The recently published shortlist of candidates for GDPI 2014 at FMS Delhi contains 2572 candidates in all categories against an intake of 216 in flagship full time MBA programme. An approximate ratio of 1:12 (12 candidates shortlisted for 1 seat) appears to have been fixed in short listing the candidates.

AIMA claims that hundreds of B schools are accepting May MAT 2014 scores but with admission season in most of the B schools over, you can either hold the high scores of May MAT 2014 for admission in 2015 (as the scores are valid for 1 year) or explore admission opportunities in other B schools accepting May MAT 2014 scores.

Addressing the joint session of the parliament, Honorary President Pranab Mukherjee said the government would set up IITs and IIMs in every state. "We will set up IITs and IIMs in every state.” the president said in his speech.

An IIM and IIT in every state, what will be the implications? While few people have raised their objection over the matter, there are many who are excited with this prospect.

MBA is the most preferred Post Graduate degree/ Professional degree among students in India. Every other report suggests the same and hence its a matter of great joy for the MBA education fraternity.

But, this news also brings a cause of worry for several B-schools. The demand of MBA has resulted in several new ventures into MBA colleges, various reputed organizations have opened their own MBA University and new B-schools are coming up at a rapid pace.

Being apprehensive, questioning your ability to perform in CAT 2014 is very natural, given the volume of competition and level of test difficulty. But the coveted nobility attached to good performers in CAT in the form of awarded admission to IIMs cannot be undermined too.

How is the PGDM retail in BIMTECH? With CAT percentile of 80+, should I go for it? It is one of the many queries that MBAUniverse.com has been receiving from the MBA aspirants all over the country on specialized MBA programmes offered by B schools where the admissions are available for the session 2014.

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.