IIM Kozhikode has altered its admission process this year by shortlisting over 30,000 candidates who scored above 75 percentile in CAT 2010 for the first of its three-stage selection process.

Night canteens in b-schools are not just about food. They are, what students call, the life of a b-school. Alive at night, when the students are awake studying, these canteens capture the most enriching moments of a student's day, rather night.

A huge neon-sign displaying 'Symbiosis International University and Symbiosis Institute of Management' in English, Hindi and Kannada informs you that the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management-Bangalore or SIBM-B is the center of Symbiosis International University's campus in Bangalore apart from being another institute from the Symbiosis group. Situated in the Electronic City of Bangalore at Hosur Road which is a hotbed of IT companies in the city, it is the first campus of the Symbiosis group outside Pune and hosts SIBM-B and Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication-Bangalore (SIMC-B). Bring up SIBM Pune to anyone from SIBM-B and they will be quick to assert that the name is all that they share in common with its 21-year old namesake.

Extended by a day. As of now, this is the catharsis for the students who went through a harrowing time because of the CAT and all the glitches that it entailed. A press note released by Prometric today says:

"On 8 December (Day 11), CAT 2009 will be held over one morning session in 20 cities. These cities are: Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida, Pune and Varanasi".

Announcing the opening of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2009-10 survey of What India thinks about Indian b-schools. We invite academicians, corporates, aspirants, students and alumni of b-schools to participate in the survey.