?One of the new kids on the ‘IIM’ block, the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur (IIM-U) sure makes a pretty picture. The peach-coloured building that houses IIM-U looks rather regal on a cold winter morning. The early sun rays strikes it gently and the pockets of fog around the building, slowly melt away. Under the […]

SS Mantha, Chairman, AICTE As the day for the ‘controversial’ Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2012 nears, PaGalGuY.com met up with the man behind it all, SS Mantha, Chairman of the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Brimming with optimism, he said that CMAT was an enabling provision for aspirants and parents, which would […]

Dhanush during the recording of the Kolaveri Di song Business has changed, but business education has failed to keep up and stay relevant. This column in the Financial Times articulates what has changed about business, The world of work my father knew was pretty much as follows: a job was for life, career progression depended […]

? Under pressure, SIU to look into SNAP 2011 fiasco In response to the widespread student complaints against alleged mistakes and copied questions in the Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) 2011 exam, authorities at Symbiosis International University (SIU) have set up an external committee to look into the matter and present its recommendations. In order to […]

The Xavier Admission Tests (XAT) Quantitative Aptitude is always a bit on the tougher side. Sometimes, the difficulty level may take a dip, but that does not mean that it would suddenly drop to the standards of elementary mathematics. Unlike the Common Admission Test (CAT), XAT traditionally focuses more on topics like functions, probability, permutation […]

The financial and banking sector was the top recruiter at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi’s summer placements, roping in 43 per cent of its students this year. Last year’s lead recruiter, sales and marketing was a close second, taking in 38 per cent of students. IIM Ranchi, the 8th in the IIM fraternity […]

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will publish a list of b-schools accepting Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) scores only once the registration closes for the exam on January 9, 2012. Confirming this an AICTE official said: “We will present the list of colleges accepting CMAT scores on or a couple of days […]

Photo credit: tp_abr’s photostream Indore’s Rajwada Palace There has been an interesting trend brewing across several colleges in Indore offering graduate courses. Top companies such as Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture and L&T; (ECC) hire graduates as trainees and later help them pursue higher education from the best of institutions. And it’s not engineering graduates that […]

Original photo: Ayush Shukla The Xaviers Admissions Test (XAT) is on January 8, 2012 and a few XAT 99-percentilers from the XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur have teamed up with PaGaLGuY to offer last-minute tips and advice on taming the exam. If you have questions about XAT or need help with figuring […]

A sketch of the upcoming academic block in the NITIE campus The National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) will hike its fees by 15-20% for the 2012 batch, in order to offset the expenditure incurred because of the institute’s infrastructural expansion. According to Sadhana Ghosh, chairman-admissions committee, the current fee will now be Rs 6 […]