International School of Management Excellence (ISME) is a b-school with campuses in Bangalore and Navi Mumbai that has emerged as a strong alternative for management aspirants. During the 25th Indo-Thai Entrepreneurs Summit, held at Bangkok, Thailand in August 2010, ISME bagged the prestigious International Achievers Award for Education Excellence. The international award for excellence conferred […]

The popular method of measuring the average salary against the fees to calculate the Return on Investment of an MBA program has no fundamental basis by any concept of Finance, says IMI Delhi’s Admission Chairperson Prof Himadri Das. He suggests a more sound method to calculate the RoI and demonstrates how it is linked to […]

(Image Courtesy: Ranaji Deb) One of the more sought after tests of the season, the MICAT conducted by the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) was held today across the country. A brief overview of the test by Anand Jhunjhunwala and Nishant Khanna, who took the test yesterday. Pattern of the test: The paper pattern […]

The entire batch of 44 students secured a fully paid summer internship in its first year of operations at IIM Ranchi. The 8th in the IIM pool, received a total of 51 offers which were made by 24 companies. Job profiles included financial consulting, strategy, hospitality management, IT consulting, statistics, economic research apart from the […]

The Orissa High Court has granted a stay on the recent All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) circular, which pressed for sweeping changes in the business education space. The AICTE notification dated December 28, 2010 had not only placed a cap on fees charged by AICTE-affiliated MBA colleges across the country, but also made […]

Welcome to the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011, the guide to India’s Most Preferred B-schools in its 4th edition. As many of you tracking our rankings since 2008 might have noticed, each year we have been experimenting with the various possibilities our CommunityRank methodology could throw up — while ensuring that the product we eventually put […]

It’s interesting to observe how sections of the latest ranking results resemble those in the PaGaLGuY Rankings of 2008. The economic recession came and went, and in many ways the last year’s (2010) PaGaLGuY Rankings reflected the challenges b-schools faced in placing their batches during hard times. With MBA recruitments back on an upswing, the […]

XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur completed placements for both its Business Management (BM) and Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PMIR) batches of 2009-11 with 317 offers from 109 companies in under four days. This was the first placement exercise for XLRI after they double their PMIR batch strength from 60 to 120 […]

Looking back at the way many premier Indian b-schools have handled their admission processes this year, the MBA admission season of 2010-11 will not exactly be remembered as a season that people were fond of. From changing their admission criteria midway after selling application forms on a certain premise to using questionable methods of factoring […]

(Image courtesy: Luis Argerich) Quantitative ability and data interpretation questions make CET a speed game. Getting a good accuracy in this part of the paper is not that difficult a task, doing it quickly is. The time saved while solving these kind of questions can be utilised for solving other questions which require some thought […]