Problems based on grids/chessboards have been asked in the CAT and other MBA entrance exams over the years. They seem really difficult when you encounter them for the first time but once you get the hang of things they become really simple. The key lies in understanding the basic concepts involved. The most common grid […]

Photo Courtesy: Mikecogh (Flickr) The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) announced yesterday that it had reduced fees. Great news, the media lapped it up and so also the MBA fraternity. But it also added, to this feat, that it was the first IIM to do so. Kind of right but not quite. IIM Kozhikode […]

(Photo courtesy: Official U.S. Navy Imagery) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad has declared its results for the Post Graduate Program (PGP). Click here to view the results. Follow the discussion here For the results of IIM Calcutta, click here. The discussions are on here Results of IIM Lucknow can be viewed here. For […]

IIM Bangalore Update: IIM Lucknow has reduced the fees by 10% for the PGP & PGP ABM. the fees will now be Rs. 10.8 lakhs from the earlier 12 lakhs. The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has hiked its Post Graduate Program (PGP) fees by 13.3% to Rs 17 lakhs this year. The fees […]

Nitish Jain, President, SP Jain School of Global Management, Singapore. Beyond being the best in India, our b-schools rarely have ambitions to become world class, writes guest author Nitish Jain, who heads SP Jain School of Global Management, Singapore. Becoming world class in anything means doing something that gets recognised on the global stage. Having […]

So here’s what we did last week. Using the LinkedIn.com alumni groups of the top 10 b-schools in the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2013, we tried to capture how the graduates of these b-schools are doing in their careers. Combining the statistical snapshots of the prominent alumni groups of these b-schools, we got a sense of […]

Photo Credit: Jvleis (Flickr) The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), one of the foremost accreditation agencies in the world, has made its terms tougher. The new fundamentals include paramount importance to ethics, tougher curriculum, sustainability etc. While most of these were part of the rating strictures even before, they have now been […]

It has taken the current slump in MBA hiring for Indian business schools and their students to realise that a recession is not something that happens to other people in other countries. It is perhaps the first April when most Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) haven’t yet declared their placement processes closed, grappling with 5-10% […]

(Photo courtesy: neubie) MBA applicants have more reason to worry this year. If the increasing costs of application, exam fees and tuition of business schools were not enough to break you into a sweat, get prepared to pay atleast 10-15% more for test preparation this year, no matter what part of the country. At Career […]

Dr Surajit Mitra, Director, IIFT Delhi & Kolkata In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Dr Surajit Mitra, Director at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata talks about sectional cut-offs becoming a permanent feature of the IIFT test, the possibility of shifting the IIFT test online and his views on a single National […]