What IIM Ahmedabad planned to achieve 2 years ago by introducing a totally revamped CAT exam to improve academic and gender diversity in IIM class rooms, the class profile for PGP 2017-19 batch reveals that the goal has been achieved to a large extent. The PGP batch 2017-19 at IIM Ahmedabad comprises 32% non-engineers. This number is more than three times the percentage of non engineers who were only 9 percent three years back in the PGP batch 2015-17 and highest ever in last 15 years.

Known as the institute of excellence, IIM Lucknow is convening CAT 2017 under the convenorship of Prof Neeraj Dwivedi, admission chair at the B-school. There are many firsts and USPs associated with IIM Lucknow. This unique feature might bring about more changes in the exam structure and content.

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IIM Lucknow has geared up with the activities to convene a successful CAT 2017, probably with more changes in modified pattern sometime in the month of November/December 2017 to select suitable candidates to various PGP 2018-20 programmes in 20 IIMs and other top rated B-schools. CAT 2017 notification is proposed to be released in the last week of July 2017 and the registration process might begin in the first week of August 2017.

Notification for CAT 2017 exam to be convened by IIM Lucknow is proposed to be released in the last week of July 2017. Responding to the MBAUniverse.com query, Convener of CAT 2017 Prof Neeraj Dwivedi, faculty and admission chair at IIM Lucknow says CAT-2017 notification is likely to appear in newspapers towards end of July.

Professor Neeraj Dwivedi, faculty on Strategic Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Internationalization Strategies; Admission Chair at IIM Lucknow is the Convener of CAT 2017 exam.

Whether you are All India or Maharashtra state candidate, your admission chances to MBA/MMS 2017-19 batch in 400 Maharashtra B-schools are still alive. Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) Maharashtra has today on June 28 has displayed the Vacant Seats for CAP Round-II for Maharashtra State as well as All India candidates. Thousands of vacant seats are available to be filled up in various Maharashtra B-schools.

The PGP 2016-18 batch at IIM Ahmedabad has returned to college after completing their internships. The summer internship 2017 at IIM Ahmedabad has remained unique as many students this year have opted to work in unconventional sectors like Policy, entrepreneurship, NGOs instead of only in corporate sector. List of such students opting for the unconventional offers has been increasing at IIM Ahmedabad for the last few years.

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CAT 2017, the largest MBA entrance test will be conducted by IIM Lucknow in the month of November/December. The exam will be a computer based test of 3 hours duration and will be without any break in between. For the last 2 years CAT has been conducted on the same pattern and according to experts it is expected that IIM Lucknow may bring substantial changes in the exam.

Apart from the 20 IIMs including IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta, an

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow is the convening IIM for CAT 2017. TCS the testing partner for CAT since 2014 remains unchanged. The exam is expected to be held in the months of November/December 2017 in the similar format as that of past 2 years. Sharing the information, the sources have categorically stated that instead of assigning the responsibility of conducting CAT 2017 to any other IIM, it has been decided that the one of the top four IIMs, namely IIM Lucknow should carry on the process of convening CAT 2017.

Inspite of the fact that IIM Amritsar, IIM Nagpur, IIM Visakhapatnam either participated in Common Admission process (CAP) 2017 coordinated by IIM Rohtak, or conducted their own PI round, all the 3 of the 7 newest IIMs have announced their session commencement schedule 2017-18 with their fee structure as against IIM Bodahgaya, Jammu, Sambalpur and Sirmaur who are yet to finalise the date for their session commencement.