Great Lakes Gurgaon: Admission 2025, Courses, Fees, Cutoff, Placements

Janki Sharma

Updated on - Dec 3, 2024

Great Lakes Gurgaon Latest Updates & News

• The registration deadline for XAT 2025 has been extended up to December 10, 2024. Earlier, the deadline was November 30, 2024. The registration process is available online at xatonline.in. The application fee is INR 2200 and it is payable by debit/credit card or net banking. The applicant seeking admission to XLRI, Jamshedpur must pay an additional INR 200.

Great Lakes Gurgaon was founded in 2010 to provide quality business and management education and contribute to the development of the human capital to meet the demands of the ever changing business world. The institute has been approved by AICTE.

Great Lakes Institute of Management Gurgaon offers a variety of management courses to the students enrolled ranging from PGPM to PGDM and PGPM in Family Business and Entrepreneurship.

Great Lakes Gurgaon has secured the prestigious AMBA accreditation for its one year fast track MBA program also called PGPM. The institute has received the NBA accreditation for its PGDM course.

Great Lakes Gurgaon offers a globally benchmarked course curriculum to the students. The PGDM offered by the institution has been considered equivalent to MBA by Association of Indian Universities.

Great Lakes Institute of Management is a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The institute has a state of the art lush green campus situated over an area of 7.5 acres of land.

Great Lakes Gurgaon is associated with a number of international universities and institutions  like Cornell University, Chicago Booth Executive Education, Skema Business School and so on to boost the amount of overall industry exposure to be gained by its students.

Great Lakes Gurgaon has an excellent placement track record with the students placed across various diverse sectors. Various recruiters had participated from consulting, fintech, analytics, and healthtech sectors. 

The largest recruiter for the Great Lakes Gurgaon PGPM Placements 2024 was Deloitte.The highest CTC offered to the students during the PGPM placement season 2024 has been INR 25.5 LPA.

Table of Contents

• Great Lakes Gurgaon Highlights
• Great Lakes Gurgaon Courses & Fees
• Great Lakes Gurgaon Admission
• Great Lakes Gurgaon Cutoff
• Great Lakes Gurgaon Ranking
• Great Lakes Gurgaon Placements
• Great Lakes Gurgaon Campus
• Great Lakes Gurgaon Alumni
• Great Lakes Gurgaon Collaborations
• Great Lakes Gurgaon vs Great Lakes Chennai

Great Lakes Gurgaon Highlights

The major highlights for Great Lakes Institute of Management Gurgaon are tabulated below.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Courses & Fees

Great Lakes Gurgaon offers Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) and Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) to the enrolled students. The PGDM program offered by the institute is for a two year duration and is meant for the working professionals with less than three years of work experience. The Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) is the flagship program of the institute. Also, the institute offers a PGPM-FBE program for the students who are either engaged in a family business or have the spirit of entrepreneurship in them. 

Great Lakes Gurgaon offers PGDM in online mode as well for the freshers and working professionals in specializations like marketing, finance, operations and data science. In addition, the institute also offers Management Development Programs in subjects like leadership and strategy, finance and accounting, marketing & sales and so on. Around 5000+ participants have opted so far for the Great Lakes Gurgaon Management Development Programs. More details on the Great Lakes Gurgaon courses like eligibility, selection criteria and total fee are tabulated below.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Admission

Great Lakes Gurgaon admissions follow a rigorous selection procedure in order to pick up the most suitable candidates for its management courses. The institute accepts CAT, XAT and GMAT for PGDM course enrollments. For PGPM  admissions, Great Lakes Gurgaon accepts NMAT Scores as well in addition to the above mentioned entrance tests. Similarly, for PGPM-FBE admissions, the aspiring candidates should secure valid scores in either CAT,NMAT, GMAT and XAT. Those who did not appear in either of the above mentioned entrance exams should take the Great Lakes Aptitude Test (GREAT) in order to be admitted to the PGPM-FBE Program.

• Around 43% of the total students admitted to the PGPM Batch (2024-25) were female. The average age of the students who were enrolled to this batch was 26 years.
• Around 61% of the students who were admitted to the Great Lakes Gurgaon PGDM program in the academic batch (2024-26) were males. The average age of the candidates who were enrolled to this batch was 22 years.
• Around 51% of the students who took admission to the PGPM batch (2024-25) had an experience of had an experience of less than three years.
• Around 55% of the students who took admission to the Online PGDM course at the Great Lakes Gurgaon were engineering graduates.
• For PGPM admissions, the candidates need to first first clear the initial screening and then further appear for the personal interview and analytical writing test. Finally, the shortlisted students who clear both the rounds alongwith the initial screening call are sent the offer letters by email.
• For PGDM admissions, the candidates first need to fill the common application form and then select their desired campus where they wish to pursue their further studies. The candidates should clear the initial screening call and accept the Personal Interview invite sent by email in order to proceed further in admission selection process. Also, they are required to appear for both the analytical writing test and personal interview. The offer letters are sent to the email ids of the selected students post shortlisting on the basis of these qualifier rounds.
• In PGP-FBE admission selection process, the candidates need to sit for the personal interview directly after the initial screening call. Those selected are sent the admission offers which they need to accept and pay the initial fee in order to be considered for the final admissions.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Cutoff

The applicants who are planning to pursue their postgraduation studies at the Great Lakes Gurgaon should follow the cutoff criteria established by the institute. The minimum Great Lakes Cutoff score is decided only after the review of all the admission applications. However as a broad indicator based on the past cutoff scores, it is expected that the applicants should secure more than 80 percentile in both CAT and XAT. Also, they should attain more than the minimum desirable GMAT Score of 580 if they do not opt for CAT and XAT. The CMAT and XAT percentiles for the past years are tabulated below.

 Great Lakes Gurgaon CMAT Cutoff

Great Lakes Gurgaon XAT Cutoff

• The minimum Great Lakes Gurgaon CMAT Cutoff Score for the PGDM enrollments was the same in the past two years. The candidates were required to attain a minimum overall percentile of 85 in order to be considered for enrollment to the PGDM course.
• Similarly, the minimum XAT cutoff needed to be secured by the general category candidates all over India in the past two years was 70.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Ranking

Great Lakes Gurgaon is one of the most prominent educational institutions of India in the management category. The institute has ranked many times in different ranking surveys conducted by various reputed national educational bodies and media houses. The latest rankings for the Great Lakes Gurgaon are given below.

Key Rankings:

• NIRF 2024 Rankings: Great Lakes Gurgaon has secured the 52nd position in the management category. The ranking for the institute has gone up by ten positions as compared to the NIRF 2023 Rankings, which was 62.

The major rankings for the Great Lakes Gurgaon in 2024 are tabulated below.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Placements

According to the Great Lakes Gurgaon PGPM Placement Report 2024, around 45% of the students were placed in the IT/ITes sector. The second highest sector to participate in the PGPM placement process at Great Lakes Gurgaon in 2024 was the consulting sector occupying around 31% of the total weightage. Further, the students were placed in a wide variety of different job roles. Around 60% of the job positions were offered in the business, strategy and the functional consulting sector. Also. 15% of the job offers were created in the digital operations sector.

The average CTC of the students who have completed their PGPM in 2024 is 2.6 times than their pre-MBA CTC. Around 21% of the PGPM 2024 batch students have been placed with a salary package of below INR 12 LPA at the Great Lakes Gurgaon. Around 42% of the students who had experience in various reputed IT MNCS opted for the other techno-managerial job roles. The major Great Lakes Gurgaon Placement Highlights for the past placement seasons held are tabulated below.

Course Wise Great Lakes Gurgaon Placements

• As per the Great Lakes Gurgaon PGDM Placement Report (2022-24), more than 20 new recruiters participated in the placement process. These include reputed companies like IDBI, Kotak Mahindra, Airtel and so on.
• Companies like KPMG, Infosys, Deloitte and HCL hired large number of students from the Great Lakes Gurgaon PGDM batch (2022-24).
• Around 48% of the students were recruited with a salary package below INR 11 LPA. Similarly, the next 40% of the students were placed with a salary package in between INR 11 LPA to INR 16 LPA.
• The average CTC for the top 10% of the students was INR 16.9 LPA.
• The average CTC for the PGPM Placement Season (2022-24) at the Great Lakes Gurgaon was INR 11.7 LPA. The highest CTC offered was around INR 22.5 LPA.

As per Great Lakes Gurgaon Student Reviews

• Internship Opportunities: The students at the Great Lakes Gurgaon are recruited by many MNCs in various diverse sectors ranging from Finance to HR, BFSI to Fintech, FMCG to FMCD sectors and so on.
• Eligibility for Campus Recruitment: The students at the Great Lakes Gurgaon are eligible for campus placements as long as they score well in their academics. The candidates should secure the minimum cutoff marks established by Great Lakes Gurgaon in order to sit for campus placement drives.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Campus

Great Lakes Gurgaon campus offers state of the art facilities to the students. The institute is fully wifi enabled to help the students to be connected to their study resources inside the campus premises. Great Lakes Gurgaon has around 15 classrooms which are large and spacious with ample ventilation. Further, the institute campus also has 4 tutorial rooms where the students can engage in an interactive discussion. Further details on the Great Lakes Gurgaon hostel life. Facilities available and the extracurricular conducted are mentioned below.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Hostel Life

• Great Lakes Gurgaon offers twin sharing AC rooms to the students as a part of the hostel accommodation.
• Since the Great Lakes Gurgaon programs are residential in nature, hence, the availing the hostel facility is mandatory for the students.
• The rooms are provided with all the basic amenities including furniture, laundry, electricity and water facility.
• The hostel charges for the Great Lakes Gurgaon AC rooms on a double sharing basis for the students opting for PGDM courses is INR 5.88 Lakhs.
• The students opting for PGPM have to pay have to pay INR 3.30 Lakhs as hostel accommodation charges.
• The vegetarian food charges are included in the above fee while, the students who follow a no-vegetarian diet regime have to pay extra charges.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Campus Facilities

• Library: The Great Lakes Gurgaon Library has around 8309 books and around 98 journals. Around 150 individuals can read books and study in the library at a time.
• Computer Center: The Computer Center at the Great Lakes Gurgaon has a high speed internet connection. There are around 130 servers and 15 printers in the computer center at the institute.
• Auditorium: The Great Lakes Gurgaon auditorium is the center of organizing various small and large events like seminars, workshops and conferences.
• Sports Facilities: The sports facilities at the Great Lakes Gurgaon include both indoor and outdoor games. Apart from this, the institute also has a gymnasium with the latest machines.
• Cafeteria: Great Lakes Gurgaon has a large cafeteria with ample seating capacity. The food menu keeps changing as per the take preferences of the students.

Co-Curricular Acitvities at Great Lakes Gurgaon

Great Lakes Gurgaon believes in promoting the all round development of the students enrolled by means of extra curricular participation. The institute encourages the students to participate in extra academic activities like startup challenge, capstone project and live investment club. Some of the co-curricular activities conducted at the Great Lakes Gurgaon campus premises are mentioned below.

• Live Investment Club: The students not only learn how to manage their wealth through this club but also, they learn about how and where to invest their money and also learn when to take risks for their future long term financial goals.

• Capstone Project: The capstone project teaches the students how to create a feasible business plan by means of case studies, expert mentorship and hands on expercises. Also, the students learn how to identify market opportunities, then conduct thorough research and finally develop realistic financial goals.

• Start-Up Challenge: It is a platform for the entrepreneurship and business lovers to pitch their busines proposal and get feedback from the industry leaders. The students learn how to compete for funding and resources to kickstart their venture.

• Karma-Yoga Action Program: This action program comes under the extra initiatives of the Great Lakes Gurgaon to foster leadership qualities in the students enrolled. The key focus is on helping the women and orphans attain education. This initiative also focuses on environment protection by means of tree plantation drives.

• Student Clubs: Great Lakes Gurgaon has formed various student clubs in domains ranging from finance to human resources, analytics to marketing, operations to entrepreneurship and so on.
• Sports Committee: The sports committee at the Great Lakes Gurgaon is responsible for organizing sports tournaments from time to time. The committee also hosts the annual GLIM Championship, which is the largest sports event organized by the institute.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Alumni

Great Lakes Gurgaon has an alumni strength of more than 14,000 well-qualified working professionals across 30 countries worldwide. Around 300+ Great Lakes Gurgaon alumni members are deputed at leadership roles in the entrepreneurship sector. Some of the notable alumni members for Great Lakes Gurgaon are tabulated below.

Great Lakes Gurgaon Collaborations

Great Lakes Gurgaon has collaborated with around six reputed management schools at the global level to provide industry exposure to its students at an international level. Some of the valuable Great Lakes Collaborations are tabulated below.

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