Top Colleges in Mumbai 2026: Fees, Ranking, Placement, Cutoff, Admission

Ans. SIESSBS Mumbai admits at 50 CAT percentile and IBS Mumbai runs on a 195 NMAT score rather than CAT, which makes both reachable without a 90-plus percentile. Amity University Mumbai closes at 75 CAT percentile and also accepts MAT at 90 percentile. Two realistic scenarios:

A cutoff only clears you for the next stage. SPJIMR Mumbai screens at 85 CAT percentile but then weighs your profile, work experience, and interview, so the percentile alone does not secure a seat.

Ans. Mumbai runs on five main routes, and the percentiles are not comparable across them. CAT is accepted by SPJIMR Mumbai, IIM Mumbai, IIT Bombay, KJ Somaiya IM Mumbai, WeSchool Mumbai, SDA Bocconi Mumbai, SIESSBS Mumbai, and Amity University Mumbai. MAH MBA CET governs the MMS seats at JBIMS Mumbai and the state-quota seats at WeSchool Mumbai, where a 99.96 percentile closes the general open category. NMAT is the route into NMIMS Mumbai at 225 marks and IBS Mumbai at 195 marks. SP Jain School of Global Management accepts GMAT, GRE, CAT, NMAT, or its own SPJAT, and BITSoM Mumbai accepts CAT, GMAT, and GRE without publishing a cutoff. N. L. Dalmia Institute accepts the widest set, taking CAT, XAT, GMAT, CMAT, MH-CET, MAT, and ATMA.

Ans. Two routes operate side by side. The entrance route begins with CAT, MAH MBA CET, or NMAT, after which shortlisted candidates face a group discussion and personal interview, and the final merit list weighs the test score, academics, and work experience together. MAH MBA CET candidates additionally register with the Maharashtra CET Cell and go through centralised CAP rounds, which is how JBIMS Mumbai fills its MMS seats. The direct route applies at colleges with no published cutoff: SP Jain School of Global Management assesses the application and interview without a percentile bar, BITSoM Mumbai admits on a profile review where the 2026-28 batch had a median CAT of 94.64 percentile but no stated floor, and N. L. Dalmia Institute and Amity University Mumbai accept several exams and run their own selection rounds.

Ans. JBIMS Mumbai, at 373.57%. Its 7.00 Lakh fee is the lowest in the ROI table above while its 26.15 LPA median is the sixth highest on the page, a combination no other college matches. IIT Bombay follows at 171.79% on a 15.56 Lakh fee and a 26.73 LPA median, and SPJIMR Mumbai is third at 138.83%. The expensive end inverts this: SP Jain School of Global Management posts the city's highest package figure at 33.72 LPA but returns only 80.63% against its 41.82 Lakh fee, and BITSoM Mumbai returns 71.80%.

Ans. VJTI Mumbai closes Computer Engineering at 99.99 MHT CET percentile in the general open state category, the toughest in the city, followed by SPIT Mumbai at 99.80 and DJSCE Mumbai at 99.78. The three differ sharply on fee: VJTI Mumbai charges 3.37 Lakh as a government-aided autonomous institute, SPIT Mumbai 8.51 Lakh, and DJSCE Mumbai 9.14 Lakh. VJTI Mumbai also returns the best placement value of the three with a 10.90 LPA median against that 3.37 Lakh fee.

Ans. Six colleges in the top 15 close Computer Engineering or CSE inside that band, and all of them are private colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai with fees between 6.12 Lakh and 8.60 Lakh.

Ans. SPCE Mumbai, at 3.33 Lakh for the full BTech. Its key details:

• Fees: 3.33 Lakh
• Highest Package: 12.00 LPA
• Average Package: 6.50 LPA
• Cutoff: 99.52 MHT CET percentile for Electrical, 98.79 for Civil
• Admission Process: MHT CET followed by Maharashtra CAP counselling

VJTI Mumbai is marginally costlier at 3.37 Lakh but delivers a far stronger outcome, with a 10.90 LPA median against SPCE Mumbai's 6.50 LPA. The gap reflects their branch mix: SPCE Mumbai runs only Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical and offers no computer science stream at all, while VJTI Mumbai's Computer Engineering branch drives its placement figures.

Ans. Two colleges in the top 15 run entirely outside the MHT CET system. NMIMS Mumbai admits through its own NPAT test with no published percentile cutoff, and IIT Bombay admits solely on JEE Advanced rank through JoSAA. The other 13 fill their seats through MHT CET CAP counselling. A limited number of institute-level seats exist at private colleges under the 15% management quota, which are filled from the same MHT CET merit pool rather than by direct application, so a candidate still needs a valid MHT CET score. Colleges also accept JEE Main scores against the all-India quota: DJSCE Mumbai closed Computer Engineering at a 33,164 JEE Main rank, SPIT Mumbai at 24,104, and VESIT Mumbai at 62,688.

Ans. Three tiers are visible in the data. IIT Bombay sits alone at the top with a 19.61 LPA median and a 1.00 CPA highest offer. The autonomous and government-aided institutes form the second tier, where SPIT Mumbai posts 13.00 LPA, VJTI Mumbai 10.90 LPA, and ICT Mumbai 9.00 LPA. The private University of Mumbai colleges form the third tier, clustered between 4.50 LPA and 7.80 LPA, with DJSCE Mumbai at 7.80 LPA at the top of that band and VIT Mumbai, SAKEC Mumbai, and KJSIEIT Mumbai sharing the floor at 4.50 LPA. Highest offers do not follow the same order, because a single outlier can lift any college: SAKEC Mumbai reports 52.00 LPA and VIT Mumbai 37.50 LPA despite sitting at the bottom of the median table.

Ans. MH CET Law is the main entrance route for the three-year LLB in Mumbai, and 12 of the 15 colleges above admit through it. Candidates register with the Maharashtra CET Cell, sit MH CET Law, and then enter centralised CAP counselling, where seats are allotted across home-state, other-state, and all-India categories over three rounds. The merit requirement is a bachelor's degree in any discipline with 45% aggregate for the general category, reduced for reserved categories under Bar Council of India rules. Three colleges in this list admit without an entrance test: Amity University Mumbai takes a 50% graduation aggregate plus a personal interview for its LLB (Hons.), while Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Kharghar and HSNC University admit on graduation merit. No Mumbai college in this list admits through CLAT, which governs the National Law Universities rather than the state LLB system.

Ans. Jitendra Chauhan College of Law, at INR 20.00 K for the full three-year LLB, narrowly ahead of Government Law College at INR 20.17 K and KC Law College at INR 21.20 K. The two are not equivalent choices. Government Law College is the oldest law school in Asia, founded in 1855, ranks 4th of 43 government law institutions on IIRF 2026 and 10th of 59 on The Week, and closes at 99.68 MH CET Law percentile in the home-state general category. Jitendra Chauhan College of Law carries no agency ranking and closes far lower at 95.97 percentile, so its fee advantage of INR 170 buys a materially easier entry rather than a comparable seat.

Ans. Because neither source that governs this page publishes one. NIRF ranks only the top 40 law institutions in India, and that list has contained no Mumbai college in any edition since 2023, so no Data Capture System report exists for any of them. Checking each college's own website returns the same result: not one of the 15 publishes a median, average, or highest package figure, and several carry no placement page at all. Law in Mumbai is also structurally different from management or engineering, since most LLB graduates enter chambers, litigation practice, or the judicial services examination rather than campus recruitment, so a single campus placement figure would not describe the outcome even where one existed.

Ans. Government Law College closes highest at 99.66 to 99.68 MH CET Law percentile in the home-state general category, followed by KC Law College at 98.53 to 98.75 and Dr. Ambedkar College of Law, which reaches 97.58 at the top of its range. Gopaldas Jhamatmal Advani Law College and Jitendra Chauhan College of Law both close in the 95 to 96 band. At the other end, Asmita College of Law opens at 7.95 percentile and Nalanda Law College at 28.21, which means a candidate with a modest MH CET Law score still has several Mumbai options. Other-state candidates face a different and often higher bar at the same colleges, because the non-home-state quota is far smaller.

Ans. A candidate needs 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and English, with a minimum 50% aggregate in the science subjects for the general category and 45% for SC, ST, OBC, and PwD candidates. The candidate must be at least 17 years old as on 31 December of the admission year, and NEET UG is the sole selection criterion, with no separate college entrance test anywhere in Mumbai. The five government and municipal colleges additionally carry a compulsory rural service bond under Maharashtra policy, with a penalty of INR 10 lakh for defaulting on the MBBS bond and INR 50 lakh on a state-quota PG seat.

Ans. Because the range compares two different fee systems rather than two price points. The five government and municipal colleges, Grant Medical College, LTMMC Mumbai, HBT Medical College, Seth GS Medical College, and TNMC Mumbai, charge between 7.23 Lakh and 8.05 Lakh for the full MBBS under the Maharashtra state fee scale, a band of barely 82 K across all five. KJ Somaiya Medical College is the only private college in Mumbai's list, and its 60.40 Lakh reflects the private unaided fee structure approved by the Maharashtra Fee Regulating Authority. A student comparing options is therefore choosing between a state-scale seat and a private seat, not between a cheap college and an expensive one.

Ans. Only at KJ Somaiya Medical College. The five government and municipal colleges divide every seat between the 15% All India Quota administered by MCC and the 85% Maharashtra state quota administered by the state CET Cell, with no management or NRI seats at all. KJ Somaiya Medical College has no All India Quota seats, since private non-deemed colleges in Maharashtra fall outside the MCC 15% pool, and instead fills roughly 85% through state merit and 15% through an institutional quota that includes NRI candidates. That institutional quota closes far lower than the state merit list, at a 107161 closing rank in 2026 against 33582 for the state merit seats.

Ans. Seth GS Medical College, attached to KEM Hospital in Parel. It closed at a 1126 All India Quota rank in NEET UG 2025 and at 4719 in the Maharashtra state counselling, both the toughest in the city by a wide margin. LTMMC Mumbai follows at 5483 All India Quota, then HBT Medical College at 6782 and TNMC Mumbai at 7284. Grant Medical College, despite being the oldest at 1845 and the largest hospital group in the city, closed at 10798 All India Quota in 2025, which makes it the most accessible of the five government and municipal colleges that year.