Pic by Max Wolfe Photostream In a bid to fill up 2,100 PGDM seats, about 52 b-schools in Maharashtra are, for the first time, conducting a centralized admission process for b-school aspirants. The service will hope to net students who have taken any of the entrance tests namely: CAT / MAT / XAT / ATMA […]

The vitriolic public reaction to Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s seemingly innocuous comment that “The faculty in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is not world-class. It is the students in IITs who are world-class. The IITs and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are excellent because of the quality of students and not because of quality […]

In the volumes of b-school placement reports, one piece of statistics gets overshadowed by the numerical platitudes and eulogies. Mentioned mostly as an afterthought, it is about students who opt-out of the placements, to follow their calling and start their own businesses. PaGaLGuY speaks to some of these souls and learn their stories. M Vivekanandan, […]

You’ve seen the posts, the thanks and the groans. Now meet the faces behind the usernames at the 8th edition of the All India PaGaLGuY Meet (AIPGM) on May 28 and 29, 2011 at Bangalore. A one of its kind event, the meet will allow you to network with other regular puys alongside a rock […]

???With an office that is almost about 1,000 sq feet in size, has glass walls and is perched on top of a hill with acres of coconut trees below, one would expect Prof Debashis Chatterjee, Director of Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIMK) to speak Wordsworth and Shelly. But Prof Chatterjee is far from being […]

Dr Bibek Banerjee, who took over as the Director of the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad three months ago, plans to steer the institute towards being a research focused b-school. In a freewheeling interview with PaGaLGuY, he describes IMT’s experiences of introducing technology in the admissions process and the conflict between the PGDM and […]

This year, only 13 crossed the 150 mark at the Maharashtra MBA CET written exam. An exclusive club indeed, considering that last year 600 crossed the same mark. PaGaLGuY spoke to three from this exclusive lot who were genuine MBA applicants (and not personnel of coaching classes). Incidentally, this year’s topper who scored 172/200 is […]

A view of Udaipur (Photo credit: etrenard) The Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) at Udaipur and Kashipur, fifth and sixth among the six new IIMs announced in 2008 have commenced admissions for their debutant Post Graduate Program (PGP) in management. These first IIMs in the states of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand will conduct their admissions through […]

In a startling move, the government has sanctioned the opening up of 21 new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in the country. Of these, at least seven will become operational from the 2011 academic year. The cities earmarked for the new IIMs are Nanded, Ernakulum, Itanagar, Vasco-da-gama, Pondicherry, Bhuj, Ootacamund, Jaisalmer, Meerut, Dehradun, Yavatmal, Belagum, […]

Image taken from skulpt.com With this year’s MBA entrance season done and the new season about to begin in full flow in the next couple of months, freshers as well as those enthusiastic about joining a coaching institute to help them out with their CAT prep would be confused with the plethora of options available. […]