My honest review after one year at Mahindra University Hyderabad (BBA). DO READ this before you pay ₹15L+
TL;DR: Expensive, an attendance policy that can wipe out a genuinely strong academic record, close to zero real placement support, a curriculum that leans on filler activities over actual industry exposure, hostel rooms downgraded from mediocre doubles to cramped triples, and a new trimester system about to eat into the little holiday time you get left. I wouldn't recommend it, regardless of how much money you have to spend.
One year into a BBA at Mahindra University, Hyderabad, and I want to lay this out clearly for anyone weighing whether to join.
The money, and the attendance trap
You're looking at roughly ₹5L a year, so around ₹15L across the three years, and that's before supplementary exam fees, which at ₹7,500 a shot are some of the steepest I've come across at any university. Here's the part that actually stings: my academic performance was solid, good grade points across the board, no real issues with the coursework itself. But I fell short on attendance, got routed into the supplementary system, and there's a hard cap on what grade you can end up with once you're in it. So a year of decent work got flattened by one number that has nothing to do with what I actually learned or scored.
I can comfortably afford the fees, so this isn't coming from someone who can't pay them. What I genuinely don't understand is why I'd choose to pay this much to be in what feels like a hell hole.
Placements: the part that should worry you most
If you're paying this kind of money for a business degree, placements are presumably a big part of the calculation, and this is where it falls apart. The placement cell's actual contribution is close to nothing. I checked in with a few friends here, people who scored genuinely well, not average students, and every single one of them who has a job right now got there entirely on their own. If you're joining for career support, you won't find it.
Campus life and the curriculum
No real holidays, penalties for showing up late, and a campus that reads more like a corporate office park than a university. It's fine, but nothing that justifies what you're paying. I'd honestly say I learned more in my last year of school than in my first year here. As one example, instead of using a break for something useful, we were put through a mandatory "summer immersion" that had us running a mock market stall selling toys, while friends at other colleges were doing real internships and actually building experience.
And it keeps getting worse
Even the hostel took a hit, rooms that were already just okay as double-sharing got converted into triple-sharing, so a space that was tight for two people now has three crammed into it. I've seen slum documentary footage with more breathing room than this.
On top of that, they're introducing a trimester system for both new and existing batches, cutting holidays by roughly 45 days, while still expecting second-years to land an internship in that shrunken window. Having been on the hiring side of things myself, I can say with confidence that no company is handing out a serious internship in that short a stretch, while people I know studying abroad are doing proper three-month internships in the same timeframe. The math doesn't work.
Bottom line
Even if money genuinely isn't a concern for you, I still wouldn't recommend this place. Not for placements, not for the college experience, not for what you actually walk away having learned. It's a lot of money for very little coming back.
Posting this from a throwaway and ran it through AI to rephrase it so it can't be traced back to me, they hold too much leverage over grades and attendance for me to put my name on this. Also, kind of wild how everyone here just complains privately and pays up instead of pushing back as a group. Collectively pretty spineless, honestly, but that's probably exactly why nothing changes.