Reports get released every year; every year discussion is done on various educational platforms on the nature and scope of vacant seats in MBA colleges across India. But, the condition remains same. Why?
Inspite of the fact that MBA is the most popular Post Graduate degree, why do MBA colleges have to bear the loss of vacant seats. As per our practice, we are quick to blame others for it too. We blame the European economic crisis, we blame the Govt. policies, we even blame students and etc, etc. But, we dont introspect; we dont sit down and check our faults.

MBAUniverse.com is continuously publishing success stories of CAT Toppers to guide CAT 2014 aspirants in their preparation for CAT 2014 exam. In this fifth article of CAT Topper 2013 series we present the success story of Aayush Agarwal, a Chartered Accountant engaged in a full time job.

This is the shocking but true story of Prakhar Kumar (name changed to protect the identity of the candidate) who despite scoring a high percentile of 99.2 in CAT 2013 has not been able to convert a single IIM call. The candidate was happy on scoring such a high percentile but is quite upset with the final admission results published by IIMs and other top rated B schools and is in the vain hope of getting some solace if he could get a place in his desired B school after waiting lists are cleared. The only hope for him is now on FMS Delhi where he has to appear in GDPI on June 20, 2014.

Better late than never could be the only proverb that may be used on declaration of short list of candidates by FMS Delhi for GDPI 2014 to be scheduled from June 20, 2014 onwards for MBA admission 2014.

At last FMS has declared short list of 2572 MBA aspirants for final admission round 2014 after a long wait and putting a stop on various speculations in management education circle. The list comprises 1218 General category candidates followed by 655 OBC; 367 SC and 182 ST candidates. Number of PH and CW candidates shortlisted for GDPI is 57 and 93 respectively.

How many of you join an MBA course with a clear mindset of starting your own business after 2 years?
Probably a very few. We are more interested to buy a house instead of investing in a start up. Lets admit Indian society and family unit mould you from the starting to work for others. To work for either government organization or a private companies. Very rarely you will find a change in this generational thought process in Indian family except the famous entrepreneur clan of marwaris or Punjabis who have been doing business from decades.

Admission to MBA programme in 2014 in a low ranked B school must be avoided if you are confident of cracking CAT 2014 with 90+ percentile or you have a good job with decent salary.

Crack CAT 2014: Assess your confidence level

After a flying start last year when the then Union HRD Minister Dr Shashi Tharoor presented the IMC Awards 2013 to winners including SPJIMR & IIM Kashipur, its the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) that is now recognizing the importance of this highly credible award platform by MBAUniverse.com.

Approximately 2 lacs of MBA aspirants are expected to take CAT 2014 in the last quarter of this year. The vast syllabus and question pattern creates confusion where to begin with the CAT preparation journey. All the four parts clubbed into 2 sections of CAT comprising Quant and DI; Verbal and LR need the specific attention, good amount of study followed by mentor guidance.

Statistics as Benjamin Disraeli found out is the worst of three lies- lies, damn lies and statistics. Probably this is the reason an audit is needed for statistical presentation by an organization or institution. B-schools publish placement data year after year and a few of the top rated ones like IIM A, B, C publish it after getting it duly audited.

But why in Gods name is the need to publish the MBA placement data by top ranked, middle ranked and not so highly ranked B schools? Have you thought over it?