The Outcome Is
Who You Become.
More than a degree. A journey that makes you more capable, more confident and ready to take ownership of what comes next.
Education should expand what a person is capable of Becoming.
Knowledge, judgment, curiosity, contemporary and AI-era skill.
Initiative, decisions, execution, accountability for outcomes.
Career, venture, leadership: a changed trajectory, not one guaranteed slot.
We take your potential seriously, and develop your capability seriously.
Learn. Lead. Transform.
The journey behind the outcome: six stages that takes you from knowing to becoming.
Your own – ambition, cability, potential.
How you think. Question assumptions.
Real business though projects, industry, internships.
Decisions and outcomes – initiative, responsibility.
Execute, fail, learn, unlearn, communicate, deliver.
Greater capability. A changed trajectory.
Academicians, experienced faculty and an industry-aligned curriculum.
14 certifications via EY CAFTA + NISM, and a Finance Lab with NSE Cogencis.
28K+ globally certified self-paced courses and micro-credentials.
Opportunities including Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia, or Mauritius
10–15 days of actual business: NBS capital, real customers, real revenue. Students keep the profit or loss.
Startup, family business or job, build an idea, plan expansion or map a career.
A constantly active campus creates repeated chances to organise and take responsibility.
Cases, live projects and simulations: practise decisions, not only study them.
Sustained real-world immersion: deadlines, people and business reality.
A first-year impact project in problem framing, empathy and innovation.
Structured preparation and corporate exposure across GDs, interviews and communication.
Support to move an idea toward a venture, and seniors handing learning forward to juniors.
See the journey in motion.
PGDM and MBA+PGPCE
both under one roof .
All programmes are full-time, 2-year approved by AICTE and GTU
for the Class of 2027–29 admission cycle.
PGDM – Dual Specialization
- Choose any two domains with equal depth: Finance, Marketing, HR, IT, and Production & Operations
- Broadest cohort with two specializations for wider career options
- Design Thinking studio and Business Acceleration Lab
- Mandatory Summer Internship with corporate partners
PGDM – Data Science & Analytics
- Python, Power BI, Tableau, Spark, Machine Learning, Cloud, NLP
- Applied hackathons throughout the programme
- Capstone project with an industry partner
- Become Capable of driving Data Interpretation & visualisation, AI- driven problem solving, business intelligent etc
PGDM – Quantitative Finance
- Academic tie-up with NISM
- 14 global certifications via the EY CAFTA programme
- Finance Lab - NSE Cogencis Terminal Access
MBA + PGP in Corporate Excellence
- Specializations in Finance, Marketing, HR, Advanced Business Research
- Dual Advantage Model: degree plus corporate-excellence certification
- GTU-affiliated, NAAC Grade A+
₹2,000 application fee
₹2.16L / ₹1.92L hostel per year (2- / 3-sharing)
Up to ₹4L merit & need-based scholarships
Five steps to your seat.
Bachelor’s degree with 50%+ marks, upper age limit 28. Final-year students and freshers are welcome: no minimum work experience required.
Submit your application at nbs.edu.in with academic and personal details.
Clear CAT, XAT, CMAT, NMAT or sit for NBSAT – NBS’s own AI-proctored test.
Assessing aptitude, personality, creativity, and ethical reasoning.
Conducted online for candidates across India.
Qualified applicant receive offer and get confirmed on fee payment
Below these thresholds, candidates take NBSAT – NBS’s own AI-proctored entrance test.
2024-26 batch
89% across Corporate, Startups and SME | 11% Family Business
Alumni of previous batches, in the roles they earned.
- PwC
- RBSA Advisors
- BCG
- IndusInd Bank
- City Union Bank
- Bajaj Finserv
- Withum
- Piramal Finance
- Motilal Oswal
- Mott MacDonald
- ICICI Pension Fund
- Anand Rathi
- Knowcraft Analytics
- Paperchase
- Meritto
- Decimal Point
- Birla Opus
- Indigo Paints
- RENÉE
- Blinkit
- Shapoorji Pallonji
- upGrad
- Keyence
- Havells
- Tata Motors
- Tesla
- Pantaloons
- Shivalik
- Coca-Cola
- Policybazaar
- Vi
- Flipkart
- EY
- Gemba Concepts
- TCS
- IDBI Bank
- IDFC First Bank
- Crisil
- Wipfli
- befree
- Godrej Capital
- XL Dynamics
- Axis Mutual Fund
- NJ E-Wealth
- Intech
- Odoo
- InfoEdge
- Saint-Gobain
- Berger Paints
- Britannia
- Simform
- Swiggy
- L&T Realty
- Bankai
- UltraTech Cement
- KENT
- Cargo Motors
- Adani
- Zudio
- Cadila Pharmaceuticals
- Khimji Ramdas
- MyGate
- Amul
- Apollo Hospitals
- KPMG
- Healthark
- Bank of America
- Kotak Mahindra Bank
- Tata Tele Business Services
- Interactive Brokers
- S&P Global
- Colliers
- Digit
- HomeFirst
- SBI Mutual Fund
- Aditya Birla Group
- Wealth First
- Relay Human Cloud
- MakeMyTrip
- Housing.com
- Asian Paints
- ITC Limited
- Zomato
- Lodha
- Physics Wallah
- Astral Pipes
- ASSA ABLOY
- Lightforms
- Landmark
- OYO
- Hindustan Unilever
- Café Coffee Day
- Vivo
- Airtel
- PhonePe
- & Many More…
You don't just study in a city.
You absorb how it works.
Ahmedabad is India’s first UNESCO World Heritage City and the commercial capital of its most business-minded state. Two years here is two years inside a working economy.
Trade here is generational. Textiles, chemicals, pharma and denim built family firms that now run professional boards, and the instinct for margins, risk and negotiation is ordinary conversation. Software development and technology back-ends have joined that same commercial fabric, with product and engineering teams now sitting alongside the trading houses. Students pick up commercial judgment from the environment, not only the classroom.
- Textiles & denim
- Chemicals
- Pharma
- Trading & distribution
- Software development
- Technology back-ends
India’s first International Financial Services Centre sits between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, with 1,000+ operational entities, 95 funds and more than 20,000 jobs created. For finance and analytics students, a global banking floor is a short drive away, not a different city.
- Global banks
- Fintech
- Fund management
- Bullion & derivatives
Adani, Zydus, Nirma, Intas, Astral, Torrent and Arvind are headquartered here. Working in a head-office city means exposure to strategy, treasury and group functions early (the roles where careers compound) instead of regional execution alone.
- Adani
- Zydus
- Nirma
- Intas
- Astral
- Torrent
Gujarat has topped the national startup ecosystem ranking as Best Performer five times running. Ahmedabad companies raised roughly $930 Mn across 160 deals in a decade, and the MSME base around them means early responsibility is easy to find.
- Lendingkart
- Infibeam
- Beardo
- BluSmart
Grade-A office vacancy has tightened from 18% to about 7% as global firms set up capability centres along SG Highway and Prahlad Nagar. Attrition runs well below Bengaluru, so early-career roles here come with longer runway and better mentoring.
- BFSI operations
- Analytics
- Shared services
- Engineering
The walled city earned India’s first UNESCO World Heritage City designation, and the campus city around it is affordable, safe and unusually easy to settle into. Enterprise is the local disposition, and as the city grows it keeps taking in people from everywhere else. Cohorts at NBS come from 24+ states, and the city absorbs all of them without ceremony.
- Low cost of living
- Metro Phase 1 live
- Bullet train by 2027-28
- 24+ states on campus
Banks, insurers and consultancies are shifting back-office and middle-office operations to Ahmedabad, and the city is building out as an engineering and software development base alongside the fintech cluster at GIFT City. Dedicated SEZ parks (Million Minds IT-SEZ Park among them) give those teams ready floor space, which is why technology and operations hiring now runs parallel to finance hiring.
- Back-office operations
- Software development
- Product engineering
- IT-SEZ parks
- Fintech at GIFT City
Ahmedabad is consistently rated among the safest large cities in India for residents of every background, and students arriving alone from another state notice it first. Student housing and daily costs sit well below metros with a comparable employer base, so the same two years of study and the same recruiters come at a lower total outlay, and the investment returns sooner.
- Safe for all residents
- Affordable student housing
- Low daily costs
- Faster payback
Students meet the city on foot before they meet it in case studies.
Every incoming cohort walks the pols of the walled city as part of the Genesis, our orientation programme: the Sidi Saiyyed jali, the old trading houses, the markets that have run for centuries. It is the first lesson in reading a market, and it happens before the first class.
Recognised across India!
and now we are aligning ourselves with global standards of business education
The world's elite business education networks.
A member of the AACSB Business Education Alliance, the Business Graduates Association (AMBA-BGA), and Eduniversal, the benchmarks global business schools are measured against.
Honoured by those, who watch this sector closely.
Merit-based scholarships up to ₹4 Lakh.
Plus flexible education loan tie-ups with leading banks and NBFC partners.
Coached by Academicians & Practitioners
10,200+ alumni, 24+ states in India, 6+ countries
1,200+ in senior or CXO-level roles. 30+ start-ups founded by NBS graduates.
Twelve clouds. One identity. Zero paper.
Since 2023, every NBS workflow (from the moment an aspirant clicks “Apply” to the day an alumna posts a job for our seniors) runs on cloud infrastructure built for resilience, security and pace.
Apply, examine, interview and enrol: all integrated, all proctored, all paperless.
Full Microsoft 365 stack (Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint) for every NBSian, every device.
One thread per student across SMS, Outlook, WhatsApp, Teams and the SIS app.
End-to-end SIS automating curriculum, timetables, attendance, evaluations and parent comms.
Instrumented studios with capture, live polling and AI-summarised session packs.
E-journals, books, accession numbers and learning material, all from one portal, anywhere.
Skip the queue: order, pay and RSVP for mess from the NBS Cafeteria app.
Allocations, billing, maintenance and concerns routed through a single cloud workflow.
Frictionless campus access: your face is your ID, your attendance and your hostel key.
Campus-wide Wi-Fi, edge cameras and a zero-trust posture securing every endpoint.
Mock-interview engine, recruiter cloud and analytics: every student, ready by Term 4.
Mentorship, jobs board, business connect and AAN events. Alumni stay one tap away.
AI is not just taught at NBS,
You will experience it in your Environment
AI-guided admissions, end-to-end
Aspirants from 24+ states and UTs apply, screen, interview and pay on one integrated platform. Nex answers programme questions 24×7, surfaces the right cohort, and flags applications that need human review.
Career readiness, rehearsed daily
Live mock interviews, role-specific case drills, and a recruiter cloud spanning 300+ partners. Nex rehearses your pitch, your numbers, your story, until the offer letter lands.
Smart classrooms, deeper learning
Wall-to-wall capture, live polling, AI summaries and follow-up reading packs land in every student’s OneDrive before they reach the hostel. Faculty get a heat-map of who engaged with what.
Copilot, in every workflow
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams: every student gets enterprise Copilot from day one. We teach prompt craft, data ethics, and the discipline of human-in-the-loop work as a first-year fundamental.
AI as everyday teaching practice
Every capstone, simulation and live project is graded on insight, not effort. Nex accelerates the grunt work so students compete on judgement, framing and human craft.
Common questions.
If your CAT/XAT/CMAT/NMAT score is below the exemption cutoff, you must take NBSAT. If you meet or exceed the cutoff, you are directly eligible for the Psychometric Profiling Test, followed by the Personal Interview.
CAT ≥ 75 percentile, XAT ≥ 70 percentile, CMAT ≥ 80 percentile, NMAT ≥ 180 score. Below this, NBSAT is required.
Yes, the PI is conducted online for wider access across India.
Yes. Admission is provisional until your final results are submitted.
No. Freshers are welcome; work experience is an advantage, not a requirement.
The upper age limit for admission is 28 years.
PGDM Dual Specialization 240, MBA+PGPCE 180, PGDM Quantitative Finance 60, PGDM Data Science & Analytics 60.
Merit-based scholarships up to ₹4 Lakh across Merit, Academic Excellence, Need-Based, and Special Category, plus flexible education loan tie-ups.