The DoMS building at IIT Madras The switch from the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) to The Common Admission Test (CAT) netted the management wing of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, double the number of applicants. And to streamline this number and secure the best of the lot, the Department of Management Studies (DoMS) […]

32,000 applicants to sit for MAT on May 6, 2012 The All Indian Management Association (AIMA) has decided to focus on University Grants Commission (UGC) approved private management institutions in order to continue with the Management Aptitude Test (MAT). It has no plans to scrap the exam as yet. Currently, AIMA is signed up with […]

The division of Berlin during the Cold War had left no remainders. In my previous post, we discussed the cyclical nature of the remainders when an is divided by d. In this post, we will see how problems on finding out the remainder can be broken down into smaller parts. Funda 1: Remainder of a […]

IIM Indore director Dr N Ravichandran and chairman, board of governors LN Jhunjhunwala On April 12, veteran industrialist of the LNJ Bhilwara Group Mr LN Jhunjhunwala, who is also the chairman of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore’s board of governors put in his papers with the b-school citing major differences with its director […]

Richard Ivey School of Business, Canada (Photo: Lars Plougmann) For many MBA applicants, completing an MBA application can become a daunting process for two main reasons. There are too many independent components to be taken care of (application form, resume, essays, interview, recommendations, GMAT, TOEFL). The preparation time for each can range from a few […]

The IIM Raipur Campus The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur, which became operational in 2010, ended the summer placement process for its second Post Graduate Diploma in management batch. A total of 76 offers were made by 41 firms, of which offers made by 39 firms were accepted by the batch, comprising 48 students. […]

The Bara Imambara, Lucknow (Photo: Derek Keats) In what is a stark indication of the supply inflation of MBA seats in the country, this year’s number of applicants to the state-level MBA entrance exam of Uttar Pradesh is just a little over half of the total number of MBA seats in the state. According to […]

SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has been granted approval to increase its PGDM seats from 180 to 240. The expansion will come into effect from the next academic year 2012-2014. The approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) was given earlier this week and will translate to an […]

Abhishek, Director, Global Merchant Services, American ExpressThere are three ways an Indian MBA can hope to build a career abroad but each path requires clarity and richness of work experience, says guest writer Abhishek, Director of Global Merchant Services at American Express in New York. ——— These days, news sources raise questions on the health […]

Out of the total 138 technical institution closure applications received by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) this year, the council has decided to shut down a total of seven institutes, which includes four management and three engineering institutes. As many as 102 new institutes, which include around 40 b-schools, have been granted […]