Institute of Management Studies (IMS) Ghaziabad has appointed Prof Jai Prakash Sharma, former Head, Department of Commerce, and former Dean, Faculty of Commerce & Business, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.

Logical and Abstract Reasoning in MAH CET 2016 will play a major role in your admission to JBIMS or other top rated B-schools in Maharashtra. According to the Syllabus and marking scheme published for MAH CET 2016 by DTE Maharashtra for admission to 59000 seats in various MBA/MMS/PGDM 2016-18 batch in Maharashtra B-schools, there will be 75 questions on Logical Reasoning and 25 questions on Abstract Reasoning in MCQ form out of 200 questions carrying equal weightage in the MAH CET 2016 written exam going to be held on March 12 & 13, 2016 in 40 test cities across India.

It is not necessary that all the high percentilers in CAT 2015 are supposed to be shortlisted by all the 19 IIMs nor all of these IIMs, except a few highly ranked ones, can be rated as good as many other non-IIMs and private B-schools who are rated much above than number of IIMs. Similarly many high percentilers in XAT 2016 have not been shortlisted by XLRI and XIMB and on the same ground even the top rank holders in CMAT 2016 and MAT 2015 & 2016 still remain undecided which B-school to choose now.

Experts view

The NMIMS University School of Business Management will host its Business School-Industry interaction conference on Wednesday and Thursday, March 16 and 17, 2016 in Mumbai. All deliberations will be around the theme Risk Enabled Sustainability Management Navigating India Inc. through Turbulent Times.

The 1.2 billion population of India contributing to 17% of entire world population has made India as the second most populated country after Peoples Republic of China. The way it is moving, very shortly it may surpass the population of China and may claim to be the most populated country of the world.

MICA Ahmedabad becomes yet another example of women empowerment by appointing Dr Preeti Shroff an alumnus of St Xavier Ahmedabad, as its new dean. With the focused vision and dedication, women in India are moving up the ladder of highest positions like Corporate & PSU chairpersons, Directors & deans of top rated B-schools, chairpersons of BoG at IIMs among others. The appointment of Dr Preeti Shroff at MICA is a glorious addition to this series.

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.