Apart from Directors leading the top 10 B-schools, if there is one high profile role that everyone looks up to, it is that of the CAT Convenor. With the fate of about 2.50 lakh students linked to their performance in CAT exam, everyone looks up to the exam Convenor, and their plans. On July 11, MBAUniverse.com had published that IIM Lucknow will be the CAT 2023 conducting IIM. Now, we are breaking another big news... Get ready to find out the CAT 2023 Convenor.

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India is set to welcome its 21st Indian Institute of Management (IIM), and the first one in Mumbai. The amendment bill to the IIM Act, known as the IIM (Amendment) Bill 2023, is passed by both houses of Parliament. Lok Sabha passed the bill on August 4 and Rajya Sabha has passed the bill on August 8, 2023. In a day or two the bill is likely to get President's consent and this will rename NITIE as IIM Mumbai. It will follow all the system and procedures for MBA admission 2024 as are followed by other 20 IIMs.  

With the rapid rise of ChatGPT and other tools, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a key boardroom discussion the World over. So how are Indian companies leveraging AI... According to an IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report, most Indian companies are lagging behind. The study reveals that select Indian BFSI companies, particularly banks and new-age NBFCs, have very high AI Maturity, on par with global frontrunners. Consumer Goods companies, which were once the vanguards of management practices, have fallen behind.

Sharp Increase in IIM MBA Fees 
Since 2022, IIMs have substantially increased their MBA fees. Last year, almost all the IIMs have increased their MBA fees in recent years. Take for example IIM Mumbai, earlier NITIE Mumbai. This year, IIM Mumbai has increased its MBA fee for 2024-26 batch by more than Rs.7 lakhs! This is a 43 percent increase over the last year fees! This is a clear case of opportunism where IIM Mumbai has increased its fees exorbitantly to milk its newly acquired IIM tag.

MBAUniverse.com in its series of CAT 2022 topper interviews, brings before you a success story of CAT, XAT, IIFT and NMAT exam topper Amit Kumar Chakraborty, who cracked CAT 2022 with 99.34%tile, XAT 2023 with 99.55%ile, IIFT with 98%ile and NMAT with 255 score and was offered admission by XLRI, MDI, NITIE, SPJIMR, but he preferred XLRI to any other top B-school.

Common Admission Test (CAT), the mandatory MBA entrance exam for admission to 20 IIMs and 100+ other top B-schools in India, will be held on November 26, 2023. With just a few months to go, MBA aspirants are looking for sound strategies to improve their CAT Scores. MBAUniverse.com, India’s No 1 MBA Portal, interviewed CAT Mentor Arun Sharma, who is the Author of Best-Selling CAT Preparation books that is referred by a lot of CAT toppers. Arun Sharma completed his MBA from IIM Bangalore and continues to take CAT exam almost every year with 100% or 99.99% result.

In its series of interviews with CAT 2022 toppers, studying at top IIMs, SPJIMR, MDI, and other top B-schools, MBAUniverse.com brings before you success stories of such CAT topper candidates who cracked CAT with high percentile despite many odds and got into one of the top B-schools in India with their well devised preparation strategy. One such CAT topper, a B.Sc in Computer Science and a student of College Of Vocational Studies, Bhanu Pratap, cracked CAT 2022 with 99.67 percentile and has joined MBA 2023-25 batch at IIM Calcutta.

With CAT 2023 scheduled on November 26, it is right time to read and understand how the CAT toppers prepared and cracked the exam with high score and converted IIMs and other top B-schools. MBAUniverse.com in its series of CAT 2022 topper interviews, brings before you success story of one such CAT topper Mehak Rathi who cracked CAT 2022 with 98.08 percentile and was offered admission by IIMs, MDI, NMIMS but she preferred MDI Gurgaon to any other top B-school.

MBAUniverse.com in its series of CAT 2022 topper interviews, brings before you success story of a CAT, IIFT and NMAT exam topper Kunal, who cracked CAT and IIFT with 98+ percentile and was offered admission by IIMs, IIFT, NMIMS but he preferred MDI Gurgaon to any other top B-school.