The newly established MYRA School of Business in Mysore, Karnataka, is one of the latest additions to the list of premier management education institutions in India. MYRA was born out of the need to redesign management education in the country and groom the leaders of tomorrow. Keeping in mind the rapid economic development in emerging […]

It is a popular belief among many that the entire state of Goa exists spatially and symbolically just along the shoreline from Calangute to Anjuna. Some of the better informed might know Panjim and for some, maybe Old Goa would ring a bell. In public opinion however, the Goan horizon ends here. Hence to students […]

For the United States, Lalita Booth is the homeless to Harvard wonder. The face of hope, a much refined version of the staid rags-to-riches story only this time the riches is not in dollars but in educational degrees. For us here, she makes sense because till a few years ago, she was a teenage-mother, living […]

As the Common Admission Test (CAT) window draws to a close, PaGaLGuY drills down the number of seats available in different categories at the top ten b-schools according to the PaGaLGuY.com B-school Rankings 2011. The data excludes Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore as it has not yet finalised the total number of seats available […]

(Photo credit: IA Walsh) Chicago-Booth Graduate School of Business retained the top rank in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2011 MBA Rankings, followed by Harvard Business School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Along with UC Berkeley – Haas, Duke – Fuqua and Stanford, Wharton is one fo the four schools in the top 10 that have […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) in its new 20-day computer-based avatar has been coinciding with the Hindu festive season of Diwali in both 2010 and 2011. However, that does not seem to deter candidates competing for coveted seats at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other top CAT-affiliated b-schools to successfully distract themselves from […]

About 2.05 lakh candidates took the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 during 20 days between October 22 and November 18, 2011 at 68 test centers across 36 cities in India. Incidentally, the last day saw the lowest registrations throughout the 20 days of the CAT. Only 4,658 candidates were registered to take the test on […]

(Photo credit: Bansi Mehta, taken outside at a CAT centre in Mumbai) On the last day of the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 on November 18, the scene outside the center gates was full of anxious faces. Not only of candidates, but also of their parents in whose eyes lay great expectations. And why not, […]

The chatter has dimmed and the mouse clicks turned silent. The hubbub outside the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 centres of the last month will make a comeback only after an entire year. As CAT applicants wait for the next big touchstone the results PaGaLGuY catches up with the person who made it happen — […]

Launched with much fanfare in 2006 as Indias first MBA comprising 50% international students, the Post Graduate Programme in International Management (PGP-IM) at the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon has been seeing a steady decline in the number of international students participating. The two-year dual-degree programme which MDI runs in collaboration with the European School […]