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 […]

The year 2011-12, during which the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) added a new section to its format, has turned out to be a record year for the test, with 286,529 GMAT exams being taken across the world. The highest ever number of tests in a single year were in part due to the rush […]

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai is revamping its curriculum for the MA in Human Resources Management and Labour Relations program for the 2013-15 batch. The primary change being an emphasis on research, the new curriculum will allow students more time for research as the classroom workload will reduce approximately by 12%. Speaking exclusively […]

Preliminary registration data for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 indicates a slight increase of 4.39% compared to last years figures. The CAT 2012 registration window ended at midnight on September 19 with 2.14 lakh registrations, exceeding last year’s registrations of 2.05 lakh. The gender split has also improved with 28% registrations coming from females […]

In the first part of this article I wrote about the sections of the application which required imagination and creativity – your essays, interview, and recommendations. This part is about those sections of the application which are more or less set in stone. Remember, everything is evaluated by application readers who read thousands of applications […]