MBA, the only 2 years post graduate programme is full of so many USPs that apart from graduates from engineering, commerce, humanities, literature, pharma and medicine backgrounds, thousands of executives in reputed organizations aspire to pursue it. Entrance examinations like CAT/XAT fascinate the takers and they go on taking these tests to find their skill status. A few professors at IIMs still take CAT to know if there is any substantial change in the test.

The National Stock Exchange and Apeejay Stya University, Gurgaon signed an agreement on June 12, 2014 to launch a 5 years Integrated MBA course in financial markets. The agreement was signed by Ms Rana Usman, Head Northern region, NSE and Professor H L Verma, pro Vice Chancellor (academic administration), Apeejay Stya University

Adjusting to college life takes time. No freshman student enters campus without at least a small amount of discomfort, anxiety and confusion.

Even if some of you opt not to stay in institute hostel and decide to live at home and travel to campus, youll be faced with the challenge of meeting with other students who share your interests. You will need excellent time management skills and self-motivation, since this is not school years and teachers wont look over your shoulder anymore to make sure youre keeping up with the whole class.

The 27th batch of PGDM program of Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida for the academic year 2014-16 commenced on June 14, 2014 with a new wave of freshness. In all 429 students have been admitted to the two year program with specialization in International Business, Insurance, Retail, and Sustainable Development stream that includes nearly 160 women candidates. This number is roughly higher than previous years enrolment by about 20 per cent.

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli has launched the Center for Corporate Governance (CCG) on 13th June 2014 at Chennai. The inauguration was staged by Mr. Bharat Doshi (Director, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd.). The main objective of the center is to conduct and promote research in the area of corporate governance

The PI round 2014 at FMS Delhi will commence on June 20, 2014 and will continue till June 27, 2014. With the shortlisting cut off criteria of 98.20 percentile in CAT 2013, PI is going to be the only saviour in such a close competition. The final selection is based on the cumulative performance of the candidate in theCAT Scoreas well as the PI round.

Extempore and PI at One place: Delhi

Nominations for IMC Awards are pouring in from leading B-schools like IIMs, XLRI, SPJain, IIFT, NMIMS Business School, Symbiosis University and Great Lakes. More than 30 leading B-schools have already registered to submit their nominations for these prestigious awards.

Meanwhile, the last date to register and submit nominations is extended till June 20. The IMC Awards will be judged by a 3 member Jury, and will be announced on August 9 at IMC Conference in New Delhi.

How important is to score high and balanced sectional percentile as against the overall percentile is a fact supposed to be known by all the CAT 2014 aspirants. Once knowing the importance, how to achieve it becomes even more important.

Placement 2014 at SIMSREE Mumbai was not affected by the instability in the global market. The placement proved that there are always exciting and commensurable opportunities for deserving and talented students. The placement season 2014 did not see much change except for the fact that the B school kept the flag flying with good number of recruiters visiting SIMSREE campus for recruitment and more offers were made to the students participating in the placement. Average CTC has also gone up at the institute.