More non-engineers, more females have got admission offers from IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and other top B schools this year, thanks to the changed admission policy and criteria for the batch 2017-19. Admission to the top IIMs may not be as difficult as you think as the high percentile of 99 may not be needed by the top ranked B-schools any more.

IIM Ahmedabad: A B.A. with 89.67 percentile gets in; 100 percentiler is out

Doing MBA is an expensive affair and when it comes to pursue your flagship Management programme from IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, MDI Gurgaon, XLRI Jamshedpur or any other top B-school, you need to shell out between Rs.19 lakhs to Rs. 21 lakhs to pay only for your tuition fee and other key charges included into it, as almost all the top B-schools have increased their fee structure.

SPJIMR (S P Jain Institute of Management & Research), Mumbai has inaugurated on June 19, the most diverse 37th PGDM batch 2017-19 of 243 students with highest ever gender diversity comprising 41% women candidates and 5 international students who are nationals of Australia and Nepal.

In its 3rd IIMA Young Alumni Achievers Awards ceremony, IIM Ahmedabad presented the award to 7 formidable Alumni that included top bureaucrats, MD & CEOs, Founders, Directors. The awards, started in 2015, are given to alumni under the age of 45, to recognize outstanding achievements in various areas of work.

With a batch of total 537 students admitted to various two years, fifteen months, three years PGDM and FPM programmes, Xavier School of Management (XLRI) Jamshedpur has announced the commencement of new academic session 2017-18 on June 12, 2017 with an inaugural prayer service function.

There will be no need to search for the jobs and wait for the placement season at IIMs once you have decided to become entrepreneur after your MBA is over instead of becoming a paid executive in some company.

TheInstitute for Financial Management and Research(IFMR), has commenced its 18th batch of post graduate program in management (and its first ever MBA batch) on June 1, 2017. This is the largest ever batch with 240 students marked with high academic and gender diversity.

Busting the myth of any sort of slowdown in MBA placements and proving again its mettle in the MBA education market, Indian School of Business has witnessed a 39% increase in the number of recruiters participating in the current placements season.

Increased demand for leadership roles from government think tanks, public and the private sector and presence of marquee brands were some of the notable highlights of the Indian School of Business (ISB) Placements 2017 that were concluded recently.

903 students: Largest class size

MAT 2017 May exam toppers are still undecided whether to go for MBA in 2017 or should go for other exam and do it in 2018. Since the last dates for the MBA admissions are to close shortly, you need to decide quickly whether you want to do MBA in 2017 or plan to invest one more year in preparation.

Toppers still undecided on admission