Choices for CAT 60 to 80 percentilers: University MBA Programs in Delhi NCR & North India

March 2, 2012 - PRLog -- If you are looking for MBA Admission, but still could not get a viable option, fret not. If you have a percentile between 60 and 80 in CAT or XAT but did not get a call from your dream B-schools, your options don’t cease there. In the special series of MBAUniverse.com, we are bringing to you the options for the 60 to 80 percentilers. In the last article, we have given you the list of the B-schools in the North India. Today, we will give you the list of the University MBA programs in the north India where you can apply for the academic year 2012-14.

Most of the universities accept the scores of CAT, XAT, MAT or other nationally recognized MBA entrance exams. Parallelly, some of the universities also conduct their own entrance tests. The following table will give you the list of the Universities in the north zone that offers MBA programs and the admission status and process.
University MBA   Admission Status   MBA entrance exams
Amity University, Noida,
Lucknow, Jaipur & Gurgaon   Admission Open   CAT, MAT, GMAT or
Amity Written Test
School of Management,
Galgotias University, Delhi-NCR   Admission Open   CAT, XAT, MAT
ITM University, Gurgaon
Admission Open   CAT, MAT, CMAT
JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur
Admission Open   CAT, XAT, MAT, ATMA,
CMAT or JKLU-MET
Jaypee Business School (JBS),
Jaypee Institute of Technology
(Deemed University), Noida
Admission Open   CAT, MAT, GMAT
Jindal Global Business School,
OP Jindal Global University,
Sonepat, Haryana
Admission Open   CAT, XAT or any common
entrance test
NIIT University, Neemrana,
Rajasthan
Admission Open   CAT, XAT, MAT or NUMAT
Sharda University, Greater Noida
Admission Open   CAT, MAT, SAT, GMAT or SURE (Sharda University Record Exam)
University of Petroleum & Energy
Studies (UPES), Dehradun
Admission Open   CAT, XAT, MAT or UPMET

Names appear in alphabetic order

So, if you have missed a chance to make it to the IIM and other top 20 B-schools, joining one of University based MBA programmes could be a wise choice. When compared with Tier-2 and Tier-3 B-schools, these University MBA programs offer many advantages like quality education, better brand name, and in some cases lower fee structure. Following are some of the advantages which you will incur by pursuing MBA from Universities.

Integration with other disciplines:

The biggest advantage of university based management programmes is that it integrates MBA programs with other disciplines like Engineering, Science, to offer a multi-disciplinary environment to students.

Dr. Rajan Saxena, Vice Chancellor, NMIMS University says, “At NMIMS we have adopted a ‘multidisciplinary integration’ approach. Rather than teaching marketing, sales, finance, etc in different silos, we have developed an integrated module in which the student gets to learn everything in an interlinked manner during its management education. The approach is towards dealing with 'business' as a whole.”

Dr. Michael Barnes, Dean and Professor, Jindal Global Business School says, “This approach helps applied research and inter-disciplinary research, and makes overall educational environment robust.”

Brand name:

Since there are many professional programs like engineering, medicine, architecture that are run within a university set up, a University based MBA programme comes with a higher level of credibility. This leads to a good brand name to the management faculty in the university, as Dr. Parag Diwan, Founder Vice-Chancellor of UPES, says, “Business School in a university is jewel in the crown. It builds the brand.”

Affordable programmes:

Last but not the least, given the large scale of operation, the fee structure of university MBA programmes are more affordable compared to standalone private B-schools.
While MBA programmes at Government Universities have a fee structure that is significantly lower as compared to other B-schools, fee structure in most of the Private Universities range between Rs 5 Lakh to Rs 8 Lakh for two-year full time MBA programmes.

For example, the annual fee for MBA programme at FMS, University of Delhi is Rs 10,500 approximately only. But the cost of MBA programme at Amity University and Jaypee Business School (JBS) is around Rs 5 Lakh, and that of Symbiosis International University (SIU) and JKLU is around Rs 8 lakh. The two year MBA programmes at UPES also cost about Rs 7 lakh. The above mentioned fee structure exclude hostel and accommodation fees.