Ranked 15th in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings, Duke University’s The Fuqua School of Business boasts of alumni such as the current Apple CEO Tim Cook, Melinda Gates and closer home, Shivinder Mohan Singh, CEO of Fortis Healthcare. In recent times, the school has slowly been growing its presence in India with the intended […]

The JBIMS Mumbai buildingDr Stephen D’silva, director, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai tells PaGaLGuY that the institute is contemplating constructing a new building on the campus. He also expresses concerns about how the admissions process will equate CMAT and Mah-CET scores. JBIMS has often been termed as the ‘CEO Factory’. What is […]

Concept, illustrations and graphics by Deepak Gopalakrishnan aka chuck_gopal, a Mallu-turned Mumbaiker who blogs here and tweets here.

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai released its final results around 10 pm on Friday, March 16 2012 post the group discussion and interview rounds. “The candidates are required to feed their Narsee Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) ID and the date of birth in order to obtain their scorecard which contains the […]

A screenshot of a blank CMAT scorecard Five days after All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) declared the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) results on their website, it released the individual scorecards for all CMAT aspirants today. While the earlier results declared on March 11, 2012 had published only the rank and the total […]

G Murugaraj with his library van When he was pursuing his MBA from Anna University in Tamil Nadu five years ago, G Murugaraj had no fancy dreams. He just loved finance as a subject and had decided to go with the flow. Post his MBA, he got a job in a multinational bank but got […]

The IMT Nagpur campus (Photo: Siddhartha Garg) Last year, Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad had tried to pump in some technological innovation into its admissions process by allowing candidates to send video-recorded answers to interview questions. But considering the execution problems it experienced with the ‘Vmock’ software, it has decided to drop the ‘virtual […]

Despite holding a belief that the economy is improving, prospective MBA applicants across the world are dragging their feet on making their minds up about studying an MBA. Prospective applicants of 2011 have taken on an average six more months than they did in 2009 before considering graduate business education as a possible option in […]

The much-anticipated shakeout among business schools is finally upon us. According to the Times of India (Feb 19, 2012), In a dramatic, though not entirely unexpected, development, as many as 65 business management colleges across India are planning to close down; these institutes no longer see business sense in offering an MBA course, preferring to […]

IIM Rohtak, batch of 2012 The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak which became operational in 2010, concluded its final placement process for its first ever graduating batch last week. In the rolling process, a total of 58 offers (including six lateral and five pre-placement offers) were made by 27 companies to a batch of […]