Great Lakes - PGDM & PGPM Admissions 2026
Admissions Open | Globally Recognized by AACSB (US) & AMBA (UK) | 17.8 LPA Avg. CTC for PGPM 2025
Great Lakes Chennai has released its cutoff for PGDM programme which means one will have to secure minimum qualifying Great Lakes cutoff marks in order to be shortlisted for the next round of selection process. Great Lakes Chennai will shortlist candidates on the basis of Common Admission Test (CAT), Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT), Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) and Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT). Those candidates who are shortlisted for the selection process on the basis of Great Lakes cutoff, will have to appear for Analytical Writing Test (AWT) and Personal Interview (PI). Read this article by Careers360 to know all the details pertaining to Great Lakes cutoff, it’s ranking and fees.
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Those who have applied for the Great Lakes PGDM programme, must have a valid scorecard of CAT 2020 or XAT 2020/ 2021 or GMAT taken after 2019 or CMAT 2020/ 2021. Shortlisted candidates will be called for further selection round. The final selection of candidates for the PGDM programme is based on entrance exam score, work experience, past educational qualification and performance in AWT and PI round.
Offered Specialization | Eligibility Criteria |
Marketing | Candidates should have completed their Bachelor’s degree in any discipline with minimum aggregate of 50% marks from any recognized university. |
Finance | |
Operations | |
IT & Economics | |
Business Analytics | |
Organizational Behaviour & Strategy |
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Some of the factors that are taken into consideration while shortlisting candidates for the next round of selection process are as follows.
Total number of candidates who applied for the admission
Number of seats availability
Past year cutoff trends
Entrance exam | PGDM Expected cutoff |
CAT 2019/ 2020 | 80 Percentile |
XAT 2020/ 2021 | 80 Percentile |
GMAT (After 2019) | 600 Marks |
CMAT 2020/ 2021 | 85 Percentile |
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Check Great Lakes PGDM fee structure through the table which is provided below.
Program & Academic Fees | Indian Students (INR) |
Tuition & Academic Fee | 635000 |
Program Fee | 393000 |
Sub-Total | 1028000 |
Other Charges | |
Housing and Food Charges | 524000 |
Caution Deposit (Refundable) | 10000 |
Alumni Subscription | 5000 |
Student Welfare Fund | 8000 |
Total Fees | 1575000 |
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Note-
Fee structures is subject to revision before admission open
Shortlisted students are compulsorily required to have their own laptops as per institutes specifications
Refund Policy- As per AICTE norms, all refund requests will be processed after the commencement of the program
Hostel facility at Great Lakes is mandatory for both the academic year
Certain non-academic aspects like catering service, housing service etc may be outsourced at the discretion of the institution and the related charges are paid to the respective service providers on behalf of students.
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On the basis of infrastructure and facilities provided by the Great Lakes to students such as Computer Centre, Laboratories, Cafeteria, Hostel, Medical Facilities etc. Careers360 brings to you the ranking and rating of Great Lakes.
Ranking/ Rating | Careers360 | NIRF | ||
Rank | Score | Rating | Rank | |
MBA | 27th (5th in private) | 244.34 | AAAA+ | 23rd |
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On Question asked by student community
Hi Aspirant,
Hope you are doing great.
You have scored pretty well in CAT but still, great lakes put too much emphasis on your past academic performance. Your 10th and 12th marks are decent but the low performance in graduation can restrict your call from this college. Generally, the cut off of this college revolves around 85 percentile in CAT. So, there are some chances that you might get a call from this college at 89.90 percentile.
All the best.
Hii there! Hope you are doing good.
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai offers diversity and merit scholarships to PGPM students to encourage diversity of perspectives and commitment to excellence.
A total of 20 diversity and merit based scholarships of worth Rs. 5 lakhs each will be awarded for PGPM of session 2022-23 and a minimum of 30% of the scholarships would be for female candidates.
The selection criteria will be based on candidate's application form, essays and interview assessment and there is no separate application process. Selected candidates will be intimated on the award of scholarship through an email post, confirming their admission acceptance and enrolment to the program and at least one month before the start of the program.
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Greetings,
The Post Graduate Program in Data Science and Programming is a 5 month classroom and 9 month online course and is conducted by great lakes institute of management. The end date for this course is no where mentioned on the official website. You can get more information on the following links-
https://www.greatlakes.edu.in/e-learning/pgp-in-data-science-and-engineering-full-time
https://www.careers360.com/colleges/great-lakes-institute-of-management-chennai
Hello aspirant,
PGPM: The one year full time Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) helps transform high potential professionals into competent managers.
The PGPM is for achievers and high performers . The carefully crafted one year program is designed to develop business competencies, effective team-work and leadership skills to set you up for a career growth. In a business companies are created platform for PGPM allows participants to maximize learning and start creating value by the end of 1 year. Transform yourself and your career with best in class faculty, unparalleled industry interface and holistically rigorous curriculum.
Course Curriculum : the PGPM is a rigorous one year residential program designed to make the students business-ready and capable of responding to complex business requirements that arise in a changing global business environment. study aimed at solving practical business problems is an integral part of the course .
Placement: process for the PGPM was good . The top recruiters like Accenture, Aditya Birla Capital, ADP, Amazon, Barclays, Cognizant, Capgemini, Deloitte, EY, Gartner, HCL, Honeywell, HSBC, Infosys, ITC Infotech, L&T Infotech, Mentis, MuSigma, TCS, Virtusa, ZS Associates.
For more details related to admissions and fees you can check career 360 website, I will share with you link.
you.https://www.careers360.com/colleges/great-lakes-institute-of-management-chennai
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Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai and Gurgaon is one of the MOST highly ranked and globally accepted B-schools in the country.
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