The Bara Imambara, Lucknow (Photo: Derek Keats) In what is a stark indication of the supply inflation of MBA seats in the country, this year’s number of applicants to the state-level MBA entrance exam of Uttar Pradesh is just a little over half of the total number of MBA seats in the state. According to […]

SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has been granted approval to increase its PGDM seats from 180 to 240. The expansion will come into effect from the next academic year 2012-2014. The approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was given earlier this week and will translate to an […]

Abhishek, Director, Global Merchant Services, American ExpressThere are three ways an Indian MBA can hope to build a career abroad but each path requires clarity and richness of work experience, says guest writer Abhishek, Director of Global Merchant Services at American Express in New York. ——— These days, news sources raise questions on the health […]

Out of the total 138 technical institution closure applications received by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) this year, the council has decided to shut down a total of seven institutes, which includes four management and three engineering institutes. As many as 102 new institutes, which include around 40 b-schools, have been granted […]

Dr Gautam Sinha, due to take over as director of IIM KashipurThe Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Kashipur, which had started out in 2011, finally has its first director in Dr Gautam Sinha. In the first interview with a media after being named for the position, the director-appointee explains his plans for one of […]

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Photo: teofilo) Among all the components that constitute your MBA application profile GMAT score, pre-MBA academic grades, admission essays, recommendations and the MBA resume most applicants tend to ignore the poor little resume. Why? Almost everyone who has got a job in the corporate world (or for that matter, […]

This was the last year for Maharashtra management Common Entrance Test (Mah-CET) and also one of the toughest in years as candidates who wrote the exam complained of a lengthy paper and tough logical reasoning and visual reasoning sections. PaGaLGuY spoke to two of the toppers this year, one being from a coaching institute who […]

Dr Harivansh Chaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH NoidaInstead of stifling b-schools with autocratic punitive powers, an AICTE-like regulator should instead be aiding them with faculty development, upgradation and internationalisation, argues BIMTECH Noida Director Dr Harivansh Chaturvedi. ——— Two decades of economic liberalisation have proved that the dismantling the license-quota-permit raj and infusing healthy competition into the Indian […]

(Photo: Soubhik Chatterjee) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its final placements for the 2010-2012 batches of its PGDM and PGDCM courses with 423 offers for a total effective batch of 345. Before the final placement process started, the students had already received 130 lateral and 95 pre-placement offers (PPOs), out of which […]

LAST TWO DAYS to send in your entries for the PaGaLGuY Comic Contest # 2 – with Flipkart vouchers worth Rs 8,000 as prizes. Send your entry now!Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.PS: The inspiration for this comic came from the rather brilliant […]