MBA colleges generally start in the middle of June. But it is for few colleges and other colleges have their own start date. It varies from college to college. Xavier Institute of Management started its course in 2018 from 18 th June whereas TAPMI, Manipal started in the month of July. Some colleges start as early as May but not before that since they need to come up with multiple levels of shortlists and waitlists and give the candidates ample time to make their payments and get onboarded in the institute.

The Personal Interviews start from the month of February, if exams such as CAT and XAT are taken into account. The colleges conduct multiple rounds of interviews in various cities and they come up with the first shortlist in the month of April. After making the first round of payments, few of the waitlisted ones gets confirmed since some of the candidates from the first round of shortlist wishes to take admission into other colleges. So this process continues till the end of April or the start of May and after that the first term of every MBA institute commences.