Breaking the legacy of opening the registration process for September CMAT examination in the first 4-5 days of July every year, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has allowed the first 2 weeks of July 2015 pass by without any indication when they are going to announce the CMAT Sep 2015 exam. It appears that AICTE has forgot opening of CMAT Sep 2015 (the first CMAT 2016 test) which may cause delay in conduct of the exam. In fact CAT 2015 is proposed to be held in October 2015 and there will be MAT Sep 2015 also.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore the 6th in the family of IIMs has revamped its curriculum for the PGP 2015-17 batch with many initiatives and innovations. Prof Rishikesha T. Krishnanthe Director and his team at the Indian Institute of Management Indore in an endeavour to make the PGP course at IIM Indore more effective in career span of IIMI students have brought about innovations in pedagogy also apart from making changes in curriculum. The focus is on making the course worthy of current market demand.

CAT 2015 aspirants are preparing hard with the solo aim to get into the flagship MBA/PGP 2016-18 batch of IIM A, B, C, L or the top B schools like FMS & SPJIMR where not only the learning experience is great but an excellent career opportunity is also assured after completion of the course.

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is one of the most popular universities in the world. The Anderson School of Management is one of the 11 professional schools of UCLA and is consistently ranked amongst the top B-schools in the world by various ranking charts such as Financial Times, The Economist and US News. UCLA Anderson was the first school to launch Americas first field study program-Applied Management Research. UCLA is a cross roads of ideas, cultures and unlimited experiences and opportunities.

Management Development Institute(MDI) Gurgaon one of the top rated B schools has begun admission process for Part time Post Graduate Programmes. Admission process will remain open till July 27, 2015.

Eligibility criteria
Candidates seeking admission in Part time PGPM are required to have a Bachelors degree in any field from a recognised university or institute with a minimum score of 50 percent (or equivalent CGPA) in qualifying degree.

Registration for NMAT 2016 (NMAT by GMAC 2016 was opened on July 2, 2015 and will close on October 5, 2015 without late fee. Late Registration will remain open till October 19, 2015. The 5 step registration process for NMAT by GMAC can be completed in 10-15 minutes.

Time to award equal weightage to all the questions and sections in CAT 2015 is going to be over as CAT 2015 Centre is going to rationalise the weights assigned to different components of the test to remove skewness in the selection process towards a particular set of candidates. Sharing about the proposed change in CAT 2015 exam pattern Prof Tathagata Bandyopadhyay, CAT 2015 Convener and faculty at IIM Ahmedabad says Regarding the content part, one of our concerns is, score in Quant dominates the percentile rank in CAT.

The Haub School of Business (HSB) at St. Josephs University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is regarded as one of the best in the Northeast region of the United States of America. Admission to MBA at HSB can be explored without work experience and GMAT scores subject to certain conditions.

XSeed, the idea and initiative cell of XIMB organized Kickstart- Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive 2015 on July 12, 2015. The aim of the drive was to raise awareness about entrepreneurship amongst the students so as to ignite in their minds the spark of entrepreneurship and encourage them to turn their dreams into reality. The speakers for the occasion were Mr. Chandrashekhar Mishra, Founder, Canyon Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. and Crux Power; Mr. Anshu Gupta, Founder, Goonj and Mr. Subasish Mishra, MD, Techno5 Ltd. and Joint Secretary, TiE Bhubaneswar.

Prior to going green from paper pencil mode to CBT in 2009, Common Admission Test (CAT) used to have number of registrations to the tune of 2.75 to 3 lakhs candidates every year. It is an irony that despite more number of IIMs and more intake since 2009, there has been a fluctuating and declining trend in number of CAT registrations. The declining trend showed up some positives in CAT 2014 when number of registrations increased by 2000 candidates over CAT 2013.