Do I need a coding or engineering background?

No. The first semester brings every stream to the same floor with Python and SQL taught from zero. Roughly half of each Applied AI cohort comes from commerce, arts or science.

How is this different from the MBA in Business Analytics?

Business Analytics is about measuring and explaining what happened - statistics, dashboards, decision support. Applied AI is about changing how the work gets done: agents, automation and generative systems inside a process. There is deliberate overlap in the first year.

Is the MacBook really included?

Yes. It is part of the fee structure and yours from day one, because agentic tooling and local model work need a machine that can run it.

What salary can I expect?

Entry offers in the Indian market for these roles currently start from roughly ₹8 LPA and reach ₹14 LPA and above depending on role and sector. ITM's highest MBA package in 2025 was ₹21 LPA, and 400+ recruiters hire on campus each year.

Will AI tools make this specialization obsolete?

The tools change every few months; what does not change is knowing which process to point them at and how to prove the result. That is what the projects, the governance work and the internship are built around.

Is the global immersion included?

No. The Global Immersion Program is optional from tuition for every specialization, International Business included. Costs are shared before you commit.

What is an MBA in Applied AI?

A 2-year, full-time MBA that pairs the management core with applied artificial intelligence - prompt and context engineering, AI agent workflows, Python for business, forecasting and decision models, AI product management, and AI governance and risk. It is a management specialization, not a coding degree: you build with AI on real business work rather than studying it in theory.

What is the MBA in Applied AI syllabus, and which subjects are covered?

Four semesters. The management core - finance, marketing, operations, strategy, people - runs underneath, with the Applied AI layer building from prompt and context engineering and Python for business into agent workflows, forecasting and decision models, AI product management, and AI governance and risk. A 5-month paid internship sits between the two academic years.

What will I actually build during the program?

Agent workflows that carry a multi-step business process end to end, automations that remove manual reporting, forecasting models for demand and revenue, and decision dashboards a manager can act on. The workflow builder above is a simplified version of what students assemble in the Applied AI Lab.

What is the Applied AI Lab?

The core of the specialization. You build AI copilots, business assistants and workflow automations for marketing, finance, HR and operations on real problems, and graduate with an AI project portfolio rather than only a transcript.

Which AI tools and platforms will I use?

Current generative AI models and agent frameworks, Python and its data libraries, cloud AI services, BI and dashboarding tools, and automation platforms. The tool list is reviewed every intake, because the useful set changes faster than a curriculum cycle - the transferable part is the method, not the vendor.

What is the scope of an MBA in Applied AI in India?

Every function is now being asked what it is doing with AI - marketing, finance, HR, operations, supply chain, customer service. The scarce person is not the model builder but the manager who can specify the use case, build the workflow, judge the output and own the risk.

What jobs can I get after an MBA in Applied AI?

AI product and program roles, AI solutions and transformation consulting, automation and workflow lead roles, decision-intelligence roles, and AI-enabled roles inside conventional functions - a marketing manager who owns the AI stack, a finance analyst who automates the close. Consulting, technology and IT services, BFSI, retail and e-commerce, and healthcare all hire this profile.

Is the internship paid, and does it involve AI work?

Yes - five months, full-time, with a real designation and a work-experience letter. Placement teams match Applied AI students to briefs where AI, automation or analytics is part of the mandate, and many students convert the internship into a pre-placement offer.

What is the admission process?

Four steps. Apply at mbaadmissions.itm.edu; write the online ITM Test once your application is reviewed, or submit a valid entrance score; attend a personal interview at the Kharghar campus or a regional office; and receive your result within an hour of the interview.

Which entrance exams does ITM accept, and what is the iSET?

CAT, XAT, NMAT, CMAT, MAT, ATMA, CUET and MAH-CET scores are accepted. Applicants without a score write ITM’s own online test. The iSET, on 19 December 2026, works as both an entrance test and the scholarship test.

What do the fees cover, and are there scholarships?

The year-wise structure is shared with applicants directly. The fee covers the specialization certifications, the Applied AI Laboratory, a MacBook, 300+ hours of professional development, the 5-month paid internship and placement support. Scholarships are purely merit-based, with over ₹2 crore awarded each year.

MBA in Applied AI or MS in Artificial Intelligence?

An MS in AI is a technical degree that takes you deep into models and mathematics, towards research and machine-learning engineering. This MBA teaches enough technical craft to build and judge AI work, then adds the management layer that decides which problems are worth solving. Pick the MS to build models, the MBA to own outcomes.

Is it an MBA or a PGDM, and is ITM one of the best MBA colleges in Navi Mumbai?

ITM awards a UGC-recognized MBA degree under ITM Skills University, not a PGDM diploma. ITM Business School, Kharghar, has been ranked or awarded by six independent bodies in the last two years, including A+ in the OBE Ranking Survey 2026, #8 among private B-schools by Fortune 2026 and #7 by The Week 2026.

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MBA in Applied AI

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Applied AI Lab
MacBook
100% Placements
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What this specialization is

A manager who can build with AI.

Most organizations now have AI tools and nobody who owns the outcome. The gap is not engineering talent - it is people who understand a business process well enough to redesign it around a model, then hold the result to a number.

That is the role this specialization trains for. You learn enough Python and data work to be dangerous, and a great deal about where AI actually pays: forecasting, service operations, marketing spend, credit decisions, procurement and reporting.

Who it suits

Graduates from any stream - commerce, arts, science or engineering. No prior programming is assumed; the first semester brings everyone to the same floor.

An ITM Business School classroom session in progress

Certifications built into this specialization

5 months

Paid internship built into the structure

₹8 LPA onwards

Indicative entry band for these roles

Core roles this specialization maps to

What you actually build

Six things in your portfolio by graduation.

Each one is graded on a business outcome, not on the model. You present to a faculty panel and, in three of the six, to the client whose process you changed.

Try the work · agent design

Pick a business task. Watch it become an agent.

Automation is not a prompt. It is a trigger, a source of truth, a decision, an action and a human who stays accountable. This is the decomposition you practise in the Lab.

Where a human stays accountable

Simplified from the workflows students build in the Applied AI Lab with LangChain, RAG and Agentforce.

The Applied AI Lab

A lab you work in weekly, and a MacBook to run it on.

The MacBook is part of your fees and yours from day one - agentic tooling needs a machine that can run it. Lab sessions are timetabled, not optional, and every session ends with something that works.

MBA in Applied AI Syllabus

Four semesters, with the internship in the middle.

Semesters one and two are shared MBA core plus the AI foundation. Specialization deepens in semester three, either side of the 5-month paid internship.

Applied AI Certifications

Global Professional Certifications that recruiters value.

Earned inside the MBA, at no extra cost, and issued by the bodies that hiring managers already recognize.

Pick a certification. The strip shows which part of an AI build it puts in your hands.

Where it sits in an AI build

What you can do once you hold it

Roles it opens

All six, with what each one lets you do

Plus the shared MBA stack - Advanced Excel, Power BI and a professional communication credential.

MBA in Applied AI Career, Salary & Scope

The roles this opens.

Applied AI graduates are hired as much for judgement as for tooling. Bands below reflect entry offers in the Indian market for the 2025 and 2026 cycles; ITM figures come from our own placement records.

Entry band

Sectors hiring

Early Decision closes 24 October 2026 · 15% scholarship on tuition

Rankings & placements

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MBA in Applied AI Placements

400+ recruiters come back every year.

AI and automation roles are hired out of technology, consulting, BFSI and every in-house function now rebuilding its processes. 36+ years of legacy puts ITM alumni inside those teams already.

₹21 LPA

Highest package, 2025 cohort

~₹8.5 LPA

Cohort average, 2025

25+

Sectors hiring on campus

MBA in Applied AI Eligibility & Admission Process

One bar, and a process you can finish this month.

No prior coding or AI background is expected. A bachelor's degree in any stream from a UGC-recognized university with 50% or above, and final-year students may apply.

Apply online

Fill the application at mbaadmissions.itm.edu by paying the ₹1,500 application fee. An online test link is shared with you after reviewing your application.

Write the ITM Test

Every applicant writes the online ITM Test. A valid CAT, XAT, NMAT, CMAT, MAT, ATMA, CUET or MAH-CET score, if you have one, is considered alongside it.

Personal interview

Held in person at the Kharghar campus or a regional office. Online only where there is a genuine reason.

Offer and seat retention

Selected students confirm the seat with ₹25,000, which forms part of the first-year fee.

Early Decision closes 24 October 2026.

Apply before that date and a 15% scholarship is applied to your tuition. The iSET on 19 December 2026 works as an entrance and a scholarship test at once, and can award up to a full tuition waiver.

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Common to every ITM MBA

Everything the degree includes.

These run across every specialization, whichever one you choose. The full detail is on the MBA program page.

From internship to offer letter

Inside the Applied AI Lab

Global Immersion, Dubai

The Kharghar campus

5-month paid internship

Full-time, with a real designation and a work-experience letter, plus a 2-week NGO internship. For many students it is the route to a pre-placement offer.

Applied AI Lab and a MacBook

The Lab runs across every specialization, and a MacBook is yours from day one.

Global Immersion

Optional 7-day modules, currently Dubai/Singapore. Campus sessions at a partner university and visits to working businesses.

Start-up seed funding

The in-house incubation cell backs student ventures with seed funding, before you graduate.

Campus at Kharghar, Navi Mumbai

Shared with ITM School of FutureTech, hostels a few minutes away and the Navi Mumbai airport close by.

Scholarships and the iSET

Merit awards worth over 2 crore every year and no management quota. The iSET works as an entrance and a scholarship test at once.

Global Immersion Program

Global Exposure.

You sit in campus sessions at a partner university, walk the floor of a working business, present to a foreign faculty panel and meet the people running the function in another market - then come back and apply it to your own work. For Applied AI the immersion is entirely optional.

Optional

Global Immersion to Dubai & Singapore is not included in the fee. Two 7-day modules are open to this cohort - Dubai/Singapore.

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Where you can go

On the ground

Campus Life at ITM Business School

Two years on a campus built for work.

Kharghar, Navi Mumbai - hostels, the Applied AI Lab, sport and a calendar that runs all year.

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Applied AI Fees & Scholarships

Program Fee & How to get a Scholarship

Included in your fees

Charged separately

Global Immersion to Dubai & Singapore is not included in the fee. Hostel and mess are billed separately too. Costs are shared before you commit.

Scholarships

How to Apply for MBA in Applied AI

Any stream. Every major score accepted.

A bachelor's degree in any stream from a UGC-recognized university with 50% or above. Final-year students may apply. No programming background required.

Scores accepted

The four-step process

FAQs About MBA in Applied AI

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