In a first of its kind, for any management department of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Department of Management Studies (DoMS), IIT Madras will open its doors to undergraduates from any stream for its MBA program from the academic year 2013-15. This was confirmed to us by G Srinivasan, head, DoMS, IIT Madras. Until last […]

Apprehensive about vacant MBA seats in Maharashtra, DTE has proposed including ATMA scores for OMS/State seats. Photo credit: foxypar4 (flickr.com) Just when Maharashtra based b-schools were close to figuring out their admission strategy based on Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) in the state has stirred things up again. […]

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has tweaked its admission process slightly for the two-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma Programme (PGDM) for the academic year 2013-15. The institute will call aspirants separately for interviews based on profiles and scores. The institute also plans to call in more applicants this year. Until last […]

Dr Nagesh Rao, MICA director Dr Nagesh Rao took over as President and Director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) earlier this year. Having earned a doctorate in Communications from Michigan State University in 1994, Dr Rao taught in various universities in the US for over two decades. He earned the ‘Teacher of the […]

With Mohali on the scene now, The Indian School of Business, (popularly called ISB Hyderabad) is tweaking its admission process for the next academic year. This is to make both the campuses (Mohali and Hyderabad) one unified campus in the genuine sense of the term. To begin with, from the next academic year, one combined […]

The number of applicants for Common Admission Test (CAT) has increased this year, after a steady fall for past two years. There were 2, 14, 068 applicants this year. If one looks at the profiles of the CAT aspirants this year, it reveals an interesting trend. While candidates from engineering discipline continue to dominate (about […]

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi concluded its summer internship placements for this year with 90 recruiters making a total of 215 final offers to the MBA batch of 2012-14. Of the total batch strength of 222, twelve students did not participate in the placements. […]

(Original photograph of Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak by Krishna Jayadev) PaGaLGuY is back with the Best B-School PHOTOGRAPHY contest 3.0. This time, we would like you to show off your business school’s architecture… wherever in the world it is located. Yes, the contest is international this year! So we invite MBA students, professors from […]

Thakur College, a CAT centre in Mumbai wears a deserted look this afternoon As PaGaLGuY writes this piece, the most powerful country in the world votes for its future. Apart from the significance of today due to the American presidential elections, this day also marks the end of the testing window for the Common Admission […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 has drawn to a close. A season laced with ‘technological’ hiccups and some bizarre power issues, one in which the number of candidates sent back because of wrong or insufficient identification was one of the highest in recent years. PaGaLGuY decided to get some straight answers from CAT Convenor […]