MBA Admissions Guide

A 30 September 2026 survey found top-25 B-school fees up about 3%. What’s driving it, what it doesn’t tell you, and where fees stay under ₹2 lakh.

6 MBA colleges cost ₹1 lakh or less, 17 cost ₹2 lakh or less, 46 cost ₹5 lakh or less. What each budget buys, and why the cheapest isn’t the easiest.

Convert a CAT rank to percentile using CAT 2025’s real appeared count (2.58 lakh) and a labelled 2026 projection. A free calculator, the formula and worked examples.

SNAP 2026 registration closes 25 November; tests on 13, 19 and 26 December. Fees, what a plan costs before taxes, and who SNAP is actually for.

17 MBA programmes cost ₹2 lakh or less in total. Which ones, how much percentile they need, which test gets you in, and what you get back for the fee.

Most state MBA tests for the 2026 intake are over. A state-by-state calendar of what ran when, the two KMATs people confuse, and what to do in October.

Official: ‘first week of January 2027’. The last four CAT results landed 24 to 25 days after the exam, pointing to 23 or 24 December. The pattern, and a result-day plan.

MBA colleges ranked by placement-to-fee ratio, led by DBE Delhi at 15.10 — how to read the ratio and use it to screen colleges.

Red flags of MBA admission agent fraud and the steps to verify any admission offer before you pay anyone.

What a legitimate MBA spot round or vacant-seat round actually is, how it differs from a scam offer, and the red flags to check first.