Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will not consider CAT scores for admissions to its flagship program, PGDM (C) 2010-2012. According to Deval Kartik, faculty and admissions co-ordinator, MICA, the admission process followed by the institute this year will be MICAT, Group Exercise and Personal Interview (GE-PI). MICAT is the internal test conducted by the […]

Concerned with the events surrounding the conduct of CAT 2009, many business schools that accept the CAT score for their admissions are on alert and some are already contemplating alternative criteria for their 2010 admission season. We spoke to some of the directors of such b-schools and realised that an alternate action plan, although not […]

The Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) is where you come when you wish to have a great experience of learning management in an excellent environment. With a high quality infrastructure and support services, IFMRs faculty have a passion for innovation and cutting-edge research. IFMR was established in 1970, as a non-profit organization by […]

Bangloreans comprise the single largest group of students at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad while the fairer sex adds up to over a quarter of the batch. 21% have GMAT scores above 750, 58% have had international work-experience and 29% are married. How do we know? ISB’s just-released data-sheet on admission demographics says […]

This MBA season, international MBA aspirants would be applying to a new b-school everyday wondering about the post recession scenario there. At PaGaLGuY, we talked to alumni, new aspirants, faculty members and Eric Morse, Associate Dean at the Richard Ivey School of Business and deciphered the MBA program there. Strengths of Richard Ivey Business School […]

The Graduate Record Examination’s (GRE) big shot at trying to wrest the business school admissions space from the currently prevalent Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) comes in an interesting period of time, when applications to b-schools in the US and Europe are dwindling. Last month, Wharton joined Harvard, Stanford, MIT-Sloan and 250 business schools worldwide […]

You can get cracking on filling out your schedule for this December. The official Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) test website still carries last year’s date while the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune website has all the details regarding this year’s test which will be held on December 20. Let’s not split hairs […]

Much before the CAT does, the Management Aptitude Test (MAT) of September 2009 will be the first exam to go computer-based. Here is a FAQ on the computer-based MAT as answered by AIMA’s Wg Cdr V S Bejoy (Retd), who is in charge of MAT. The MAT exam is taken in total by around 4 […]

The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania has declared acceptance of GRE scores for admissions to their MBA program, effective the upcoming admission season. Now that each of the big three (Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB and Wharton) use GRE for admissions, it could proliferate the acceptance of the exam across […]

The economic crisis brings MBA students and aspirants to India in search of studies and work. According to an ET report, there’s been a spike in the number of students from overseas business schools currently interning at software firms such as MindTree and Tata Consultancy Services. The trend of going abroad also has been hit […]