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Swapnil Dharmsktu Like most MBA students, an average day for Swapnil Dharmsktu, a first-year student at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur involves long lectures, tough assignments and little sleep. What makes this 23-year old girl stand apart is that as the first and only female Post Graduate Program (PGP) student at the youngest IIM […]

Pic: davidking (Flickr) The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) has announced dates for AIMS Test for Management Admissions (ATMA). The online test will be held on December 9, 2012 from 2 pm to 5 pm. The duration of the exam is 180 mins. Each wrong answer will elicit a penalty of 0.25 marks. The […]

FIIB as an institution for higher education in management is committed to high quality management education with a focus on lifelong learning, leadership development and ‘high employability’ coming out of the MBA program. FIIB has put into place means of assuring and demonstrating these important aspects of the program. It aims to ensure a high-quality […]

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A) hosted the second conference on Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS) on September 29, 2012. An interesting point raised was the role of students in the placement process. Some of the delegates in the conference said that corporates are not willing to share data in accordance with the […]

While engineering students are clearly dominating MBA admissions, many leading B schools in India are attempting to increase diversity on campus by recruiting more female candidates in addition with students from other academic streams. For instance a few Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs): are to include more non-engineers and female students. IIM Rohtak awarded 20 […]

Prof J Shah, IIM-U director cycling to the campus in the morning The city of Udaipur is greeted to a rather invigorating sight every morning – Prof Janat Shah, director of The Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur (IIM-U) cycling his way to the campus. Calm and collected as if he were seated in a Merc, […]

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) announced admissions to all its full-time postgraduate degree programs for 2013-15 for its Mumbai, Tuljapur, Guwahati, and Hyderabad campuses today. The TISS National Entrance Test (TISS NET) which will go online for the first time will be held on January 13, 2013. Candidates will also have the choice […]

Students waiting outside the CMAT test centre in Tughlaqabad, New Delhi (Photo credit : Astha A) The second edition of Common Management Admission test (CMAT) conducted by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) drew to an official close on October 1, 2012. Out of a total of 60,000 students who had registered for […]

Last year, about three dozen b-schools had met at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad campus to etch out the Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS), intended to be an honest and auditable way for b-schools to report their placements to future applicants and the media. A year later, it is worth looking at its […]