(Photo credit: Timothy Crause) As the economy enters an uncertain climate, there are indications of a lowered interest in doing an MBA among Indians. The actual Common Admissions Test (CAT) turnout was lower in 2011 compared to 2010, as we had reported earlier. The Economic Times now reports that the country’s second and third tier […]

The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad on Friday became the first South Asian management institute to get accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), widely regarded as the gold standard of all quality benchmarks among business schools internationally. The accreditation, which took more than four years to come by, will help […]

Photo credit: ISB Hyderabad by Chaitanya Gujjar The Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad on Friday announced its accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), making it the first business school in South Asia to be recognised by the US-based prestigious accreditation agency. The school joins 643 other b-schools across the […]

Pic from David Feltkamp’s photostream The Association of Indian Management Schools, which is the largest body of b-schools in India, has no plans of discontinuing ATMA its own management entrance exam. Unlike the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) which is contemplating closing down not too far in the future knowing that eventually there will be only […]

Every year after the Common Admissions Test (CAT) registrations are completed, newspapers report the test statistics and highlight the percentage of candidates from unlikely fields such as veterinary science and animal husbandry. What is attracting vet doctors to study an MBA? While there cannot be one reason for all, Gujarat’s Dr Hardik Badgujar is studying […]

Alliance University is notified under the list of Private Universities maintained by the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi. Alliance University School of Business has carved a niche for itself among the best B-schools in the country, having been ranked consistently among the top B-schools and being the first Indian B-school to be accredited by […]

Pradeep Kashyap, Founder and CEO, MART Widely regarded as a guru of Rural Marketing, Pradeep Kashyap founded and heads MART, a consulting practice on emerging markets specialising in understanding of ‘base of the pyramid’ markets. Since founding MART in 1993, Mr Kashyap has advised leading companies from the FMCG sector to those in telecom, pharma […]

The IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) loss is GMAT’s (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) gain. With the canning of the Joint Management Entrance Exam (JMET), regulatory body All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has added the GMAT to the six acceptable entrance tests for admissions to the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) offered at […]

(Photo credit: Anusheel Shrivastava) The Xavier’s Admission Test (XAT) 2012 that paves the way for admissions to b-schools such as the XLRI School of Business and Human Resources – Jamshedpur, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research – Mumbai, Xavier’s Institute of Management – Bhubhaneswar and Goa Institute of Management is scheduled for January 8, […]

Here is some surprising news for those tracking the demand for the Common Admission Test (CAT). Despite a marginally higher number of registrations in 2011 compared to CAT 2010, the actual turnout of test-takers in 2011 was lower than that in 2010. About 1.85 lakh candidates appeared for the CAT 2011 out of the 205,345 […]