A total of 70,000 applicants have registered for the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT) 2012 after the deadline of January 22, 2012, SS Mantha, chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) confirmed to PaGaLGuY on Monday. In addition, out of the 3,500 AICTE-approved management institutes in the...
Read More(About that albatross of doomsday allegedly hanging on our shoulders.) Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.
Read MoreXavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur and Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA on Thursday announced joining hands to launch a Masters Programme in Positive Organisational Development and Change (MPOD) to be offered in India. The programme which is designed for mid-level working executives...
Read MoreThe IIT Delhi main building (Photo: Bryn Pinzgauer) For the 2013 season, the management departments of all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are considering launching a common admissions web portal that will serve as the single funnel for all the candidate applications to the IITs’ MBA programmes. “We are...
Read MoreShashank Shukla Only earlier this week, the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council recommended with much a Rs 4,250 crore programme to provide shelters and other amenities to the homeless in India’s cities. A target of 6,800 permanent shelters has been set with much fanfare by the government for some three...
Read MoreThe IIM Kozhikode campus (Photo: P Venkata Rajesh) This is one time where the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode has beaten both IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. It has received the amended Memoranda of Association (MoA) from the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry, which makes it the first...
Read MoreAlthough not very logical, the popular method of calculating the return on investment (RoI) of an MBA programme is to count the number of years it takes for your post-MBA earnings to equal the fees. That works out really well for top b-schools in India because even if you are...
Read MoreLast year was dominated with Team Anna’s slogans and Dhanush’s Kolaveri Di on Youtube. Catching in on the waves, many Indian b-schools introduced the study of both these newsmakers in their MBA classrooms as formal case studies or informal sessions with the stated intent of making students understand why these...
Read MoreKolkata’s Vishal Kedia, one of the nine 100 percentilers of CAT 2011 It’s like pumping in whatever you have and still being left empty-handed. The 2011 Common Admission Test’s (CAT) nine 100 percentilers are going through a similar situation. Hoping to have been flooded with calls from all the top...
Read MoreDr Pritam Singh The time when most b-schools are gearing up for the GD-PI round — a standard part of the MBA admission procedure — there are some who are experimenting with a cocktail of criterion. International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi, is one of the few b-schools which is planning...
Read MoreEven former US President Richard Nixon could screw up in an interview — all the more reason why you should read this. (Photo: from the movie Frost/Nixon) Editors note: This is the final part of the two-part series by guest author Charanpreet Singh that gives you a checklist about the...
Read MoreMany doctors are pursuing a management degree to get into healthcare management. (Photo: Truthout.org’s photostream) Shashank Prabhu, a doctor by profession, made headlines last week by cracking the Common Admission Test (CAT) and that too with a 100 percentile score. One question that the entire media asked him was why...
Read MoreNow that the Common Admission Test (CAT) results are out, all eyes are on the next round — GD-PI. PaGaLGuY spoke to some of the top b-schools other than the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to find out what is their plan of action for the next round and whether...
Read MoreIIM Trichy, celebrated its first foundation day on January 4 this year. The event was marked by the presence of corporate honchos like Srikant Gathoo, director, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), R Chandrasekaran, president and managing director, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Xavier L’Official, chief executive officer (CEO), Societe Generale Global...
Read MoreWith the date for the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) round the corner, most state universities are agreeing to accept CMAT scores. However, private institutes such as Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur and Symbiosis International University, who conduct their own MBA entrance tests, have been firm on not accepting...
Read MoreJust a day after the CAT ‘purred’, it was time for being SNAP ‘ed’ at. The Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) 2011 results that were declared yesterday has left many aspirants worked up. Not the top scorers though, who seem content with the results, but most of those who...
Read MoreIIM Kashipur (Photo: Apurv Pandit) After most of the the older Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) declared their admission shortlists on January 11, 2012, the newer lot started between 2010 and 2011 began declaring their interview shortlists for 2012 admissions based on the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 results on...
Read MoreWhile the world is going gaga over those who scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011, those who missed the feat by just a few points went unnoticed. PaGaLGuY talks to some of the 99 percentilers, who fell short of the perfect score by a scratch. Srikanth...
Read More‘There is no limit to your potential, by advancing your skills and qualifications you will achieve your goals’, is the philosophy that the Indyana Global Technical Campus (IGTC) was born with. Established in the year 2009, the institute was founded under the Vidya Laxmi Educational Trust with a mission of...
Read MoreSoumyajit Sanyal, a software engineer working with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Kolkata, is one of the proud nine 100 percentilers cracking the Common Admission Test (CAT) this year. A graduate from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Soumyajit goes on a free-wheeling chat with PaGaLGuY about getting closer to realising his dream of...
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