What is the sponsored category at Amity University?

Amity University has categorized admissions as sponsored and non-sponsored. The sponsored category students include those candidates who have low merit in the required qualifying examination. 

The university reduces the eligibility and cutoff criteria for such students for which they are charged comparatively higher fees. In most of the courses available at Amity University, the institute has provided a 5% relaxation in the eligibility criteria to students who are willing to take admission under the sponsored category.

The table below shows the difference in the cutoff criteria for admission under sponsored and non-sponsored categories for an MBA at Amity University Noida:

From the table given above, we can see that the cutoff for all exams is lower for sponsored category students. The first-year semester fee for Amity University MBA sponsored category is INR 5,83,500 (Noida campus) whereas the per semester fee for non-sponsored category students is INR 3,89,000. The fee structure for both categories has a difference of around INR 2 Lakhs which is a huge amount to be paid for six months.

Students who come from financially well-off families are usually admitted in the sponsored category and do not have to worry about scoring more in the examinations held.