There is more clarity about the new Integrated Reasoning (IR) section that is slated to debut in the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) in its new format scheduled to launch in June 2012. Unlike the Quant and Verbal sections which are adaptive, IR will be a fixed-form test. Which means that candidates will be served […]

Background pic of Rajasthan by Emmanuel Dyan. Foreground pics of Shastri Institute which has applied for closure of its management wing The website of Pearl Institute of Management in Bhilwara (PIMB), Rajasthan reads: The program is challenging, the curriculum is rigorous and the selection procedure is highly competitive. As a result PIBM seeks candidates whose […]

Photo: Alex E Proimos The notification issued by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) about the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a few days ago has caught MBA aspirants, b-schools and coaching institutes off-guard. While schools say that they have received no intimation about the new exam, likely candidates are clueless on whether […]

Photo credit: Abhishek Kathuroju The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta closed the summer placement process for the batch of 2011-13 with students getting training projects across 142 companies. Although the placements began as a 5-day process, it switched over to a rolling process owing to it being the biggest batch ever at IIM Calcutta […]

JRE School Of Management was awarded the prestigious Dewang Mehta Business School Award for Best Pedagogy in Management Studies on occasion of the 19th year of Business School Affaire. The award was selected by eminent jury members with a slew of big names vying for the award. JRE Group of Institutions have been formed as […]

The XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur (XLRI) has decided to reduce cut-offs from the 90s to the 80s to attract a good mix of students. XLRI’s Admissions Chairperson Soumendra Bagchi told PaGaLGuY that to ensure an efficient admission process, the XAT (XLRI Admission Test) scores are not shown to the panelists during […]

Breaking the traditional route of completing engineering, pursuing a management degree and bagging a comfortable banking job, some follow their passion and want to use the MBA as a stepping stone to achieve dreams related to their personal interests. For the 26-year-old first year Post Graduate Programme student and composer/music producer Mithilesh Manohar Pathak from […]

Following the previous Director’s retirement, Prof Chandra P Shrimali has been appointed as the Officiating Director of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon starting December 1, 2011, informed an institute press release. Prof Shrimali became the Director after the previous officiating director Prof VK Gupta retired, added the statement. Prof Shrimali will also head MDI’s campus […]

MBA students across geographies may be apprehensive about landing a sufficiently well-paying job after graduation, or even a job at all, but they are not the only ones worrying. Business schools across the world too are finding it challenging to pull international students in to their campuses this season. Stricter visa norms, worrying unemployment figures […]

The notification and dates of the Common Management Admissions Test (CMAT), the new MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE’s) are finally public. There are nearly two months to go for the exam, which will be conducted from February 20 to 28, 2012 in two shifts across 61 cities […]