India’s oldest business school and the benchmark for HR, with a consulting-strong general-management PGDM; XAT for the flagship, GMAT for the executive route. Everything an applicant needs to know, laid out honestly.
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The questions we are asked most often about XLRI, each answered in two sentences. These power the Google rich-result and are what Perplexity and ChatGPT lift verbatim when they cite us.
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XLRI’s flagship PGDM (BM and HRM) admits via XAT; GMAT opens the 18-month GMP for experienced professionals. Here is the real picture across both.
XLRI · PGDM (XAT) + GMP (GMAT)The class
GMAT route
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Enter your profile. We’ll place you honestly on the XLRI admit band and give you the odds. We will not flatter you. This is the number your consultant should be telling you.
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Verdict
Strong fit
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Three rounds, three different strategies. Which one you file in is often more decisive than any essay rewrite.
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Selection is XAT (or GMAT for GMP) plus group discussion and interview. The common mistakes, and what XLRI is really looking for.
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The sticker price is in dollars, your loan is in rupees. We’ll give you both. And we’ll show the number nobody puts in a brochure: the real break-even year.
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Your net cost over 2 years
INR 1.98 CrAfter scholarship, before any family savings. This is the number you need to borrow or self-fund.
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XLRI offers merit awards (Aditya Birla, OPJEMS), the named Mirae Asset Foundation award, need-based assistance and government category support.
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No visa question: XLRI is an Indian degree, so placement is the story. Consulting leads, and HR leadership is a signature strength found nowhere else at this depth.
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Reality check
82% placed in-sector
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Consulting leads at about a quarter of offers, with sales/marketing, BFSI, general management and XLRI’s signature HR-leadership roles behind. XLRI publishes CTC, not per-firm counts, so the figures below are Pegasus estimates.
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Side-by-side with any 1-3 of the 24 schools we cover, built from the same dataset so the comparison is honest.
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