Welingkar Mumbai Admission 2027: Cutoff, Fees & Placements

Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, known as WeSchool, is a private AICTE-approved standalone management institute in Matunga, central Mumbai. The institute was established in 1977 and runs under S.P. Mandali (Shikshana Prasaraka Mandali), a Pune-based education trust founded in 1888. It operates two campuses, Mumbai and Bengaluru. This page covers Mumbai only.

Two very different products sit on the same campus, and confusing them is the most common mistake applicants make here:

• The PGDM, a two-year autonomous diploma. The AICTE Mandatory Disclosure for AY2024-25 lists eight approved full-time PGDM programmes at the Mumbai campus with 720 sanctioned seats in total (AY2024-25).
• The MMS, a two-year Master of Management Studies degree of the University of Mumbai. The programme started in 1984 and has a present intake of "120 + 1".

The institute is permanently affiliated to the University of Mumbai, has autonomous status granted by UGC and is approved by AICTE. Its full-time PGDM programmes carry NBA accreditation, and the institute additionally holds ACBSP and SAQS accreditation and MBA equivalence from AIU.

On the one ranking that publishes its methodology, the PGDM entity was ranked 75 in Management with a score of 49.08 (2025), against rank 84 and a score of 46.53 the year before (NIRF India Rankings 2024).

The PGDM and the MMS are two separate admission processes with two different authorities. Settle which one you are chasing before you pay an application fee.

PGDM, run by the institute. The official Mumbai PGDM page for the 2026-28 batch lists five accepted tests: CAT (2025), XAT (2026), ATMA (February 2026), CMAT (2026) and GMAT (2023 onwards). Published eligibility is a minimum 50% in graduation, which must be completed by June 2026. The AICTE Mandatory Disclosure AY2024-25 adds a detail worth knowing: the institute does not allot any specific number of seats to a given test, and selection is based on overall performance. A strong CMAT or ATMA score is therefore not competing inside a smaller ring-fenced pool than CAT.

The selection weightage is published identically on the programme page and in the AICTE filing:

60 of the 100 marks sit outside your entrance percentile, which is why a mid-percentile candidate with a clean academic record converts here more often than at a percentile-driven school.

MMS, run through the state. The MMS seat is a CAP seat. The institute's official AY2024-25 MMS admission document states admission is provisional and subject to final approval of the Jt. DTE, DTE, Admission Regulating Authority and University of Mumbai, and lists accepted score cards as CMAT, CAT, MH-CET, MAT, ATMA, XAT or GMAT. Seats vacant after CAP are filled through institute-level ACAP rounds, and candidates admitted against CAP vacancy pay open-category fees whatever their category.

PGDM tuition and other fees are ₹7,50,000 a year for the 2026-28 batch. Two years come to ₹15,00,000 — our arithmetic, not a Welingkar figure: it publishes a per-annum number, no consolidated total, and marks the annual one “Subject to change”.

The University of Mumbai-affiliated MMS is a separate, state-regulated fee: ₹4,31,000 a year for the open category (AY2025-26), with heavy concessions for reserved categories. Welingkar publishes no two-year PGDM total.

For OBC, SEBC, EBC and EWS boys the state pays half the tuition; where a row says paid by the state, the Social Welfare Department pays it to the institute directly. The library deposit is refundable and every category pays it.

Three conditions sit on those concessions. EBC, EWS and SEBC free-ship applies only where annual family income is ₹8,00,000 or less. Anyone admitted against an institute-level ACAP vacancy pays open-category fees whatever their category. And if the state rejects the free-ship application, the open-category fee becomes payable. The University of Mumbai fee is charged separately, by candidature type, through the university portal.

The institute's AICTE filing publishes a programme-wise entrance-test percentile cut-off for 2023, and the flagship PGDM sat at 80.02.

Read the label before you compare. The same institute's AY2023-24 disclosure published a differently headed series for the same year — "Cut off marks (2023)" out of 100, with PGDM at 60.00/100 — which is a composite score on the 40/15/40/5 scale, not a percentile. Two official documents, two different metrics, one year. Any figure you see quoted without its column heading is unreadable.

Also read what a cut-off is here. Because the entrance test carries only 40 of 100 marks, the percentile above is the lowest admitted score after the full composite was applied, not a screening threshold announced in advance. WeSchool does not publish an advance qualifying percentile. Practically, the shortlist call comes from the composite, and the interview stage is where a 75-percentile profile either recovers or does not.

Welingkar publishes the percentile it shortlists at, which is unusual enough to be worth using. For the 2026-28 batch, on its own General Merit List:

Welingkar states the CMAT cut-off is confirmed only after that result is declared, and that for Healthcare and Rural Management the 70 percentile applies across all the accepted tests irrespective of your graduation background. Clearing the percentile gets you the call, not the seat

For the cohort that graduated in AY2023-24, the institute filed a median of ₹11,50,000 with NIRF and a flagship-PGDM average of ₹12.46 lakh with AICTE.

Programme-wise averages for the same 2022-2024 batch, from the institute's AICTE Mandatory Disclosure AY2024-25 (₹ lakh per annum):

Placed counts differ sharply by programme: 145 of 180 in the flagship PGDM, 32 of 60 in Healthcare. The two official filings also differ on how many were placed from this cohort — AICTE's programme tables sum to 520, NIRF's return says 635.

The Mumbai campus is at Lakhamsi Napoo Road, Matunga (East), Mumbai 400019, a short walk from Matunga on the Central line and Matunga Road on the Western line (AY2024-25).

What the institute has declared about the physical campus in the same filing:

• 23 classrooms, each between 35 and 51 square metres of carpet area, and 8 tutorial rooms in the same size band.
• An Innovation Laboratory, and two computer centres with capacities of 83 and 92.
• A central examination facility of 10 classrooms seating 60 each and 13 seating 120 each.
• 175 online examination nodes on 1114 Mbps of bandwidth.
• Barrier-free built environment for disabled and elderly persons, and a fire and safety certificate available.

On hostels, the AY2023-24 disclosure is specific and worth quoting to yourself before you plan: separate hostels for boys and girls are available within 2 km of the college with 24x7 internet, admission is on a first-come-first-served basis, and preference is given to non-locals. This is not an on-campus residential school — the accommodation is nearby, and the seat is not guaranteed by your admission.

Matunga is central Mumbai, so the living-cost base is a Mumbai base, not a satellite-campus one. Budget it honestly rather than assuming the hostel band covers everything.

Welingkar runs a second campus at Electronic City in Bengaluru. The fee is the same — ₹7,50,000 a year — so the choice between them is not about money. Four things are different, and one of them matters more than the rest.

Note the shape: E-Business is twice the size of the flagship PGDM here, which is the reverse of Mumbai. And the fee is quoted per year on every one of these pages, marked “Subject to change” — Welingkar publishes no two-year figure for Bengaluru any more than it does for Mumbai, so budget ₹7,50,000 now and ask what year two will be.

The placement figures are the problem. Welingkar’s Bengaluru pages have not been brought forward for the two largest programmes. The newest batch shown for the core PGDM and for E-Business is 2019-21 — ₹7.91 lakh and ₹7.9 lakh domestic averages, both against a ₹13.6 lakh highest. Business Design & Innovation shows 2023-25 at ₹9.98 lakh, and Research & Business Analytics shows 2022-24 at ₹10.40 lakh. So a candidate setting Bengaluru beside Mumbai’s ₹11.7 lakh for 2023-25 is comparing figures four years apart. We are not carrying those forward or averaging them — ask the campus for the current batch’s report before you use any of it.

Two smaller things. The line about 358 companies and 227 new recruiters appears word for word on the Bengaluru pages too, so treat it as a Welingkar-wide figure rather than either campus’s own. And the compulsory hostel is a real cost difference: at ₹1,70,000 a year it adds ₹3,40,000 you cannot opt out of, where Mumbai’s is optional.

Address: 102/103, Electronic City Phase 1, next to the Telephone Exchange, Hosur Road, Bengaluru 560100.

Compare on decision axes, not on listicle ranks. Four axes decide this one.

Route and fee band. If you hold a strong MAH MBA/MMS CET score with Maharashtra domicile, the Mumbai names you are weighing — JBIMS Mumbai and SIMSREE Mumbai among them — sit in a state-regulated fee structure that a private PGDM does not. Verify each institute's approved fee and admission route on its own official page and on the DTE Maharashtra CAP notification, then compare like with like. The sharpest version of this comparison is internal: WeSchool's own MMS against WeSchool's own PGDM.

Test flexibility. WeSchool's PGDM accepts CAT, XAT, CMAT, ATMA and GMAT and, per its AICTE filing, ring-fences no seats by test. If your CAT percentile underperformed but your CMAT or XAT did not, that flexibility is a real, checkable advantage over schools that publish a CAT-only door.

Sector depth versus generalist brand. Against K J Somaiya Mumbai, SIBM Pune or NMIMS Mumbai, WeSchool's distinguishing feature is eight AICTE-approved PGDM variants, including business design, healthcare, rural, retail, media & entertainment and research & business analytics. If you want a general management brand, that breadth is not the reason to come. If you want a declared sector, it is.

Ranking, read properly. NIRF placed the WeSchool PGDM entity at 75 in Management in 2025 and 84 in 2024. Look up each peer in that same published table with its score, rather than in a paid ranking whose methodology you cannot inspect.