After going national with effect from academic session 2016-17, KMAT 2016 exam scores propose to offer equal admission opportunity to all the candidates from all the states in the country in MBA/MCA programmes in highly ranked B-schools of Bangalore and rest of Karnataka. This is the first time that Karnataka Management Aptitude Test (KMAT) is being conducted across India in 10 major cities.

IIM Amritsar and IIM Visakhapatnam are the only 2 of the 6 newest IIMs who have concluded their summer placement process for the first PGP 2015-17 batch. The other 4 IIMs namely IIM BodhGaya, IIM Nagpur, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Sirmaur are yet to complete the process of summer placement.

KMAT 2016 will be the only highly credible and last MBA entrance exam offering opportunity to pursue your MBA in 2016 in the 170 AICTE approved B-schools in Bangalore and rest of Karnataka. Candidates appearing in KMAT 2016 on May 29, 2016 will have dual advantage first the MBA admission opportunity in top Bangalore B-schools in 2016 and second the MBA programme is offered at lower fee structure than many other B-schools like IIMs, MDI, IMT, SPJIMR among others.

On April 4, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani released the NIRF Rankings 2016 in New Delhi for four categories of institutions - engineering, management, pharmacy, universities. These first ever rankings were lapped up by media and hundreds of articles have been published. As the euphoria subsides, MBAUniverse.com took a hard look at the Management rankings and found some glaring inconsistencies. From our analysis NIRF seems to be a case of good idea, but poorly executed, thus offering misleading results.

Karnataka Private Post Graduate Colleges Association (KPPGCA), a consortium of more than 150 B-schools in Karnataka, is organizing KMAT 2016 on May 29. This year, there are many new initiatives taken by KPPGCA to make KMAT more accessible to candidates all over the country. MBAUniverse.com spoke to KPPGCA leadership team to understand the background and benefits. Interview withShri.C.N.Krishna Reddy, President, KPPGCA; Dr Wooday P Krishna, Vice President, KPPGCA and Dr M Prakash, Secretary, KPPGCA follows:

Giving yet another opportunity for MBA education community to rejoice, students of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) have jointly won the inaugural edition of RBI Policy Challenge 2016 - a national level competition organized by the Reserve Bank of India, to further the spread of knowledge regarding financial, monetary and banking matters among the student community. The team emerged victorious from among 260 participating teams after intense rounds of competition at regional and zonal levels.

The query how can I negotiate on fee and save a substantial amount has lot of substance as you can get relief and reduce financial burden while pursuing your MBA, if you negotiate before depositing the fee as the B-school may not offer any concession on number of pretexts afterwards.

PGDM batch 2014-2016 at Birla Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECH) Greater Noida has recorded higher salary packages in Placement 2016 with more recruiters making placement offers to the students. The international placement package has gone up by 30% while the highest domestic package has also recorded an increase of 10%. The average pay package has also gone up at BIMTECH.

KMAT 2016 is the key to pursue your dream MBA in 170 B-schools located in Bangalore and other parts of Karnataka. An ever growing job market and known as Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore offers more career opportunities with higher salary structure for MBA graduates year after year. Not only the quality of MBA education but also the good career prospects in almost all the sectors like BFSI, FMCG, IT/ITES, Operations, E-commerce among others attract more and more MBA aspirants to pursue their MBA from the Bangalore based B-schools.

The placement data should guide you in your decision whether to take admission in the particular B school by calculating the Return on Investment after completing your MBA/PGDM programme but the reality is otherwise. If the source is not trustworthy or conceals or inflates the facts, its difficult to ascertain the truth behind it as despite not achieving 100% placement, many B schools conveniently inflate their placement statistics like highest, average and median salary. They create hype on recruiters, misrepresent sectoral and functional placement data and hide the period of placement.