Richard Ivey School of Business, Canada (Photo: Lars Plougmann) For many MBA applicants, completing an MBA application can become a daunting process for two main reasons. There are too many independent components to be taken care of (application form, resume, essays, interview, recommendations, GMAT, TOEFL). The preparation time for each...
Read MoreBlake Kernen delivering a lecture at a corporate meet She is just like any other about-to-become teenager in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. A sixth-grader – her average day is packed with school, a visit to the chess or tennis club, a few hours in the swimming pool and at...
Read MoreThe IIM Raipur Campus The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur, which became operational in 2010, ended the summer placement process for its second Post Graduate Diploma in management batch. A total of 76 offers were made by 41 firms, of which offers made by 39 firms were accepted by...
Read MoreThe Bara Imambara, Lucknow (Photo: Derek Keats) In what is a stark indication of the supply inflation of MBA seats in the country, this year’s number of applicants to the state-level MBA entrance exam of Uttar Pradesh is just a little over half of the total number of MBA seats...
Read MoreSP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has been granted approval to increase its PGDM seats from 180 to 240. The expansion will come into effect from the next academic year 2012-2014. The approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was given earlier this week...
Read MoreAbhishek, Director, Global Merchant Services, American ExpressThere are three ways an Indian MBA can hope to build a career abroad but each path requires clarity and richness of work experience, says guest writer Abhishek, Director of Global Merchant Services at American Express in New York. ——— These days, news sources...
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Out of the total 138 technical institution closure applications received by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) this year, the council has decided to shut down a total of seven institutes, which includes four management and three engineering institutes. As many as 102 new institutes, which include around...
Read MoreDr Gautam Sinha, due to take over as director of IIM KashipurThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Kashipur, which had started out in 2011, finally has its first director in Dr Gautam Sinha. In the first interview with a media after being named for the position, the director-appointee explains...
Read MoreThe Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Photo: teofilo) Among all the components that constitute your MBA application profile GMAT score, pre-MBA academic grades, admission essays, recommendations and the MBA resume most applicants tend to ignore the poor little resume. Why? Almost everyone who has got a job in the corporate...
Read MoreThis was the last year for Maharashtra management Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) and also one of the toughest in years as candidates who wrote the exam complained of a lengthy paper and tough logical reasoning and visual reasoning sections. PaGaLGuY spoke to two of the toppers this year, one being...
Read MoreDr Harivansh Chaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH NoidaInstead of stifling b-schools with autocratic punitive powers, an AICTE-like regulator should instead be aiding them with faculty development, upgradation and internationalisation, argues BIMTECH Noida Director Dr Harivansh Chaturvedi. ——— Two decades of economic liberalisation have proved that the dismantling the license-quota-permit raj and infusing...
Read More(Photo: Soubhik Chatterjee) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its final placements for the 2010-2012 batches of its PGDM and PGDCM courses with 423 offers for a total effective batch of 345. Before the final placement process started, the students had already received 130 lateral and 95 pre-placement...
Read MoreLAST TWO DAYS to send in your entries for the PaGaLGuY Comic Contest # 2 – with Flipkart vouchers worth Rs 8,000 as prizes. Send your entry now!Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.PS: The inspiration for this comic...
Read MoreInfopark, Kochi on Google Earth The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode is going to be starting a new campus in Kochi later this year for delivering its Executive Post Graduate Programme (EPGP). The campus, for now, will be situated at Infopark, a technology park, which already boasts of companies...
Read MoreDr Bibek Banerjee, director, IMT GhaziabadShould business schools treat students as products or customers? Or should the b-schools (with education at the core of their mission), envision their primary role in transforming a set of students aspiring to participate in the global knowledge economy into a set of fine professionals?...
Read MoreMajor infrastructural expansion at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore campus has led to a straight 15% increase in fees from the coming academic year. From Rs 13 lakh, the fees are now Rs 15 lakh, which makes it a little lesser than what IIM Ahmedabad charges at Rs...
Read MoreRanked 16th among US business schools by BusinessWeek, University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School is popular among Indian applicants and accepts a median GMAT score of 690 for its MBA class of 298 seats. PaGaLGuY interviews Sherry Wallace, director of MBA admissions to learn about the post-MBA job market...
Read MoreGlobally, only 5% b-schools have acquired the rigorous Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. Two days ago, TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal became one of this chosen group, the only other one in India being the Indian Schools of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Does this global endorsement...
Read MoreMelbourne Business School, Australia Alright, we now come to the part about financing one’s MBA after having focused on the relevance of GMAT, pre-MBA academics and MBA applicant profiles in earlier posts. Most Indian applicants think that the GMAT registration fee of $250 is high. Then they realise that each...
Read MoreSatish Chandra Buriuly, student, IIM Ranchi class of 2012 You could call this a different kind of ‘rags to riches’ story. Only, there were no rags and there are no riches either. Satish Chandra Buriuly’s story is about how a commonplace person from a tribal area in India can start...
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