Nirma University Admission 2027: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

The Institute of Management, Nirma University (IMNU), set up in 1996 as the Nirma Institute of Management, is the management school of Nirma University, a university created in 2003 by an act of the Gujarat legislature. The institute was set up by the Nirma Education and Research Foundation, the trust founded by Nirma group founder Karsanbhai Patel. Because it is part of a university, its MBA is a degree, not a PGDM. It sits on the 115-acre Nirma University campus on the Sarkhej–Gandhinagar Highway in Ahmedabad.

MBA students take a major and, if they want, a minor in the second year: Marketing, Finance, Operations or Digital Transformation and Analytics, with International Business offered as a minor only. Family Business and Entrepreneurship students specialise in one of those two areas. The institute also runs integrated BBA-MBA and B.Tech-MBA programmes, which are not covered here.

Nirma admits to its MBA, MBA (HRM) and MBA (Global Management) on CAT 2026. The application opened on 14 September 2026 and closes in the third week of December 2026, at ₹1,600 for the General category. You need a three-year degree with 50%; final-year students can apply. NRI, OCI, foreign and Gulf candidates may use a GMAT score taken in or after July 2025 instead, but NRI-sponsored candidates must take CAT.

On top of these seats, 15% more are kept for foreign nationals, OCI and PIO holders (10%) and children of Indian workers in the Gulf and South-East Asia (5%). Gujarat-quota seats are filled by ACPC, Gujarat’s admission committee, on its own application; a Gujarat candidate can apply both to Nirma directly and through ACPC.

Shortlisted candidates sit a personal interview and a Theme Development & Presentation (TDP). The final merit list weights CAT at 60%, the interview at 20%, the TDP at 10% and academics at 10%, with up to 10 extra points for full-time relevant work experience. Academics count your graduation marks up to the pre-final year at 50%, Class 12 at 30% and Class 10 at 20%.

The MBA in Family Business and Entrepreneurship admits separately, on Nirma’s own entrance test: 120 minutes, with 30 questions each on logic and data interpretation, quantitative skills, verbal skills and general knowledge. The test carries 60% of the final score, the interview 20%, the TDP 10% and academics 10%, and candidates from business families get 5 extra points. Of its 60 seats, 51 are General and 9 NRI. Its 2027 application dates had not been announced as of October 2026.

MBA and MBA (HRM) tuition for the batch admitted in 2026 is ₹6,40,000 a year, ₹12,80,000 over two years, and it can be paid in two equal instalments. Gujarat’s fee committee approves it and can revise it, and the 2027 batch’s fee had not been announced as of October 2026.

MBA (Family Business and Entrepreneurship) tuition is ₹5,12,000 a year for 2026-27 and is under revision by the fee committee, plus ₹15,000 for activities and ₹11,000 for examinations. NRI, NRI-sponsored and PIO students on any of these programmes pay US$15,000 a year in tuition, and Gulf and South-East Asia candidates US$11,000. Two first-year tuition figures are published for the MBA (Global Management): ₹9,50,000, and US$11,000 for regular-category candidates. Its second year is charged by the US partner university. A cancellation on or before 31 May 2027 is refunded in full less ₹1,000.

Scholarships are for the MBA only, not the MBA (HRM), and need a CGPA of 7.0 to continue in the second year. NRI, PIO, foreign and Gulf-category students are not eligible.

The MBA is residential, and hostel, mess and laundry are charged on top of tuition. Rates for 2026-27, each for a 10-month year:

Mess costs about ₹58,800 and laundry ₹6,250 for the same 10 months; both are run by outside contractors. Books, medical insurance and the electricity used in your room are billed separately, and hostel rates can be revised without notice. Nirma University has five hostels with 4,000 beds between them, separate for men and women, all on campus. The campus is fully vegetarian, and alcohol is prohibited across Gujarat.

For 2025-26 Nirma reported a ₹11.21 lakh average and a ₹21.35 lakh highest, with the top 100 students averaging ₹14.74 lakh and the top 200 ₹13.01 lakh; no median or placed count was given for that year.

Two pictures of placement are published for 2022-23 and 2023-24: one that every student was placed, and the counts below, which show fewer placed and a 2022-23 median of ₹10,50,000 rather than ₹11 lakh.

In 2024-25 the average by specialisation was ₹11.50 lakh in Finance, ₹11.30 lakh in Marketing and ₹11.10 lakh in HRM, and 553 students were placed across all of the institute’s programmes, including the integrated ones. The ₹70 lakh offers came from one overseas employer, so the median is the better guide to a typical outcome.

Nirma’s tuition is lower than TAPMI’s and above Christ University’s, and like both it awards a university MBA rather than a PGDM.

Compare like with like

• Tests: Nirma takes CAT only for Indian candidates; TAPMI also takes XAT and GMAT, and Christ takes MAT, CMAT and others
• Gujarat candidates: 75 MBA seats are filled through ACPC, a second route that candidates from other states do not have
• What the fee covers: Nirma’s and TAPMI’s figures are tuition; IMT Hyderabad’s includes a hostel room and mess

Where to read next

• The other Ahmedabad school on this site: IIM Ahmedabad, whose 2027-29 shortlist starts at the 95th percentile in CAT
• Every management college we cover is on the management admissions hub