Quant section in CAT 2015 may not be so dominating as it used to be in earlier CAT exams for the reason that IIMs wish to increase academic diversity in their class rooms. The students very well placed in Quant shall have to prepare hard also for Logical Reasoning and Verbal Ability to score high percentile and if they wish to be shortlisted by the IIMs now.

Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida, has launched a dual degree management program named Post Graduate Diploma Plus for its PGDM-Insurance Business Course students in association with Chartered Insurance Institute UK on July 2, 2015.

Out of the proposed new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) announced in the budget session 2014-15, five have been able to launch their websites accessible in public domain while the website of 6th IIM at Visakhapatnam is to be launched shortly. All of these proposed new IIMs have geared up to take off in the academic session 2015-16 between July to September 2015

Particularly reputed for its technology management programmes, the International Business School (IBS) was established in 1997 at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) as a graduate school of management. The IBS was established with a vision to provide management education and training to students from technical background. IBS Malaysia is renowned for its MBA programmes in Techno-Entrepreneurship; Strategic Management; Healthcare Management; Executive MBA; consulting services and other short term programs.

Announcing that the admission process for proposed IIM Sambalpur would begin in the month of July 2015, the mentor IIM Indore has declared Under the mentorship of IIM Indore, Indian Institute of Management Sampbalpur will start the admission process for the first batch (2015-17) of its Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) from July 2015.