After a successful innings as the Founding Director of IIM Trichy and Placement Head of IIM Calcutta during the 2009 crisis, the marketing thought leader - Dr Prafulla Y Agnihotri has taken up his next challenge – to launch a start-up B-school in a highly cluttered India MBA marketplace during the Covid times. Dr Agnihotri is confident and believes that quality always cuts the clutter and is envisioning that his new B-school will be ranked amongst the Top 10  B-schools in India.

AACSB Accredited and globally ranked Jagdish Sheth School of Management (JAGSoM) closed admissions for PGDM at its Bangalore campus April 30. To groom professionals in Marketing, Finance and Business Analytics domains, JAGSoM also offers three Specialized PGDM programs. Admissions for PGDM Marketing, Finance and Business Analytics are currently open. In this article, we review JAGSoM PGDM Marketing program – its faculty, curriculum, placements, fee, admission process and a lot more.

Samsung has hired 34 interns from India’s top B-Schools for the prestigious IGNITE (Inspiring Growth & Nurturing Interns Towards Excellence) internship program, a springboard for many young B-school grads aspiring for a coveted corporate career. This group of students are from IIM Ahmedabad, IIMs  at Lucknow, Calcutta, Bangalore and Kozhikode, XLRI Jamshedpur, MDI Gurgaon and FMS Delhi. Due to COVID curfews and protocols, students are pursuing internships in virtual mode.

BITS School of Management (BITSoM), a new-age global business school in Mumbai under the aegis of BITS Pilani, has entered into a formal collaboration with the London Business School (LBS). The partnership entails global extension and immersion programme for BITSoM students at the London campus of LBS.

MRIIRS- Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad, (Formerly Manav Rachna International University) has announced admission to its MBA programme for Session 2024. You can apply online if you are a graduate from a recognized university with at least 50% marks and have appeared for one of the national MBA entrance tests. The application process for MRIIRS Admission 2024 is open 

Professor M.P. Ram Mohan, faculty at IIM Ahmedabad in Business Policy Area and Chairperson Admissions at IIM Ahmedabad is the Convener of CAT 2021 exam. Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, the top management institute in India, Ranked #1 in NIRF Ranking 2020 is going to conduct CAT 2021. Prof Ram Mohan is also a law expert. He is convening CAT 2021 without any change in testing partner agency TCS which has been conducting IIM-CAT since 2013.

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) held its 56th annual convocation virtually on May 8, 2021. Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairperson, Board of Governors (BoGs), IIMA and Professor Errol D’Souza, Director, IIMA graced the occasion. On the occasion, a total of 605 graduating students were conferred titles and degrees.

Delivering the convocation address, Mr. Birla, congratulated the graduates and offered important advice to the graduating IIMA Class of 2021. MBAUniverse.com presents six key highlights from Mr Birla’s address. 

Awarded the tags of ‘Institute of National Importance’ and ‘Institute of Excellence’,  Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad, a leading management institute focused on management programs on Entrepreneurship, is creating Entrepreneurs and Owner Managers. EDII is grooming highest number of Entrepreneurs as 78% of its alumni are entrepreneurs. Top executives of apex financial institutions are on the Board of Governors of EDII.

IIM Lucknow inaugurated 14th Batch of its 1-year Full-time MBA program – the IPMX – on May 3, 2021. IIML’s IPMX batch 2021-22 has a class strength of 114 students from diverse Industry. In her inaugural address, Prof Archana Shukla, Director, IIM Lucknow stressed that the current batch, while starting in these trying times must prepare itself for adversity, but above everything else, try to be more humane and empathetic in life and as a leader.

IIML IPMX Batch 2021-22

Here are some of the highlights of IIML’s IPMX 2021-22 batch:

XLRI - Xavier School of Management, one of India’s premier B-Schools, has announced on May 4, 2021, the change in leadership. XLRI has appointed Fr. Paul. Fernandes, S.J,

as the new director of the institute. After successfully completing his term Fr. P. Christie, S.J. handed over the reins to Fr. Paul. Fernandes, S.J., as the new Director of the country’s leading management institute. Fr. Paul. Fernandes, S.J. has taken over the responsibilities as the new Director of XLRI with immediate effect.