Photo Courtesy: Mikecogh (Flickr) The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) announced yesterday that it had reduced fees. Great news, the media lapped it up and so also the MBA fraternity. But it also added, to this feat, that it was the first IIM to do so. Kind of right...
Read More(Photo courtesy: Official U.S. Navy Imagery) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad has declared its results for the Post Graduate Program (PGP). Click here to view the results. Follow the discussion here For the results of IIM Calcutta, click here. The discussions are on here Results of IIM Lucknow...
Read MoreIIM Bangalore Update: IIM Lucknow has reduced the fees by 10% for the PGP & PGP ABM. the fees will now be Rs. 10.8 lakhs from the earlier 12 lakhs. The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has hiked its Post Graduate Program (PGP) fees by 13.3% to Rs 17...
Read MoreNitish Jain, President, SP Jain School of Global Management, Singapore. Beyond being the best in India, our b-schools rarely have ambitions to become world class, writes guest author Nitish Jain, who heads SP Jain School of Global Management, Singapore. Becoming world class in anything means doing something that gets recognised...
Read MoreSo here’s what we did last week. Using the LinkedIn.com alumni groups of the top 10 b-schools in the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2013, we tried to capture how the graduates of these b-schools are doing in their careers. Combining the statistical snapshots of the prominent alumni groups of these b-schools,...
Read MorePhoto Credit: Jvleis (Flickr) The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), one of the foremost accreditation agencies in the world, has made its terms tougher. The new fundamentals include paramount importance to ethics, tougher curriculum, sustainability etc. While most of these were part of the rating strictures even...
Read MoreIt has taken the current slump in MBA hiring for Indian business schools and their students to realise that a recession is not something that happens to other people in other countries. It is perhaps the first April when most Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) haven’t yet declared their placement...
Read More(Photo courtesy: neubie) MBA applicants have more reason to worry this year. If the increasing costs of application, exam fees and tuition of business schools were not enough to break you into a sweat, get prepared to pay atleast 10-15% more for test preparation this year, no matter what part...
Read MoreDr Surajit Mitra, Director, IIFT Delhi & Kolkata In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Dr Surajit Mitra, Director at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata talks about sectional cut-offs becoming a permanent feature of the IIFT test, the possibility of shifting the IIFT test online and his...
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur has concluded its summer placement process for the 2012-14 batch comprising 42 students. According to the institute, 28 companies made a total of 48 internship offers to the class. The novel part of IIM Kashipur’s summer placements this year was that the institute...
Read MoreAn economy poised to become the most powerful and robust in the world, an industry where revenue are expected to reach 1764 billion INR by 2016 with CAGR of 17% from its current size of approximately 960 billion INR, surely it is the ‘best place to craft your career’. Yes,...
Read MoreIn a bid to improve the global rankings of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) by attracting more international faculty and international students, the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) has formed a half-dozen member member committee that will work on a new draft of the IIM Council Bill,...
Read MoreProf Jeemol Unni The Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat has a fresh ground plan for the next academic year. Some ideas in it include, taking in international students, new programmes, additional seats and novel infrastructure. PaGaLGuY.com met up with IRMA’s director Professor Jeemol Unni for a chat. Other...
Read MoreBrand Yourself Globally with MISB Bocconi Mumbai “I chose MISB Bocconi because it gave me edge over other schools already existing in India. India being a booming economy right now I did not really want to go outside to study but at the same time I wanted an international exposure,...
Read MoreBusiness Education 2.0 replaces conventional classroom learning at S P Jain Global Life at business school is often associated with an overdose of classroom lectures, exams, assignments, deadlines, and case studies. However, are business leaders built on the foundation of theories and concepts? Do practical skills have a role to...
Read MoreDon’t be surprised if you are asked to hunt for your job next year. This and some more similar submissions were made at a secret and high-level meeting called by the Ministry of Human Resourcefulness, to discuss the dismal state of placements in b-schools this year. The meeting held in...
Read MoreThe buzz inside b-schools this year is, that 2013 is the worst placement season Indias MBA programs have ever seen, worse than 2009 even. We are trying to reason this years peculiarly startling results of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings survey in that context, and need your help further. Never before...
Read MoreXLRI Jamshedpur XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur has completed its final placement for the batch of 2013 and publicised its placement report. A total of 255 offers (including 49 lateral and 65 pre-placement offers) were made by 70 companies, of which offers made by 69 companies were...
Read MoreDid you know that the addresses in your mail box can actually predict your career prospects. The more dappled your address list, the more wide-ranging your career graph will be. This has broadly been the finding of a recent study conducted by Prof Adam Kleinbaum, an assistant professor of Business...
Read MorePhoto Credit: Unlisted Sightings (Flickr.com) You can go easy with the Quantitative Ability section if you are an engineer. To be honest, it would not matter whether you are an engineer or not. If you take the Common Admission Test (CAT) papers from say 5 years ago, the Quantitative Ability...
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