(Photo: Soubhik Chatterjee) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta finished its final placements for the 2010-2012 batches of its PGDM and PGDCM courses with 423 offers for a total effective batch of 345. Before the final placement process started, the students had already received 130 lateral and 95 pre-placement offers (PPOs), out of which […]

LAST TWO DAYS to send in your entries for the PaGaLGuY Comic Contest # 2 – with Flipkart vouchers worth Rs 8,000 as prizes. Send your entry now!Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaikar who blogs here and tweets here.PS: The inspiration for this comic came from the rather brilliant […]

Infopark, Kochi on Google Earth The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode is going to be starting a new campus in Kochi later this year for delivering its Executive Post Graduate Programme (EPGP). The campus, for now, will be situated at Infopark, a technology park, which already boasts of companies such as TCS, Cognizant, Wipro, […]

Dr Bibek Banerjee, director, IMT GhaziabadShould business schools treat students as products or customers? Or should the b-schools (with education at the core of their mission), envision their primary role in transforming a set of students aspiring to participate in the global knowledge economy into a set of fine professionals? Dr Bibek Banerjee, Director, Institute […]

Major infrastructural expansion at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore campus has led to a straight 15% increase in fees from the coming academic year. From Rs 13 lakh, the fees are now Rs 15 lakh, which makes it a little lesser than what IIM Ahmedabad charges at Rs 15.50 lakh. According to an […]

Ranked 16th among US business schools by BusinessWeek, University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School is popular among Indian applicants and accepts a median GMAT score of 690 for its MBA class of 298 seats. PaGaLGuY interviews Sherry Wallace, director of MBA admissions to learn about the post-MBA job market in the US and the […]

Globally, only 5% b-schools have acquired the rigorous Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. Two days ago, TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal became one of this chosen group, the only other one in India being the Indian Schools of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Does this global endorsement mean anything at all to […]

Melbourne Business School, Australia Alright, we now come to the part about financing one’s MBA after having focused on the relevance of GMAT, pre-MBA academics and MBA applicant profiles in earlier posts. Most Indian applicants think that the GMAT registration fee of $250 is high. Then they realise that each MBA application needs an additional […]

Satish Chandra Buriuly, student, IIM Ranchi class of 2012 You could call this a different kind of ‘rags to riches’ story. Only, there were no rags and there are no riches either. Satish Chandra Buriuly’s story is about how a commonplace person from a tribal area in India can start making it big and compete […]

The IIM Kashipur academic block building in its temporary campus One of the newest Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), IIM Kashipur reported having completed their summer internship placements for the debut batch of 2013 with 43 offers from 28 companies. The batch of 37 students, with nearly half having work experience of more than one […]