Prometric will no longer be seen associated to CAT conducting partner of IIMs at least for next 5 years. CAT aspirants in 2014 will miss the Prometric logo of sideways looking half Sun with 5 rays.
The US based firm Prometric lost to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as the next 5 years testing agency of Combined Admission Test (CAT) conducted by Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for entrance to their management programmes. MBAUniverse.com was the first to announce the prospective association of TCS with IIMs for conducting CAT. http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/7474/CAT-2014

Those words of my father still echoes in my mind when he used to say, Love maths because Mathematics will follow you everywhere. Maths Humesha Kaam Ayegi. I wonder how true he was and how wrong I was in not listening to him during my Class 10th Board exam preparations.

I didnt take maths in my Class 11th as optional subject as I wanted to be as far away from mathematics as fire wants to be away from water. And this my friend, proved to be one of the fatal blows to my dream of being to IIMs.

For the benefit of CAT 2014 aspirants, MBAUniverse.com is bringing a round of CAT Topper 2013 success stories. In this third article in CAT Topper 2013 series we present the success story of Ishika Ray, a CAT Topper who scored a percentile of 92.17 in CAT 2013 exam. Her sectional scores were: QA-91.87 and VALR-88.72 .

MBAUniverse.com will introduce a CAT Topper 2013 every week on MBAUniverse.com Forum where CAT 2014 aspirants can directly ask questions with CAT Toppers 2013.

To chat directly with CAT Topper Ishika Ray for tips on CAT 2014 preparation, Click here

Former RBI Governor and Finance Secretary of India Dr D Subbarao has been appointed as a distinguished Visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business school. His appointment got effective from May 2, 2014. It will be one year tenure with his new assignment which will see his active participation in various activities at NUS B School, at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

IFIM Business School, Bangalore has concluded its Final Placements for the batch of 2012-14. According to Dr S Baskaran, Director, IFIM The placements have heralded the sanguine phase of the Job Market for MBAs and going forward we expect more and better opportunities for our students. Placement season 2014 at IFIM started on an upbeat and continued on the high note beating the general economic slowdown that caused low MBA placement in the country..

More students opt for Entrepreneurship at IFIM

The struggle for existence and survival of the fittest is the universal truth which applies to MBA education also. While number of B-schools are struggling for their survival some of the reputed ones like MDI, LBSIM, CIM are investing crores of rupees in establishing new campuses at different locations in India.

27557 candidates have so far registered for CAP with DTE against 45297 seats of MBA/MMS programmes in 411 B schools across Maharashtra. Alarmed with this deficit, Directorate of Technical Education Maharashtra has further extended the date of CAP registration to May 29, 2014 while the date for verification of documents at ARC has also been extended to May 30, 2014.

With the declaration of admission results by all the IIMs and admission process in SPJIMR, MDI, IMT, IMI, BIMTECH getting closed, MBA aspirants with fairly high scores in entrance tests find themselves standing at cross road whether they can get admission in a highly ranked B school in 2014 or should target admission 2015. A feeling of depression is gradually increasing by not finding a way out of this dilemma.

More companies plan to hire MBAs and other business school graduates in 2014, according to a global survey of employers out today. Some 80 percent of business school recruiters plan to hire MBAs in 2014, up seven percentage points from last year and 30 percentage points higher than 2009, in the heart of the economic crisis, when just half of employers hired MBAs.

An MBA degree needs a good amount of financial investment unless you get substantial scholarship to compensate your fee structure which may run anywhere in the range of Rs 8 lacs to Rs 15 lacs. Even with the admission offer in hand, its difficult to decide whether to pursue MBA degree or better to think about it later. This situation further worsens when you are already working and drawing handsome salary. You suffer on both counts- loss of job as well as incurring the expenses till you get the job again after MBA.