Articles in IIT Bhubaneswar
All information disseminated by government-owned educational institutes such as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) or the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) must be automatically trustworthy because public institutions don’t need to market themselves, so goes the popular belief. It is only the private institutions that have an incentive to game their admissions, academic and […]
Sumit Sharma, Amit Kumar and Mahtab Masood with their notebook. The grand purpose of ‘SAM Initiatives’, a marketing project by three class of 2012 students of Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay was to provide a niche marketing platform for companies, whose target customers were college students. But […]
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) […]
Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM), Indian Institute of Technology; Bombay has revamped its course structure after a gap of seven years. Prime reasons for the revamp include responding to the changing business environment and increasing importance of sustainable business practices. Increase in permanent faculty strength (to over 20) is another factor which motivated […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pic of IIT Delhi by Bryn Pinzgauer Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and IIT Delhi are revisiting their admission criteria for MBA from the next academic year. While IIT Kanpur is considering barring freshers, IIT Delhi is looking at revising its eligibility criteria from 10+2+4 to 10+2+3. We dig in for more details. IIT […]
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 […]
The relatively smaller MBA batch of 50-odd students at the Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi completed their placements by securing 90 offers from 39 companies. Procter & Gamble, GE, KPMG, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and Infosys were the top five recruiters in a process that spanned a period of […]
The Department Head of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur‘s MBA program Prof Jayanta Chatterjee speaks to PaGaLGuY.com about what makes the IIT Kanpur MBA special and what new things can the incoming batch expect. What differentiates the IIT Kanpur MBA from other IITs? How are these differentiating factors a better bet for students? Primarily, […]