Believe it or not, no other course as compact and short as MBA can make you earn US$ 2.5 million as cumulative median cumulative salary over a period of 20 years. This is exactly has been found by GMAC in its Alumni Survey. Doing MBA from a good B-school is a lucrative investment and it will not take more than 4 years to recoup your MBA costs after completion of the course, is the outcome of GMAC Alumni Survey report published on February 23, 2016.

Good B-schools accepting MAT 2016 scores would commence MBA/PGDM 2016-18 batch in the month of June/July 2016. The scores of MAT 2016 therefore would be the last all India exam scores to be considered for the admission in academic year 2016-17 for MBA/PGDM 2016-18 programme.

Apply now or wait for next year

The Writing Skills Assessment Test (WSAT) and Personal Interview (PI) round 2016 at IIM Shillong started in the beginning of February 2016 and shortlisted candidates were required to fill-in the Interview form and upload the same on IIM Shillong website. Only then IIM Shillong sent the WSAT & PI call letters to those shortlisted candidates who correctly filled in the Interview form. No communication was sent to applicants who are not short-listed for WSAT & PI.

Xavier School of management (XLRI) has placed its current outgoing batch of 2014-16, the largest batch to ever sit for final placements in the history of XLRI. The Final Recruitment process at XLRI saw participation from 132 recruiters, inclusive of 36 first time recruiters making 386 offers for a batch of 361 students.

Achieving yet again 100% placement, XLRIs unrivalled reputation for its Human Resources Program was clearly visible as the HR students secured excellent job offers across sectors viz. Consulting, FMCG, General Management and other sectors in large numbers.

Shri Dharmasthala Mnjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) Mysore, one of the reputed B-schools in Karnataka has completed its final placement for the class 2014-16. SDMIMD has a consistent record of excellent placement for the past many years.

SDMIMD is one the institutes that pay more emphasis on Business Ethics, Values and Wellness Management. The B-school is going for International dual-certification programs shortly.

SDMIMD: Placement trends

MAH CET 2016 for admission to MBA/MMS 2016-18 batch is going to be held as online computer based exam with a duration of 150 minutes on March 12 & 13, in multiple sessions across 40 test cities in the country. The test will have 3 sections and the candidates will have the freedom to move from one section to other within overall time limit of 150 minutes and will be allowed to attempt any question from any section.

The final admission round for PGP 2016-18 at IIMs is in full bloom and the candidates are getting new and varying topics for their Written Ability Test (WAT). MBAUniverse.com research and analysis experts while sharing the probable topics on WAT 2016 in IIMs old or new always suggest the aspirants to make sure that they write skillfully and coherently during the given time frame of 20 to 25 minutes without breaking the thread of writing.

IIM Gaya in Bihar after announcing its admission policy 2016 earlier has revised it further and this time has reduced the minimum qualifying CAT 2015 sectional percentile from 80 to 70 although overall required percentile has been increased to 96 from earlier announced 90. The move has kindled hope among thousands of CAT 2015 high overall percentilers who despite scoring 97 to 99 percentile in CAT 2015 were not shortlisted by any IIM as they had low percentile in one or other section.

Industry engagement is a key facet of any top quality B-school, be it IIMs or XLRI or any other Top 25 B-schools. Conventional wisdom is that it takes decades to build effective Industry-Institute engagement that really helps students. How does a very new institution like Pune based FLAME University ensure that its MBA program has deep industry engagement? What are the effective approaches and strategies? MBAUniverse.com asked FLAME Vice Chancellor Dr. Devi Singh, former director of IIM Lucknow and MDI, to share the mantras that are putting its MBAs on a fast track.

Your high percentile score of 99 in MAT 2016 February exam may not go unrecognized now as the best B-schools of India have decided to accept the MAT scores in their admission 2016. Please remember the opportunity available in 2016 may not again be available next year. Unless and until you act fast, it may also slip out of your hands.

Only last 3 MAT scores acceptable