The DoMS building at IIT Madras The switch from the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) to The Common Admission Test (CAT) netted the management wing of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, double the number of applicants. And to streamline this number and secure the best of the lot, the Department of Management Studies (DoMS) […]

The Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, is likely to be rechristened to ‘IIT Delhi Business School’. “The idea might fructify by the end of this year or the beginning of the next year, according to my expectations,” Prof MP Gupta, admissions coordinator of DMS, IIT Delhi told PaGaLGuY. “The […]

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 […]

The IIT Delhi main building (Photo: Bryn Pinzgauer) For the 2013 season, the management departments of all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are considering launching a common admissions web portal that will serve as the single funnel for all the candidate applications to the IITs’ MBA programmes. “We are thinking on the lines of […]

A sketch of the upcoming academic block in the NITIE campus The National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) will hike its fees by 15-20% for the 2012 batch, in order to offset the expenditure incurred because of the institute’s infrastructural expansion. According to Sadhana Ghosh, chairman-admissions committee, the current fee will now be Rs 6 […]

Odisha (until a month ago Orissa) is better known for the architectural wonder of the Sun Temple at Konark and the beaches of Puri. But a push from the state government, cheap land prices, a pool of students from the neighbouring states of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and the North East as well as investments […]

(Photo credit: Jim Ryan) Earlier this year, Radha Sharma got an unexpected visit from an ex-student and his family. The student had taken her course on emotional intelligence at Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon. While still a student, he had sought her advice when he was upset over his father’s death. A student came with […]

IIM Indore’s Narendra Agarwal, his wife Poonam and their son Arnav In the days gone by, synonyms for ‘marriage’ could easily be settled, family, sacrifice, children, stop living your own life. Today, the synonyms read more like ‘fun, study, partner, parties, friends, freedom. Thanks to a large number of b-school students pursuing an MBA post […]

After months of speculation, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will adopt the Common Admission Test (CAT) from 2012 onwards. This means that the IITs will not run the national Joint National Management Test (JMET), which was in operation for over ten years. Mukut Baruah, a Senior Assistant with Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), […]

The Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET), used for admission to the two-year MBA programs offered by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) might be abolished starting this year. Instead, a candidate’s Common Admissions Test (CAT) score could be considered for the admission process, Professor MR Ravi, Vice Chairman, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), IIT […]