SIOM Nashik Admission 2027: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

SIOM is the Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), which holds a NAAC A++ grade. It runs from one campus in New CIDCO, Nashik, and every programme it offers is an MBA built around operations and supply chain management. Two founding years are published for SIOM: 2005 and 2006. Dr Vandana Sonwaney is the Director.

The flagship programme is listed for the 2027 intake as the MBA (Operations and Supply Chain Management), and also as the MBA (Operations Management), the name its 2026-28 fees carry. Both names describe the same two-year, engineers-only programme. Every student in it completes a Six Sigma Black Belt certification through a live project. Its intake is 120 for 2026-27; the approved intake for 2025-26 was 150.

SIOM selects through SNAP alone. Among the Symbiosis MBAs, SIBM Pune and SCMHRD Pune run general MBAs, and SIIB Pune runs international business and agri business; SIOM is the one whose whole curriculum is operations.

The operations MBA and the Durham dual degree require a BE or BTech in any branch; the agri operations MBA does not. That one rule decides which SIOM programme a candidate can apply to.

• Final-year students may apply; admission then depends on reaching the 50% (45% for SC/ST) mark in the final result.
• A degree from a foreign university needs an equivalence certificate from the Association of Indian Universities.
• Within each programme’s intake, 15% of seats are reserved for SC, 7.5% for ST and 3% for persons with disabilities.
• Two seats per programme above the intake go to Kashmiri migrants and Kashmiri Pandit or Hindu families living in the valley; a further 25% above the intake is set aside for NRI, PIO, OCI and foreign-national candidates, admitted through the Symbiosis Centre for International Education.
• No work experience is required for any of the three programmes.

SIOM registration closes on 17 January 2027, five days after the SNAP result, and the batch starts on 1 June 2027. Each step is a deadline: a candidate who misses SIOM registration is not shortlisted, whatever the SNAP score.

Admit cards for the three SNAP tests open on 7, 11 and 18 December 2026, about a week before each test. Dual-degree candidates have a narrower window than the rest: their GE-PI runs only from 5 to 7 February, and after the offer they must complete the transfer to Durham before Durham’s semester starts.

Applying takes two payments through the SNAP website: ₹2,550 for each SNAP attempt and ₹1,000 for each SIOM programme, both plus taxes. Paying only for SNAP does not put a candidate on any SIOM 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 operations MBA charges ₹9,50,000 a year in academic fees for the 2026-28 batch, paid as four instalments of ₹4,75,000, so the academic fee for two years is ₹19,00,000. The agri operations MBA charges ₹5,25,000 a year, or four instalments of ₹2,62,500, for ₹10,50,000 over two years. Each programme also takes a ₹20,000 refundable institute deposit.

The two first-year instalments add to ₹12,15,500. The agri operations MBA pays the same hostel and mess, so its first two instalments are ₹4,68,200 and ₹3,22,300; without hostel and mess its first instalment is ₹2,82,500, the ₹2,62,500 academic share plus the deposit. Its later instalments fall on the same dates.

• Two figures are published for the dual degree’s SIOM fee: ₹14,25,000, with a first instalment of ₹8,65,250, and ₹10,68,750 after a 25% inaugural scholarship. With the scholarship the first instalment, at admission, is ₹6,87,125: ₹5,34,375 in academic fees after the scholarship, both deposits, and one semester of hostel (₹52,950) and mess (₹59,800). The remaining ₹5,34,375 is due by 25 November 2027 for semester 4. Semesters 2 and 3 follow Durham’s fee structure and are not part of these figures.
• A few seats are discretionary-quota seats, charged double the open-category academic fee for the whole programme.
• NRI, PIO and OCI candidates pay US$16,800 a year in academic fees for the operations MBA; foreign nationals admitted in 2026-27 receive a Golden Jubilee scholarship of US$14,200 against it.
• The four semester toppers in each batch receive 20%, 15%, 10% and 5% off the next semester’s academic fee.

A three-sharing hostel room costs ₹1,05,900 a year and mess ₹1,19,600 a year for the 2026-27 academic year, plus a ₹20,000 refundable hostel deposit. The same rates apply to the operations and agri operations MBAs, which are listed as non-residential although their instalments include a room and mess; year-two hostel and mess charges are announced before year two begins, with increases of up to 15% a year allowed. Dual-degree students pay by the semester instead: ₹52,950 for hostel and ₹59,800 for mess in each semester spent at SIOM.

• Boys and girls live in separate hostels; rooms have attached toilets and bathrooms, hot and cold water round the clock, and a cot, mattress, table, chair, cupboard and book rack.
• The Symbiosis Centre for Health Care keeps a resident doctor on campus. Every student is covered by Mediclaim for ₹50,000 of hospitalisation and ₹1,00,000 for road traffic accidents (2026).
• The library held 15,728 books, 24 magazines and 7 journals in September 2026, with eight online databases including CMIE ProwessIQ, Indiastat and Tracxn.
• Industry visits run every semester; each agri operations student visits at least one agro-industry company in and around Nashik.

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 operations batch shows a ₹13.50 lakh median and a ₹15.59 lakh average CTC, interim to January 2026; the last complete batch, 2023-25, closed at a ₹13.00 lakh median and ₹14.05 lakh average with all of its students placed. Each top-bracket figure below describes the highest-paid 10%, 25%, 50% or 75% of the batch.

Manufacturing took 36.4% of 2024-26 offers, consulting and BFSI 33.6%, IT/ITES and retail 21.4%, FMCG 6.4% and logistics 2.1%, from 39 recruiters, 9 of them new. In 2023-25, 44 recruiters hired, 23 of them new. Roles run from supply chain consulting and demand planning to procurement and operations analytics. The 2022-24 batch converted 20% of its summer internships into pre-placement offers.

Food and beverage took 44.4% of agri operations offers in 2024-26 and FMCG 22.2%, from 7 recruiters. In 2022-24 three agri operations students took international offers at a ₹8.51 lakh median and ₹8.56 lakh average, converted at 1 June 2024 exchange rates. The Durham dual degree began with the 2026-28 batch, so it has no placement record yet.

SIOM costs less than the general MBAs at SIBM Pune and SCMHRD and, unlike them, asks for an engineering degree for its flagship programme. Against SIBM Pune at ₹26,20,000 in academic fees for 2026-28 and SCMHRD Pune at ₹25,82,000, SIOM’s operations MBA is ₹19,00,000; SIIB Pune’s international business MBA is ₹20,62,000. All four use the same SNAP score, so one test reaches every one of them, with a separate ₹1,000 registration for each programme.

The trade is location and breadth. SIOM sits in Nashik, not Pune, and every programme it runs is an operations MBA, so it suits a candidate who has already chosen that function. Outside Symbiosis, IMT Nagpur admits through CAT, XAT, CMAT or GMAT and charges ₹16,00,000 for 2027-29 with hostel and mess included, and NMIMS Mumbai admits through NMAT. For the agri operations MBA the closest Symbiosis alternative is SIIB Pune’s MBA (Agri Business).