While engineering students are clearly dominating MBA admissions, many leading B schools in India are attempting to increase diversity on campus by recruiting more female candidates in addition with students from other academic streams. For instance a few Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs): are to include more non-engineers and female...
Read MoreProf J Shah, IIM-U director cycling to the campus in the morning The city of Udaipur is greeted to a rather invigorating sight every morning – Prof Janat Shah, director of The Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur (IIM-U) cycling his way to the campus. Calm and collected as if he...
Read MoreThe Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) announced admissions to all its full-time postgraduate degree programs for 2013-15 for its Mumbai, Tuljapur, Guwahati, and Hyderabad campuses today. The TISS National Entrance Test (TISS NET) which will go online for the first time will be held on January 13, 2013. Candidates...
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Students waiting outside the CMAT test centre in Tughlaqabad, New Delhi (Photo credit : Astha A) The second edition of Common Management Admission test (CMAT) conducted by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) drew to an official close on October 1, 2012. Out of a total of 60,000...
Read MoreLast year, about three dozen b-schools had met at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad campus to etch out the Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS), intended to be an honest and auditable way for b-schools to report their placements to future applicants and the media. A year later, it...
Read MoreArvind Garimella, on his way to meet the villagers Summer internships are long over and it’s back to classroom work inside closed walls. But in some b-schools, internship discussions are still on. And they would be, considering that some spent their internships among snow-clad mountains, others drank salty butter tea...
Read MoreThe year 2011-12, during which the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) added a new section to its format, has turned out to be a record year for the test, with 286,529 GMAT exams being taken across the world. The highest ever number of tests in a single year were in...
Read MoreTata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is revamping its curriculum for the MA in Human Resources Management and Labour Relations program for the 2013-15 batch. The primary change being an emphasis on research, the new curriculum will allow students more time for research as the classroom workload will reduce...
Read MorePreliminary registration data for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 indicates a slight increase of 4.39% compared to last years figures. The CAT 2012 registration window ended at midnight on September 19 with 2.14 lakh registrations, exceeding last year’s registrations of 2.05 lakh. The gender split has also improved with...
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Read MoreIn the first part of this article I wrote about the sections of the application which required imagination and creativity – your essays, interview, and recommendations. This part is about those sections of the application which are more or less set in stone. Remember, everything is evaluated by application readers...
Read MoreFor the first time, an Indian Institute of Management is launching an executive MBA programme which will not only confer a dual degree/diploma but also involve a joint-learning’ process across four different schools from around the world. IIM Udaipur is going to kick-start this different execuive MBA programme from January...
Read MoreDepartment of Management Studies ((DMS), IIT, Delhi In a major policy change, the Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi is mulling opening its doors to non-engineering background candidates from the next academic session onwards. Currently, the IIT admission process requires candidates to have a four-year...
Read MoreProf Shekhar Chaudhari The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) has kicked-off a few radical moves in the last few months. From initiating ‘reservation’ for women applicants to aggressively going after alumni to keep its infrastructure plans ticking. IIMC director Professor Shekhar Chaudhuri, spoke to PaGaLGuY about these measures and...
Read MoreThe Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabads medication to cure the mucky world of b-school placement reportage is over a year old now and up for review at the end of this month. As many as 25 b-schools were supposed to have adopted it to...
Read MoreThe International management Institute (IMI) Delhi has received the exclusive international accreditation of the Association of MBAs (AMBA). IMI becomes only the fifth management institute in the country, which includes IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode, to obtain this accreditation. A quality accreditation becomes a key differentiator for a Business School...
Read MoreDr Samir Barua, director, IIM Ahmedabad As he prepares to end his stint as director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Dr Samir Barua speaks to PaGaLGuY on his achievements in the last five years, placement reporting standards and the schools selection criteria. Dr Barua also discusses the...
Read MorePic: Kronic.it (Flickr) Yes, you heard it right! Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, US, in their quest for innovation in higher education, has decided to use insights from the legendary pop star’s life to teach business management to its students. Titled Michael Jackson: The Business of Music, the course is...
Read MoreA ballpark of 60,000 applicants has registered for the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) of September 2012, SS Mantha Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) confirmed to PaGaLGuY today. In addition, almost 9,000 candidates have opted for CMAT test centres in Mumbai. The other most popular test centre...
Read MorePic: Flickr The Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIMI) has 65% freshers in its 2012-2014 batch. This figure is the highest among all the Indian Institutes of Management and other top schools this year. What becomes incidental is that the number of work-ex is about 35%. While IIMI decided to...
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