The 2 year full time PGP programme at IIM Ahmedabad has moved up to 24th rank from 26th and PGPX has been awarded 1st place in career progression among top world B-schools in FT Global MBA Ranking 2016 released for the full time MBA programmes. The 1 year full time PGPX at IIM Ahmedabad has been ranked as the number one programme for the career progress of its alumni in the world among all the B-schools. The PGPX programme at IIM Ahmedabad is relatively a new programme started only 10 years ago.

MICA Ahmedabad has extended the last date to apply for MICAT-II to February 4, from earlier January 31, 2016. For the admissions to PGDMC 201618 batch, MICA has introduced a new process where candidates are given 2 opportunities to take the MICAT exam and participate in the group exercise (GE) and personal interview (PI).

MICA has initiated a computer-based exam in place of the pen and paper model, as such MICAT - I was conducted at 14 centres and 5, 251 students applied for the exam. Of this, 536 candidates were called for the GE-PI process at 5 centres.

Admission Policy announced by IIM Bangalore for the PGP batch 2016-18 prescribes the same minimum qualifying percentile as was prescribed for IIM Visakhapatnam for its maiden 2015-17 batch. Because of the required high minimum percentile in CAT, IIM Visakhapatnam could not get the desired intake of 60 students and had to be content with 54 students only.

Placement season 2016 at IIM Kozhikode was marked with grand success with 100% placement achieved in just 7 days. More offers from more recruiters with higher packages remained the key attractions in IIMK placement 2016.

Placement 2016 at IMT Ghaziabad has beaten its own records for the fourth consecutive year in terms of average salary, number of students placed, new companies and the speed with which students are being placed. IMT received 357 offers from 105 companies by the end of the placement week with the average packages of top 50, top 100 and top 150 students up by around 20% indicating that the quality as well as quantity of offers on campus are growing beyond imagination.

As predicted by MBAUniverse.com, XLRI has declared XAT 2016 exam result before January 31, 2016, the pre-declared date, keeping the legacy of releasing the XAT result before time. You can download your score card by login to http://xatonline.net.in/# with their XAT 2016 registration ID and your date of birth. Earlier XLRI enabled the XAT 2016 individual OMR answer sheets making the scoring process most transparent.

The 6 new IIMs that began operation in 2015 with a proposed intake of 60 students each but could not get sufficient number of students are suffering from the same dilemma of uncertainty this year as 4 out of them are yet to finalize their admission policy although the dates for PI round are coming closer. As such they have neither been able to announce the shortlist nor the shortlisting criteria for admission to PGP 2016-18 batch. It will be no surprise if these 6 new IIMs shortlist candidates for admission at lower CAT 2015 percentile than other IIMs.

If you have missed MICAT-I for admission to PGDM-C at MICA Ahmedabad, you still have the opportunity to apply online for MICAT-II by January 31, 2016 and explore admission opportunity in the premium B-school. MICA would be closing the admission application process on Sunday January 31, 2016.

XAT 2016 result is expected to be declared in next 3 days before January 31, 2016. Assuring that the XAT 2016 result could be declared before January 31, 2016, XLRI has shared XAT 2016 results will be available on the website by 31stJanuary 2016. This implies that you may get your percentile score for XAT 2016 in next 3 days although after making the individual OMR answer sheets for XAT 2016 accessible to each and every test taker, XLRI has given the opportunity to assess your performance and tally of core marks you are going to get after the announcement of result.