Really a nice thread esp for those newbies who r confused about which b-school to go i for ..
Regarding any help on the non IIM A grade b-schools i may help you all
Bye
God Bless

highly confused newbie..please help!!!! Ok people..first of all a big hello...i have already posted on the thread "Intoduce yourself" but didnt get any encouraging replies....

I completed my graduation in B.COM(HONS) with 69% from ranchi university...
my past academic record is 88% in hsc(I.C.S.E) and 68% in ssc(CBSE science)...

Throughout my graduation days and even as of today i have been assisiting my dad in his steel manufacturing industry but i dont think thats a relevant work experience...

till ssc i have been fairly good in extra curriculars...

considering my back-ground which are the b-skools that you pros think i shud be reallistically targeting...do i stand a chance in top schools like SPJ and FMS with my back-ground, provided of course that i get an excellent CAT score...

kindly tell me all the good b-schools that i can aim at???

eagerly waiting for your replies

a confused soul

Two good things about you qoestions ninja....
1) You dont wanna compare salaries (thank god)
2) You wanna know how differently they teach management

Well all i can say is that in a Bschool a major part is the mearning from experince sharing with others. Thus you can safely say that all BSchoools will teach you Marketing from Kotler to begin with and thats where the similarity also ends different institutes have differernt pedagogy (Case study, classroom,etc) so keep that in mind too.

SO i wud say that to determine an institute as being good pr not talk to an alumni or 2nd year student (can be found easily through PG) as they are sometimes the best judge and ask them to be frank with you and they would be :-)

imgoin2iim Says

can anyone give me a first cut knowledge about the MBA program in MICA..hows their programs different from those of the IIMs..scope after that..and the possible cuttofs there

pranav10 Says

Priyanshu bhai I think that u made a typo... its more lik 98.9 + for one call and that too with a balanced sectional %ile

One important question:(Or fact! Whichever way you see it )

How do we exactly determine how good a Bschool is? Of course i'm not talking about the IIMs or other A+ schools (SPJain etc), but the A-grade ones( e.g. XIMB, GIM, BIM, IMT Gz, SIBM, etc)

The question I'm putting up is how do these colleges (atleast the ones i mentioned) stand up in actually teaching management? How to determine that?

P.S. I'm not talking about salaries. Unfortunately that's the only thing talked about generally...
P.S.S. I have a work-ex of 2+ years.

IIMs: 99.8x+
FMS: scores not declared
SP J: profiles matter more than scores... ppl with 85 also manage a call while even 99.9X may not fetch u one.
MDI: 98+
XLRI: no overall cutoffs.. individual cutoffs of 89.5+ va, 94+ in di and qa

2009 is too far to predict, depends much on state of economy..
anyways, what makes you feel that you would be average wherever you go... in a higher ranked scool, you may be lower than avg while in a lower ranked one, you maybe above avg.. so not comparable..
roughly, all the A+ ranked B-schools are expected to have more than 10+ in 2009 going by current projections... A+ wud include top 10-12 colleges in country....

hi,
Can you give a cut-off score(percentile) for getting an interview call from the following institutes( 2005 data will do) :
IIMS
FMS( FMS paper)
SP Jain
MDI
XLRI (XAT paper)

Also can you tell me which institutes have a chance of achieving 10+ lacs as average domestic salary during 2009 placement period ? A rough guess will do.

s_raj_t Says

Hi I have 2.5 years of experience in IT. I gave 4 Aimcats & got the score 70-75. Suppose I get the same in original CAT,Can you suggest which colleges should I apply ??? I tried to find the cut-off of some colleges but most of the colleges listed on PG have 80+ cut-off.

Hello all MBA aspirants,
I have been working on this thought today and think that I must share it on this forum as it is PG that has given me all that I have today.

Whenever someone asks me how they should go about preparing for the entrance exams they get a lot of gyaan and advice ( often unsolicited ) but what seniors/ guides rarely tell their students is how to apply to Indian Bschools. It is very important because many a times candidates have a bad day on the Sunday of the exam and we cant apply to schools after the results are out and later realize that we missed applying to institutes which were in our range.

Just like a candidate applying to the US of A chooses the universities he applies to an MBA aspirant must also choose judiciously. Why you ask..... well thats because he has a lot to lose if he doesn't make it... Time, effort, money, one year of waiting and agony and answering awkward questions.



So here goes without much delay my 2 cents on the issue at hand....
First things first you need to decide a few things and judge which category u fall in...


1) How desperate are you to do an MBA in the year you are applying?
It may be that a fresher can take a higher rick than someone who has taken a year's break to prepare for the exam. Or if u have 3+ yrs experience then too its OK cause you can always try next year.

2) The budget that you allocate for the application process.
As I have come to realize now the applications are a good revenue source for all Bschools.

3) How well you judge your own performance and the past data you excavate and research from places like PG.com
basically there are 1500+ Bschools in India now so you have a wide variety.

4) Why MBA/ What MBA?
Ex: MICA for a PR/Mktg/advt focussed person and SITM for a specific field like telecom.



Now that you know these basic things you can go ahead and make a choice as to which schools you should apply to.

Divide your applications into 3 categories (like is advised for foreign universities)

Dream: The ones that everyone and anyone wants to and would love to go to...

Within Reach: The places below these top schools that you think you can reach (use mock cat %iles and past cutoffs to decide here)

Backups: these are the institutes that you must apply to considering that the exam day does not go too well for you.

The number of institutes you have in all these above categories can vary and change from person to person but a good mix in my opinion should be 3-5-5.

So go ahead and plan the institutes to apply to this season and a lot of us on PG are there to help you, veterans please add to my post as all the above are my personal opinions and not from any "reliable" source unless ofcourse you rely on my word.


Bye and sorry for the long post... let the thread begin