Articles in IIT Gandhinagar
Responding to our Right to Information (RTI) query in the context of the misrepresentation of salaries and job offers in their 2012 placement report as described in our August story, the Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Instititute of Technology (IIT), Delhi denied having released any official placement report at all. The institute sidetracked almost […]
Department of Management Studies ((DMS), IIT, Delhi In a major policy change, the Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi is mulling opening its doors to non-engineering background candidates from the next academic session onwards. Currently, the IIT admission process requires candidates to have a four-year graduation degree post completing their […]
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 […]