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Top 50 Indian B-Schools Accepting GMAT Scores

Arun Jagannathan
Arun Jagannathan · Founder & GMAT Expert
· Updated Sep 2026
01 · The fifty schools

Fifty Indian B-Schools That Accept the GMAT

Filter by who can apply with a GMAT before anything else. At a lot of these institutes the programme that takes your score is the executive or international one rather than the two-year flagship you are probably picturing, and that is the difference between an application and a wasted year.

Fees and packages are the schools’ own latest published numbers.

# School City Programme Who can apply with a GMAT Published GMAT figure Total fee Avg package What that fee actually covers What the school publishes about scores
1ISB HyderabadHyderabadPGP, the one-year MBAAny applicant720 mean₹34.48L₹34L+Tuition and shared campus accommodation. Excludes GST.720 mean, old scale. ISB publishes one profile across both campuses
2ISB MohaliMohaliPGP, the one-year MBAAny applicant720 mean₹34.48L₹34L+Tuition and shared campus accommodation. Excludes GST.720 mean, old scale. ISB publishes one profile across both campuses
3IIM Ahmedabad (PGPX)AhmedabadOne-year executive MBAWork experience needed692 old / 642 Focus₹35L₹37L+Tuition, books and on-campus housing. International immersion travel is extra.692 on the old scale and 642 on Focus, both published, cohort 2025-26
4IIM Bangalore (EPGP)BengaluruOne-year executive MBAWork experience needed704 average₹33.68L₹32L+Tuition, on-campus housing, mess and the international immersion.704 average, batch 2026-27. The school does not say which scale
5IIM Calcutta (PGPEX)KolkataOne-year executive MBAWork experience needed691 mean₹33.5L₹32L+Tuition, housing and immersion airfare. Food is extra.691 mean, old scale, Class of 2024
6IIM Lucknow (IPMX)LucknowOne-year executive MBAWork experience neededNone published₹26L₹28L+Tuition, single-occupancy housing and food, plus the overseas module.Nothing published. The school says it sets no minimum
7XLRI JamshedpurJamshedpurTwo-year PGDM, BM or HRMAny applicantNone publishedNot published₹27L+Not published.Nothing published
8SPJIMR MumbaiMumbaiTwo-year PGDMAny applicant85th percentile₹24.86L₹19L+Tuition and basic hostel accommodation.Percentiles, not scores: 85th overall, 75th sectional
9FMS DelhiNew DelhiTwo-year MBA. GMAT accepted from foreign nationals onlyInternational only650 minimum₹2.43L₹25L+University fee only. Hostel is separate and not listed.650 minimum, and only for foreign nationals
10Great Lakes ChennaiChennaiOne-year PGPMAny applicantNone published₹23.5L₹12L+Everything: tuition, single AC accommodation and all meals. Fully residential.No cut-off, and the school says so outright
11IMT GhaziabadGhaziabadTwo-year PGDMAny applicantNone publishedNot published₹13L+Not published.No minimum published
12TAPMI ManipalManipalTwo-year PGDMAny applicantPercentile bands₹19.5L₹9L+Tuition only. TAPMI has not yet priced hostel and mess.Percentile bands tied to work experience
13XIMB BhubaneswarBhubaneswarTwo-year MBAAny applicantNone published₹23L₹14L+Course fee only. Hostel runs roughly another 1.2L to 2.8L over two years, plus mess.No minimum published
14IIM Indore (EPGP)IndoreOne-year executive MBAWork experience neededNone published₹26.77L₹23L+Tuition plus lodging and boarding.No minimum published
15IIFT Delhi and KolkataNew Delhi / KolkataMBA in International BusinessAny applicantNone published₹21.82L₹16L+Includes boarding and lodging. This is the 2025-27 figure; IIFT has not published 2026-28.Nothing published
16Goa Institute of ManagementGoaTwo-year PGDMAny applicantNone published₹21.45L₹11L+Academic fee only. Hostel and mess are extra.No cut-off published
17K.J. Somaiya MumbaiMumbaiTwo-year MBAAny applicantNone published₹23.88L₹11L+Tuition and charges. Hostel is billed separately.No cut-off published
18BITSoM MumbaiMumbaiTwo-year MBAAny applicant690 median₹28.55L₹18L+Tuition and accommodation. Meals and laptop are extra.690 median, range 600 to 770, old scale, Class of 2025
19IIM Shillong (PGPEx)ShillongExecutive MBAWork experience needed500 minimum₹22.77L₹14L+Academic and non-academic charges. International immersion is charged at actuals on top.500 minimum. A floor, not a class average
20IIM Udaipur (GSCM)UdaipurOne-year MBA in supply chainWork experience neededNone published₹23.17L₹13L+Tuition plus living expenses, which cover both room and food.Nothing published
21IIM Raipur (PGPWE)RaipurWeekend executive MBAWork experience neededNone publishedNot published₹15L+Not published.Nothing published
22IMI New DelhiNew DelhiTwo-year PGDMAny applicantNone published₹23.54L₹12L+Tuition only. Hostel adds roughly 3L to 4.1L per year.Nothing published
23IIM Ranchi (EMBA)RanchiExecutive MBAWork experience neededNone published₹12.7L₹12L+Tuition only. You pay your own travel and stay for the on-campus weeks.Nothing published
24IIM Rohtak (PGPx)RohtakOne-year executive MBAWork experience neededNone published₹7.44L₹13L+All academic charges. Accommodation is not addressed.Nothing published
25IIM NagpurNagpurExecutive MBA, hybridWork experience neededNone published₹9.5L₹13L+Tuition. Accommodation is not addressed.Nothing published
26IIM Visakhapatnam (PGDMEx)VisakhapatnamOne-year blended executive diplomaWork experience neededNone published₹4.73L₹12L+Programme fee. Mostly virtual, so there is little to house.Nothing published
27IIT Delhi (DMS)New DelhiTwo-year MBAAny applicantNone published₹9.6L₹16L+Tuition, general category. This figure is from the 2020-22 cohort and is almost certainly low.Nothing published
28IIT Bombay (SJMSOM)MumbaiTwo-year MBAAny applicantNone published₹15.56L₹16L+General category. Hostel is extra: 47,250 one-time plus mess.Nothing published
29IIT Madras (DoMS)ChennaiTwo-year MBAAny applicantNone published₹11.82L₹15L+General category, including teaching materials. Hostel is extra.Nothing published
30XLRI GMPJamshedpur15-month General Management ProgrammeWork experience neededNone publishedNot published₹16L+Not published.Nothing published
31BITS PilaniPilaniMBAAny applicantNone published₹10.34L₹10L+Excludes hostel. Roughly 11.49L with hostel and mess. 2023-24 figure, and tuition escalates 5% a year.Nothing published
32Shiv Nadar (SME)Greater NoidaMBAAny applicantNone publishedNot published₹9L+Not published. Shiv Nadar excludes the MBA from its published fee schedule.Nothing published
33FLAME UniversityPuneTwo-year MBAAny applicantNone published₹20.95L₹7L+Full cost including lodging and boarding. Field trips are extra.Nothing published
34SDM IMD MysoreMysoreTwo-year PGDMAny applicantNone published₹14.1L₹7L+Tuition and hostel for two years. Mess is extra, around 3,000 a month.Nothing published
35MYRA School of BusinessMysoreTwo-year PGDMAny applicantNone published₹10L₹8L+Tuition only. This is the 2024-26 batch figure.Nothing published
36GITAM School of BusinessVisakhapatnamMBAAny applicantNone publishedNot published₹7L+Not published as a two-year total. Year one is about 5.7L and GITAM says fees rise 5 to 8 per cent a year.Nothing published
37Apeejay School of ManagementNew DelhiPGDMAny applicantNone published₹10.5L₹7L+Tuition and charges. No hostel.Nothing published
38VIT Business SchoolVelloreMBAAny applicantNone published₹6.97L₹7L+Tuition only. Hostel and mess are extra.Nothing published
39SRM College of ManagementChennaiMBAAny applicantNone published₹4.5L₹7L+Tuition only. Not residential.Nothing published
40Universal AI UniversityKarjatMBAAny applicantNone published₹10.98L₹7L+Tuition only. Hostel adds roughly 1.5L to 2.2L a year.Nothing published
41Kirloskar Institute of ManagementHariharPGDMAny applicantNone published₹11.94L₹7L+Full cost: tuition plus boarding and lodging.Nothing published
42NISM MumbaiMumbaiPGDM in securities marketsAny applicantNone published₹10.64L₹8L+Fully residential: programme fee 6.79L plus hostel and dining 3.85L.Nothing published
43ASBM UniversityBhubaneswarMBAAny applicantNone published₹7.2L₹6L+Tuition only. Hostel, mess and transport are extra.Nothing published
44Delhi School of BusinessNew DelhiPGDMAny applicantNone published₹9.75L₹7L+Tuition and charges, no hostel. This is the 2024-26 figure.Nothing published
45IIM Tiruchirappalli (PGPBM)Tiruchirappalli / ChennaiPGPBM for working professionalsWork experience neededNone published₹14.6L₹14L+Course fee. Not residential.Nothing published
46IIM KozhikodeKozhikode / KochiEPGP Kochi, and the flagship PGP for international applicantsInternational only560 minimum₹12.22L₹20L+Programme delivery and materials. Lodging and meals for the Kozhikode immersions are extra.560 minimum for international PGP applicants, old scale
47SDA Bocconi Asia CenterMumbaiInternational Master in BusinessAny applicantNone published₹20.75LNot publishedTuition, including the Milan semester. Living costs in Milan are quoted separately in euros.No cut-off, and the school says so
48MICA AhmedabadAhmedabadTwo-year PGDMAny applicantNone published₹28L₹19.22LTuition and infrastructure for the fully residential programme. International immersion is extra.Nothing published
49Great Lakes GurgaonGurugramOne-year PGPMAny applicantNone publishedNot published₹15.1LNot published.No cut-off published
50IFMR GSB, Krea UniversitySri CityTwo-year MBAAny applicant525 minimumNot publishedNot publishedNot published.525 minimum, listed against both the old GMAT and Focus
One school you might expect to see

NMIMS is not on this list because it runs its own entrance test instead, and the Bengaluru campus states plainly that it accepts only that test. An older NMIMS handout did allow NRI and foreign-national applicants to submit a GMAT, but the current international policy is unpublished, so we have left it off rather than list a route we cannot confirm.


02 · Is my score enough?

Whether To Apply With What You Have, Or Retake First

The table tells you who takes your score. It cannot tell you whether yours is enough, and that answer turns almost entirely on what kind of number you are looking at.

1
A minimum is a filter, so clear it

Where the published figure column shows a minimum, that is a bar your application has to clear before anyone reads it. FMS Delhi, IIM Shillong, IIM Kozhikode and IFMR GSB all publish one. If you are under it at a school you want, another attempt is the only thing that changes the outcome, and no amount of essay work substitutes.

2
An average is not a bar

Where the column shows a mean or a median, it describes the class that got in rather than the score you need. An average is not a floor, and a good share of any admitted class sits below it. ISB’s own published class runs from 530 to 780, and BITSoM admitted somebody at 600 against a 690 median, so thirty or forty points under a class average is a normal admitted profile rather than a disqualification.

3
Check which scale the number is on

Most of the published figures here are from cohorts who sat the old exam, and a given percentile sits at a noticeably lower number on the current one. IIM Ahmedabad is the only school that publishes both, at 692 old against 642 current, and the gap between those two is the size of the mistake you make by comparing across scales.

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Where nothing is published at all

At most of these fifty there is no figure to be above or below, so there is nothing to retake against. Filter the published figure column to see which ones those are, apply with the strongest score your timeline allows, and put the remaining effort into the parts of the application the school has actually said it weighs.

Before you book another attempt

Your existing score stays valid for five years, and every programme on this list accepts scores from before the exam changed in 2024. Nobody needs to retake purely because the scale is different now. If you are a long way below a minimum and the deadline is months out, a retake usually moves your position more than a stronger essay does, because a score moves faster than the rest of a profile.

Where a conversation helps
No published average does not mean there is no bar

Every school here has a real admitted range, including the ones that never print it, and working out where your score and your profile sit against that range is the part no table can do for you.

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03 · Common questions

Still have questions?

Six questions we get most often
These come from actual profile conversations, week after week. If yours is not here, the fastest route is a conversation rather than another article.
ISB has never published a cut-off, and the reported class figures sit around 720 on the old scale, though published sources differ between a mean of 720 and a median of 710 and none of them names a class year. More useful is ISB’s own FAQ, which describes a current class ranging from 530 all the way to 780. People do get admitted well below the average when the rest of the application is strong enough to carry them.
Only through the international channel, which is a route most applicants never find out exists. Several IIMs reserve seats for NRI and foreign-national applicants and take the GMAT for those, with IIM Kozhikode asking international PGP applicants for 560. As a resident Indian applying to the flagship, your GMAT does not substitute, and this is the single most common misunderstanding we see on this topic.
They do, and for most of them it is the only test they accept. PGPX at IIM Ahmedabad, EPGP at Bangalore, PGPEX at Calcutta and IPMX at Lucknow all run on the GMAT or the GRE. Most expect four or more years of full-time work experience, so check the eligibility bar alongside the score. Filter the table to the schools that need work experience to see the full set.
It is, for five years from the date you sat it, and every programme on this list accepts scores from before the 2024 changeover. You cannot sit the old test any more, but there is no reason to retake simply because the scale changed. One thing to watch: most published figures here are on the old scale, so compare like with like before deciding you are short.
Because most Indian schools do not run admissions that way. They publish which tests they accept and they publish their placement reports, and the shortlisting figure stays internal. Great Lakes states on its own site that it has no minimum for its PGPM programme, and IIM Lucknow says the same. If a page hands you a confident average for a school in the lower half of this table, it is worth asking where that number came from.
At most of these programmes, yes, and generally with no stated preference between the two. ISB reports GRE and GMAT class figures separately, and the IIM executive programmes, XLRI and SPJIMR all accept either. Check the specific programme page before you commit to one test, because acceptance varies by programme rather than by institute.

Sources and review

Routes and published score figures come from each institute’s own admissions pages and class profiles. Fees and average packages are the schools’ own reported numbers and should be read as indicative rather than exact, since a placement average describes the batch that has just graduated rather than the one you would be joining.

Last reviewed: 04 September 2026 · Next review: 28 February 2027 · Reviewed by: Devmitra Sen, GMAT Head

04 · The bottom line

What To Do With This List

Filter to the schools that will actually take your score from someone in your position, then check whether the figure next to each one is a minimum or an average, because the first decides whether you can apply at all and the second only tells you what the last admitted class looked like.

If your shortlist is turning international, the GMAT scores for top business schools guide covers how the same score reads to admissions committees outside India. If you have not settled on a shortlist at all yet, the top MBA colleges in India guide ranks a hundred of them on fee and placement.

Free profile evaluation
You know which schools take the GMAT, and the open question is where you land

A mentor who has read a few thousand Indian applicant profiles can tell you which of these programmes your score and experience are genuinely competitive at, and which are a stretch worth making anyway.

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Arun Jagannathan
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Arun Jagannathan
Founder & GMAT Expert · Crackverbal

Arun Jagannathan is the founder of Crackverbal and has spent nearly 20 years teaching GMAT strategy and mentoring test-takers. He focuses on turning complex GMAT concepts into practical frameworks that help students diagnose weaknesses, improve accuracy and prepare with a clear plan.

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