[embedded image] Here we are, nearing the end of an MBA admission season hanging right in the middle of the second economic recession in five years. The crisis of 2009 assailed at the viability of the mass-produced MBAs of the country to secure the jobs they had hoped their degrees to yield, but it did not shake the co...

[embedded image] Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata completed the final placement process for the 2010-12 batch of MBA in International Business. A total of 86 companies came on campus out of which 80 companies made 202 offers (including 103 lateral offers and 21 pre-placement offers) for a batc...

[embedded image] The Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi declared its interview and group discussion shortlist for admissions to the two-year fulltime MBA class of 2012-14 this evening. While the cut-off for the General category has been pegged at 98.73 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT),...

[embedded image] Three-year part-time MBA courses at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University may soon be converted to Executive MBA programmes of two-years' duration. A proposal to redesign the part-time MBA courses at FMS was approved by the Academic Council of the University in a closed-door meeting ...

[embedded image] Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee delivering the budget speech on March 16, 2012 (Photo: Rajya Sabha TV) An unintended consequence of budget 2012 is that the cost of studying the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad is set to rise by nearly Rs 43,000. Starting...

[embedded image] IIM Rohtak, batch of 2012 The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak which became operational in 2010, concluded its final placement process for its first ever graduating batch last week. In the rolling process, a total of 58 offers (including six lateral and five pre-placement offers) were made b...

[embedded image] XLRI Jamshedpur (Photo: Anusheel Shrivastava) XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur completed its final placement for the batch of 2012 last week. A total of 284 offers (including 52 lateral and 72 pre-placement offers) were made by 73 companies out of which a total of 234 offers made ...

[embedded image] Clearing confusion about the acceptance of the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) for admissions at autonomous business schools, the Supreme Court today ordered that CMAT shall not be the singular management entrance test and PGDM institutes could admit anyone with CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA and JMET (now...

[embedded image] (Photo: Vishal Gosike) SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai is planning a detailed infrastructure expansion in view of the increase in batch sizes in various courses. With the addition of three new buildings in the planned expansion, the institute will more than double its space...

[embedded image] The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the makers of the Common Admission Test (CAT), are planning to put out a 'CAT survey trends report' over the next two years, providing detailed insights into the demographic profile of CAT takers over five years, a source in the CAT committee told PaGaLGuY. ...