Discharging duties at work place and yet cracking XAT with high percentile, is not an easy task-that too in Covid-19 pandemic situation. On the top of it making all out preparation to get admission in one of the top B-Schools of India – XLRI Jamshedpur keeps you on your toes till the final admission offer is rolled out. This is what Utkarsh Gupta, a B.Tech in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from ICT Mumbai and working professional at ZS managed to do balancing between his job and preparation.

Like many other sectors of economy, COVID 19/ Corona Virus disrupted the Higher Education sector too. In March 2020, B-schools swiftly moved their classes online. Convocations, International Exchanges and Program commencements were postponed the world over. Admission 2021 was off to a slow but sure start as CAT 2021 was held successfully on November 29, 2020. Come 2021, with the availability of Vaccines, normalcy is returning to campuses. Universities and B-schools are reopening their campuses, albeit with a lot of safety measures.

After announcing 100% Placements 2021 much ahead of almost all Top 25 B-schools, Jagdish Sheth School of Management (JAGSoM) has extended the last date to apply for PGDM Admission 2021 till April 30, for its Bangalore campus. Amongst the first 6 B-Schools in India to be awarded prestigious AACSB accreditation, JAGSoM has also announced revised fee structure with more than 100 scholarships. Check revised fee, scholarship, placements, and complete admissions 2021 details.    

Gateway to nine general and specialized MBA programs, UPESMET 2021 is conducted by well-known University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) Dehradun. UPESMET 2021 is scheduled on April 9 and 10, 2021 as online exam and the last date to apply is April 6, 2021. Total number of seats available across 9 UPES MBA programs is 300. 

BITS Pilani has launched new age business school BITS School of Management (BITSoM) in Mumbai  with an investment of more than Rs.1500 Crores. Dr Ranjan Banerjee has been named the Dean Designate for the institute. BITSoM will offer a 2-year MBA degree programme to shape transformative leaders of tomorrow

Indian Institute of Management, Indore has yet again achieved 100% summer placement for the batch 2020-22 with 7 percent rise in average stipend.

The Summer Placement process for the two-year flagship Post Graduate Program (PGP) along with the 5-year Integrated Program in Management (IPM) for the Class of 2022 was completed by the Indian Institute of Management Indore in a virtual mode. IIM Indore has repeated its feat of 100% summer placements for the largest batch across IIMs with 575 participants.

Product Management Jobs at Facebook, Google, Amazon, Flipkart, Uber, Ola and other tech companies are one of the hottest jobs for MBA students. They offer a fast-track MBA career in high growth tech and related sectors. The challenge for MBA grads is how to prepare intensively for this role and ace the grueling interview. Well, help is at hand. MBA students could not have asked for a better resource!

Professor Nathan Subramanian Fellow of IIM Ahmedabad, has joined as the Director of IPE Hyderabad on December 22, 2020. Professor Nathan, a Doctorate in Management from IIM Ahmedabad (Fellow of IIMA) has over 35 years of experience in senior-level positions both in academics as well as industry. Prof Nathan takes over the responsibilities from Dr. R K Mishra, former Director, IPE Hyderabad.

KIIT School of Rural Management (KSRM), Bhubaneswar, part of KIIT DU, is one of the 10 private institutes in India to get ‘Institution of Eminence’ tag from UGC, MHRD, Government of India. KSRM offers two unique MBA programmes –MBA Agribusiness Management and MBARural Management. Read this article to know all about key USPs of KSRM, admission eligibility, criteria, fee, placement, how to apply for admission in MBA Agribusiness Management 2021-23 batch.

XAT 2021 Analysis is given below! The XAT 2021 got over at 12.30 PM on Sunday, January 3, 2021 with many substantial changes introduced in the exam. This year the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) began at 9.30 AM with a time duration of 3 hours instead of earlier three and half hours as a computer based test.

XAT 2021 has been reported a bit more difficult exam with tricky Decision Making and it is expected that XAT cut offs may remain low in view of the difficulty level of the exam.