Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship (XIME), Bangalore is a private, autonomous business school established in June 1991 by Prof. J. Philip -- former Director of IIM Bangalore -- along with seven other academicians and public-spirited founders. It is XIME's flagship and oldest campus, situated on Hosur Road in Electronics City, Phase II, one of Bengaluru's major IT and business corridors; the group later added campuses in Kochi (2012) and Chennai (2017), all run as fully residential institutes. XIME pioneered the Association of BRICS Business Schools (ABBS, established 2008), a platform connecting management education across Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and maintains international Student/Faculty Exchange tie-ups with around seventeen partner institutions, including ESCP Europe, the University of Mauritius and Universiti Sains Malaysia. XIME Bangalore's flagship offering is an AICTE-approved, two-year, full-time, residential Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM), run on a trimester system with an annual intake of 240 students, alongside a PGDM in Business Analytics (PGDM-BA) with an intake of 60 students. Both programmes offer specializations in Marketing, Finance, Human Resource Management, Operations & IT, and Analytics, with thirteen electives per student (minimum six from one discipline to qualify as a specialization) and provision for major/minor combinations. The curriculum integrates Harvard Business Impact case studies, an 8-week Summer Internship Programme (SIP), and a mandatory 3-week Socially Useful Productive Activity (SUPA) -- a social-immersion internship with NGOs, small industries and local bodies. XIME also runs a UGC/University of Mysore-recognised Ph.D. (Management) programme (full-time and part-time/executive tracks), plus external programmes such as Management Development Programmes (MDP), Faculty Development Programmes (FDP), and Open Batch Programmes (OBP). Admission to the PGDM and PGDM-BA programmes is entrance-exam based (CAT, XAT, CMAT, MAT, ATMA or GMAT accepted; KMAT is Kochi-specific and TANCET is Chennai-specific), followed by Group Discussion/Personal Interview (GD-PI) rounds held across multiple Indian cities. The official Admissions microsite lists a total programme fee of Rs. 12,90,000 for both PGDM and PGDM-BA at the Bangalore campus, plus a Rs. 25,000 caution deposit and approximate monthly boarding & lodging charges of Rs. 12,000-16,000 (mandatory, as the programme is fully residential). XIME offers merit-based scholarships (such as the President's Merit & Means Scholarship and the Archbishop Alphonsus Mathias Scholarship) worth a cumulative Rs. 90 lakh+ per the official site, alongside an AICTE-aligned Tuition Fee Waiver scheme for applicants with family income below Rs. 8 lakh per annum. Third-party placement data for 2025 (the institute's own detailed report was not yet published as of this session) indicates an average package of roughly Rs. 10.5 LPA for PGDM and Rs. 10.8 LPA for PGDM-BA, with highest packages in the low-Rs.-23-LPA range, and recurring recruiters including Infosys, EY, KPMG, Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini, Wipro, TCS, PwC and Wells Fargo. Given some inconsistency across third-party sources on exact fee figures, rankings and the current admissions-cycle timeline (flagged in the approvals section above), prospective applicants are encouraged to verify current-year specifics directly with XIME admissions before applying.