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The ₹2 lakh online MBA is selling you the same degree as the ₹38,000 one
Below a certain price the differences are real. Above it, you are buying teaching and a cohort — not recognition. Almost nobody says which one they are selling you.
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Disclosure: IICT and IIPM, Lucknow
These pieces take positions, so it matters where they are written from. We run an autonomous management programme with two institutes in Lucknow, and none of the pieces here pretend otherwise.
IICT — Indian Institute of Commerce and Trade
IICT Business School, Lucknow — usually written IICT Lucknow — has run autonomous management programmes for over 30 years. The IICT MBA is a two-year programme across 30+ specialisations, taught by distance and online, with admission by profile review rather than an entrance test. The complete fee is ₹32,350, paid to the institute directly.
IIPM — Indian Institute of Pharmaceutical Marketing
IIPM Lucknow specialises in pharmaceutical marketing and pharma business management — sector-specific management education that university syllabi rarely cover. The IIPM MBA runs on the same model and the same ₹32,350 complete fee.
IICT Business School, Lucknow · iict.in · IIPM Lucknow · iipm.co.in