Sixth edition of Indian Management Conclave (IMC) 2015, to be held on July 29-30, 2015 at the ISB Hyderabad campus, is all set to host the whos who from the Corporate World and Management Thinkers. While the Valedictory Address will be delivered by Mr Dilip Shanghvi, Founder and MD of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries; Mr RS Sodhi, MD, GCMMF Ltd (AMUL) and Ms Avani Davda, CEO, Tata Starbucks will bring their rich corporate experience on Management in Practice theme to IMC conference.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore has further moved up among top Universities of Asia and has been ranked 4th in the Asian University Rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) released on Wednesday June 10, 2015.

IIMs have always been the dream B-schools to pursue PGP (MBA) from one of them. Since Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 will be the mandatory exam to seek admission in one of the IIMs, the test taker has to prepare hard for the exam and has to score high in each of the 2 sections as well as overall.

Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) exam is conducted by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the global non-profit council of business schools. GMAT is the exam that measures the skills you have and the skills schools need. The GMAT exam is relied upon more by graduate business schools worldwide. The scores of GMAT are accepted by more programs and schools than acceptability of any other MBA entrance exam in the world.

GMAT Examination Pattern

GMAT is an online computer adaptive test. Test Components and duration are as follows

Till 2013 the Verbal Ability section in Common Admission Test (CAT) excluding Logical Reasoning had to be divided in 4 parts to smoothen the line of preparation with clear study goals. Each part in Verbal Ability could be prepared separately to bell the CAT in the respective exam. But since 2014 when CAT changed its face and increased the number of questions in Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning (VALR) section from 30 to 50 and from 20 to 34 only in Verbal Ability, this division has become more cumbersome as the type and pattern of questions has also changed.

Since 2010 to 2015, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) MBA programme has continued being ranked among the Top 15 MBA programmes in the world by the Financial Times Ranking. HKUST MBA is the first Asian MBA programme listed in all major MBA rankings namely The Economist, Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek and Forbes. HKUST is also the first business school in Asia to have dual accreditation by AACSB and EQUIS. Admission to HKUST MBA 2015 programme is closed and for MBA 2016 would begin in the month of September 2015.

IIFT 2016 exam notification for admission to 360 seats in MBA (International Business) 2017-19 batch at its Delhi and Kolkata campuses has been released today on July 15. With the release of exam notification, IIFT has also opened the registration and application process for the IIFT entrance exam to be held on November 27, 2016 across the country in conventional paper-pencil mode. The registration and application process to appear in IIFT 2016 exam is available online as well as off-line.

Dr.Ranjan Banerjee an alumnus of IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta, has taken over as the new dean of S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai on June 6, 2015.

Dr.Banerjee will lead an Institute with a rich heritage, a sprawling campus in the heart of Mumbai and a vast faculty pool that teaches in multiple MBA programmes that attract more than 1,000 participants each year.

Singapore, China and Hong Kong are the most preferred destinations for candidates aspiring to pursue MBA from Asia. Singapore has long been a favourite for MBA abroad aspirants from India while China and Hong Kong are rapidly becoming popular and one of the emerging MBA destinations among international students.