Here we are, nearing the end of an MBA admission season hanging right in the middle of the second economic recession in five years. The crisis of 2009 assailed at the viability of the mass-produced MBAs of the country to secure the jobs they had hoped their degrees to yield, but it did not shake […]

IMD’s campus at Lausanne, Switzerland The kick-off post in the International MBA FAQ series (the relevance of GMAT scores in MBA applications) received a pretty encouraging response. The enthusiasm to learn more about international MBA programmes was apparent from the comments. So this time we are taking up another topic around which there were quite […]

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and Kolkata completed the final placement process for the 2010-12 batch of MBA in International Business. A total of 86 companies came on campus out of which 80 companies made 202 offers (including 103 lateral offers and 21 pre-placement offers) for a batch of 203 students (the Delhi […]

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The Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi declared its interview and group discussion shortlist for admissions to the two-year fulltime MBA class of 2012-14 this evening. While the cut-off for the General category has been pegged at 98.73 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT), for the OBC category it is 85.80. The […]

Delhi University’s (DU) Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) is working on giving its two-year-long post-graduate diploma in Global Business Operations (GBO) a facelift, which includes turning it into a full-fledged master’s degree. The college is drafting a proposal proposing this and other major changes in the course, which will be then presented before DU […]

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (Photo: Ashok Kumar) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta is in the process of forming a ‘General Alumni Association’ which would help tap the 6,000+ rich alumni base of the b-school in collecting funds to support its major infrastructure expansion plans. The school also intends this association to assist […]

Three-year part-time MBA courses at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University may soon be converted to Executive MBA programmes of two-years’ duration. A proposal to redesign the part-time MBA courses at FMS was approved by the Academic Council of the University in a closed-door meeting late evening on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at […]

Editor’s note: Starting today, PG oldie Sameer Kamat will write a weekly column answering frequently asked questions related to the international MBA application process. Feel free to comment with questions of your own, which he will try to answer in the next weekly post. ——— MIT Sloan School of Management (Photo: Vitor Pamplona) International business […]

XIM, Bhubhaneshwar (Photo: Nilesh) Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubaneshwar is planning to begin operations of its new campus in Jatni (a town 20 kms away from the present XIMB campus in Bhubaneswar) from next year onwards. The institute intends to shift the Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PGDM-RM) course completely to the new […]