Whether a fresher or a candidate with 2-3 years of work experience, your target is admission in the top rated IIM in 2025 if you are appearing and preparing for CAT 2024. Nothing can match the hard, intelligent and well managed self-study leading to success by scoring high percentile in CAT 2024. You will need to score high overall as well as sectional percentile to get shortlisted by the top IIMs namely IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow or IIM Kozhikode.

Hisar, Kangra, Chittor, Wardha are among the 9 newly added exam cities for CAT 2023. This year CAT will be held in 160+ Cities on November 26, 2023 in 3 slots than in 154 cities last year. There are more Tier-II Cities added to conduct CAT exam this year. Small cities in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra have been added to the list of CAT 2023 test cities to make CAT exam reachable for the CAT aspirants of Tier-II cities so that they do not need to commute long distances to appear in the exam.

CAT 2023 registration numbers have broken all previous records. CAT 2023 exam applications have gone up by 30% at 3.3 lakhs as compared to last year. Confirming the CAT registration numbers, Dr. Sanjeet Singh, Professor, Decision Sciences Area, IIM Lucknow and CAT 2023 Convener shared with MBAUniverse.com, “Around 3.3 lakhs candidates have registered for CAT 2023.”

After extending CAT 2023 registration last date by 7 days till September 20, a few hours more were given to the CAT aspirants to register for CAT exam till 11AM on September 21, 2023. Giving the last chance to CAT aspirants to apply for CAT 2023, IIM CAT 2023 Registration window has closed now at 11 AM on September 21,2023. IIM Lucknow faculty and CAT 2023 exam convener has made it amply clear that CAT registration deadline will not be extended any further and the candidates should not go adventurous looking for further extension in last date.

IIM Kashipur, a highly ranked renowned Indian management institute with NIRF Ranking 2023 # 19 and strong placements with highest annual salary at Rs.37 LPA and average salary of Rs. 18.11 LPA is all set to launch PG Diploma in Hospital Management in collaboration with MAX Heathcare, a leading healthcare organization. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed on Monday, September 11, 2023 between IIM Kashipur and Max Healthcare Ltd.

Special Article by Amit Agnihotri

On September 10, Financial Times (FT) released its Global Masters in Management (MIM) Rankings 2023. FT MIM Rankings 2023 offered many insights and trends about this program and how Indian B-schools are faring on the global scene. 142 top B-schools from across the globe took part in the ranking process 2023, up from 135 in 2022. The ranking is based on 19 criteria. To start with, the number of B-Schools ranked from India among Top 100 in FT MIM Ranking 2023 has gone up at eleven, as against seven last year. This is a significant jump.

Acceding to the request and giving good relief and last chance to the aspirants who could not complete their CAT 2023 registration earlier till September 13, CAT convener Professor Sanjeet Singh, Admission Chair and Faculty at IIM Lucknow has extended the last date for CAT registration to September 20, 2023 from Sept 13.

Profile Based Admission process in many top MBA colleges, including IIMs, is getting preference to conventional MBA entrance exam Score cut off based selection process. The process results in attracting not just the usual CAT, XAT exam toppers, but the real life achievers as well. As such more and more B-schools are opting for Profile based shortlisting process instead of merely exam based performance. With their unique profile based admission process, B-Schools like SPJIMR Mumbai, IIM Bangalore, IMT Ghaziabad, BIMTECH Greater Noida are getting the cream of talent.

Professor Uttam Kumar Sarkar, Director IIM Calcutta has resigned from his position. As per the media reports Prof Sarkar resigned on August 23, 2023 due to some differences with Board of Governors although in his resignation letter, Prof Sarkar has cited some personal reasons.