entrance examinations like XAT, CMAT, IIFT, ATMA, SNAP, MAT, KMAT, INMARSAT, IBSAT, TISSNET, NMAT for getting admission into various branded MBA colleges like IIM, Xavier School of Management (XLRI-XSM), SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Management Development Institute (MDI), Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), International Management Institute (IMI), Symbiosis and many other famous management schools.

Many students are not always comfortable to face the entrance examinations which are moderate to tough in nature. There could be various reasons.
First, they may not feel comfortable facing such cut-throat competitive exams.
Second, there could be students who do not have time to prepare especially for such exams or they do not need either. For example, those who already have their own business or are entrepreneurs yet want to know about business management in order to become more apt in running their functions, might not be willing to face such tough competitive exams neither do they need to. Because they would be satisfied with any decent MBA college, the brand doesn’t matter to them as they are their own business masters.
Thirdly there could be aspirants who do not wish for higher salary packages, yet want the degree or really want to learn about business management, they would prefer MBA minus the entrance exam.

The fourth category of students would be those who do not wish to leave their own city/town of their origin and comfortable studying in any MBA college available nearby which is offering the program without any entrance exam.

Also, there are the fifth categories of students who need not face the entrance exam. There are many MBA colleges that have some percentage of seats for management quota usually filled as per the recommendation of the core management and administration of the college/institute. Such students therefore get directly admitted backed by recommendation without the need of any entrance exam.

There is yet again a sixth category of students who manage to study MBA directly. Often the Principal / Director of any un-aided management institution may invite students to take direct admission via an advertisement on their website and/or newspapers.

Actually, there are many colleges that allow direct MBA admission without any entrance exam, but they will typically check the academic profile of the students. They check the graduation scores. Also, there could be other criteria that the aspirants need to fulfil like they will not be eligible for any scholarship or have to go for a paid internship, meet all the verification criteria of the college where direct admission is sought.

There is a common notion that the colleges offering Direct MBA admission are not among the best colleges for mba in HR in India. While this is true, but not all private colleges/universities that offer direct admission are bad. R V Institute of Management Bangalore, Indus Business Academy Bangalore, Alliance School of Business Bangalore, Christ Deemed University Bangalore, Apeejay School of Management Delhi, Millennium School of Business Delhi, Asian Business School Delhi, Amity University, Indian School of Business Management & Administration (ISBM) Ahmedabad, Nirma University Ahmedabad, NL Dalmia Institute of Management Studies & Research Mumbai are some of the good private schools offering direct admission to MBA.