In order to address Lack of Personal Finance Skills in India, Indian School of Business (ISB), a premier global B-school, has announced today on June 9, 2016 the launch of a new series of 4 courses Specialization on Financial Markets and Investment Strategy in collaboration with Coursera. This is the second programme being offered by ISB on Courseras MOOCs platform after the course on happiness in November 2014.

While an engineering degree from a good institute can start your career at an annual package of 6-8 lakhs, an MBA degree from equally good B school will get you placed in double digits of 10 to 30 lakhs depending upon your skills. To finally convert the call in top rated B schools like IIMs, XLRI, SPJIMR, JBIMS, FMS, MDI, IMT, apart from a good volume of needed preparation, you have to draw your plan which exams you should appear, how to prepare for each of them as every exam is different in one or other way and get shortlisted to succeed in your mission MBA 2017.

Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) Maharashtra has announced to declare the provisional merit list of successful candidates who appeared in Centralized Admission Process (CAP) 2016 for admission to MBA/MMS 2016-18 batch across Maharashtra B-schools at 5PM on June 8, 2016.

Earlier the provisional merit list was proposed to be displayed on June 4, 2016 but with the extension of last date for submission of online application from June 3 to June 7, 2016, the date of publication of provisional merit list has also been extended.

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It will be better to choose a good sectoral MBA programme which is in high demand instead of running in a rat race of regular and low yield MBA.

Running after only IIMs and other top ranked B-schools where admission chances are also bleak may not always award you with high Return on Investment. In fact despite making high investment in the range of Rs. 14 to 20 lakhs towards fee and other expenses, it is not necessary that you can grab a very high placement package after 2 years. The campus placement reports are sometimes quite misleading also.

The 7th Indian Management Conclave (IMC) 2016, Indias biggest Management education conference to be held at IIM Ahmedabad onAugust 5 & 6, has opened nominations for the prestigious IMC Awards 2016. More than twenty five leading B-schools have already submitted their nominations. Last date to participate is June 10. B-schools candownload nomination form and submit their successful initiatives in two themes: Achieving Academic Leadership and Leadership in Corporate Engagement.

With the admission result announced by the new IIMs, candidates who have been offered admission in more than one of the new IIMs are now confused which one they should choose. Many of them have approached MBAUniverse.com about the current placement trends in the 6 new IIMs, so that they can get guidance while arriving at the right decision to choose the high RoI IIM among the new ones. It is worthwhile to note that the fee structure of 6 new IIMs is more or less same with little substantial difference but the placement 2016 has remained much varied at all of them.

DTE Maharashtra has extended the last date for online registration of application for Centralized Admission Process (CAP) till June 7, 2016 from earlier June 3 for admission to MBA programmes in the B-schools across Manaharshtra. The application can now be made through computer connected to Internet on the website for all categories of the candidates including Maharashtra State, All India and J & K Migrant candidates.

Despite being the last to declare the placement 2016 statistics, IIM Kashipur has proved that it is not the least achiever while talking about the placements. Among the 6 new IIMs who started operation in 2010-11, IIM Kashipur has recorded highest international placement grabbing offer equivalent to Rs.53.75 lakhs while the highest and average domestic packages have also gone up at the B-school.

Almost all the top rated B schools whether IIMs or non-IIMs have increased their fee for MBA/PGDM 2016-18 but still the admission seekers outnumber the intake at these B-schools. IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, MDI, SPJIMR, XLRI among others have already increased their fee in a range of 7% to 30% http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/9482/IIM-Fee-Hike . Latest is the ISB who has followed IIMs and has increased the programme fee to Rs. 24 lakhs, probably the highest in India.