What happens when nearly 40 Ph.D. students in Marketing from all over the world get together with 50 internationally renowned professors in the middle of the Arabian desert? They build bridges; they network; they connect. They also try to jointly push the knowledge boundaries of a great disciplineMarketing. The venue for this innovative exercise was the Dubai campus of the Institute of Management Technology-Ghaziabad, which hosted the 3rd AIM-AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium from January 18-20, 2015.

Only 2 days are left to apply for admission to PGDM batch 2015-17 at BIMTECH Greater Noida. Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida one of the leading B schools in Delhi NCR will close the admission application process for PGDM batch 2015-17 on Jan 30, 2015. GDPI round for shortlisted candidates is proposed to begin in 15 cities across the country on February 14 and will conclude on February 15, 2015.

In a move that could be called the highest level of transparency in XAT 2015 result declaration, XLRI the XAT 2015 conducting B school has made available the answer (OMR) sheets of the candidates who took XAT 2015 on January 4, 2015.

It is the second step in continuation taken by XLRI to make XAT 2015 result as transparent as possible. For the first time in the history of Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT), XLRI took the first step to make available the answer keys of XAT 2015 with detailed explanation to all the questions responsible for calculation of XAT percentile.

With MDI Gurgaon shortlist for next stage of admission round declared, the PI round at MDI is all set to begin in February and March 2015 at one of the centers, viz. Bangalore, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai.

MDI Gurgaon Admission process clarifies that there will be Group Discussion followed by Personal interview in the final admission round. Written Ability Test (WAT) will not be a component in PI round at MDI for admission 2015. However MDI will award 5 minutes to each of the GD participants to write the proceedings of Group Discussion in about 100 words.

Even as European & Asian B-schools climb up the Financial Times MBA Rankings, Harvard Business School has managed to stay on top. It has been ranked as Worlds No 1 Business by London based Financial Times in its latest rankings release on Jan 26, 2015

London Business School edge out Stanford Universitys Graduate School of Business for second place on this prestigious. Stanford dropped into a tie for fourth slot with INSEAD, behind the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School which was ranked as # 3.

Admission or no admission in a management programme after scoring a percentile below 80 is sure a matter of great confusion with no concrete way to go ahead. If I take admission in an average B school what future I would have and if I do not go ahead with the available offer of admission what guarantee do I have to get much higher score in next session.

Sharing exclusively with MBAUniverse.com, Prof Munish Thakur, and Admission Chairperson XLRI has informed The results would be declared by January, 25th and we would start the interviews around 18th of February. In response to yet another query about the assigned weightage to various components of GDPI round at XLRI, Prof Thakur has shared that apart from 65% weightage to XAT 2015 scores 35% weightage would be awarded to various components of GDPI.

Role of General Awareness in CMAT is as important as that of Quant, Verbal or Logical Reasoning. General Awareness has equal share of weightage in CMAT and according to Prof S K Agarwal, Expert on CMAT preparation, General Awareness section can be prepared well by devoting 15 minutes a day regularly. A good attempt in GA section can change the game and you can sure score high with the help of this section.

AICTE will conduct the second CMAT 2015 in a 4 day test window from February 19 to 22, 2015 across the country for admission to MBA/PGDM 2015-17 batch in 400+ B schools.

Six new IIMs namely IIM Kashipur, Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Trichy and Udaipur have announced their first stage shortlist of candidates for WAT & PI round 2015. Candidates who have been shortlisted would be informed of their WAT and PI venue , date & time by January 31, 2015. The status of the shortlist is available on the Common Admission site of the new IIMs.

Common Admission Process

The much awaited GDPI process 2015 at IMT Ghaziabad has been announced. IMT Ghaziabad has eliminated Group Discussion (GD) from the final admission round and instead has substituted it with CnPI process as a major component. The CnPI process at IMT Ghaziabad is scheduled to begin from February 1, 2015 just a day after the admission application process at Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad closes on January 31, 2015.

Whats CnPI