After much hoopla, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) conducted its first Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) today. Barring a few ‘wrong questions’ the exam was found to be fairly easy said aspirants, though the General Knowledge section was found to be a little more difficult than others. “The CMAT paper seemed like […]

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the makers of the Common Admission Test (CAT), are planning to put out a ‘CAT survey trends report’ over the next two years, providing detailed insights into the demographic profile of CAT takers over five years, a source in the CAT committee told PaGaLGuY. Inspired by the ‘Profile of […]

In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Prof Shekhar Chaudhuri, director of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) speaks about the importance of diversity in class, development plans for IIM-C and the affect of foreign universities making an entry into India. The inclusion of X and XII marks during admissions has not received a very favourable […]

The Mumbai Business School has downed shutters When PaGaLGuY visited the Mumbai Business School (MBS) a year ago, it looked like place in a hurry. Situated on the third floor of a commercial building in a suburb in Mumbai, the school was filled with the sound of ongoing carpentry work. Be it in the classrooms […]

Photo: Kevin Bowan For most b-school aspirants, The Common Admission Test (CAT) means sleepless nights, endless revisions and stress. For CAT officials, it often means the same. The CAT 2011 came to an end with some dramatic scenes witnessed at different exam centres. While one centre reported the presence of a gun-wielding father trying to […]

IIM-L director Dr Devi Singh In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Dr Devi Singh, director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow speaks about getting over the locational limitation of Lucknow, mentorship of IIM Rohtak and Kashipur and changing systems of admission at the IIMs. IIM Lucknow is the oldest among the younger IIMs. […]

Continuing from where we left off in the November 2011 update about the seat availability in the top 10 b-schools as per the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011, here is a similar update on the number of seats available across categories at the b-schools ranked 11 to 20, for the upcoming 2012-14 batch. Six colleges among […]

FORE School of Management, New Delhi has attracted fairly a large number of Applications for its two year full time PGDM & PGDM-International Business (IB) programmes. This year, without extending the last date of application we have received around 6500 applications which is one of the highest among private business schools. FORE takes the pride […]

A unique program with special focus on emerging economies Great Lakes Institute of Management is offering the Two Year Post Graduate Management Program (PGDM) in its Chennai campus. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) approved program has got an intake of 120 seats. The programs curriculum will have a special focus on the […]

Naina Lal Kidwai, Country Head (India), HSBC (Photo: Astha A) While attending the convocation function at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) University at New Delhi, PaGaLGuY bumped into Naina Lal Kidwai, the Country Head of HSBC India and the first Indian woman to have graduated from the Harvard Business School, long ago in 1982. […]