As the Common Admission Test (CAT) window draws to a close, PaGaLGuY drills down the number of seats available in different categories at the top ten b-schools according to the PaGaLGuY.com B-school Rankings 2011. The data excludes Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore as it has not yet finalised the...
Read More(Photo credit: IA Walsh) Chicago-Booth Graduate School of Business retained the top rank in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2011 MBA Rankings, followed by Harvard Business School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Along with UC Berkeley – Haas, Duke – Fuqua and Stanford, Wharton is one fo the four schools in...
Read MoreThe Common Admission Test (CAT) in its new 20-day computer-based avatar has been coinciding with the Hindu festive season of Diwali in both 2010 and 2011. However, that does not seem to deter candidates competing for coveted seats at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other top CAT-affiliated b-schools...
Read MoreAbout 2.05 lakh candidates took the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 during 20 days between October 22 and November 18, 2011 at 68 test centers across 36 cities in India. Incidentally, the last day saw the lowest registrations throughout the 20 days of the CAT. Only 4,658 candidates were registered...
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(Photo credit: Bansi Mehta, taken outside at a CAT centre in Mumbai) On the last day of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 on November 18, the scene outside the center gates was full of anxious faces. Not only of candidates, but also of their parents in whose eyes lay...
Read MoreThe chatter has dimmed and the mouse clicks turned silent. The hubbub outside the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 centres of the last month will make a comeback only after an entire year. As CAT applicants wait for the next big touchstone the results PaGaLGuY catches up with the person...
Read MoreLaunched with much fanfare in 2006 as Indias first MBA comprising 50% international students, the Post Graduate Programme in International Management (PGP-IM) at the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon has been seeing a steady decline in the number of international students participating. The two-year dual-degree programme which MDI runs in...
Read MoreThe first version of the MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is scheduled to be held in February 2012. Called the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), it is little more than two months away and there is already hectic work in progress at...
Read MoreA new scholarship for MBA students from India is now available at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as a result of a $1 million gift from the Tobaccowala Foundation of India, the school has announced. Students who receive the scholarship will be designated Akhtarali H. Tobaccowala Fellows,...
Read MoreThe Toronto-based Schulich School of Business of the York University may not wait for the passage of the bill allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in higher education before it starts operations in India. The Canadian school, which has been working on setting up a campus in Hyderabad in collaboration with...
Read MoreSummer placements for the students of the post-graduate programme in Human Resources Management and Labor Relations (MA in HRM & LR) 2011-13 at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) – Mumbai concluded last week with the 58 student batch finding training projects across 34 companies. Participation by regular recruiters from...
Read More(Photo credit: IMI Delhi by Ayan Banerjee) Starting the 2012 batch, winning in b-school competitions and doing social work will matter for Post Graduate Dilpoma in Management (PGDM) students of International Management Institute (IMI) — Delhi, because the institute will grade them for it. Called the Balanced Scorecard, the new...
Read More(Photo credit: Great Lakes by Shiva Jeevanantham) After championing the cause of the one-year MBA for seven years, the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai has introduced a traditional two-year MBA programme with its first batch slated to begin in 2012. It is a difficult to digest idea, considering that...
Read More(IRMA by Satwick Thumu) Editors note: Guest author Parasharan Chari, Chief Operating Officer of Ahmedabad-based test-preparation institute Endeavor Careers, analyses the IRMA Admission Test paper held on November 13, 2011 and predicts cutoffs for prominent rural management b-schools that accept this score. — — — The Institute of Rural Management,...
Read More(Photo credit: Ludovic Toinel) All of last week, our inbox at PaGaLGuY was packed with summer placement reports from b-schools. The annual drill of going through the reports is quite a bit of fun actually – since one has to mesh through all the marketing jargon to get to the...
Read MoreThe Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi has applied to the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) for a 2-acre plot of land in the Ghitorni area on the outskirts of New Delhi. The purpose is threefold a residential structure for executives enrolling under the Management Development Program (MDP), residential...
Read MoreHarvard Business School’s case-method pedagogy has been one of inspiration and learning to many b-schools across the world. In Indian b-schools however, this mode of teaching is yet to gain ground as the ‘only one.’ Yes, there are combination teaching methods in some of the older Indian Institutes of Management...
Read More(Photo credit: Aniruddh Phukan) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode secured internship projects for its 343 students of the 2011-13 batch with 108 firms including 35 new companies. Batch Strength 343 IIM Kozhikode claims that there were no opt-outs Total number of companies confirming presence 110 Number of companies...
Read MoreShaishav Amrut Solanki, is the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore’s first author – could very well be the first on-campus author among all IIMs. Having just released a book few days ago, the young author is all smiles seeing it do brisk business. The book, the author claims is...
Read MoreWith less than a week to go for the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Admission Test 2011, here are a few last minute tips given by the current Rural Management Program students. This is just to give an overview about the paper and the various approaches one can follow...
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