CAT toppers do not come from metros only; aspirants from historical cities and small towns also make it big and convert their dream to get into IIM Ahmedabad into reality.
MBAUniverse.com has brought a round of CAT 2014 toppers success stories for the benefit of CAT 2015 aspirants. In the series we present the success story of a determined girl from Agra, Swapnil Agarwal who scored 99.79 percentile in CAT 2014 and converted her admission call to IIM Ahmedabad improving the gender diversity in IIMA classroom.

IIM Amritsar, Punjabs first IIM mentored by IIMK inaugurated its first batch of Post Graduate Programme (PGP) 2015-17 on Aug 6, 2015 with 65 students. In the presence of Prof. Kulbhushan Balooni, director, IIM Kozhikode and mentor director IIM Amritsar, Deans, Faculties and Senior Administrative staff of IIM Kozhikode, the Minister for Higher Education & Languages of Punjab, Sardar Surjit Singh Rakhra inaugurated the maiden batch at Amritsar.

INSEAD is one of the worlds largest graduate business schools with campuses in Europe (France), Asia (Singapore) and Abu Dhabi. Currently ranked number 4 by Financial Times 2015, INSEAD became a pioneer of international business education with the first MBA class graduating on the Fontainebleau campus in Europe in 1960. In 2000, INSEAD opened its campus in Singapore and in 2007 another campus was opened in Abu Dhabi. While the campuses at France and Singapore are full fledged, the Abu Dhabi campus is now a module open to selected MBA students for undergoing electives.

With no clue shared in public domain why it cancelled CMAT Sep 2015 exam, the AICTE action is an indicator that it is on path to make CMAT a yearly event instead of half-yearly exercise.

IIM Ahmedabad the CAT 2015 convening IIM has opened the registration and application process for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 today on Aug 6, 2015 at 10 AM. The registration process will remain open till 11.59PM on September 20, 2015, making it 46 day registration window.

Along with opening the registration process, a registration video and specific registration guidelines to apprise CAT 2015 aspirants about the process have also been launched on CAT website. The registration process is rated more aspirant friendly.

The 46 day registration and application window for CAT 2015 will open on Aug 6, 2015 at 10 AM. CAT 2015 will be a single day 2 session exam comprising 3 sections and 100 questions with sectional time limit of 1 hour applied to each section. The registration fee for CAT 2015 is Rs.1600/- and the process will be online only which will close on September 20, 2015 at 11.59 PM.

Xavier School of Rural Management at Xavier University Bhubaneshwar hosted its annual flagship conclave, Abhivyakti on August 1, 2015. Abhivyakti is an endeavor to broaden the involvement of young budding manager with the industries best minds and to discuss viewpoints on the trending topics in the present Rural Management scenario. The conclave witnessed participation of eminent luminaries from various domains pertaining to rural India.

CAT 2015 aspirants who plan to go for exam registration immediately after opening of registration and application window at 10 AM on Aug 6, 2015 must note that the prospective CAT 2015 takers should either complete the registration process in 30 minutes or should login again to complete the unfinished task. It is expected that more than 200000 candidates would register and apply for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015, the Pre-Requisite for admission to flagship PGP 2016-18 programme at IIMs.