026-28

The 2026-28 batch has 251 sanctioned seats, and supernumerary seats outside that count take the total to 289, with another 25 for foreign nationals.

• There is no quota for NRI, PIO or NCT of Delhi candidates.
• OBC seats are for the non-creamy layer whose castes appear in the Central List; creamy-layer OBC candidates apply as General.
• The General merit list includes every candidate in merit order, so SC, ST, OBC, EWS, PWD, CW and ward-quota candidates can take General seats.
• OBC (NCL) and EWS certificates must be valid on the interview date and on the date of admission; an expired certificate is not considered.
• You may apply under one of Gen, SC, ST, OBC or EWS together with CW, PWD, WT or WNT, but the category chosen at registration cannot be changed later.

Eligibility

You need a bachelor’s degree taken after twelve years of schooling, with at least 50% marks for the unreserved category, 45% for OBC (non-creamy layer), EWS, PWD and CW candidates, and pass marks for SC and ST candidates, together with a CAT score from the same admission cycle.

Final-year students may apply whatever their marks so far, provided they expect to meet the eligibility criteria and submit their final results before the last date of admission, which was 31 August 2026 for the 2026-28 batch. Applicants graded in CGPA must state the equivalent percentage and supply their university’s official CGPA-to-percentage conversion table. A CAT score from an earlier year is not accepted: applicants who did not take CAT 2025 were not considered for 2026-28. There is no GMAT or GRE route for Indian nationals; that route is only for foreign nationals. SC and ST candidates whose degree is from another university need at least the pass percentage the University of Delhi sets for the equivalent examination.

Selection criteria and weightage

Shortlisting uses a weighted CAT score, VARC 40%, DILR 30% and QA 30%, and the final merit combines that score with academics, an SOP discussion, an extempore and a personal interview; there is no group discussion.

Women candidates receive five additional marks twice: on the weighted score used for shortlisting, and again at the interview stage. Because the three CAT sections carry different weights, a candidate with a high overall percentile and a weak VARC section can rank below a more balanced candidate with a lower overall percentile, so read your sectional scores against this formula rather than your overall percentile.

Shortlisting cut-off, 2026-28 and 2025-27

FMS publishes its cut-off as a composite score for the interview shortlist: 46.739 for General candidates in 2026-28 (CAT 2025), down from 51.103 in 2025-27 (CAT 2024).

The composite score adds each CAT section score divided by that section’s maximum marks and multiplied by its weight (VARC 40%, DILR 30%, QA 30%), rounded to three decimals, with five extra marks for women. Both years shortlisted 2,023 candidates for 289 seats. This is the score needed to be called for interview, not the score that secured admission: final selection is on the full weighted merit above, and FMS released eleven admission lists for 2026-28 between 21 April and 28 August 2026. Every category with a numeric cut-off fell between the two years except the two ward-quota categories, which rose.

Placements

The 2024-26 batch placed 287 of the 304 students in the placement process at a ₹32.27 lakh average and a ₹29.59 lakh median CTC, with a ₹1.1 crore highest offer.

• 74.9% of the 2024-26 batch received offers above ₹25 lakh.
• The 2021-23 batch averaged ₹34.1 lakh, with a ₹31 lakh median and a ₹46.1 lakh top-100 average, higher on all three than any batch since.
• Students with more than 18 months of work experience went through a lateral process in December 2025; finals for the rest ran in January 2026.
• The number of companies that made offers in 2024-26 is published as both 103 and 99.
• By first degree the 2024-26 batch was 44% engineering, 32.2% BBA, BMS, B.Com or economics, 11.7% sciences and 12.1% other disciplines, and 54% joined as freshers.
• The top 100 students of the 2024-26 batch averaged the 99.69 percentile in CAT and the 99.02 percentile in its quantitative section.

Documents for the interview

Shortlisted candidates bring two passport-size photographs and self-attested copies of the following, together with the originals, to the interview:

• Proof of identity, such as an Aadhaar card, driving licence or voter ID
• Date-of-birth certificate
• Class X and Class XII mark sheets, with the CGPA-to-percentage conversion document where applicable
• Graduation mark sheets, or the latest mark sheets for final-year students, with the conversion document where applicable
• CAT scorecard for the admission cycle
• Reservation certificates where applicable, issued in the candidate’s own name

For EWS claims the names of the applicant and the parents must match those on the school-board certificates. CW claims need an educational concession certificate from an authority such as the Kendriya Sainik Board, a Rajya Zila Sainik Board or the relevant records office, and ward-quota claims need a certificate from the University Registrar or the college principal. Falsified records or false attestation carry a five-year bar from attending any course in the University, and a criminal case.

Admission process and dates

As of 27 September 2026 FMS has not published its bulletin for the 2027-29 batch; CAT 2026 is on 29 November 2026. The 2026-28 cycle ran as follows:

A composite-score cut-off was set for each category, and the 2026-28 interviews were held in person. Registration is online only, through the FMS website, and the registration details cannot be edited once confirmed. All communication is by email to the registered address, and admission lists, cut-offs and waiting lists are posted on the FMS website. No fee is refunded after the last date of withdrawal. In the 2025-27 cycle the shortlist came out on 17 March 2025 and interviews began on 12 April 2025.

Foreign nationals route

Foreign nationals apply for the 25 foreign-student seats, 8 for SAARC countries and 17 for other countries, through the University of Delhi Foreign Students’ Registry at fsr.du.ac.in rather than through CAT.

They must already hold their qualifying degree when they apply, since candidates still studying or awaiting results are not eligible, and they need a certificate that English was the medium of instruction. The test requirement is a GMAT score of 650 or a GRE score of 120, waived for holders of an ICCR scholarship or a scholarship from their own government. Seats do not move between the SAARC and other-country groups. The foreign-student seats are supernumerary, outside the 251 sanctioned seats, and foreign-national admission announcements are posted on the FMS website.

Foreign students pay a separate, higher semester fee, with SAARC and Tibet charged less than other countries in the first year; every rate is listed under Fees.

Common mistakes

How FMS Delhi compares

FMS charges a University of Delhi semester fee, and its 2024-26 median CTC of ₹29.59 lakh is close to MDI Gurgaon’s ₹29.0 lakh for a PGDM costing ₹26,55,310; the trade-offs are no hostel and 101 General seats, for which 707 candidates were shortlisted in 2026.

Against MDI Gurgaon, the choice is between a residential campus with hostel and mess built into a ₹26,55,310 fee and a University of Delhi fee with accommodation left to the student. JBIMS Mumbai, an institute of the University of Mumbai, also has a low fee, but it admits through the Maharashtra CET process rather than CAT. For other options, see our MBA admission guide.

Contact & address

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, Malkaganj Marg, Kamla Nagar, New Delhi 110007 · Admissions: [email protected] · Tel: 011-2766 6382, 6383, 6384 · Web: www.fms.edu.