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Pic of IIT Delhi by Bryn Pinzgauer Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and IIT Delhi are revisiting their admission criteria for MBA from the next academic year. While IIT Kanpur is considering barring freshers, IIT Delhi is looking at revising its eligibility criteria from 10+2+4 to 10+2+3. We dig in for more details. IIT […]
If questions on factor cost and marginal cost in the Common Management Admissions Test’s (CMAT) trial test on December 12 left you flummoxed, relax. The test was only to give MBA aspirants an idea as to how a CMAT paper would look like. Though CMAT’s website clearly said, “A trial test will be available from […]
Editor’s note: The first part of the two-part series warns you about the common goof-ups at a GD. Basically, now you would know how to crack it in a crowd, and stand out. (Part two here). Photo credit: SHK You are done with the Common Admission Test (CAT) and are probably lining up yourself for […]
Reston, Virginia The results of the 2011 year-end poll of employers conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) indicate an improved job market for MBAs in 2012. The poll shows that nearly three-quarters (74%) of employers plan to hire MBAs in 2012, up from 58% in 2011. Not only are more companies planning to […]
Lawrence Rudner In contrast to the pariah status accorded to coaching companies in India by organisers of entrance tests, the Graduate Management Admissions council (GMAC) has been meeting coaching companies across the world to introduce to them the new version of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) with its Integrated Reasoning (IR) section slated to […]
In an effort to attract the maximum number of applicants, the Symbiosis Center for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune has introduced a major change in its application process. It will now close application entries a day before the Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) test scheduled on December 18, 2011 as against earlier when the […]
AIMS is a networking organisation of B-Schools in India, like ACBSP, EFMD, AACSB. AIMS was established in 1988 (on August 27) and was registered as a society and is a non-profit professional organisation. Individual B-Schools of national and international repute have become members of AIMS. ISB, IIMs, Xavier Institutes, Welingkar, NMIMS, ICFAI, MDI, S P […]
Dr Janat Shah, director of IIMU Dr Janat Shah, director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Udaipur already has a detailed strategy in place for the next ten years and aims to make IIM Udaipur better than IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. A product of IIM Ahmedabad who spent two decades working with IIM […]
The Indian Institute of Management, Shillong being a strong promoter of sustainable-energy has come up with a novel idea to save its daily consumption of energy. It has placed solar panels in its campus. The solar panels which have a capacity of 50 KW are installed by IIM Shillong authorities in collaboration with the Ministry […]
Although not for a full-fledged MBA programme, here is a business school which has decided to withdraw the safety net of placements for its graduates so that they are pushed to start their own ventures. The Masters of Arts in Social Entrepreneurship (MA in SE) course at the Tata Institute of Social Studies (TISS), Mumbai […]