GIMS Greater Noida Admission 2027: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

GIMS, the GNIOT Institute of Management Studies, is part of the GNIOT group, which dates from 2000, and awards a postgraduate diploma, not a degree. It is not the Government Institute of Medical Sciences in Greater Noida, which shares the initials.

The PGDM has grown fast. AICTE approved 180 seats for 2022-23 and 480 for 2026-27, and in each of the three years to 2024-25 GIMS admitted more students than its approved intake, by 7, 70 and 90.

The 2025-26 faculty strength was 52, a faculty-student ratio of 1:15.

GIMS admits on CAT, XAT, MAT, CMAT or ATMA, or on its own 45-minute GIMS Aptitude Test (GAT) for applicants without one of those scores. Shortlisted candidates take a group discussion with a 500–700-word essay on the GD topic, then a personal interview, online or on campus. No 2027-29 admission schedule had been published as of 3 October 2026.

The interview and GD carry 60 of the 100 marks and the entrance score 20, so most of the merit score is decided at the GD and interview.

Eligibility. A bachelor’s degree with at least 50% marks, or 45% for SC/ST candidates, from a recognised Indian university, or as the latest AICTE rules allow. Final-year students may apply if they submit their final mark sheet by 30 October of the year of admission. The application fee is ₹1,200.

The PGDM fee for the 2026-28 batch is ₹8,55,000 for the two years, paid as a ₹75,000 registration and four instalments; hostel and transport are optional and extra. No 2027-29 fee has been published.

A fine applies after each due date. The fee has risen every year:

Every student gets a complimentary laptop and an international immersion programme after the required no-objection certificate. Scholarships come off the tuition fee, are adjusted in the second instalment of the first year, only one can be claimed, and keeping one requires a 7.0 CGPA and 75% attendance.

The scholarship table repeats XAT and CMAT a second time with different bands (XAT 60–75 percentile ₹30,000, above 75 ₹50,000; CMAT 60–70 percentile ₹25,000, above 70 ₹30,000). Ask admissions which band applies to your score before you count on it.

GIMS has separate boys’ and girls’ hostels on campus, optional and allotted first come, first served. For 2026-28 a year costs ₹1,48,500 to ₹1,98,000 including food, depending on whether the room is three- or two-seater and air-cooled or air-conditioned.

The hostel deposit is also given as ₹10,000, not ₹5,000, and the hostel fee as ₹1,26,000 to ₹1,80,000; the rooms are also described as twin and single rather than two- and three-seaters. Confirm the room types and the deposit before paying.

The latest package figures for a named batch are for 2020-22, when the average package was ₹6.46 lakh and the highest ₹12.56 lakh in India and ₹17.55 lakh abroad. Later highlights give package figures without naming the batch.

The two sets agree on the international highest but give different averages and very different internship highs, and neither names the graduating batch. For 2022-24 GIMS publishes a list of placed students rather than salaries: it names 167 students, 59 placed on campus and 108 off campus, from a batch that admitted 187. Most of that year’s placements were off campus.

Recruiters named in that list include HDB Financial Services, HCL Technologies, IndiaMART and ESAF. Ask GIMS for the 2024-26 average and median, the number of students placed and how many of those offers came through campus, in writing, before accepting a seat.

GIMS charges between a third and a half of what the established Delhi NCR PGDMs charge, its latest batch-labelled placement average is about half of theirs or less, and unlike each of them it has no NBA-accredited programme.

The batches differ, so read the averages as a band. GIMS is the only one of these whose main PGDM accepts MAT, CMAT, ATMA or its own test, which makes it reachable without a CAT or XAT percentile; the others’ main PGDMs admit through CAT, XAT or GMAT. If you are choosing on cost, compare the fee with the most recent placement figures GIMS will give you in writing. For the wider field, see our MBA admission guide.