SIBM Pune MBA Admission 2027: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

SIBM Pune, the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, is a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University) on the hill campus at Lavale, Taluka Mulshi, Pune. It ranked 11th in NIRF Management 2025 with a score of 67.90, up from 13th in 2024. Its full-time MBAs are residential and admit on SNAP; the weekend MBA (Executive) admits on interview. From 2027-28 Human Resource Management is also offered as its own 30-seat programme, the MBA (HRM and Integrated AI Analytics).

The MBA specialises in Marketing, Finance, Operations and Supply Chain Management, or Data Analytics. The Executive MBA offers Marketing, Finance, Operations and Supply Chain, and Analytics and Information Technology, and a specialisation does not run if fewer than 10 students choose it. The I&E programme, launched in 2014, runs a project every semester and works with the Symbiosis Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, a technology incubator supported by the Department of Science and Technology, for mentoring, seed funding and co-working space. SIBM Pune also runs a Global Programme in Enterprise Risk Management.

Every SIBM Pune programme needs a bachelor’s degree from a recognised university or Institution of National Importance with 50% marks, or 45% for SC and ST candidates. Only the Executive MBA adds work experience.

Within each full-time programme’s intake, 15% of seats go to SC, 7.5% to ST and 3% to PwD candidates. Above the intake, each programme adds 2 seats for Kashmiri migrants and Kashmiri Pandit or Hindu families living in the Kashmir Valley, and up to 25% of the sanctioned intake for international students, so the international quota does not reduce the 240 domestic MBA seats. The Executive MBA lists no reservation table. NIRF recorded a sanctioned two-year intake of 300 for 2023-24.

The MBA, MBA (I&E) and MBA (HRM & AI Analytics) share one calendar. SNAP registration and SIBM Pune registration close on different days, and missing the second keeps a candidate out of the shortlist whatever the score.

The first installment is payable at admission, which leaves fifteen days between the merit list and the deadline to arrange a loan. The Executive MBA ran its 2026-28 admissions from 10 March 2026, with interviews, merit list and fee dates sent by email; two dates are published for that batch, a last registration date of 16 July 2026 and a start of 20 June 2026. Its 2027 calendar is not out yet.

Applying takes two registrations and two payments: SNAP itself, at ₹2,550 per test attempt, and SIBM Pune, at ₹1,000 per programme, both plus taxes and both through the SNAP website. Paying only for SNAP does not put a candidate on any SIBM Pune 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, so one score can lead to shortlists for the MBA, the I&E and the HRM programme, each with its own GE-PI. A candidate must attend every component of 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 final merit list adds up to 100:

The interview carries four times the weight of the group exercise, and the two together weigh the same as SNAP. Bring the SNAP admit card, which must be produced to take part in selection, and quote your SNAP ID in every message to admissions; incorrect details lead to disqualification, or cancellation after admission.

The MBA’s first year costs ₹16,26,900 on the 2026-28 schedule, paid as ₹9,12,100 at admission and ₹7,14,800 in November, with three-sharing hostel and mess included. The 2027-29 schedule, which a SNAP 2026 candidate will pay, had not been published as of October 2026.

Second-year hostel and mess charges are announced before that year starts and can rise by up to 15% a year; government taxes are extra. The academic-fee row is labelled “per annum”, but ₹6,55,000 appears against all four installments and in both first-year totals, so confirm in writing whether it is charged per installment.

The I&E MBA’s first year is ₹12,76,900 on the 2026-28 schedule, ₹3,50,000 less than the MBA; the whole difference is the academic fee, as hostel, mess and deposits are identical.

The weekend Executive MBA has no hostel or mess line. Its 2026-28 fee is ₹7,30,000 over four installments, ₹7,20,000 of academic fees and a ₹10,000 refundable deposit, and it covers examinations and convocation but not backlog examinations.

The full-time MBAs are residential, and hostel and mess are billed inside the installment schedules above, where only the three-sharing rate is priced. Three hostel blocks, New, Old and Annex, house girls and boys separately in double, triple and four-sharing rooms near the dining hall and the academic block.

Double and four-sharing rates are not published, so ask before accepting an offer. The hostel deposit covers damage to fans, cupboards, glass panes, tables or chairs, and the institute deposit covers damaged lab equipment or lost library books. The Executive MBA is taught on the same campus, without hostel.

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

Where an admission schedule runs past 31 October, the UGC slab applies instead:

• The last date of admission is one day before the programme starts.
• 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.
• The insurance premium, registration and administrative fees are never refunded, though the insurance cover runs to the end of its policy year.
• Refunds are paid within 15 days of the written application, to the account given on the cancellation form.
• The institute cancels the admission of a student who, without informing it in writing, leaves fees unpaid for more than one semester or does not report to the institute for more than 30 days.
• No Symbiosis institute may keep original certificates; self-attested copies must be accepted and originals returned after checking.

The MBA batch of 2024-26 recorded a median CTC of ₹27.00 lakh, an average of ₹28.18 lakh and a highest of ₹74.84 lakh, with 132 pre-placement offers, and more than 110 recruiters took part.

In 2024-26 the gender-wise CTC was ₹31.27 lakh for women and ₹26.65 lakh for men. That batch was 33% women, its average student was 24.55 years old with 16.45 months of work experience, 41% joined as freshers, and 52% came from engineering or science. A second set of figures counts graduates by the year they finished:

The 2023-24 graduates are the 2022-24 batch, and both sets give its median as ₹25.00 lakh.

Most of these come from treating SNAP as the whole application, or from budgeting off the wrong fee line.

Compare SIBM Pune on the decision that actually binds you: the exam you are sitting, the fee you can carry, and the city you want.

• Same exam: SIIB Pune also admits on SNAP with the same 50-10-40 merit split, so one SNAP score covers both, and as a Symbiosis International University institute it follows the same refund rules; choose on programme and cohort.
• Other SIBM campuses: SIBM Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Nagpur and Noida also admit on SNAP 2026, each as a separate programme registration with its own shortlist.
• Lower fee: JBIMS Mumbai and SIMSREE Mumbai admit on MAH MBA-CET at a fraction of SIBM’s fee, through state counselling that weighs domicile.
• Different exam: the IIMs and MDI Gurgaon admit on CAT; SNAP is a separate December test with up to three attempts.
• Own process: SPJIMR Mumbai shortlists on profile and then interviews, on CAT or GMAT.
• NIRF Management 2025 placed SIBM Pune 11th. For all options, see our MBA admission guide.