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.

Got call from more than one top rated IIMs, FMS, SPJIMR or other B-school, but taking a decision which one to opt for finally might have become a great problem and you may be stuck how to zero in with the most appropriate B-school to pursue your MBA and make your future.

IIM Bangalore has announced to launch a new digital learning initiative - Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) based online certificate series - titled Fundamentals of Business Management. This online programme aims to equip learners with basic business and management skills needed to compete in todays business landscape.

6 course series

The Summer Placement process of PGP 2015-17 (Post Graduate Programme in Management) batch of IIM Trichy has been successfully completed with record breaking figures. Enthusiastic participation shown by the industry has reaffirmed their faith in the students of IIM Trichy.

102 total students participated in the process and all of them have received coveted offers. In addition, IIM Trichy has gone international, through internship opportunities in Europe and Middle East.

Lets start with IIMs first. IIM A, IIM B and IIM C will begin their Personal Interview (PI) and Written Abilities Test (WAT) Round from the third week of February. Soon after, IIM L, IIM K and IIM Indore will start their Personal Interview and Written Abilities Test round from the end of February. The overall qualifying CAT cut-off for all these top IIMs was 90%.

New IIMs to conduct PI round in March