SIBM Hyderabad Admission 2027: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

SIBM Hyderabad is a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), which holds a NAAC A++ grade and awards the degree. It is a separate institute from SIBM Pune and SIBM Bengaluru, with its own registration, seats, fees and merit list, though all three admit on the same SNAP score. Its campus covers 40 acres off the Bangalore Highway in Rangareddy District, about 30 minutes by road from Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.

The programme follows the semester pattern under a choice-based credit system, with an eight-week summer internship between the two years. Teaching combines case studies, business simulations, capstone and live projects, and open-book and computer-based examinations. Within the intake, 15% of seats are reserved for SC, 7.5% for ST and 3% for persons with disabilities, under Symbiosis International University norms.

SIBM Hyderabad registration and payment close on 15 January 2027, three days after the SNAP result, and the shortlist comes out the same day. The dates are tentative and may change; the programme is set to begin on 7 June 2027.

Admit cards for the three SNAP tests open on 7, 11 and 18 December 2026. A candidate can sit up to three SNAP attempts and still register for SIBM Hyderabad after seeing the result, because registration stays open until 15 January. For the 2026 batch, students reported for hostel registration in person from 4 to 7 June and classes began on 8 June 2026.

Applying takes two payments through the SNAP website: ₹2,550 for each SNAP attempt and ₹1,000 for each SIBM Hyderabad programme, both plus taxes. Paying only for SNAP does not put a candidate on any SIBM Hyderabad shortlist. A candidate may sit up to three SNAP tests, and the higher score counts.

Each wrong answer costs a quarter of a mark. Shortlisting runs on the overall SNAP percentile, with a separate cut-off for each programme, and a candidate must attend every part of the Group Exercise and Personal Interaction (GE-PI) to stay eligible. No shortlisting percentile is published in advance; category-wise merit-list and wait-list cut-offs appear on the institute’s website after selection. The merit list is out of 100:

The 2026-28 batch pays ₹8,50,000 a year in academic fees, in four instalments of ₹4,25,000, so ₹17,00,000 over two years, plus a ₹20,000 refundable institute deposit. The 2024-26 batch paid ₹8,03,000 a year.

• The two first-year instalments add to ₹12,05,500. Year-two hostel and mess charges are announced before year two and may rise by up to 15% a year; government taxes are extra where they apply.
• A few seats are discretionary-quota seats, charged double the open-category academic fee for the whole programme.
• Five scholarships go to IIT graduates joining a Symbiosis MBA, chosen on combined SNAP and GE-PI score: a 20% academic-fee waiver that continues into year two with no backlogs and a CGPA of 7 out of 10 at the end of semester II.
• The four semester toppers in each batch receive 20%, 15%, 10% and 5% off the next semester’s academic fee.

The campus is fully residential and Wi-Fi enabled. A three-sharing room costs ₹1,71,300 a year and mess ₹1,44,200 a year for 2026-27, with a ₹20,000 refundable hostel deposit; only the three-sharing rate is set out, though rooms are offered for single or shared occupancy.

• Rooms come with a bed, mattress, wooden cupboard, bookshelf, writing table, chair, bucket and Wi-Fi; students bring their own bed linen, pillow and toiletries, and no extra electrical appliances are allowed.
• The campus has a library, auditorium, cafeteria, healthcare centre, recreation facilities, computer lab and a bank branch.
• Guest-house rooms are available to parents on payment, booked through the campus administrator.
• At reporting in 2026, students handed in 23 documents in original with photocopies, among them the SNAP and GE-PI admit cards, every graduation mark sheet, migration and transfer certificates, anti-ragging affidavits from student and parent, and the SIU eligibility form.

Cancel by 30 September and all academic fees and deposits come back; from 1 November only the deposits do. These rules, reissued in February 2026, apply to every Symbiosis International University institute until UGC revises its policy.

• Hostel and mess are refunded after deducting the period used up to the cancellation date or 31 October, whichever is earlier; from 1 November nothing is refunded for hostel or mess.
• Where an admission schedule runs past 31 October, the UGC slabs apply instead: 100% (less up to 5%, capped at ₹5,000) if notice comes 15 days or more before the last date of admission, then 90% inside the last 15 days before it, 80% up to 15 days after, 50% up to 30 days after, and nothing later.
• The insurance premium and registration or administrative fees are never refunded; refunds are paid within 15 days of the written application.
• No Symbiosis institute may keep original certificates; self-attested copies must be accepted.

The 2024-26 batch closed with a ₹9.6 lakh average and a ₹9 lakh median CTC, both higher than the 2023-25 batch’s ₹9.1 lakh and ₹8.2 lakh. The highest offer has ranged from ₹26 lakh to ₹31 lakh over the three batches.

In each of the three batches the highest offer was in finance. For 2023-25 the specialisation averages were ₹9.8 lakh in finance, ₹9.3 lakh in marketing, ₹8.3 lakh in operations and ₹7.9 lakh in HR. The top-bracket columns give the average CTC of the highest-paid 10% and 25% of each batch; for 2024-26 the top 50% averaged ₹9 lakh. Placement help continues for students still unplaced after the season ends.

SIBM Hyderabad charges less than SIBM Bengaluru and SIBM Pune, and its placement averages are lower too. Its ₹17,00,000 academic fee for 2026-28 compares with ₹21,40,000 at SIBM Bengaluru and ₹26,20,000 at SIBM Pune; all admit on one SNAP score with a separate ₹1,000 registration for each.

Within Hyderabad, IMT Hyderabad charges ₹16,00,000 for its 2027-29 PGDM with a single hostel room and mess included, and admits through CAT, XAT or GMAT rather than SNAP; its 2023-25 batch averaged ₹12.2 lakh. A candidate already sitting SNAP can add SIIB Pune or SCMHRD Pune with one more ₹1,000 registration each.