Is Parul University Good for MBA? What HOD Career Counselling, Udyam Fest, Activity-Based Teaching, IMPACT Training, and a 10.5 LPA Placement at MyGate Tell You About the Programme

When Harshvardhan Singh Mourya walked into Dr Hiren Harsora‘s office confused about whether to choose business analytics or marketing, the HOD did not validate his Google research. He asked one direct question: do you really want business analytics? Because you do not have the technical background for it.

That single conversation changed Harshvardhan’s entire trajectory. Business analytics would have placed him in a specialisation where his BBA and sales background provided no advantage. But MBA in Sales & Marketing was where his communication instincts, real-world sales experience, and interest in human behaviour could compound. The HOD saw this before the student did.

He then asked: what is your dream package? Harshvardhan said 5 lakhs. Dr Hiren Harsora told him he would get more. He walked out with 10.5 LPA at MyGate. The HOD’s assessment was accurate by a factor of two.

This kind of individual career counselling, where a department head sits with a confused student, assesses their background honestly, and redirects them toward a specialisation that matches their actual strengths rather than their Google search results, is not a curriculum feature. It is a culture feature. It happens because the faculty-to-student relationship at Parul allows it. And if communication is your forte, you can enrol into strategic course wherein you can master brands, global markets and customer behaviour. Enrol into Parul University’s MBA in Marketing, a perfect mix of exposure + package!

Harshvardhan Singh Mourya – A small town introvert to cracking 10.5 LPA at MyGate!

Udyam Fest is Parul University’s flagship management festival. MBA and BBA students do not attend it as spectators. They run it: coordinating guests, judging entrepreneur pitches, facilitating sessions, presenting business ideas. Participation is expected, not optional.

For Harshvardhan, the experience was transformative. He and his friend Dhvani Mansawal sat silently for two full days, watching classmates speak with confidence, unable to find their own words. On the third day, Jaya Pathak Sir called on them. There was no escape.

He was shivering. His heartbeat was visible. Then he spoke. And something shifted. The confidence that emerged on the Udyam stage carried directly into 40 days of IMPACT training, into mock interviews, and ultimately into the MyGate GD where he won the room in three languages. Udyam does not teach confidence as a subject, as it manufactures the conditions where confidence either appears or is forced to appear.

For students evaluating MBA programmes, this is the kind of co-curricular infrastructure that directly impacts placement outcomes. GD rounds test exactly the skills Udyam builds: the ability to speak under pressure, to hold a position in front of strangers, and to project conviction even when you are uncertain.

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Dhruvin Sir’s marketing classes do not look like lectures. Assignments include: create a reel advertising a product or service, design a poster and post it on social media with privacy settings, launch a simulated firm in an international market and hold a group discussion, build a YouTube video, and understand how digital content actually travels to audiences. Students learn to create Facebook ads, Instagram campaigns, and YouTube content. Marketing is practised and not studied. To get an exposure at all the levels, wait no more and enrol into Parul University’s MBA in Advertising & Branding Management.

Nishit Dave Sir provides the analytical counterpart: case studies grounded in real market behaviour, real consumer psychology, real examples of what happens when theory meets commerce. The examples are specific enough to remember and apply. Together, the two approaches mean that by the time placement season arrives, MBA marketing students have both created campaigns and understood why campaigns succeed or fail.

The IMPACT training programme brings trainers from Bhopal, Mumbai, and other cities onto campus. They carry perspectives on communication, aptitude, group dynamics, and interview performance that add a layer the internal faculty are not designed to provide. The focus is on GD technique (holding positions on unfamiliar topics), PI performance (presenting authentically without constructing a persona that collapses under follow-up), and aptitude under pressure.

The most significant output is not the techniques. It is the unlocking. Harshvardhan describes batchmates who were not speaking in classrooms before IMPACT and who started speaking with faculty and raising their voices across the class after it. The training does not create confidence from nothing. It creates the structured environment where confidence that already exists beneath the surface is forced to emerge.

For Harshvardhan specifically, the IMPACT training took the raw confidence he had first discovered on the Udyam stage and sharpened it into something deployable under interview pressure. Peer preparation mattered too: Dhvani Mansawal took his mock interview before MyGate and helped him present himself more effectively.

Harshvardhan’s internships at HDFC Life Insurance and Hifield-AG Chem India in Khandwa gave him something the curriculum alone cannot: the proof that marketing works the same way whether you are selling insurance to a family, agricultural chemicals to a farmer, or smart access technology to an apartment complex. The product changes. The human on the other side of the conversation does not.

By the time MyGate arrived, he was not a student who had studied marketing. He was a person who had sold in conditions far less forgiving than a campus GD. The Parul University’s curriculum gave him the framework. The field gave him the muscle. Both were necessary. Neither was sufficient alone.

MyGate’s campus process: 95 students, 26 seats. Pre-placement talk, Group Discussion, Personal Interview, results same day. The GD was a trilingual conversation where the interviewer switched between Gujarati, Hindi, and English without warning, testing whether candidates could communicate naturally across languages rather than performing rehearsed English answers.

The PI was not a question-and-answer session. It was a test of marketing intuition: read a stranger’s personality from a brief conversation and present the reading to the interviewer. This is exactly what marketers do professionally, read people, understand their motivations, and communicate that understanding clearly.

Harshvardhan’s trilingual fluency (Khandwa Hindi, Vadodara Gujarati, professional English) won the GD. His ability to read people (built through HDFC Life insurance sales and Hifield-AG field work) won the PI. The skills tested were the skills built. That alignment between what the programme develops and what companies actually evaluate is the measure of an MBA programme’s effectiveness.

Harshvardhan Singh Mourya: 10.5 LPA at MyGate (MBA Sales and Marketing, 2026). Varnita Agarwal: 4.5 LPA at KPMG (MBA, 2026).

These MBA placements sit within a broader ecosystem: 3,500+ total placements across the university. 2,200+ recruiters spanning IT, manufacturing, consulting, fintech, pharma, FMCG, and financial services. ASSOCHAM Best University in Placements for 3 consecutive years. NAAC A++ (CGPA 3.55).

The MBA programme is offered through the Faculty of Management Studies with specialisations in Marketing, Finance, HR, Business Analytics, and International Business. 70,500+ students across the university, 6,000+ international students from 75+ countries, 120+ foreign university partnerships, and MS Dhoni as brand ambassador.