Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB Bhubaneswar) has started the admission process to different MBA programmes beginning 2016 and has invited online applications for the batch 2016-18. The last date of applying to XIMB is December 7, 2015. XIMB will accept scores of CAT 2015, XAT 2016, GMAT (taken from 2014 to 2015) or X-GMAT to be conducted by XIMB on January 10, 2016.
XIMB offers 2 years full time MBA programmes and PGDM programmes in various streams. Placement at XIMB saw an average annual compensation of Rs.12.08 lakhs.

IIM Ahmedabad the CAT 2015 conducting IIM has confirmed Admit Card for CAT 2015 will be available from 25th Oct 2015, 1 PM till exam day. Earlier the CAT 2015 Admit card was supposed to be made available from October 15, 2015 but a delay of 10 days has occurred due to unavoidable circumstances.

With this perception and confirmation CAT 2015 aspirants may hope to get their admit cards from 13 hours on October 25, 2015.

P J Nayak, Chairman of the RBI Committee on Public Sector Reforms and Former Chairman, CEO, Axis Bank in his key note speech at Artha 2015 ISBs Annual Capital Markets Conclave being held in Mumbai was of the view that despite an early start and deeper penetration, PSU banks trail private sector banks on various counts.

CAT 2015 score will be the shortlisting criteria at the first stage of admission to PGDM 2016-18 course, is the common feature in IMT, TAPMI, XIMB as well as in IIMs. So which one is better than its peers an IIM or one of the non-IIMs, is a big puzzle to crack. Should the B-school that shortlists on very high overall CAT 2015 percentile score is better or the one that considers high sectional percentile score in CAT 2015 be preferred, is another issue to be resolved.

T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Manipal has started the admission application process for its 2-year fully residential Post Graduate Programs 2016-18 batch. TAPMI offers PGDM, PGDM-Health Care Management (HCM) and PGDM-Banking and Financial Services (BKFS).

The registration and application process is online and will remain open till January 7, 2016.

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Owing to deep rooted relationships that the placement department of IMT enjoys with the corporate world, no wonder 241 students were placed in a single day during the last lap of summer placement for 2015-17 batch at IMT Ghaziabad. It is like placing the entire batch of some colleges in India in a single day.

180 recruiters
Roles were offered in different domains and for variety of functions by 180+ companies who visited the campus. This has made placements an extremely satisfying exercise for the students.

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IIM Lucknow broke its own placement record and registered 100 per cent summer placements for PGP 2015-17 batch in 4 days as against in 4.5 days last year. The 31st batch with 457 students has got internship offers from 157 companies.

The highlight of the summer placement 2015 at IIM Lucknow was participation of 35 first time recruiters. Out of them 60% recruiters were from the e-commerce, Sales & Marketing and Finance sectors.

Top recruiters

CAT 2016 exam like last year will again have 3 sections divided into VARC; DILR and Quant. Unless well synchronized and prepared with a target to score high in each of the 3 sections in CAT 2016, no call due to low percentile from IIMs could be expected.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore which has recently moved up to 13th rank among top Universities of the world in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) annual World University Rankings and has been ranked 2nd best in the Asian University Rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released on September 15, 2015, is all set to invest $75 million on its innovative learning by introducing smart class rooms. A team based learning will now be reflected instead of conventional class room types at NTU Singapore.