AICTE has updated the list of institutes using CMAT scores and has made it available on its home page in the alphabetical order state wise. However, many B-schools that are included in the updated list of AICTE, although run the AICTE approved PGDM/MBA programmes have refused to accept CMAT 2016 scores as the shortlisting criterion for final admission process.

Directorate of Technical Education, Maharashtra has announced the syllabus and marking scheme for MAH MBA-CET 2016 exam but has refrained from issuing the notification on the opening of the registration process for the online exam and the exam schedule. So far MAH MBA-CET used to be conducted in the middle of March every year, but in 2016 it appears that DTE Maharashtra proposes to delay the conduct of exam and may conduct it in the month of May 2016 after the admission process in top rated B-schools is over.

The Common Admission Process (CAP) 2016 being coordinated by IIM Kashipur is going to start on February 15, 2016 and will be a different and more aspirant friendly experience for the candidates seeking admission in 9 participating IIMs.
Sharing exclusively with MBAUniverse.com, Dr Gautam Sinha Director IIM Kashipur the CAP 2016 coordinating IIM has confirmed Among the five different centers (New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai), the CAP will start on February 15th and end on March 4th.

Call getters from IIMs for WAT-PI round now need to convert the call and gear up for the same to cross the last hurdle and ace the race of getting into the desired IIM.

Instead of 6 IIMs, there would be 9 IIMs who would participate in Common Admission Process (CAP) 2016 being coordinated by IIM Kashipur. The homepage on IIM Kashipur website says Welcome to the Admission Process of IIM Kashipur/IIM Raipur/IIM Ranchi/IIM Rohtak/ IIM Tiruchirappalli/IIM Udaipur/IIM BodhGaya/IIM Sambalpur/IIM Amritsar. However the remaining 3 new IIMs namely IIM Nagpur, IIM Sirmaur and IIM Visakhapatnam wouldnt participate in CAP 2016.

MDI Gurgaon reinforced its position as one of the premier business schools in the country as it completed its Final Placements for the batch of 2014 2016 in 3.5 days. A total of 333 students participated in the placement process, with 237 students from the flagship PGPM course, 61 students from the PGP-HRM course, and 35 from the PGP-IM course. 106 students received Pre-Placement Offers either from their summer internship organizations or through various B-school competitions.

Complete batch of 446 students at IIM Lucknow got placed in just 3 days from the opening of Placement 2016 process with more recruiters reposing and reinstating the faith in the MBA education imparted by IIM Lucknow. More national and international companies have visited IIM Lucknow with more offers and higher salary packages in Placement 2016. Sales & Marketing and Finance are the major segments that have contributed 47% of total job offers in the placement 2016 at IIM Lucknow.

Thousands of candidates who have applied for admission to 215 seats in MBA programme beginning 2016 at Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi in anticipation of getting shortlisted for next stage of admission round at this high ROI B school of University of Delhi are still waiting to see their names figure among the shortlisted ones.

With the sole decisive criterion of CAT 2015 percentile score to announce the shortlist for PI-WAT round, the 12 new IIMs propose to shortlist around 18000 candidates for admission to their PGP 2016-18 batch with the same shortlisting parameters comprising overall and sectional minimum percentile scored in CAT 2015. Instead of becoming a selection round, the process is more expected to become an elimination round. Now the biggest worry for the new IIMs would be whether they would get sufficient number of candidates according to their respective intake in flagship PGP 2016-18 batch

Xavier School of Management (XLRI) Jamshedpur has concluded the 3 day long National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship (NCSE). The 8th edition of NCSE themed on Social Innovations: Changing Lives and Society witnessed around 150 social entrepreneurs, development sector professionals, academicians and students share their experiences, issues and challenges and discussed on building social entrepreneurship ecosystem.