Sharda University, Gautam Budh Nagar

Sharda University, Greater Noida prices its programmes one sheet at a time, in public, and the first-year figure runs from Rs 30,000 for a postgraduate diploma in yogic science to Rs 25,40,649 for a clinical MD. Its own entrance test, SUAT, is the default way in, but a JEE Main rank under 3,00,000 removes the need for it, and MBBS and BDS cannot use it at all.

One gap is worth carrying through everything below. The placement figures this university filed with the government sit a long way under the ones on its own placement page, and the two are measuring different things.

This is a privately funded state university, not a deemed one, and the university says so in those words itself. Its approvals page records that it was established through an act of State Legislature of Uttar Pradesh (14 of 2009), holds registration under Section 2(f) of UGC Act 1956 with the power to award the degrees under Section 22 of UGC Act 1956, and states flatly that Sharda University is a full-fledged University and not a deemed University. It also holds membership of The Association of Commonwealth Universities.

Everything sits on one site. The campus is spread across 63 acres of land in Greater Noida, at Plot No. 32-34, Knowledge Park III in Gautam Buddha Nagar district, and the schools on it run from medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health sciences through agriculture to the engineering, business, law and humanities faculties.

Roughly one undergraduate in seven here comes from outside India. That is the outside-country column of its NIRF 2025 return, which counts 1,039 such students among the 7,363 on four-year undergraduate programmes. At postgraduate level the share is higher again, 357 out of 2,094. The university's own pages round all of that to 19,200+ Students from 95+ Countries.

One name check before you compare numbers with anybody. The Sharda group also runs Sharda University Agra and Sharda University Uzbekistan, so a fee or a rank quoted for "Sharda" is only about this campus if the source says Greater Noida.

Sharda publishes a separate 2026-27 fee sheet for every programme it runs, so no one number can stand for the university. The floor is the Post Graduate Diploma in Yogic Science at Rs 30,000; the ceiling is MD Emergency Medicine at Rs 25,40,649. Anything quoted to you as the Sharda fee is really the fee for one programme.

The table below takes one programme from each part of that spread, with the first-year tuition as published on that programme's own page.

Two B.Tech branches taught in the same buildings show the spread better than the extremes do. Computer science and engineering is priced at Rs 2,95,000 against Rs 1,40,000 for civil, more than double for the same four years under the same university, and the cyber security and forensics variant reaches Rs 3,05,000. Nothing about the classroom differs; the branch label does.

On most sheets tuition escalates on a published schedule, so the first-year number is the smallest one you will pay. B.Tech computer science runs Rs 2,95,000 in year one, Rs 3,03,850 in year two, Rs 3,12,966 in year three and Rs 3,22,354 in year four, a rise written into the sheet before any later revision is applied. The exceptions matter as much. M.D.S. Periodontology repeats the same Rs 9,23,280 plus Misc. fee Rs 1,10,000 in each of its three years, while MBBS and Bachelor of Dental Surgery publish a first-year figure and nothing beyond it, so the full cost of the two most expensive undergraduate degrees on this campus is not on the page at all.

Four charges sit outside tuition altogether and none of them appears in an aggregator's fee table. The Admission Fee is Rs 30,000 one time, the Examination Fee is Rs 6,000 per semester, the Registration Fee from Second Year onwards is Rs 15,000 annually, and a one-time contribution of Rs 1500 towards Alumni Association is payable in the final year. Caution money for MBBS, BDS, MD, MS and MDS students is charged as per University guidelines and is not published as a figure.

SUAT is the university's own test and it is the default route, but it covers a specific list of programmes rather than the whole catalogue. The university applies it to B.Tech, BCA, MCA, BBA, B.Com, BBA + MBA integrated, MBA, Journalism & Mass Communication & Design, Integrated Law, BA (Hons) & B.Sc in all disciplines, and M.Sc. (Nursing). Medicine and dentistry are absent from it, and M.Sc. (Nursing) is the only health-sciences entry on it, which is the first thing to notice.

What most applicants miss is that a national score can take SUAT off the table entirely, and the thresholds are published.

Read the last two rows as a wall, not a preference. Medicine and dentistry here run on NEET alone, so no SUAT score, no board percentage and no in-house interview substitutes for it, and an applicant without NEET has no route into MBBS or BDS at this campus however strong the rest of the file is. The MBBS page puts it in regulator's language: admission is as per NMC Guidelines Must be NEET Qualified and allotted through UPDGME Uttar Pradesh Lucknow, which means the seat is allotted by the state, not by the university. Postgraduate medicine works the same way, with MD Emergency Medicine allotted through the same UP directorate. A JEE-Main rank under 3,00,000 is a wide door by comparison, which is why paying the SUAT fee before checking your own rank is usually money spent for nothing.

The test itself is short. SUAT runs 90 minutes (1.5 hours) as a computer based online test with 150 questions for Engineering & Law programmes and 120 questions for rest all programmes, objective with four alternatives and no negative marking. The bar to clear is low and stated: a candidate needs to secure at least 35% marks to qualify SUAT. Papers differ by stream, with the science route sitting English Communication, General Aptitude, Physics, Maths & Chemistry and the postgraduate paper reduced to General Awareness, Logical Reasoning & Quantitative Aptitude.

Qualifying is not the end of it. The university states that personal interview also plays a significant role in the selection process, and MBA applicants sit a group discussion on top of the interview. The application fee is INR 1500 for male candidates and INR 1000 for female candidates and is non-refundable.

Eligibility underneath all of that is ordinary. Undergraduate entry needs completion of Class 12th from any of the recognized boards of India and an applicant must complete 17 years of age on 31st December of the academic year; postgraduate entry needs graduation from any recognized university in India. Foreign nationals submit a qualification meeting the equivalence criteria of Association of Indian University. Marks relaxations are published as 5% in minimum eligibility qualifying marks for Differently Abled (PH), 2.5% for SC/ST Candidates and 2.5% for OBC candidates. One newer route is easy to miss: the university notes it is now accepting Pearson Undergraduate Entrance Exam scores for admissions for various undergraduate courses.

For everything SUAT governs there is no closing rank to find, because the university admits to those seats itself and no counselling authority allots them. Every published number that looks like a cutoff here is doing one of two other jobs, and mistaking one for the other is the expensive error.

The first job is exemption. A JEE-Main rank under 3,00,000, a UPSEE rank under 50,000, a CAT above 65 percent or a MAT above 75 percent decides whether you sit SUAT, not whether you are admitted. Clearing the threshold buys you a shorter application, and the interview still stands between you and a seat.

The second job is money, and those thresholds are much tighter. On the B.Tech ladder a JEE Rank up to 25,000 is the top slab and a JEE Rank of 100,001 to 1,50,000 is the last one that pays anything. For law it is a CLAT Rank (AIR) of 1 to 5000 at the top and 15001 to 20000 at the bottom. A rank that comfortably clears the exemption bar can still be worth nothing at all on the fee.

Medicine and dentistry are the exception, and there a genuine closing rank does exist, set outside the university. MBBS and BDS run through NEET only, and the medical college carries its own code in the Uttar Pradesh counselling list: institute 058, SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES & RESEARCH, SHARDA UNIVERSITY G. NOIDA, classified private. Search that code, not the university name, when the next cycle's round-wise closing figures are released; the counselling authority publishes them and the university does not.

Two placement records exist for this campus and they do not agree. The government filing counts whole cohorts, names the year and gives a median; the placement page counts headline packages and never names a batch. The NIRF return is the one to plan against, because every row in it is dated, signed and attached to a cohort you can count.

The five-year block is the strongest line in that table and the three-year block the weakest, which inverts the order the marketing implies. Five-year programmes placed 419 of 476 at a median of Rs 5,75,000. Three-year programmes placed 502 of 848 at Rs 3,50,000, fewer than three graduates in five, on the joint-lowest median in the table.

Watch the four-year line over three filings, because the median and the placement share pull apart. The median climbs, Rs 3,50,000 for the 2021-22 cohort, Rs 4,00,000 for 2022-23, Rs 4,60,000 for 2023-24. The share does not: 628 of 960, then 653 of 903, then 530 of 806. Better pay for those who land a job, no better odds of landing one.

Now the other record. The placement page runs four counters, 600+ Total no. of Recruiters, 30+ Fortune 500 Companies, a 1.6 Crore highest package and 150+ MNCs, then adds programme-level claims of MBA - 100% placement offers and B.Tech, 91 % placement offers. No cohort size is attached to any of them, and no year.

Hold the two records side by side rather than picking one. A B.Tech claim of 91 % placement offers and a filed four-year record of 530 of 806 are not measuring the same thing, and an offer is not a job taken. The page also disagrees with itself inside one screen: the counter says 30+ Fortune 500 Companies and the highlights list directly under it says More than 55+ Fortune 500 companies.

Sanctioned intake is filed by programme length rather than by branch, so this is the only university-wide seat table that exists in the public domain.

The four-year line is where the expansion happened, running from 1502 in 2020-21 to 1886, then 3162, then 3030, roughly a doubling in two years. None of it has reached the placement table yet, and that is the trap. The class of 806 graduating in 2023-24 entered when the first-year intake was 1502; the doubled years are still on campus. Every placement figure in the section above therefore describes a much smaller university than the one now taking admissions.

Two branch-level numbers do exist, both from regulators rather than from the university. The National Medical Commission's state-wise list of MBBS colleges records the School of Medical Sciences & Research, Greater Noida, under Sharda University, Greater Noida, established 2009, with an annual intake of 250 seats. For pharmacy, the university filed a sanctioned intake of 100 for its four-year programme in each of 2023-24, 2022-23 and 2021-22, up from 60 in 2020-21.

No other branch carries a published seat count. Each programme page here prints fees, eligibility and a syllabus and stops, so the number of B.Tech computer science seats or MBA marketing seats exists only inside the admission office. Ask for it in writing, and ask for the same year you are applying in, before you commit to a specialisation.

The pharmacy school outranks its own parent institution nationally. It is 57th, scoring 49.99 in NIRF 2025, while the university as a whole is 87th, scoring 49.00. Thirty places apart on rank, less than a point apart on score, because each table is graded against a different field of competitors.

Read the columns as two different assessments of two different units, not as one institution contradicting itself. Graded on its own, the pharmacy school beats the university-wide figures on both input parameters, 63.05 and 55.29 against 56.95 and 34.37. It then falls over on the two that face outward: graduation outcomes 38.15 and perception 7.47, which is the lowest number anywhere in this university's public record.

Across one year the two tables moved apart. Pharmacy climbed twelve places, 69 in 2024 to 57 in 2025, while the university slipped one, 86 to 87, on a score that actually rose from 46.88 to 49.00. A better score and a worse rank means the field improved faster.

Do not read that twelve-place climb as twelve places of improvement. Two of the pharmacy school's own parameters went backwards over the same year: graduation outcomes fell from 48.31 to 38.15 and perception from 16.68 to 7.47.

Its own filing shows why the outcomes score is where it is. Take the 2023-24 pharmacy cohort: 63 students finished in minimum stipulated time, and against them the return records 15 placements on a median of Rs 3,00,000. A year earlier: 58 finishing, 14 placed. The year before that, 59 finished and nobody at all was placed. So a B.Pharm applicant should read the rank as evidence about the teaching and the lab spending, and read the 38.15 as evidence about the exit.

Look for this university in the NIRF 2025 engineering, management, medical or dental tables and there is no number against its name. That gap is loudest on the clinical side, where it runs a medical school and a dental school and still gives a candidate no national placing to weigh them by.

Nothing here is an affiliated college; every programme belongs to a named in-house school. The health-sciences group is the one to notice: a medical school, a dental school, nursing, pharmacy and allied health sciences, all sitting under the same registration as the engineering and business faculties.

That row explains most of what looks odd elsewhere in this record. It is why the fee range reaches seven figures while a B.Sc still costs less than a lakh, why MBBS and BDS are governed by NEET instead of the university's own test, and why the approvals page has to carry letters from the medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy councils rather than a single engineering regulator.

Sharda Online is a different proposition from all of them. It delivers online programmes rather than residential ones, so a fee, a placement figure or a campus description taken from the residential schools does not describe what an online student is buying.

Spending is a harder description of a campus than a prose list of amenities, and the NIRF filing publishes three years of it. For 2023-24 the capital lines read 107736195 on new equipment for laboratories, 75060446 on the library, 9683320 on studios and 8540954 on engineering workshops.

The two biggest of those lines behave completely differently over time. Library spend rises in every filed year, 50359795 in 2021-22, 64252757 in 2022-23, 75060446 in 2023-24, the shape of a collection being grown deliberately. Laboratory equipment dips and then jumps, 45731296 to 34623685 to 107736195, the shape of a one-off buy. A lab kitted out in a single year is newer than average today and ages all at once.

Two of the three accessibility answers in that filing come back hedged, and on a site of this footprint the hedge has to be priced in. Lifts and ramps: Yes, more than 80% of the buildings. Specially designed toilets for handicapped students: the same Yes, more than 80% of the buildings. The one flat yes covers walking aids, including wheelchairs and transportation from one building to another. Nowhere does the return name which blocks make up the remainder, and with lecture buildings, hostels and a hospital all on the same estate, a student with mobility needs should get that answered by name before accepting a seat.

Nothing in the sustainability block is left blank, and water is where the answer runs deepest. Rainwater harvesting alone is filed under four separate systems: surface runoff harvesting, percolation pits, recharge wells and storage tanks. Plastics get a ban on single-use plastic items. Waste is split between comprehensive recycling infrastructure and food donation programmes and composting systems. On carbon the university ticked energy-efficient buildings, renewable energy installations, offsetting emissions and sustainable procurement, though solar panels are the only renewable source it names.

Health cover sits on the campus rather than under a contract with somebody else, which follows from the medical school. The infrastructure page lists medical support systems (Sharda Hospital) alongside centrally air-conditioned classrooms with Wi-Fi enabled projectors, tutorial rooms, multiple libraries and multiple fully equipped auditoriums.

Four named blocks carry a published rate here, and which one you land in moves the bill as much as the room type does. Every figure is annual and mess is already inside it. First-year students do not choose from the whole list: for first year boys only Vivekananda & Vardhman hostel and for girls only Sarojini & Mandela Girls Hostel is available.

Air conditioning is the biggest single lever in that table. The Vivekananda three-seater goes from Rs 1,24,000 to Rs 1,80,000 for the same number of beds in the same block. Set that increase beside civil engineering tuition at Rs 1,40,000 a year and the air conditioner is a serious share of what the degree itself costs.

Three practical terms are easy to miss. A refundable Hostel Security of Rs. 10,000 for Non-AC and 20,000 for AC Room sits on top of every figure above. Food is inside the rate, since the mentioned amount is including Mess Charges, and laundry comes free to the extent of 20 washes of upto 8kgs load each time. And the charge is applicable from 1 August to 31 May of every year, so you are not paying for the summer.

The university entered 1036 faculty members in its NIRF 2025 return, against a filed strength of 7,363 students in the four-year undergraduate programmes and 2,930 in the five-year ones before the shorter programmes are counted. The homepage claims 1047+ instead, a small gap in the university's favour. What sits under either figure is a salary bill for teaching and non-teaching staff that went from 1353413636 in 2021-22 to 2331015832 in 2023-24.

Anyone weighing a PhD here should look at the doctoral split first, because part-timers outnumber full-timers on this campus. Up to 2023-24 the filing records 429 full time and 668 part time students pursuing a doctoral programme. Completions lean the same way but much less sharply, 47 full time and 54 part time in 2023-24, and the whole doctoral operation is recent: the comparable pair for 2021-22 is 18 full time and 11 part time.

Externally funded work is the honest source of the improving research score, and it grew in both money and breadth. The sponsored-research line went from 21045247 across 43 projects and 21 funding agencies in 2021-22 to 54573949 across 67 projects and 32 agencies in 2023-24, with 48130752 from 40 projects and 30 agencies in the year between. Consultancy is smaller money spread over far more counterparties, 49 projects for 105 client organizations worth 19982957 in the same year.

The pharmacy school reports its own establishment separately, and it is a small one: 27 faculty members for 354 students, with sponsored research of 1 project from 1 funding agency worth 2398273 in 2023-24. Read the strong pharmacy teaching score against that headcount rather than against the university total.

This campus publishes no roll of distinguished graduates, and its two sites cannot even agree on how many alumni exist. The SUAT site advertises a 34000+ Alumni Base. The international admissions page, in a message signed by the President for Corporate & International Relations, addresses 19,800 + Alumni. Both numbers belong to the same university and they are nowhere near each other, which is reason enough not to repeat either as a fact about the network you would be joining.

There is a hiring record instead. The Top Placement roster filters by school and lists a student name against the company that hired them, so it answers which employers actually turn up at the dental school or the business school. It says nothing about what any of those graduates went on to do afterwards, which is the question an alumni list is supposed to answer.

This section stays open until named graduates can be attributed to a checkable public record.

The university's news feed is active and dated, which makes it the right place to check anything time sensitive rather than a third-party summary. Recent entries cover Khelo India Samvad, Khel Ki Baat PM Modi Ke Saath on 27 Aug 2026, the STEM Racing India National Finals on 31 Jul 2026 and a partnership with 8rney to Advance AI-Powered Legal Education on 29 Jul 2026.

Industry tie-ups are the recurring theme rather than admissions news. The feed records an MoU with Vivo Mobile India Pvt. Ltd. on 25 Jun 2026, an International Graduation Celebration on 20 Jun 2026 and the inauguration of a Sharda TV Studio on 12 May 2026. Admission windows, scholarship phases and result notices are posted separately on the admissions and SUAT sites, so a date-sensitive question about applying belongs there instead.

Comparing this campus on its university rank puts it behind its immediate neighbours and stops the conversation early. The more useful table is the pharmacy one, because that is where its own best rank sits and where its district rivals are ranked against exactly the same subject.

Fourth of four at home is the honest reading, and the distance to the top of its own district is wide: 66.27 against 49.99. Being 57th in India and last in Gautam Budh Nagar is not a contradiction; it is what happens in a district where four pharmacy institutions all made the national list.

Change the subject and the line-up changes with it, which is the part that matters when you are choosing. The NIRF 2025 University table puts this district's entries at 22, 57 and 87, and the middle one there is Shiv Nadar, an institution absent from the pharmacy table entirely. Find the table for the subject you intend to study before you compare anything, because a name that beats Sharda in one of these tables may not appear in the other.

National and international applicants are handled by different desks here, with their own numbers, their own mailboxes and their own WhatsApp lines. Dial the wrong one and you reach a team that does not process your file.

Knowledge Park III is the institutional belt on the Greater Noida side of Gautam Buddha Nagar, not Noida proper, and the difference is a real one on the daily commute if you plan to live in Delhi and travel in. Applicants who want a face-to-face conversation without making that journey can use the regional counselling centres the university keeps outside the state, at Lucknow and Patna.

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