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About 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 to take the test on […]
(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 great expectations. And why not, […]
The 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 who made it happen — […]
Launched 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 collaboration with the European School […]
The 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 the AICTE headquarters in New […]
A 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, in memory of the 1952 […]
The 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 the GMR Group will instead […]
Summer 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 TISS such as Procter & […]
(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 system of internal evaluation of […]
(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, Anand (IRMA) admission test on […]