In accordance with the tradition that an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) should be known by its city and not by its state, IIM Punjab has been christened as IIM Amritsar and is now all set to commence academic session in July 2015. IIM Kozhikode has been assigned the responsibility to mentor IIM Amritsar till it becomes fully functional in its permanent campus. As such students opting to study at IIM Amritsar for first few years will have the learning experience from the highly ranked IIM Kozhikode faculty.

Temporary & Permanent campus finalized

MBA admission in good B schools out of the list of 380 B schools available at the AIMA site can be explored with a high percentile of 90+ in MAT 2015. Apart from them other B schools are also accepting MAT scores. It is expected that MAT May 2015 scores will also be accepted by these B schools. The more you score in MAT 2015 the more admission opportunities in good B schools would be waiting for you.

Germany, the largest economy in Europe and the fifth largest in the world is the third most popular MBA destination amongst international students in the world. Recent surveys form QS and GMAC shows that increasing number of GMAT test takers planning to pursue MBA from abroad are sending their scores to B schools in Germany.

JK Business School (JKBS), Gurgaon is often rated as the fastest emerging B School in Asia and has several other accolades under its belt. The B school is promoted by renowned JK Group that has a great corporate history. JKBS was established in the year 2006 in Gurgaon (Haryana) to groom fresh graduates into future managers and leaders. The B school offers Post Graduate Programmes in management and has maintained optimum teacher student ratio with a strong and well experienced faculty base.

Keeping the legacy of declaring the final admission result on the last day of PI round, FMS Delhi announced the list of selected candidates for MBA admission 2015-17 batch on the last day of PI round on April 20, 2015 after the process of extempore and Personal Interview got over. For an intake of 216 candidates FMS Delhi has announced a list of 216 successful candidates covering all categories. A waiting list of a total of 379 candidates in order of merit has also been announced by the coveted B school.

Not having very high scores, how I can get one of the good B schools is one of the many queries adding to the persisting questions and confusions of MBA aspirants. Whether they should explore admission opportunity in 2015 or put in one more year to prepare to get a good B school is the dilemma they are passing through.

With an increasing number of applicants applying for highly ranked MBA abroad programme in a good Business school, the competition for getting admission to the sought after MBA abroad has been increasing in each forthcoming academic session. The competition is so tough that more Indian applicants are denied admissions at top B-schools especially in US B schools. According to John A. Byre, founder of Poets & Quants, Indians face higher rejection rates than other nationalities in top rated MBA abroad programmes.

The 6th Indian Management Conclave (IMC) 2015, Indias biggest Management education conference, will be held at ISB Hyderabad on July 29 & 30, 2015. One of the highlights of IMC 2015 will be IMC Awards, a showcase of most successful initiatives undertaken by B-schools in last 12 months. B-schools can send their nominations on three cutting edge themes - Making Industry-Institute partnerships work, Attracting ideal Participants Profile in MBA class and Innovations in Teaching Methodology.

With the focus on Make In India and making the Management Education more responsive to the Changing World, BIMTECH Greater Noida hosted workshop on Design Thinking Approach on May 3, 2015 at New Delhi. Prof. Srikant Datar of Harvard Business School conducted a full day workshop to address challenges facing Management Education using a Design Thinking approach.