In late November 2022, Masters’ Union (MU), a Gurugram-based practitioner-led B-school, stirred the hornets’ nest. Masters’ Union released its Placement Report 2023 where it reported its Average Salary for the 2023 batch at Rs 33.10 Lakhs per annum. To put it in context, this is higher than the average salary of IIM Lucknow (Rs. 32.20 LPA) and IIM Indore (Rs. 31.02 LPA).

After giving a relief of 3 more days to register and apply for IPMAT 2023 exam, IIM Indore has finally closed the last date for IPMAT 2023 Registration and Application process on April 17, 2023. Earlier the last date was April 14. In a few days IIM Indore is opening IPMAT application edit window for 2 days. This will allow the applicants to edit limited errors in their application form only once. IIM Indore will conduct IPMAT Exam 2023 on June 16 in a single session of 2 hours duration.

IIM Lucknow Alumnus and professor at IIM Indore, Nishit K Sinha is a well known author of CAT books and is a CAT trainer for more than a decade. A household name in the area of CAT exam preparation, Nishit K Sinha has trained thousands of CAT aspirants with success.  An accomplished author of CAT books, Nishit is known for his approach in bringing clarity to solve the most typical DILR problems. Apart from Nishit K Sinha DILR Book, QA Book, VARC Book, his complete guide to the CAT published by Pearson, is another best seller.

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) Board of Governors (BoG) has re-appointed Prof. Debashis Chatterjee as the Director of the institute for a further period of 5 years, as per IIM Act 2017. Shri A Vellayan, Chairman BoG, IIMK made the announcement on the eve of the 25^th Annual Convocation, which was held on April 8. Prof Chatterjee’s current tenure began in June 2018 after IIM Kozhikode became the first IIM to appoint its own Director autonomously after passing of the IIM Act in 2017.

DTE Maharashtra has postponed the MAH MBA CET 2023 re-examination date to May 6, 2023 from earlier April 30. Based on the Enquiry Committee Report, DTE Maharashtra has announced to conduct MAH MBA CET 2023 Re Examination on May 6 from 9 AM to 11.30 AM for thousands of the candidates who could not complete the MAH-MBA/MMS CET 2023 exam within mandatory time limit of 2 and half hours on March 25, 2023 due to technical timer issues and wish to reappear in the exam.

Masters’ Union (MU), an unconventional Gurugram based B-school, is making a lot of noise. The Masters’ Union Placement Report 2023 reported its Average Salary (CTC) for 2023 batch at Rs 33.10 Lakhs, at par with Top B-schools in India. What’s more, many new age organizations like Zerodha, who generally don’t hire MBAs, have recruited MU students and placed them in Founder’s Office roles. As reported earlier, in addition to PhDs from IIMs, Masters’ Union has attracted more than 100 CXOs from top companies to teach at its campus.

Achieving yet again 100% placements for its Master of Arts (Human Resource Management & Labour Relations) 2021-23 batch, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai has broken all previous salary records in final placements. Proving again its high RoI status, the highest salary at TISS for the M.A. HRM & LR 2021-23 batch has increased by 16.42% at Rs. 49 LPA and the average salary has gone up by 13.56% at Rs.27.22 LPA. Total 66 students participated in TISS final placements 2023 and out of them 27 students received Pre-Placement offers (PPOs).

Known for its curriculum design and changes as per industry and market requirement which facilitates high placements and career growth of its students, DSIMS Mumbai offers Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM- 2 Years Full Time Program) which is offered at the newly established Durgadevi Saraf Global Business School (DSGS).

Although with all time delay, NTA has now announced the CMAT 2023 exam date as May 4, 2023. The exam is scheduled in two slots of 3 hours duration each. MBAUniverse.com has consistently been following up with NTA from April 11 to 19 regarding the CMAT exam date announcement and release of CMAT admit card. This has resulted in CMAT 2023 exam date announcement by NTA but the date of Admit card release is not yet announced. This is the first time that CMAT exam is being conducted on Thursday instead of Saturday or Sunday.

An EPSI-MBAUniverse.com Whitepaper titled Indian Management Education: Vision 2025, released at the 5^th edition of Indian Management Conclave on August 8, 2014 in New Delhi, called for creating 50 Global B-schools from India by 2025 by attracting foreign students and faculty, pursuing top international accreditation and rankings, and international placements.