The bright career prospects backed by great learning experience during MBA programme at SMU-LKCSB, Singapore have made the B-school one of the most preferred destinations for MBA abroad aspirants. Singapore Management University (SMU) was established by the Singapore Government as a specialized management university with Wharton collaboration in the heart of the business district in Singapore. MBA at Lee Kong Chian School of Business of SMU Singapore commenced in the year 2008.

NMAT 2015 the ownership of which is now taken over by GMAC and as such the exam is renamed as NMAT by GMAC is going to offer 3 attempts to the candidates to maximise their scores in the prestigious entrance test.

Northwestern Universitys B-school Kellogg School of Management is a top ranked business school in the world with campuses in Chicago, Evanston and Miami. The Kellogg MBA is one of the highly competitive MBA programmes in the world and is ranked #14 by the Financial Times. Kellogg is the 6th best business school according to US News.

Purdue University located in West Lafayette, Indiana is the flagship University of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue has the second largest student body among all universities in Indiana and has the fourth largest international student body of any university in USA. The full time MBA from Krannert School of Management at Purdue University is one of the worlds reputed MBA programmes with high ROI. Krennerts MBAprogram ranks 3rd based on average one-year ROI at top American business schools by Bloomberg Businessweek.

In a landmark development to revamp the general management education landscape in India, Cornell University, the globally-acclaimed Ivy League University has launched a specially-designed Cornell-ILR Experienced Managers Program (CEMP) for Indian professionals on July 1, 2015 at New Delhi. The 12-month certificate program crafted to bring the next stage of career growth for mid-level professionals/entrepreneurs offers insights into integral managerial decision-making processes. Cornell University has selected Pearson as their learning partner for this management programme in India.

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