Articles in XLRI Jamshedpur
(Photo credit: Luca Boldrini) Final admission results for India’s top business school have started pouring in since yesterday. XLRI School of Business and Human Resources The XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur declared its final admissions list for the 2011-13 classes of Post Graduate Diploma programmes in Business Management and Human Resources Management, […]
In an effort to inculcate ‘social awareness’ in MBA students, Indian b-schools have been sending them on mandatory or optional stints to Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, for instance, has a six-week compulsory stint while International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi has a three-week schedule in an NGO. […]
This year, only 13 crossed the 150 mark at the Maharashtra MBA CET written exam. An exclusive club indeed, considering that last year 600 crossed the same mark. PaGaLGuY spoke to three from this exclusive lot who were genuine MBA applicants (and not personnel of coaching classes). Incidentally, this year’s topper who scored 172/200 is […]
We wanted to do this after IIM Ahmedabad released its placement report, but with no clear timeframe from ‘WIMWI’ yet, we are publishing this anyway. Each year, India’s better known b-schools release information about their placements in the form of a report or press releases. Besides highlighting what the b-school deems is more important about […]
Good news is in store for b-school aspirants from eastern India. With two new International Management Institute (IMI) campuses ready for admissions in Bhubaneswar, Orissa and Kolkata, West Bengal students from the eastern region will be able to receive international-quality management education virtually at their door steps and will not have to travel to other […]
The Supreme Court has brought an end to the uncertainty in the admission process by granting an interim relief against the controversial AICTE circular. We have procured a copy of the order and after speaking to the various stakeholders, we have deconstructed the implications of the order for MBA aspirants. What does the verdict say? […]
The tuition fees and ancillary costs for management education at the Indian Institutes of Management, private Indian b-schools and deemed universites have witnessed upto sixfold increases in the last seven years. In contrast, the government university affiliated management schools have only seen a marginal hike in their fees, making them look economically attractive. However, […]
This one is for all the intellectuals on PaGaLGuY. Starting today, we’re going to be introducing a new format of journalism, one which has been gaining steady ground worldwide, yet is in the process of evolving into a mainstream method of telling stories: Data Journalism. We are going to be playing around with interesting data […]
The quality of education among India’s business schools has not been able to keep up with their growth in recent years. But if each ‘good’ b-school mentors the faculty of five lower-rung b-schools in its local region with IIMs taking the lead, vast improvements can be made in the general quality of Indian b-schools, says […]
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 […]