Most awaited credible B-school Ranking of India is finally out! Former NASSCOM Chairman and Vice-Chairman of IT services major Cognizant Lakshmi Narayanan, Management Guru Dr TV Rao; Shailesh Kekre, Principal, McKinsey India; Sundar Kondur, Vice-President of Kasturi and Sons (The HinduGroup) and Amit Agnihotri, founder of MBAUniverse.com, released The Hindu BusinessLine-MBAUniverse.com B-school Rankings 2016 on December 4 in Bengaluru. The Rankings were unveiled at the MBA Career Conference organized by MBAUniverse.com and HBL. Complete ranking is now live on MBAUniverse.com.

CAT 2015 exam right from the beginning aimed to improve academic diversity in IIM class rooms in the academic session beginning 2016. The strategic planning and move to restructure CAT 2015 on the pattern and content with the objective to achieve this goal has turned out to result in more number of non-engineers appearing in the exam than in previous CAT exams.

With barely 15 days left for SNAP 2015 going to be held on December 20, 2015 the prospective test takers are supposed to update their study plan to ace the exam. While preparing for SNAP 2015 the important factor to be kept in mind is that the SNAP cut off percentile for shortlisting at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Pune usually goes high. According to Dr R Raman, Director SIBM Pune For the past 5 years, for the MBA program at SIBM, Pune,the cut off percentile has never gone below 97 percentile.

National level Fee Fixation Committee headed by Justice B N Srikrishna has submitted recommendations to Ministry of Human Resource Ddevelopment to curtail the MBA & other professional courses tuition fee charged by private institutes. The recommendations are proposing another blow instead of providing level playing field for Private B-schools with IIMs as the committee has refrained from recommending any fee reduction in IIMs.

SPJIMR, Mumbai has extended the application process for PGDM 2016-18 for another 2 days. Now the registration and online application to SPJIMR will close on December 9 instead of December 7, 2015.

In its revamped form, announced by XLRI, XAT 2016 is going to greet the aspirants with easier and fewer questions in the exam on January 3, 2016. According to the changes announced by XAT 2016 conducting XLRI, the exam will now have only 78 questions divided in 3 major sections which will be responsible to determine your percentile for shortlisting. These 78 questions shall have to be solved in 170 minutes instead of earlier 150 minutes allowing an increase of 20 minutes to solve the test paper.

Under EPSI umbrella, a team of very senior and learned lawyers comprising Mr. K. K. Venugopal; Mr. Huzefa Ahmadi; Mr. Gopal Shankranarayan; Mr. Naresh Kaushik; Mr. Rohit Bhatt and For Mrs. Lalita Kaushik Advocate Mr. Renjith B, presented and pushed the demand for extension of stay for academic session 2016-17 against the AICTE notification 2010 on PGDM B-schools in the Supreme Court and again emerged winner in successfully getting extension of Stay for 2016-17.

CAT 2015 had an absolutely different experience for the first time as the third gender the transgender candidates made their maiden presence in the exam. Out of total 80 registered transgender candidates for CAT 2015, 41 appeared in the exam on November 29, 2015 in both the sessions.

With a legacy of 56 years as part of Somaiya Vidyavihar that was esblished in 1959, K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (SIMSR) Mumbai came into existence in 1981. Since then SIMSR has been imparting and contributing tremendously in qualitative development of Management Education in India. K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research is popularly referred to as SIMSR and has autonomous status granted by UGC and notified by the University of Mumbai .

XAT 2016 to be held on January 3, 2016 in paper pen mode will be a totally revamped the exam. Announcing the significant changes XLRI the XAT 2016 conducting B-school advises that the the total number of questions has been brought down to 78 in the question paper and the time allotted has been increased by 20 minutes. The candidates would have 170 minutes to answer the questions. Besides, the level of difficulty of the questions has also been carefully designed to provide level playing field in the test.

Total questions & overall time changed