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.

High performers in KMAT 2016 will have the unique opportunity of getting scholarship and Fee Waiver in their MBA/PGDM programme in Bangalore and rest of Karnataka B-schools. It is a great USP and one of the key attractions to apply and appear in KMAT 2016. No other entrance exam is loaded with this feature.

If you get 10% fee waiver in your MBA/PGDM 2016-18 programme in a B-school at Bangalore-the hot destination for MBA aspirants, you will save around 50 or 60000 out of your tuition fee.

Holding the score cards of CAT 2015; XAT 2016; CMAT 2016 and MAT February 2016, I am standing at the cross roads where to head for in order to pursue my dream of doing MBA. Not shortlisted by IIMs, XLRI, FMS, SPJIMR, MDI or IMI to which I had applied for, what other good options could be there for me to pursue MBA in 2016 became a big question before me considering the fact that despite appearing in all the above exams for consecutive 2 years, I remained only an aspirant and not an MBA student.

Registration process for both the MBA entrance exams KMAT 2016 and MAT May 2016 is open. While registration for MAT will be closing on April 19, the registration process for KMAT 2016 will close on May 10, 2016.
KMAT 2016 exam will be held in paper pencil pattern on May 29, 2016 but MAT May 2016 in paper pen mode will be over on May 1, 2016.