SPJIMR, Mumbai has announced wrapping up of another spectacular season of placements for the out-going PGDM Class of 2016. The placement 2016 has witnessed 89 companies queuing up to hire the 226 participants of the Class.

IMI Delhi after announcing the percentile of 90 in CAT 2015 as cut off for flagship PGDM 2016-18 batch proposes to release the programme wise shortlist of candidates. While the PGDM 2016-18 shortlist is to be released tomorrow on February 4, shortlists for other PGDM programmes are proposed to be announced on February 17, 2016.

Making its MICAT exam fully transparent, MICA has declared the scores for MICAT - I, the first entrance exam for the 201618 batch of its flagship programme Post Graduate Diploma in Management Communications (PGDMC) on February 2, 2016. The exam takers will be able to access their scores individually at the application portal mica.cqtech.in using their MICA Id.

MICA Ahmedabad is considered as Indias only B-school for Strategic Marketing and Communication. This is the first time MICA has declared the MICAT scores and has also made the detailed selection criteria public.

Opportunity to apply for admission to flagship PGDM 2016-18 programme at IMT Ghaziabad is available for 2 more days only to XAT 2016 scorers while for CAT 2015 takers its stands closed. The shortlisting process is in progress and the next stage of admission round CnPI will begin on February 6, 2016 at IMT Ghaziabad, Nagpur and Hyderabad campuses followed by other cities.

Management Development Institute (MDI), one of Indias finest B-schools, co-organised a unique bootcamp, with SACC (Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce) that provided a bouncing ground for several path-breaking business ideas. The activity was a business idea formation exercise where the participating students from MDI formed 6 teams comprising five-members in each team. These teams were given a theme on which they had to build a scalable idea on the spot.

IIM Raipur has announced to declare the final merit list for PGP 2016-18 on May 9, 2016 after completion of CAP round. Those who have a percentile score of 90 in CAT 2015 with excellent academic background with 90% marks and are non-engineers may get the easy opportunity of admission in IIM Raipur since greater weightage of 30% will be awarded by IIM Raipur to diversity and profile while generating the final admission offers in order of merit. The proposed batch size for PGP 2016-18 at IIM Raipur would be of 140 students.

Offering a good opportunity to working professionals to hone their management skills, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) in association with Ivory Education has launched a Post Graduate Certificate in Global Economics & Business Management. The course beginning in March 2016 will facilitate updated information and in-depth knowledge about the concepts of Global Economics & Business Management.

College of Management & Economics Studies (CoMES), UPES is conducting the GD-PI for admissions to its 10 specialized MBA programs through MAT/CAT/NMAT/CMAT across 13 cities from February 12 to February 21 2016.

Probably the first University to begin GDPI for admission to MBA 2016 so early, College of Management & Economics Studies (CoMES), University of Petroleum and energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun will be conducting the GD-PI for admissions to its 10 specialized MBA programs.

Great opportunity to get an IIM without much hurdle and based only on CAT 2015 scores could open up again in the month of May 2016 for those who do not make to the final merit list or are not shortlisted by rest 13 older IIMs. The 6 new IIMs propose to ask for the expression of interest from the candidates who have scored a bit lower percentile in CAT 2015 around first week of May 2016.

Shortlist in May 2016