Common Admission Test (CAT) 2020 for MBA Admission 2021 to IIMs remains unaffected by Covid-19 pandemic. Not only the exam is unlikely to be postponed but also the possibility is that more applicants will apply and appear in CAT exam this year.That’s the message coming from CAT Convenor  Prof Harshal Lowalekar, who shared the latest CAT updates with MBAUniverse.com on August 26.

IIM Indore has completely revised the IPMAT 2020 exam structure, marking scheme and final selection process for IPM 2020-25 batch. IPM aspirants should now be aware that the IPM AT exam, with so many changes in its pattern will be conducted on September 7, 2020 in the afternoon as a computer based test. 

IPMAT 2020: 5 Key Changes in Exam & Selection Process

Amid the uncertainty and challenges surrounding COVID-19, SP Jain School of Global Management has announced several new flexible learning options for its top-ranked Global MBA program. SP Jain Global is offering a new ‘Borderless Global MBA’ option where students now have the option to start the program online (Term 1) and continue on campus in Sydney and Singapore or Mumbai (Terms 2 and 3).

Xavier School of Management (XLRI) Jamshedpur is likely to conduct Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 20216 on Sunday, January 3, 2021. Since XAT is conducted on the first Sunday of January every year, XLRI wouldn’t like to break the legacy of 60 years in convening the XAT 2021 also. The registration for XAT 2021 would open in the last week of August, 2020.

XAT 2021 will be a computer based test. Its scores will be used by XLRI, all XAMI institutions and also by more than 100 other associated B-schools for MBA/PGDM admission 2021.

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII),  Ahmedabad has emerged a leading management institute and is the front runner in offering management programmes in Entrepreneurship. 78% of its students have turned as entrepreneurs. Top executives of apex financial institutions are on the Board of Governors of EDII.

Nalanda University School of Management Studies MBA admission 2020 is open till August 15, 2020. The application dates has been extended as many candidates could not apply due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation and lockdown in India. MBA admission at Nalanda University is through CAT/ MAT/ XAT with minimum score of 70 percentile.

IIM Kozhikode conducted the E-inauguration of its four full-time programmes, including the flagship Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), on August 6. Apart from PGP, IIMK also inaugurated Post Graduate Programme in Liberal Studies and Management, thus becoming the first IIM to offer a full-time MBA in Liberal studies – the big thrust of newly launched National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

The countdown to CAT 2020 has begun! CAT Registrations, the first milestone, have kicked off on August 5 at 10 AM. IIM Indore has released CAT 2020 Registration Guide to facilitate students. MBAUniverse.com shares below the key points in registration guide for CAT 2020. This article will also let you know all about the CAT registration do’s and don’ts and implications of early and late registration.

Educated at IIT Kanpur, Stanford University and IIM Ahmedabad, Prof Rishikesha Krishnan wears many hats. He loves teaching Strategy, is an acclaimed author, and dons the hat of an able administrator and leader. On July 20, he took charge as the Director of IIM Bangalore, the institution that he joined in 1996.

After holding weeks on pre-MBA classes, IIM Ahmedabad formally inaugurated its MBA and MBA FABM Batch of 2022 on August 2, 2020. In total 390 students have been admitted to MBA Class while 47 students have been admitted to MBA FABM program. In a shift from past, there are more students with Arts background, but less number of students from Commerce and Science backgrounds could make it to IIMA this year.