SIBM Nagpur Admission 2027: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

SIBM Nagpur is a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), which holds a NAAC A++ grade and awards the degree. It runs on the university’s 75-acre, fully residential Nagpur campus near MIHAN, a special economic zone and industrial hub, and is a separate institute from SIBM Pune, with its own registration, seats, fees and merit list.

The MBA runs over four semesters and 100 credits, and students begin their specialisation from the first semester. Finance students work on a Bloomberg terminal. The agri MBA adds agricultural economics, agri supply chains, agri-input marketing, food safety and a project on APMC market operations to the management core. Both full-time programmes take any graduate with 50% marks (45% for SC/ST), with no work experience required; the weekend MBA (Executive) needs at least a year of full-time work after graduation and selects by personal interview.

A quarter of SIBM Nagpur’s intake is reserved for Nagpur-domiciled candidates, and those seats carry a lower academic fee: ₹3,82,075 an instalment against ₹4,49,500 for the MBA, and ₹2,56,700 against ₹3,02,000 for the agri MBA. The domicile fee is the regular ₹8,99,000 a year less a 15% concession of ₹1,34,850 for the MBA. Over two years the domicile MBA costs ₹15,28,300 and the domicile agri MBA ₹10,26,800.

Both conditions must be met: residence alone does not qualify, and nor does a Nagpur University degree without the residence. The domicile seats are within the 180 and 60, not above them. Within the intake the usual Symbiosis reservations also apply: 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and 3% for persons with disabilities.

SIBM Nagpur registration and payment close on 20 January 2027, eight days after the SNAP result, and the batch starts on 1 June 2027. Its first merit list, on 18 February, comes about three weeks before SIBM Bengaluru’s on 10 March, and fees for it are due by 3 March.

The MBA and the agri MBA share every date. A candidate who has sat SNAP can register for both programmes, paying ₹1,000 for each, and be considered for each on its own merit list. Admit cards for the three SNAP tests open on 7, 11 and 18 December 2026. The weekend MBA (Executive) runs its own cycle: in 2026 registration opened on 31 May, the shortlist came on 10 July, interviews were held on 17 July, the merit list followed on 24 July and classes began on 29 August. Candidates register online, are shortlisted on eligibility and are ranked on the interview score alone.

Applying takes two payments through the SNAP website: ₹2,550 for each SNAP attempt and ₹1,000 for each SIBM Nagpur programme, both plus taxes. Paying only for SNAP does not put a candidate on any SIBM Nagpur 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:

Every SIBM Nagpur fee is paid in four equal academic instalments, with hostel, mess and two ₹20,000 refundable deposits added to the first-year instalments. The academic fee depends on the programme and on whether the student holds a Nagpur-domicile seat.

• The first instalment carries the academic share, ₹20,000 institute deposit, ₹20,000 hostel deposit, ₹2,13,600 hostel and ₹76,500 mess; the second carries the academic share and ₹76,500 mess. Year-two instalments fall on 25 June and 25 November 2027.
• 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.
• The fee for the MBA (Executive) is not published on the institute’s site.

The full-time MBAs are residential. For 2026-27 the hostel costs ₹2,13,600 a year and mess ₹76,500 in each of the two first-year instalments, ₹1,53,000 for the year, with a ₹20,000 refundable hostel deposit; no room type is attached to the hostel rate.

• The 75-acre campus has an academic block with AV-enabled classrooms, a library, hostels, a mess, a guest house, a gymnasium, medical facilities and sports grounds.
• Commerce graduates made up 46% of the 2024-26 MBA batch, engineers 23% and other disciplines 31%.
• The institute runs management development programmes for organisations including L&T, IOCL and POWERGRID.
• Students in the 2024-26 MBA batch came from 19 states and union territories, and 73% joined as freshers.
• In the 2024-26 agri MBA batch, 66% were agriculture graduates, 14.9% engineers and 7.4% commerce graduates, and 79% joined as freshers.

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 MBA batch recorded a ₹12.84 lakh average and a ₹12.1 lakh median CTC, up from ₹8.45 lakh and ₹8 lakh for 2022-24. The highest offer rose from ₹20 lakh to ₹28.38 lakh over the same three batches.

BFSI and consulting or IT each took 34.7% of 2024-26 MBA offers, manufacturing 10.9% and FMCG 5.9%, from 110+ companies. Agri-input firms took 51.5% of agri MBA offers. The top-bracket columns give the average CTC of the highest-paid 10%, 25% and 50% of each batch.

In Nagpur itself the direct comparison is IMT Nagpur, which charges ₹16,00,000 for its 2027-29 PGDM with hostel and mess included and admits through CAT, XAT, CMAT or GMAT. Its 2024-26 batch averaged ₹12 lakh with a ₹10 lakh median, against SIBM Nagpur’s ₹12.84 lakh and ₹12.1 lakh.

Among Symbiosis campuses, SIBM Hyderabad and SIBM Bengaluru admit on the same SNAP score with a separate ₹1,000 registration each. For the agri MBA the closest Symbiosis alternatives are SIIB Pune’s MBA (Agri Business) and SIOM Nashik’s MBA (Agri Operations Management).