[2023] Which B-Schools should you apply to?

MBA CAT 2022
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@pratyush9811 said:
Is there any chance LBSIM will open after the results?? And what all colleges will be available to apply after the results in the bracket of 85-95%ile??
As per trends, No chance.


After CAT Results (85-95%ile Range) -->

TAPMI
KJ-SOM
BIM-T
IMT (As per trend)
IMI (As per trend)
Few IIT's
NIT-T
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@didroo said:
Thanks a lot for the response....can i apply to FMS -BHU ? what is the cutt off there?
Yes you can apply to FMS-BHU but make sure your application reaches before 27th. For more information you can visit www.fmsbhu.ac.in orwww.bhu.ac.in/fms
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@avinashkrjha said:
As per trends, No chance.After CAT Results (85-95%ile Range) -->TAPMIKJ-SOMBIM-TIMT (As per trend)IMI (As per trend)Few IIT'sNIT-T
You could also consider Great Lakes (GLIM) ! They have a 1yr PGPM and 2yr PGDM program. Check out
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@rpavankumar said:
@ethanhunt1230 : Good Post.. The way u have put forth your message is really good. You need to make it understand to the interviewer the same way or even better to convince them. Finally, at the end of the day, you need to realize that, they are the one who decide which candidate they need!!
thanks 😃 any input from you guys to polish my views would be of great help :-)
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@ethanhunt1230 Since you are being practical, let me also tell you what happens or what you should be taking care of in practical. No offence meant, but your views (on reason for MBA) is good to say in a forum like this. But in front of an interview panel, if they're going to feel all you're looking for is money (even though they know that MBA these days is a mad rush for money and all are coming for that only!) then it will score a big negative!

They'll be looking for place-able profiles. After all it concerns their brand name also to get you placed into a good brand/profile/salary. And most of the time they'll be looking for candidates who want to learn (although very few people actually do that in the end!), acquire knowledge and do all those "good" things that one is supposed to do as a student!! And these days just like many organizations do window dressing CSR activities, institutes are running behind showcasing CSR activities done by students. Also showcasing students who take up entrepreneurship is the "in thing"!

So on the whole, you should either be place-able material OR the breed of entrepreneur who has the vision, mission and will-power to be an entrepreneur. All this according to THEM, the people taking your interview. Your job is only to convince them or sell yourself as one of these 2 breeds (irrespective of what your actual vision, mission etc. is you would need to do all the buttering possible)!!
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@ajaygovindg Thats sad but I think saying that you want to be an entrepreneur doesn't always work. You need to have some solid plans and knowledge on the area you want to pursue it on. Also, I think you need to have something till now to back up your desire to be entrepreneur.

Coming to the second point Place-able material: Is it applicable to all the institutes or only Tier-2 institutes?? Thats pretty sad if the institutes thinks like this.

P.S: I am not joking but I personally want to do MBA to learn something. While placements are important but they are 2nd priority. I think with good knowledge and sincere efforts you can reach much higher in 5-10 yrs after MBA than just trying to get the highest CTC possible after passing out. And sadly I dont have enough money to go for MBA outside India.
@ajaygovindg said:

So on the whole, you should either be place-able material OR the breed of entrepreneur who has the vision, mission and will-power to be an entrepreneur. All this according to THEM, the people taking your interview. Your job is only to convince them or sell yourself as one of these 2 breeds (irrespective of what your actual vision, mission etc. is you would need to do all the buttering possible!!
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@ArmyofHope said:
@ajaygovindg Thats sad but I think saying that you want to be an entrepreneur doesn't always work. You need to have some solid plans and knowledge on the area you want to pursue it on. Also, I think you need to have something till now to back up your desire to be entrepreneur.Coming to the second point Place-able material: Is it applicable to all the institutes or only Tier-2 institutes?? Thats pretty sad if the institutes thinks like this.P.S: I am not joking but I personally want to do MBA to learn something. While placements are important but they are 2nd priority. I think with good knowledge and sincere efforts you can reach much higher in 5-10 yrs after MBA than just trying to get the highest CTC possible after passing out. And sadly I dont have enough money to go for MBA outside India.
wrong country to do an MBA in ;)
Probably you know that already :)
Ok no seriously, what you are saying is very doable but then you have to map out your career chart very seriously and have that 1-2-3-5-8-10 year chart in place.
after doing that, you have to have a foresight as to what kind of knowledge do you really want to be a guru in (your core competence) and then what other general skills you require.

It may come as a surprise to you, although it shouldn't but all the things said by ajay govind is true in all the top 25 colleges in India, infact the higher you go (15 and above) the stronger all of that gets - because much bigger things are at stake and ofcourse most of the institutes are spoilt for choice.
tell me your ultimate motive of an MBA? Infact why do you need one? what is that you want to do? I am asking you this because there are very high chances that you will feel disappointed after you are done with it. In case you haven't noticed, all the news in India is about X days Y no of summer placements or X days Y no of final placements at Z package.
People don't even ask questions about profile, industry etc, forget entrepreneurship :mg: yeah the sad thing is all of it comes back and bites you in the "Pichwada" only a year or two later but then thats how the cookie crumbles. and yes in an ecopnomy thats growing 6% in a bad year and 9% in a good year, this kind of stupidity is only going to make such people cry in very less time. But who cares once you have a beautiful wife and a chihuahua? After all an mba is an end in itself because of the great quality dog food. Not beucase people want to learn. After all where else do you find people moving from C specialisation to D specialisation in a matter of few hours before great big companies, just because God told him last night? :mg:

Please see if MBA in India is worth it for you. I am not saying don't do it but then frankly, having had so many good friends and family from all over the place, I can tell you all the smart, brilliant and honest-to-themselves kids who are your kind feel very dejected. They end up going out of India and setting up base camp there - or have a nervous break down and decide to quit on monday morning and setting up a bee farm in sundarbans or small winery in near nagpur later.
You can get better education for free online in India than paying 15 lakhs for an MBA.
That is the plain and simple truth if the degree doesn't matter to you. If and only if.
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how is mba program in power management frm NATIONAL POWER TRAINING INSTITUTE?

what was the cutoff last year?
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Hi puys...

MY PROFILE:
10th- 93.6%
12th- 96.25%
Grad- 77.6% (B.Com)
Work ex- nil
CAT 2011- 90.95%ile
Which b-schools should I apply for?
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@rema0609 said:
Hi puys...MY PROFILE:10th- 93.6%12th- 96.25%Grad- 77.6% (B.Com)Work ex- nilCAT 2011- 90.95%ileWhich b-schools should I apply for?
Assuming you are getting same percentile in CAT 2012.

Go for (The percentiles mentioned here are previous years' cutoff):
1. IMI Delhi (90.0)
2. IMT Ghaziabad (90.0)
3. BIM Trichy (Around 86)
4. Fore (85.42)
5. KJ somaiya (90.14)
6. LBSIM (83.37)
7. NIT T- (89.83)

If you score better, you can fill these, taking a call on how well your CAT was:
1. MDI (94.XX)
2. SP JAIN (96)
3. XIMB (94)

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@rema0609 said:
Hi puys...MY PROFILE:10th- 93.6%12th- 96.25%Grad- 77.6% (B.Com)Work ex- nilCAT 2011- 90.95%ileWhich b-schools should I apply for?
Assuming you will score 90+, apply to

IMT
XIMB
MIB/MHROD
MFC/MBE
NIRMA
FORE
LBS
UBS

For more options, get back on this thread after CAT Results.. !!

Through XAT --> XL, XIMB, GIM

Through SNAP --> SIBM, SCMHRD

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hi puys


Can u pls guide me which all colleges under CAT need registration b4 result, i already missed MDI gurgaon
SPJAIN closing 30 Nov
FMS closing 14 dec.

Can you please give info about others?
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@atevhs said:
hi puysCan u pls guide me which all colleges under CAT need registration b4 result, i already missed MDI gurgaon SPJAIN closing 30 NovFMS closing 14 dec.Can you please give info about others?
Check this post for collated links -->
http://www.pagalguy.com/posts/4050080
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@ArmyofHope said:
@ajaygovindg Thats sad but I think saying that you want to be an entrepreneur doesn't always work. You need to have some solid plans and knowledge on the area you want to pursue it on. Also, I think you need to have something till now to back up your desire to be entrepreneur.Coming to the second point Place-able material: Is it applicable to all the institutes or only Tier-2 institutes?? Thats pretty sad if the institutes thinks like this.P.S: I am not joking but I personally want to do MBA to learn something. While placements are important but they are 2nd priority. I think with good knowledge and sincere efforts you can reach much higher in 5-10 yrs after MBA than just trying to get the highest CTC possible after passing out. And sadly I dont have enough money to go for MBA outside India.
The place-able part is very true across all good b-schools 😃 .. MBA has become an industry and each b-schools have certain business objectives : Earn more money , improve brand name , get better placements , more diversity in placements , improve relationship with the industry .. change criteria according to the industry..

Wouldn't it be ironic if business schools don't do business themselves ...

They don't provide academic education , they provide vocational education and at a very high cost , may be lower than what it is in other countries ..

So what do you want to learn? are you sure MBA is what you want to do ? or are you doing because every one else is? because you see these face lifted placement reports or news on papers like economic times?

Good Knowledge and sincere efforts can you help you rise to any position with or without MBA , all you need is that belief ..

From placement point of view
If you ask me , as of this day , MBA has lost its sheen specially if its done apart from top 5-6 b-schools .. economy is struggling , industry is no longer very open to hiring , India's growth story has plateaued and people are making compromises with their career decisions as they did post Engg :)

From knowledge point of view , top 40 b-schools provide good enough education , given a person works hard .. makes the most of the opportunities one gets ..
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Thanks @DEVILISHANGEL and @abhimukh19 for valuable responses. It does require a bit of soul searching to come up with answers like why MBA? In my case, I hope to work at much higher level of responsibility than the current level I am in. Also, IT guys here might know, to begin a career as a 'coder' in services companies makes it equally hard and frustrating to get up to managerial role in any satisfactory way. Gone are the days where IT was considered as a bright career path.
Its hard to be coder-module leader-team leader for 8-9 yrs before any managerial role can be assumed in IT services industry. Also why managerial role? Because more responsibility, more freedom, and better work-life balance (My observations).


Also, I dont hate IT industry as such and I intend to be in IT industry post MBA with role of business manager or consultant.

And hearing what my fellow sr puys, I believe that doing MBA from top 10-15 insti in India can only make sense. (Opportunities wise/Role and Placement wise). If this is not possible then :
@abhimukh19 said:

Good Knowledge and sincere efforts can you help you rise to any position with or without MBA , all you need is that belief ..

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@ArmyofHope I guess DEVILISHANGEL and abhimukh have explained the story to you. And this is what many of us MBA passouts here have been trying to drive in into the aspirants who speak with us or send PM to us. MBA would not be what one expects it to be - if one is going in with the hopes of high salary packages OR quality education!! Like abhimukh said, even without MBA one can do wonders provided one has the belief in self and confidence to achieve big!

If you check out our own moderator visionIIM-ACL's signature (who is again another MBA pass-out this year), you'll get the summary. "MBA life is hyped, post-MBA is over hyped"!! :)

And yes, like you said if you say that you want to be an entrepreneur in an interview, then you should have a clear idea about what you want to do! Like I said vision, mission etc. And sometimes when you say that, the next statement/question will be - "So you have the idea, you have the plan, so why not implement it now?!! By the time you complete your MBA in 2yrs someone else might have already implemented it!!" What answer will you have then? So think about it very clearly!!

Finally, its a Post Graduation course. So of course one shouldn't be expecting any kind of spoon feeding in the form of classes, what to read/study etc. Its up to you to define your own track, if you're looking for more knowledge. Speak with faculty & get the knowledge they have, ask intelligent questions to understand better, go through references etc. (although I never did any of that!!). Then again one thing to understand is MBA is never about just scoring some marks - 80%, 90% etc. You should be more dynamic, street smart, be flexible, develop the confidence to handle any situation. Those are some major learning from MBA along with what you get from books.
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@ArmyofHope The only help MBA is going to do is reduce that 8-9 years to maybe 4-5 years. Even after MBA it is going to very tough to get directly into a managerial or people management role. Think for yourself. On what basis would they give it to you? Just the bookish knowledge in MBA (which also is lacking mostly!!)? Just the name tag of a good B-school (yeah maybe for a lucky few and that too only from the ivy league institutes)? And that too if you do from a good B-school (not necessarily from top 15-20 but maybe top 40 i.e. if you can do some hard work).

Now this top 40 is again something that you'll need to decide for yourself based on your requirements. Not by any ranking, perceptions, what others say etc. but your own research and fact-based, and then matching those facts with what you look forward to by doing an MBA. In your case since you're fine with going back to IT, it would not be that big a problem. And career-wise also it will be good. The problem arises when you want to start from scratch in Sales, Operations, HR etc. after a stint in IT.
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@ajaygovindg said:
In your case since you're fine with going back to IT, it would not be that big a problem. And career-wise also it will be good. The problem arises when you want to start from scratch in Sales, Operations, HR etc. after a stint in IT.

now i am scared. Is it not advisable to start from scratch in top 40 ?
or if we work hard it is going to be ok ? Please throw some more light on this aspect . Thanks !!
i understand it depends on individual preferences.. Just want to know ur opinion
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@AbhiOfficial If you work hard it is going to be perfectly OK. You'll probably start at the lowest level, say as Sales Executive, or Business Analyst, or something like that depending on the industry and the nature of work. But then with hard/smart work you can rise up the ladder. Another big mistake everyone does (including people who have done MBA and sitting for final placements) is to go by these designations! Unfortunately it is not so. Understand what the work is, what will you do from morning till evening.

No one here is saying MBA is not worth it. Its just that its not those fat salary packages, cushioned seats with people to order around and all those goody things that everyone thinks it to be. Its not a rosy picture or bed of roses. That's all we're trying to say.

Okay, I guess too much of "negativity" discussions now! 😃 Short and simple - If you dream big and work hard accordingly, you achieve big. Just dreaming big would not help! :D
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@AbhiOfficial said:
now i am scared. Is it not advisable to start from scratch in top 40 ?or if we work hard it is going to be ok ? Please throw some more light on this aspect . Thanks !! i understand it depends on individual preferences.. Just want to know ur opinion
lets make this simple .. there are two things in life ( Interest and Opportunity) , Opportunities are more in number and better in quality in better institutes... and also will depend on one's capabilities to utilize these opportunities ..

Not sure why you need to be scared .. there is no certainty about anything in life , be it the CAT result ..

To tell you honestly , the passion with which people prepare for entrance exams is admirable but then they forget to keep momentum high and the passion fizzes out by the end of second year .. Passion to work , to learn , to look for opportunities .. people start approaching MBA as they approached engineering , they stop working projects or assignments till the very last moment , dont work well in teams : mail assignments over the mail to be integrated by some member of the team who is chosen randomly for each assignment . People dont prepare for classes , they dont prepare well for presentations , they keep cribbing about lack good live projects and when they get some opportunity they dont work .. they approach summers internships like they did in engineering ...

The above paragraph is to show that we never blame ourselves for our failures , we always find some one to point the finger on , and fortunately or unfortunately , we start finding words like bad education system , colleges abroad are a class apart, professors dont teach well , MBA was not worth it ... my college failed me ..

MBA has helped me a lot ,a transition from a coder to a manager , i have jumped to a position where i manage people who are elder to me & are having more than 7-8 years of work ex , i have been given the opportunity to work with leadership team of my firm , i work client site and so very much a client facing role ..

Dont want to boast about my job but just wanted to say , nobody can generalize a role or career or a college or MBA , its a different experience for every person .. but ultimately what you achieve in life depends on your efforts and your belief that you can do it ..