Established through the UPES Act 2003, of the State Legislature of Uttarakhand, UPES is a top-ranked, UGC recognised, private university. As per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2023, the Ministry of Education, Government of India, UPES has been ranked 52, with a rank of 54 in Engineering and a rank of 39 in Management. In addition to this, the university has been ranked the No. 1 private university in academic reputation in India by the QS World University Rankings 2024 and is among the top 3% of universities in the world. As per the QS World University Rankings 2024: Asia, UPES has been ranked 218 in Asia and 23 in India among all the Indian institutions.

As per the Times Higher Education (THE) World Ranking 2024, UPES is in the overall rank band of 801–1000 in the world, 9th among private and deemed universities, 2nd among private universities, and 26th in the overall universities category in India. According to the prestigious Shanghai Ranking—Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, UPES is among the world’s top 150 institutions for telecommunication engineering, among the top 400 for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and among the top 500 for Computer Science and Engineering.

UPES has also been accredited by NAAC with a grade of ‘A’ and has received 5 stars on employability (placements) by the globally acclaimed QS Rating. The university has had 90%+ placements over the last few years. 41 faculty members of UPES are among the world’s top 2% of researchers, as per the Stanford University list.

UPES offers graduate and postgraduate programs through its seven schools: School of Advanced Engineering, School of Computer Science, School of Design, School of Law, School of Health Sciences and Technology, School of Liberal Studies, and School of Business with 14,000+ students and 1,500+ faculty and staff members.

The management programmes namely MBA and BBA are offered at UPES School of Business. Key programmes offered include: 

MBA (Master of Business Administration) with specialization in Marketing Management, Finance Management, Human Resource, Operations Management
MBA (Digital Business) with specialization in Web Design and Development,          
Cloud Computing
MBA (Business Analytics) – KPMG with specialization in Cognitive Analytics,       Data Mining
MBA (Oil and Gas Management) with specialization in Petroleum Marketing & Business Development, Natural Gas Business 
MBA (Power Management) with specialization in Power Business & Regulations; Green Energy and Transition to Sustainability
MBA (International Business) 
MBA (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) with specialization in Logistics Planning / Supply Chain, Business Process in Supply Chain 
MBA (Aviation Management) with specialization in Airline Service Operations,  Aviation Enterprise Management
MBA (Strategy & Consulting) – KPMG with specialization in Business Strategy & Transformation,  Corporate Strategy & Innovation Mgmt.
MBA (Global Program)
MBA in Metaverse & Web 3.0 with specialization in Metaverse, Web 3.0

UPES School of Business also offers following undergraduate BBA Programmes:
BBA in Finance Management, BBA in Human Resource, BBA in Operations Management, BBA in Marketing Management
BBA (Analytics and Big Data) with specialization in Programming for Analytics; Big Data Analytics and Mining
BBA (Digital Business) with specialization in Technology Infrastructure Management, Digital Marketing
BBA (Green Energy and Sustainability) with specialization in Sustainable Development, Green Energy Business
BBA (Logistics Management) with specialization in Logistics Management, Service Operations & Procurement
BBA (Aviation Management) with specialization in Aviation Service Operations, Travel and Ground Handling Operations
BBA (Foreign Trade) with specialization in International Trade Negotiations, Analytics and Market Research
B.Com (Hons.) with specialization in E-Commerce, Banking and Insurance
BBA (Global Program) with 2+1 2 Year in UPES Campus + 1 Year in Overseas University.
BBA (Oil and Gas Marketing) with specialization in Petroleum Business, Oil and Gas Operations
BBA (Events, Public Relations And Corporate Communications) with specialization in Media Management Marketing Campaigns and Strategic Communications, Social Media, Marketing and Analytics, 
BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration