Global MBA Placements: Key Highlights
For the Class of 2024, the school reported a highest salary offer of INR 78 lakhs, with an average of INR 36.2 lakhs, marking a four-fold increase in post-MBA earnings within a year. Nearly 71% of graduates secured roles outside their home countries, highlighting the program’s strong global reach and industry relevance.

Industry leaders, management thinkers and academicians are congregating at the 9th Indian Management Conclave (IMC), hosted by IIM Bangalore in association with MBAUniverse.com, on August 03 and 04, 2018, to deliberate on the theme of MBA Pedagogy for 21st Century B-Schools.

Impounding the Autonomous Status of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) Mumbai, DTE Maharashtra has clipped the wings of this leading Mumbai based B-school by taking away all admission powers in 2018 and reserving all the 120 seats to Maharashtra State candidates with No seat offered to Outside Maharashtra State candidate, referred to as All India (AI) Candidate. The participation in DTE CAP 2018 has cost JBIMS dearly with no CAT/CMAT topper getting any admission opportunity to the college.

Chetana Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai popularly known as CIMR Mumbai has announced the launch of Research and Investor Lab in partnership with VANS Investors and Advisors, a boutique organisation focussed on Skilling, Scaling and Investing. Chetana Institute is one of the leading B schools located in the financial capital of India Mumbai.

Adarsh Srivastava, student of PGPM 2018-20 batch at MDI Gurgaon scored 98.99 percentile in CAT 2017 despite being a working professional. Sending the message to CAT 2018 aspirants not to give up inspite of odds, Adarsh is of the view that failures will pump you up in your CAT preparation journey. Adarsh scored a percentile score of 95.65 in Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC); 92.68 in Data Inpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) and 99.42 in Quantitative Ability (QA).

An inspiration for CAT 2018 aspirants, the CAT topper with 100 percentile coming from small town of Kaithal in Haryana, Yogesh Taneja converted call both at IIM Calcutta and IIM Bangalore. However, Yogesh has preferred to join PGP 2018-20 batch at IIM Calcutta.

CAT 2018 exam may bring a few surprises which may be aspirant friendly but would be brought in to achieve the further diversity in IIM classrooms for the 2019-21 batch. Sharing about CAT 2018 exam conducting strategy in an interview with MBAUniverse.com, Dr Sumanta Basu, faculty IIM Calcutta and convener of CAT 2018 responds to the queries related to CAT exam being conducted by IIM Calcutta this year.

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University has witnessed a sharp increase in the ratio of women students in its MBA full time 2018-20 batch. The high RoI MBA college in India, FMS Delhi has seen a 110% rise in the number of female students.
From 18% to 38% Female Students

CAT topper with 98.67 percentile and IIM Calcutta student of PGP 2018-20 batch, Medha Gupta had no time to join any coaching and preferred self preparation instead of joining some coaching although she made it a point to join the CAT Mock test series offered by the coaching institute. Medha suggests to improve your basics first instead of getting into the advanced level of topics immediately.

Medha is a B-Tech in CSE from IIT Ropar. She had earned 3 years experience as a software developer at PayPal before joining IIM Calcutta with a score of 98.67 percentile in CAT 2017.