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FMS Delhi MBA 2027-29: the essentials

• Admission is through CAT only; a GMAT or GRE score counts only for foreign nationals.
• Application fee ₹1,000 (₹350 for SC, ST and PwD), paid online on the FMS admissions portal.
• Programme fee about ₹65,075 a semester, subject to revision: still one of the lowest among top B-schools.
• Eligibility: a bachelor’s degree after 12 years of schooling with 50% marks (45% for OBC-NCL, EWS, PwD and CW; pass marks for SC and ST). Final-year students can apply.
• Interviews (SOP discussion, extempore, PI) are held in April; the shortlist comes out in March.

About FMS Delhi

The Faculty of Management Studies is the business school of the University of Delhi and one of the oldest in the country. It began in 1954, when the Delhi School of Economics set up a business management cell under Prof. A. Dasgupta, and in 1955 it started a three-year part-time postgraduate diploma for working executives, the first programme of its kind at an Indian university. The full-time MBA grew out of that beginning, and FMS has stayed a university department ever since, which is why its fee is a fraction of what most top business schools charge.

FMS sits on the North Campus of the University of Delhi, at Malkaganj Marg in Kamla Nagar, in the building students simply call the Red Building. Being inside a large public university shapes the place: classes are small, the faculty is a mix of professors and corporate professionals, and students have the whole university around them, from the Delhi School of Economics to the law faculty and the Ridge. Outstation students apply for University of Delhi hostels on the campus (Gwyer Hall, D.S. Kothari, V.K.R.V. Rao and Jubilee Hall for men; the University Hostel for Women, International Hostel for Women and Meghdoot for women).

The school states its mission as academic excellence and leadership in university-based management education through teaching, research, case development and innovative courses, and its vision as becoming a world-class, university-based institution of thought leadership. Its values are excellence, leadership, sustainability, collaboration, and diversity and inclusion. FMS is a founder member of the Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA) and takes part in the India-EEC exchange programme for management professors.

The two-year MBA (Full Time) rests on two pillars. The first year builds the analytical foundation in the functional areas (accounting, finance, marketing, operations, organisational behaviour, economics and quantitative methods) and ends with a summer internship. The second year is built around flexibility: students plan their own development from what they learnt in the first year and in the internship, choosing from core and elective courses taught by faculty and industry professionals. Alongside the full-time MBA, FMS runs the evening MBA Executive, the MBA Executive in Health Care Administration, a doctoral programme and management development programmes for companies.

Admission to the full-time MBA is through CAT alone. The sanctioned intake is 251 seats, split General 101, OBC 69, SC 37, ST 19 and EWS 25, with additional seats for persons with disabilities, children and widows of armed forces personnel, foreign nationals, wards of university staff and orphans. Shortlisting is on a weighted CAT score that favours Verbal, and the final merit list adds school marks, a discussion on the Statement of Purpose, an extempore and an interview.

Student life runs through the Management Science Association and a set of student committees that handle placements, corporate competitions, the exchange programme and events. The community work the school lists is practical: the Ramnagar initiative (mentoring school students, green farming, a sustainable sports culture), winter clothes donation drives, and a wall-cleaning drive in which students repainted the Red Building themselves. An active alumni network, built over seven decades, is the reason the placement season at FMS is short and the average package sits with the IIMs.

How FMS shortlists for the interview

Composite score = VARC × 40/max + DILR × 30/max + Quant × 30/max, rounded to three decimals; women get 5 extra points. There is no sectional cut-off.

Total 287 seats. Composite lines are from the 2026-28 interview shortlist published by FMS; the next batch's lines appear only with its shortlist.

How the final merit list is made

Class X and XII each earn the full 10% at 75% marks and above, 5% between 60% and 75%.

Placements 2025

Where the batch went: Consulting 27% · Marketing 20% · BFSI 19% · IT / Analytics / Operations 18% · General management & strategy 16%.

Sources: FMS MBA 2027-29 prospectus · fms.edu · Last reviewed 3 November 2026.