The exam center is allotted to candidates by examination conducting authority. Students can take MBA entrance test only at the center allotted to them. The address of allotted exam center will be printed on their XAT Admit Card. They must bring their admit card to the exam center on examination day.
There are total 103 XAT cities to take examination this year. The limit on the number of test cities keeps changing. XAT Exam 2026 will be conducted on 4th January 2026. The examination time generally scheduled from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Candidates taking XAT Exam will be given the option to choose city from the list of cities given in the dropdown and XAT Application Form. The examination center of each candidates will be mentioned of their respective admit cards.
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XAT 2026 List of Test Centres
XAT Exam 2026 will be conducted in the month of January and at various exam centers across the country. The candidates taking XAT Exam will be given an option choose the preferred two cities of their own choice as exam center during XAT Registration Procedure. Below mentioned are the XAT Test Cities for XAT Exam 2026.
Centre 1 | Centre 2 | Centre 3 | Centre 4 | Centre 5 | Centre 6 |
Agra | Ahmedabad | Ajmer | Aligarh | Allahabad | Ambala |
Amravati | Amritsar | Anantapur | Arrah | Aurangabad (MH) | Baddi |
Balasore | Bareilly | Bhatinda | Bhagalpur | Bhilai Nagar | Bhopal |
Bhubaneswar | Bikaner | Bilaspur | Bengaluru | Berhampur | Chandigarh/Mohali |
Chennai | Chikkaballapur | Coimbatore | Cuttack | Darbhanga | Davanagere |
Dehradun | Delhi-NCR | Dhanbad | Dhenkanal | Dibrugarh | Durgapur/Asansol |
Ernakulam | Gandhinagar | Goa | Gorakhpur | Guwahati | Gwalior |
Haldwani | Hazaribagh | Hisar | Hooghly | Hubballi (Hubli) | Hyderabad |
Indore | Jabalpur | Jaipur | Jalandhar | Jammu | Jamshedpur |
Jodhpur | Jorhat | Kalaburagi | Kalyani | Kannur | Kanpur |
Karimnagar | Kolhapur | Kolkata | Kota | Kottayam | Kurnool |
Kurukshetra | Lucknow | Madurai | Mangalore | Mehsana | Moradabad |
Muzaffarnagar | Muzaffarpur | Mumbai | Mysuru (Mysore) | Nagpur | Naharlagun |
Nanded | Nashik | Patiala | Patna | Pune | Raipur |
Rajahmundry | Rajkot | Ranchi | Roorkee | Rourkela | Salem |
Sambalpur | Shimla | Shillong | Sikar | Siliguri | Surat |
Tejpur | Thiruvananthapuram | Tiruchirappalli | Tirupathi | Tiruvallur | Udaipur |
Udupi | Ujjain | Vadodara | Varanasi | Vellore | Vijayawada |
Visakhapatnam | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Selection of XAT Exam Centers
XAT Test Centers are allotted to candidates based on their availability. Candidates must indicate their preferred test city when completing the XAT application form. The test center will be assigned to each candidate in one of the three selected cities. Please read some important points below about the selection of the XAT test cities in the application form.
- You have the option of selecting up to two cities from the list provided.
- If there is no seat available in the XAT 2026 exam center in the first preferred city, the exam center in the second preferred city will be assigned.
- You are only allowed to change the exam city once before the last date of the XAT application process reaches.
- Once the application window is closed, no request to change the test city will be accepted.
- The list of XAT cities is provisional and the examining authority has the right to change centers
- The body that conducts the examination has the final say in the allocation of the XAT examination centers and is irreversible.
Important Points of XAT Exam Centers
Below are the key pointers that the candidates must remember the following points w.r.t the XAT exam centres.
- Visit the XAT 2026 test center the day before the test to find out the location and distance from your home.
- In this way you can estimate how long it will take you to get to the center on the day of the XAT exam.
- Come to the exam on the day of the exam. Center before the registration time (7:30 a.m.) for the timely completion of the identification process
- Bring two copies of the XAT 2026 admission ticket and one Copy of ID issued by the Government of India.
- Do not enter the XAT test center early and do not leave the test room until you are asked to do so.
- The storage of telephones, bags, etc. is not intended. Therefore, applicants are advised to either not bring such items with them or to make their own arrangements.
