After the decision to review University Grants Commission (UGC), a high level committee has been constituted by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to review the functioning of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). This has been done with the aim to restructure and strengthen the technical education sector in India.

In recognition of growing importance of Indian management education on the global stage, the AACSB International invited Dr Bibek Banerjee, Director and Academic Mentor, IMT Ghaziabad, to present The context of management education in India at its Annual Asia-Pacific Conference 2014, held in Kuala Lumpur on 22 October 2014.

While 1.97 lakhs CAT takers will compete for a few thousand MBA seats, there will be around 60 thousand test takers for approximately 220 seats in IIFT making it more tedious task to get into MBA(IB) at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. The 100 percent placement at the IIFT (Deemed University) in very good companies for the graduates of this programme makes it more fascinating and despite the difficult and lengthy entrance examination, more and more aspirants wish to crack it.

AICTE has already announced on its website the list of B schools who are supposed to accept CMAT scores. AICTE has declared The list of AICTE approved institutions which will be using CMAT scores for admission in management programmes for 2015-16 can be viewed by clicking on the below link AICTE approved institutions using CMAT scores Now since the result of CMAT Sep 2014 exam for admission session 2015-16 (PGDM batch 2015-17) has been declared by AICTE, candidates are in a fix which B schools they should approach with their scores?

XLRI, Jamshedpur one of the highly ranked and premium B schools in India will conduct Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2015 for admission to XLRI, XIMB, SPJIMR, XISS, XIME, IMT Ghaziabad, and other well reputed B schools XAT 2015 on behalf Xavier Association of Management Institutes (XAMI) on January 4, 2015. XLRI has been conducting XAT for the last 60 years at All India level in the paper pencil mode to provide level playing field for the XAT aspirants coming from all backgrounds.

Despite number of changes and surprise elements anticipated in CAT 2014, aspirants dont have to get disheartened or demotivated. The preparation should continue at a greater pace and in right direction.

In the endevour to visualize the solutions and get Indian Management Education back to its pristine glory MBAUniverse.com in partnership with PSG Institute of Management (PSGIM), is organizing the Directors Roundtable Coimbatore 2014-15 on the theme Doing Business in 21st Century: Expectations from B-schools on Saturday, November 8, 2014. The Round Table is hosted by PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore.

CAT 2014 has brought many changes right from the day of its notification appeared in news papers on July 27, 2014. CAT 2014 as compared to earlier CAT years has brought many surprises and changes in its process of registration, selection of test centre, conduct of test, duration of test, pattern of test, declaration of result, but it has also revamped the entire CAT exam.

MBAUniverse.com shares below the key comparisons that have been made in CAT 2014 as compared to earlier CAT exams.

CAT 2014: More candidates in each session

Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2015 for admission to XLRI, XIMB and other well reputed B schools will be conducted by XLRI on behalf of Xavier Association of Management Institutes (XAMI) on January 4, 2015. XLRI has been conducting XAT for the last 60 years at All India level in the paper pencil mode to provide level playing field for the XAT aspirants coming from all backgrounds.

XAT 2015 opened the registration and application process on August 12, 2014 and will close it on November 22, 2014.

120 Premium B schools will shortlist based on XAT 2015 scores

Declaring the result and scores of CMAT-2015-16 (First Test) conducted online from 25-Sep, 2014 to 28-Sep, 2014 All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has announced the All India Merit list based on the scores obtained by the candidates in computer based Common Management Admission Test. The CMAT merit list indicates Roll number, Rank and the Score of all the candidates. CMAT-2015-16(First Test) score will remain valid for the admissions in academic year 2015-16.

AICTE declares Raw scores with Percentile scores