Welcome to the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011, the guide to India’s Most Preferred B-schools in its 4th edition. As many of you tracking our rankings since 2008 might have noticed, each year we have been experimenting with the various possibilities our CommunityRank methodology could throw up — while ensuring that the product we eventually put […]

It’s interesting to observe how sections of the latest ranking results resemble those in the PaGaLGuY Rankings of 2008. The economic recession came and went, and in many ways the last year’s (2010) PaGaLGuY Rankings reflected the challenges b-schools faced in placing their batches during hard times. With MBA recruitments back on an upswing, the […]

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 […]

Looking back at the way many premier Indian b-schools have handled their admission processes this year, the MBA admission season of 2010-11 will not exactly be remembered as a season that people were fond of. From changing their admission criteria midway after selling application forms on a certain premise to using questionable methods of factoring […]

(Image courtesy: Luis Argerich) Quantitative ability and data interpretation questions make CET a speed game. Getting a good accuracy in this part of the paper is not that difficult a task, doing it quickly is. The time saved while solving these kind of questions can be utilised for solving other questions which require some thought […]

With the vision of constantly engaging with young leaders, the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) has organized several interactive sessions this year for school and college students as well as young professionals. On January 22, 2011, young enthusiasts came together for a Career Workshop to achieve more clarity on the best possible career paths. The […]

As if the Income-Tax raids last December were not enough, LN Welingkar Institute of Management and Development, Matunga is mired in yet another controversy. A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court urging for a probe into the appointment of Dr Uday Salunkhe as the director of the b-school. The complaint states that […]

A series of numbers or alphabets or both, seemingly unrelated in nature but having a certain underlying logic, gives us today’s topic. These type of questions are commonly seen in CET and are easy to moderate in nature. The number of questions can range from 10-20 and can be either found in a set of […]

A classic error that judicial courts are prone to is one where the paranoia over not allowing criminals to be let off the hook results in a lot of innocent people being put to trial. Statisticians call this unintentionally increasing ‘type 1’ errors (false positives) in the pursuit of reducing ‘type 2’ errors (false negatives). […]

Of the few topics unique to CET, Visual Reasoning accounts for 15% of the total marks in the paper. Perceived as difficult and the difference between getting admitted to a Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) and a Sydenham Institute of Management Studies and Research and Entrepreneurship Education) , this section has endless possibilities […]