Apprehensive about vacant MBA seats in Maharashtra, DTE has proposed including ATMA scores for OMS/State seats. Photo credit: foxypar4 (flickr.com) Just when Maharashtra based b-schools were close to figuring out their admission strategy based on Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in the state...
Read MoreSP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has tweaked its admission process slightly for the two-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma Programme (PGDM) for the academic year 2013-15. The institute will call aspirants separately for interviews based on profiles and scores. The institute also plans to call in more...
Read MoreDr Nagesh Rao, MICA director Dr Nagesh Rao took over as President and Director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) earlier this year. Having earned a doctorate in Communications from Michigan State University in 1994, Dr Rao taught in various universities in the US for over two decades. He...
Read MoreWith Mohali on the scene now, The Indian School of Business, (popularly called ISB Hyderabad) is tweaking its admission process for the next academic year. This is to make both the campuses (Mohali and Hyderabad) one unified campus in the genuine sense of the term. To begin with, from the...
Read MoreThe number of applicants for Common Admission Test (CAT) has increased this year, after a steady fall for past two years. There were 2, 14, 068 applicants this year. If one looks at the profiles of the CAT aspirants this year, it reveals an interesting trend. While candidates from engineering...
Read MoreFaculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi concluded its summer internship placements for this year with 90 recruiters making a total of 215 final offers to the MBA batch of 2012-14. Of the total batch strength of 222, twelve students did...
Read More(Original photograph of Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak by Krishna Jayadev) PaGaLGuY is back with the Best B-School PHOTOGRAPHY contest 3.0. This time, we would like you to show off your business school’s architecture… wherever in the world it is located. Yes, the contest is international this year! So we...
Read MoreThakur College, a CAT centre in Mumbai wears a deserted look this afternoon As PaGaLGuY writes this piece, the most powerful country in the world votes for its future. Apart from the significance of today due to the American presidential elections, this day also marks the end of the testing...
Read MoreThe Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 has drawn to a close. A season laced with ‘technological’ hiccups and some bizarre power issues, one in which the number of candidates sent back because of wrong or insufficient identification was one of the highest in recent years. PaGaLGuY decided to get some...
Read MorePic: Flickr Mumbai boy Rishi Ayyers blog http://atearintherain.wordpress.com has created quite a stir in the MBA-aspirant community. Written a few hours after attempting to take his Common Admission Test (CAT) exam at a centre near Mumbai (Sanpada) today, the blog has raised some vital issues regarding photo identification and exam...
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what would Gandhijis CAT/GMAT score have been? It is known that effective leadership requires emotional and creative intelligence more than reasoning and verbal abilities. Every individual has unique capabilities and strengths and possesses multiple intelligences. A leader should not only have good analytical capabilities but also...
Read MoreDespite a tight job market, in search of a dream placement offer (Photo courtesy: thegoldguys.blogspot.com/) To help students combat placement stress, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta will allow the 2012-14 batch PGP students to have multiple summer placement offers from companies. The institute is also introducing a day...
Read MoreQueens Mary Technical Institute at Pune An injury in a road accident during Operation Rakshak in Kupwada district of Jammu and Kashmir in 2001 stole away Veeresh Ms chance of living a normal life. Veeresh from Koppal in Karnataka was 22 then. Veereshs, spleen had to be removed after the...
Read MoreProf Abraham Koshy with Dr Philip Kotler (Source: www.akoshy.in) Philip Kotlers book Marketing Management, considered to be the bible of marketing for anyone studying an MBA, was launched in its 14th South Asian edition on Wednesday with updated content and case studies themed around customer value and covering rural marketing...
Read MoreRegistrations for Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) February 2013 opened from today. The exam will be conducted from February 21-25. Aspirants can register online by visiting the CMAT website. The last date of registration for the exam is January 2, 2013. Candidates who have appeared for the exam in September...
Read MorePhoto: Flickr In a week, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is expected to announce the name of its new director. In all likelihood, the top job will go to someone from within the institute, considering that quite a few applications have come from in-house. PaGaLGuY also learnt that...
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Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB), Bhubhaneswar A tussle is going on between Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubhaneswar, and the law department of the Orissa state government over building a Xavier University in the city. In a conversation with PaGaLGuY, Father PT Joseph, the XIMB director said that he would...
Read MoreThe Indian School of Business, Hyderabad is on the list of unapproved colleges again, put out by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) two days ago. It shares the list with 42 other colleges, some having notorious reputations. That ISB is on the list is not surprising but...
Read MoreYou might make out the difference between your chalk and cheese but ever heard a chalk and condom being spoken about in the same vein? Better still, what if someone gave you Bekaar Di music cds to listen to? These innovative and seemingly bizarre products and ideas are not the...
Read MoreJust when we were close to concluding that Prometric had perfected the on-ground delivery of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) after the lessons it had learned in 2009, entire testing labs at at least two test centers in New Delhi failed this Saturday, on day 8 of CAT 2012. But...
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