K Ramkumar, executive director (human resources), ICICI BankIn an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, K Ramkumar, executive director (human resources, customer service and operations) at ICICI Bank voices his views about the importance of MBA classroom diversity from a recruiter’s perspective, where b-schools are going wrong and what they could do better. ——— These days b-schools […]

More Delhi University departments offering MBA-equivalent degrees are restructuring their courses to be more attractive to the industry. After the Faculty of Management Studies and Sri Ram College of Commerce, it is Department of Commerce under Delhi School of Economics (DSE), Department of Business Economics and the Department of Financial Studies that are contemplating facelifts […]

Guest writer and IIM Ranchi director Prof MJ Xavier argues that India’s business schools should go deep enough into teaching Indian business to develop their own brand of education that international applicants will find palatable. ——— These days, improving the diversity ratios in MBA classrooms has become a common point of discussion in management education […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Clearing confusion about the acceptance of the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) for admissions at autonomous business schools, the Supreme Court today ordered that CMAT shall not be the singular management entrance test and PGDM institutes could admit anyone with CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA and JMET (now replaced by the GMAT) scores. The Educational Promotional […]

A single entrance exam is a good idea but not if AICTE conducts it, says Fr PT Joseph, SJ, director of Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubhaneshwar in an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY.What changes in the b-school or the curriculum can the incoming batch at XIMB expect to look forward to? There has been some […]

Every year, among the long list of students getting admitted into the countrys top educational institutions are the about half-dozen names who make it through the Differently Abled category. While a lot is written about the perseverance it must have required on their part to overcome problems and clear the Common Admission Test (CAT) to […]