About Dayananda Sagar Business School
Dayananda Sagar Business School (DSBS) is the management school of Dayananda Sagar Institutions, a large private educational group located in Kumaraswamy Layout, South Bangalore, Karnataka. Approved by AICTE and affiliated to Bangalore University, DSBS offers MBA with an intake of 180 students. Dayananda Sagar Institutions manages over 20 educational institutions in Bangalore including Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Dayananda Sagar University, Dayananda Sagar College of Pharmacy and multiple other colleges — making it one of Bangalore's most expansive multi-faculty educational groups with decades of institutional presence in the city.
Admission is through KMAT Karnataka, CAT, MAT, XAT, GMAT or CMAT score, followed by group discussion and personal interview. Apply at dayanandasagar.edu.in.
Programme Offered
| Programme | Duration | Intake | Admission |
|---|---|---|---|
| MBA — Multiple specialisations | 2 years | 180 | KMAT / CAT / MAT / XAT / GMAT |
Dayananda Sagar Institutions — South Bangalore's Educational Giant
The Dayananda Sagar group's extensive presence in Bangalore — spanning engineering, pharmacy, management, law, dental and architecture institutions — creates an inter-disciplinary educational ecosystem that MBA students access for cross-faculty interactions. The group's engineering alumni base across Bangalore's IT and manufacturing sectors provides management students with peer networks in the city's primary employment industries. DSBS MBA students benefit from shared campus infrastructure and the DS institutional brand recognition built across decades of South Bangalore education.
Kumaraswamy Layout — South Bangalore
DSBS's Kumaraswamy Layout location in South Bangalore is accessible from Banashankari, Jayanagar and JP Nagar. Electronic City (12 km via NICE Road) and Bannerghatta Road IT corridor (8 km) are the primary placement recruitment zones. The Green Line Metro provides city-wide connectivity for students accessing industry events and placement drives across Bangalore. South Bangalore's established residential and commercial zones create consistent management talent demand from retail, FMCG, healthcare and real estate sectors alongside IT.
Career Scope
DSBS MBA graduates access Bangalore's IT, FMCG, retail, healthcare and financial services sectors through campus placement drives. Finance, marketing, HR, operations and business analytics specialisations align with South Bangalore's employment market. KMAT Karnataka is the primary admission route for Karnataka domicile students. The Dayananda Sagar group's alumni network across Bangalore's engineering and corporate sectors provides career referral access for MBA graduates entering the city's employment landscape.
Correcting the Programme Name and Real Figures
Dayananda Sagar Business School's flagship programme is a PGDM, not an MBA — a genuine distinction worth stating clearly, since PGDM is AICTE-approved and autonomous rather than a university-conferred degree. Established in 2007 (not 2006), current total PGDM fees run approximately ₹9.5-9.91 lakh for the 2-year programme, having risen from lower historical figures reported in older reviews. Reported placement outcomes vary meaningfully by year and reporting source — recent figures cite an average package around ₹10.46 LPA, though other independent reports from different years show more modest averages in the ₹4.5-9.5 LPA range, reflecting genuine year-to-year variance rather than a single fixed outcome.
Named Recruiters
Confirmed recruiters across placement cycles include IBM, Infosys, Cisco, Oracle, Accenture, Deloitte, Cipla, and Biocon — a genuinely varied spread across IT services, consulting, and pharmaceuticals reflecting the group's own pharma and healthcare institutional presence alongside general management recruiting. DSBS has been ranked by India Today and The Week in their annual B-school surveys.
Confirm current-year exact fees and placement statistics directly with DSBS admissions.
Institutional Backing
DSBS operates within the broader Dayananda Sagar group's 20+ Bangalore institutions spanning engineering, pharmacy, dental, and architecture — genuine multi-faculty scale that gives PGDM students informal cross-disciplinary access uncommon at standalone management schools. Note that Dayananda Sagar University (DSU, a separate, newer institution established 2014) also runs its own MBA with different fees (₹11-12 lakh) and specialisations — confirm which specific Dayananda Sagar institution you're researching, since these are genuinely distinct programmes under the same broader group name.