NMIMS Mumbai Overall Review

The admission process started with applying for NMAT and then applying for NMIMS separately. The eligibility for the course is to have more than a 50% score in any bachelor's degree. Everyone with a bachelor's degree can apply for this course. The application fees are around 2300+ for the NMAT exam and around 2000+ for NMIMS. NMAT is an adaptive exam and last year, the cutoff was around 236 overall. After NMAT, there was a process of Case Analysis and then a Personal Interview. Case analysis entails a general knowledge case on which we have to write our opinions and analysis of the situation. Personal Interview has been taken by a panel of three, it was a stress interview and took around 25 minutes to complete. Some questions were asked from the SOP filled earlier in the application process. The whole process was online and was conducted smoothly by coordinators. Time slot change requests were also accommodated.

The course curriculum was a big factor in my choosing this college. The course is divided into six trimesters, each contaomomg a different number of subjects and with different weights. MBA specialization only starts from the second year. There is a mandatory non-profit internship at the end of the first year along with a mandatory corporate internship. both placements will be through college and the placement committee respectively. There is about a 1:30 Faculty to Student Ratio. Faculty departs are Economics, Law, Data Analytics, Communications, Human Resources, Marketing, Operations and Finance, many of them with PhDs. In the online mode, faculty teach through case study assignments, breakout room interactions. However, individual attention is always better in the offline mode. Class participation is awarded about 10-20% of course weightage. Exams are completely application based and some are open book exams. Grades are offered out of 4.

Summer placements usually start in the month of September, in the second trimester of the course. The average package is about 1.2L and the highest is about 3L. The placements during Covid-19 were also good and not affected badly. 100% of the batch gets placed in the summer placements. There were a total of 181 recruiters last season and 28 were Fortune 500 companies.

Placements for this course are very good and definitely along with the top MBA colleges. Summer internship and final placements both are managed by the placement committee, which happens in the second and fifth semesters respectively. About 25% of the batch got placed in PPOs last year. The average Package is around 18.45 Lakhs and 100% of the batch will get placed. The highest package was around 34 Lakhs. The majority of jobs are from IT and E-commerce.

The fee costs 10.95 Lakh for each year out of the two years. Living offline in Mumbai costs additional. There is no campus compound and the campus itself is a huge building housing different courses and schools in the NMIMS University. Living outside in Campus relates hostels or PGs or Apartments will cost around 2.5 to 3L per year on average around the Vile Parle area in Mumbai. Rates might vary depending on other circumstances. Financial assistance for students is possible based on family income conditions.

There are about 22 Clubs, cells, committees, and councils and students get to pick multiple of them to join. The annual fest is Euphoria and is conducted during the year-end. besides this, there are numerous events conducted by all these cells and clubs, there's always something going on. The college building is beautiful and well designed. The accessibility and amenities in the building are convenient. The building is always lively. There are clubs to join for Drama, Singing, and Music, Photography, Fashion, Dance and more for students to be a part of the community pursue their interests.

There was a Case Analysis and then a Personal INterview after my NMAT before the admission. The Case analysis was on the topic of Google Acquiring Fitbit and the Privacy implications of that, according to GDPR. We had to write our analysis based on the topic. The interview was about 25 minutes and was a stress interview. The three-member panel asked questions from the Statement of purpose which has been submitted previously and some generic MBA interview questions.