With the admission season over and academic session started in the B-schools, the focus is now getting closer on choosing the carrier path. The theme of The Hindu Business Line-MBAUniverse.com Career Development conference on December 4, 2015 in Bangalore proposes to emphasize on honing the skills and not just getting the job.

IIM Raipur, one of the new IIMs that started functioning in 2010-11 has announced its admission policy with a vision to increase the number of non-engineers in its class rooms for flagship 7th PGP 2016-18 batch. The batch size is proposed to comprise around 140 students.

While the 1st stage short listing at IIM Raipur is based on CAT 2015 scores similar to other IIMs, higher weightage to candidates with non engineering profile will be awarded by IIM Raipur at the final stage of selection. It will help to increase the non-engineering background candidates in the class rooms.

Number of CAT 2015 aspirants out of 2.18 lakhs did not get their CAT 2015 admit cards due to their own faults in leaving the registration process incomplete and not uploading the relevant documents. Exclusively sharing the information with MBAUniverse.com Prof Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, Convener CAT 2015 and Admission chair IIM Ahmedabad says All the candidates who have uploaded the required documents are issued the admit cards. We could not issue to several hundreds who did not upload the required documents even after sending them the reminders.

Application process for MBA/PGDM 2016-18 batch in top rated Non-IIMs in India is open and will be closed in a month or two. All of these top B-schools will accept CAT 2015 scores. If you score a high percentile in CAT 2015, you may get the admission opportunity provided you have already applied to these B-schools before they close the process.

NMAT by GMAC, began on October 6, 2015 has completed 20 days and the test takers have found the exam moving on the same pattern as earlier NMAT used to be till last year. NMAT by GMAC is an online test that is conducted by GMAC for the first time as the ownership of NMAT has been acquired by GMAC and the name of NMAT has been changed to NMAT by GMAC. Apart from 4 campuses of NMIMS University, 13 more B-schools and Universities have joined NMAT by GMAC and will accept its scores for admission to their MBA/PGDM 2016-18 batch

The 3 day annual fest Kritva15, at International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, organized with the theme International Swadeshi and a vision to represent India globally, concluded on Oct 18, 2015.
Kritva 15 witnessed participants from various colleges and corporates across the globe in myriad of events organized by the students of IMI, sponsored by Hero, powered by Panasonic.

Crying foul over the allocation of last among the 4 preferred choices in CAT 2015 Admit Card to take the test, candidates are approaching MBAUniverse.com how and why CAT Centre 2015 instead of allotting one of the 2 top preferred test centres has allotted one of the last 2 choices.

The uncertainty over the appointment of permanent full time director at IIM Lucknow has come to rest. Dr Ajit Prasad, currently a faculty at SPJIMR Mumbai, has been appointed as its full time director. The IIM L Board of Governors (BoG) headed by the chairman Dr Jamshed J Irani has appointed Dr Ajit Prasad as its director after getting nod from MHRD. Dr Prasad is likely to join IIM Lucknow by the end of November 2015.

Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon, one of the finest B-schools in the country hosted its Annual Leadership Conclave, Samvaad 15, on Saturday October 24, 2015.
Themed around Emerging leaders of Innovative India, the panellist included successful entrepreneurs, company heads, leadership gurus, academicians and industry stalwarts from various sectors and start-ups.

With hardly a month remaining to appear in IIFT 2015 MBA (IB) entrance exam to be held on November 22, 2015 for admission in 2016, only a few days are left to exercise your option of change in test centre by November 2, 2015. Since CAT 2015 will also be held just a week after IIFT 2015 test and in a single day on November 29, 2015, the decision could be taken to finalise your travel plan accordingly. The facility of change in centre is available till Nov 2, 2015 prior to issue of IIFT 2015 exam Admit Card which is proposed to be issued in the first week of November.