Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington (Photo: Jeff Hart) Unlike the other parts of the MBA application, the MBA interview is a little special. It doesnt like to get bundled along with the rest of its buddies the GMAT score, MBA essays, recommendations and the resume. It demands elite treatment and gets it. Phase […]

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Photo: teofilo) Among all the components that constitute your MBA application profile GMAT score, pre-MBA academic grades, admission essays, recommendations and the MBA resume most applicants tend to ignore the poor little resume. Why? Almost everyone who has got a job in the corporate world (or for that matter, […]

Ranked 16th among US business schools by BusinessWeek, University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School is popular among Indian applicants and accepts a median GMAT score of 690 for its MBA class of 298 seats. PaGaLGuY interviews Sherry Wallace, director of MBA admissions to learn about the post-MBA job market in the US and the […]

Globally, only 5% b-schools have acquired the rigorous Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation. Two days ago, TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal became one of this chosen group, the only other one in India being the Indian Schools of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Does this global endorsement mean anything at all to […]

Melbourne Business School, Australia Alright, we now come to the part about financing one’s MBA after having focused on the relevance of GMAT, pre-MBA academics and MBA applicant profiles in earlier posts. Most Indian applicants think that the GMAT registration fee of $250 is high. Then they realise that each MBA application needs an additional […]

IMD’s campus at Lausanne, Switzerland The kick-off post in the International MBA FAQ series (the relevance of GMAT scores in MBA applications) received a pretty encouraging response. The enthusiasm to learn more about international MBA programmes was apparent from the comments. So this time we are taking up another topic around which there were quite […]

Ranked 15th in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings, Duke University’s The Fuqua School of Business boasts of alumni such as the current Apple CEO Tim Cook, Melinda Gates and closer home, Shivinder Mohan Singh, CEO of Fortis Healthcare. In recent times, the school has slowly been growing its presence in India with the intended […]

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 […]

Despite holding a belief that the economy is improving, prospective MBA applicants across the world are dragging their feet on making their minds up about studying an MBA. Prospective applicants of 2011 have taken on an average six more months than they did in 2009 before considering graduate business education as a possible option in […]

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 […]