One programme, examined
Subharti at ₹65,000: who is this for?
You are here because somebody put a number — ₹65,000 — and a university name in front of you, and now a decision is waiting on you. So we will do what this site always does, just in reverse: hold one named programme up against your situation and run it through the same four questions as everything else.
As an entitled degree at ₹65,000 it does the one job a degree does: it satisfies rules that name a postgraduate qualification, and it does that job as completely as a programme costing three times more. What it will not do is create demand for you where none exists. If you cannot name the policy line, the notification clause or the admission rule that is currently stopping you, you are about to spend two years of evenings on a signal nobody has asked to see.
What ₹65,000 actually buys
Start with what you would be buying. The degree carries the name of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University (SVSU) of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh — NAAC A accredited — and it is UGC-entitled, with the university itself as the awarding body. Study happens in distance and online mode, and the complete two-year fee is ₹65,000.
It is a dual specialisation MBA, drawn from Operations Management, Finance, Marketing, Strategic Management and Human Resource Management. Treat that as a curriculum fact, not a benefit. Two half-depths are not two full depths, and a pairing only helps you if you can point at a job description that wants both. Finance with Operations reads coherently for a manufacturing or supply-chain role. Marketing with Strategic Management reads coherently for a category or business-unit role. Picking two because two sounds better than one is how people end up with a transcript that explains nothing about them.
On the accreditation: NAAC A is a university-level grade and a fair signal of institutional standing. It is not the thing that decides whether your degree clears an HR rule. Entitlement is. Ask for the letter covering your intake year, exactly as you would of any other university.
Two names are on this, and they do different jobs
The degree, and the UGC entitlement behind it, belong to SVSU. IICT (Indian Institute of Commerce and Trade) is the delivery side: classes, mentoring, study support. Keep those two roles separate in your head, because they fail in different ways. Thin teaching is a study problem you can work around. Entitlement that does not cover your session is not a problem you can work around at all.
IICT itself is an autonomous body out of Lucknow — a registered society, not a university — and it has been teaching since 1997. It also grants diplomas of its own — IICT qualifications that sit beyond UGC’s purview and are not UGC degrees, a limit IICT itself is plain about.
That is not the insult it sounds like. The IIMs ran on the same structure until the Act of 2018 — societies on a register, handing out a PGDM, a diploma rather than a degree — and nobody in Indian hiring called those second-rate. What the distinction actually means is narrower and more practical: a diploma cannot satisfy a rule that names a degree. On this programme that question does not arise, because the award is the university’s degree. It arises only if you are later offered a diploma in place of it. If that happens, read the letter twice and check whose name sits on the award.
One further thing to hold at the right size: IICT has an academic MoU with Amity University. It is an agreement between the two institutions, not a qualification you receive, and it should not be read as one.
Now put it through the four questions
These are the same four we ask of every situation on this site, in the same order. The method page explains why that order.
1 · Is anything actually requiring it?
This is close to the only question that matters. A promotion policy naming a postgraduate degree, a recruitment notification listing one, a doctoral admission rule — those are the cases where ₹65,000 is straightforwardly good value, because the requirement names a degree and this is a degree. See a promotion needs a postgraduate qualification and I want it for a government job. For the second, read the notification itself before you pay: some of them specify mode, and some name a list of universities.
2 · Qualification, or capability?
If what you are missing is one specific thing — you cannot read a P&L, you have never built a hiring plan, you have never owned a budget — then two years of general management is a very expensive way to buy six weeks of learning. A one-year PG diploma gets you there sooner and costs less. Dual specialisation does not change that answer. Breadth is the opposite of what a capability gap needs.
3 · What it costs, including the evenings
₹65,000 is the visible cost, and it lands mid-table — above the cheapest open-university routes, well below the ₹2,00,000 online MBAs. The invisible cost is identical across every one of them: four semesters, six to ten hours in most weeks, for two years. That symmetry is the whole argument for paying less whenever the credential is the point, and we make it at greater length in the questions.
4 · Would you finish it?
Be unsentimental. Distance study gives you no cohort dragging you forward and no timetable you would be embarrassed to miss. If you have abandoned a course before, the usual failure point is semester three, and the fee is long spent by then. Two honest hours on a fixed evening beats an ambitious plan you keep for a month.
Who should close this page
- There is already a master’s on your CV. Piling a second one on top buys almost nothing that a focused specialisation could not deliver in a fraction of the time. Why we say no to this.
- Nobody is asking to see the certificate. In a family firm or your own company the qualification is invisible — buy the gaps instead.
- You want a brand signal for global strategy or investment banking. The recorded employer base behind this route is Indian corporates and the public sector. That is a real base. It is not that one.
- You want a campus cohort. This is distance and online. The classmates you get are the ones you go and find.
- You are moving abroad and have not checked the evaluation route. Do that before you enrol, not after — the order matters.
The employer base, and how to read it
What is on record from the IICT side is the employer base: the Indian Army, Tata, ICICI, Reliance and HDFC — large Indian corporates plus the public sector. That, not an imagined global roster, is the network this route actually connects to, and you are better off knowing its shape before the fee leaves your account.
Before you pay, put these in writing
- The UGC entitlement covering the MBA for your intake year — not a general statement about the university.
- Exactly what the ₹65,000 covers, and whether anything further becomes payable across the two years.
- Whose name appears on the award. You are buying a university degree; confirm the offer letter says so.
- When your specialisation pair is fixed, and whether it can be changed later.
- If the degree exists to satisfy one specific rule, send them that rule’s exact wording and ask them to confirm in writing that the award meets it. If nobody will put it in writing, treat that as your answer.
Subharti’s distance MBA — real MBA or not?
Yes, in the way that matters: Swami Vivekanand Subharti University issues it as a degree, the UGC entitlement stands behind it, and you study in distance and online mode. Where a rule names a postgraduate degree, this is one. Ask for the entitlement that applies to your own intake year before you pay.
Does the IICT tie-up change what I receive?
No. IICT’s side is delivery — classroom teaching, mentoring, study help — while the degree and the entitlement stay with the university. Two bodies, two jobs. Confirm the offer letter names the university as the awarding body.
Is ₹65,000 a lot of money for this?
It is mid-table. Recognition does not scale with price: where a rule names a degree, an entitled degree at ₹65,000 clears it exactly as well as one costing three times more. Pay more than this only when you will genuinely use what the extra money buys — teaching, cohort, brand — and can say which.
Will it get me hired?
On its own, rarely — and that is true of every MBA on this site, not a criticism of this one. What it can do is make you eligible for a role that currently excludes you, and the role is the thing that pays. If nothing is currently excluding you, be sceptical of your own reasoning first.