Cheapest MBA Colleges in Bangalore for 2026

Ans. Avagmah Business School charges 45.50 K for the full two-year MBA, the lowest total fee in the city for a full-time programme. Xaviers Institute of Business Management Studies follows at 50.62 K, and its online MBA at 25.90 K is the cheapest MBA of any format in Bangalore. Among government colleges, Bangalore University is the most affordable at 69.20 K. Note that Avagmah lists a conflicting 1.16 Lakh figure in its specialisation tables, so confirm the current fee with the college directly.

Ans. Fourteen of the 27 colleges listed here charge exactly 1,15,500 because they are affiliated to Bangalore University and admit through Karnataka PGCET, where the fee is regulated rather than set by the individual college. The figure is the same whether the college is a standalone management institute, a commerce college with an MBA department, or an engineering college running an MBA alongside its B.E. programmes. At that price point the decision rests on teaching, campus and placement support rather than cost.

Ans. Bangalore has 16 government management colleges against 299 private ones. Bangalore University is the cheapest at 69.20 K, followed by KSRDPRU at 75.12 K, Canara Bank School of Management at 1.04 Lakh, Dr. Manmohan Singh Bengaluru City University at 1.06 Lakh and Government Ramnarayan Chellaram College at 1.16 Lakh. Admission to all of them runs through Karnataka PGCET, which is accepted by 140 Bangalore colleges, the same number that accept CAT.

Ans. The honest answer is that it is hard to judge, because almost none of these colleges publishes placement data. Only Acharya Institute of Technology reports a verified MBA figure, a median of 6.00 LPA with 227 of 251 students placed in 2024-25. None of the other 26 appears in the NIRF Management rankings. A candidate should treat the absence of published outcomes as a reason to ask the college directly for programme-wise placement records before paying a deposit.

Ans. This distinction matters more than the fee. Several well-known low-fee options in Bangalore offer a PGDM or a PG Diploma rather than an MBA, and their diploma fee is often a fraction of the MBA fee at the same college. AIMS IBS Business School lists a PG programme at 26 K while its MBA costs 6.75 Lakh, and St Hopkins College lists a PGDM at 25 K against an MBA at 3.75 Lakh. Indian School of Business Management and Administration, St Joseph's University, St. Joseph's College of Commerce and Mysore Correspondence College offer postgraduate management programmes but no MBA at all.

Ans. Karnataka PGCET and CAT are each accepted by 140 of the 307 management colleges in Bangalore, making them the two widest routes. MAT follows at 133 colleges, KMAT at 109 and CMAT at 96. XAT is accepted by 84 colleges and ATMA by 56. For the colleges in this fee band, PGCET is the main route, since the regulated 1.16 Lakh fee applies to the state quota seats it fills.

Ans. Xaviers Institute of Business Management Studies offers the cheapest Executive MBA at 30.90 K across the 27 colleges in Bangalore running the format. National Institute of Retail Management follows at 1.34 Lakh, then Hillside Academy, Surana College and Oxbridge Group of Institutions at 2.00 Lakh each, and Dayananda Sagar University at 2.25 Lakh. Several of these colleges publish a different Executive MBA fee on their own course pages, so confirm before applying.

Ans. Xaviers Institute of Business Management Studies at 25.90 K is the cheapest online MBA, and the cheapest MBA of any format in the city. Jain Online follows at 86.50 K and Dayananda Sagar University Online at 1.20 Lakh. Eight Bangalore colleges offer the format. Jain Online and Jain University are separate records with different fees, as are Dayananda Sagar University and Dayananda Sagar University Online, so check which one an advertised fee belongs to.

Ans. Seven Bangalore colleges offer part-time management programmes, but only two of them award an MBA. Jain Online lists an MBA in Operations and Supply Chain Management at 86.50 K, and Amruta Institute of Engineering and Management Sciences a part-time MBA in Human Resource Management at 1.37 Lakh. The remaining five offer a PGDM, an MHRM or a PG Diploma rather than an MBA.

Ans. Three name pairs in Bangalore are easy to confuse. Hillside Institute of Management and Academy charges 1.16 Lakh while Hillside Academy charges 4.25 Lakh, and they are separate colleges. Jain Online, Jain University and Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College are three separate records. Seshadripuram First Grade College, Seshadripuram College and Seshadripuram Institute of Management Studies all exist under the same trust, and only the first offers the MBA listed here. KSRDPRU is also worth noting because its campus is in Gadag rather than Bangalore.