The business hub of the Middle East Dubai is the commercial capital of United Arab Emirates. Dubai is the hot destination for job seekers and business minded professionals. The city is more liberal, affluent, tourist friendly and is a shopping paradise. With Headquarters of prominent giants like Emirates Airlines, the city offers more Job opportunities.

Flying time from India to Dubai by any airline is less than three and half hours and the air fare is also not too much.

AIMA (All India Management Association) is going to conduct Management Aptitude Test (MAT) in paper pencil mode as well as online computer based test in the month of May 2014. MAT is an All India test and is gateway to MBA admission in more than 600 management institutes across the country.

MAT exam pattern and duration

MAT, May 2014 will be an objective type test with multiple-choice answers. There will be 5 key subjects on which questions will be formed. The test is designed to measure a persons general aptitudes in following areas

You will feel proud when you come to know that you have been shortlisted for admission 2014 in IIM Shillong, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Indore simultaneously. But you can take admission in only one of the three. So while waiting for a few more days for the final admission merit lists, give a serious thought which will be the best IIM to take admission in batch 2014-16 on the basis of placement record.

Top rated MBA colleges like MDI, NITIE, SPJIMR have finalized their merit lists for MBA admission 2014 and have published the same with the instructions to deposit the fee by a stipulated date. While NITIE has asked the candidates to deposit Rs. 4.19 lakhs by May 5, 2014, MDI has also asked for Rs.75 thousand to be deposited in May followed by more deposit in the month of June 2014. Students who are in search of resources, find it difficult to bring in lakhs of Rupees to fulfill their desire of pursuing MBA.

Doing MBA is an expensive affair

With final merit lists for MBA/PGDM admission 2014 gradually being published by the top rated B schools and students getting admission offers from more than one or two institutes, it has become more imperative to take a decision where to go before investing huge amount of money to pursue the management course from your dream B school.

Are you the lucky one who has been shortlisted by a few Top 20 B-schools for MBA Admissions 2014! Rejoice, but before you finally decide to pay up the fee in the chosen one, check out the Placements Reports 2014 on MBAUniverse.com. There are many changes in this top league.

Except the older IIMs, all the Top B schools have announced their Placement Reports 2014. MBAUniverse.com presents the Top 20 B-schools based on their Average Placement Report 2014.

Was this the learning experience in the institutes; sudden spurt in demand for MBAs or suddenly India has come out of its slackening growth process aiming to surpass China or the recruiters in India have become more generous?

How the dismal picture of global economic slowdown that has been haunting the minds of young MBAs encountered a tough fight in placement 2014 and turned the direction of the wind in favor of these young job seekers became a topic of research which MBAUniverse.com managed to do and tried to get to the core of it.

Waiting period for admission to new IIMs is going to be over as the final merit lists for admission to IIM Kashipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Raipur, IIM Rohtak, IIM Trichy and IIM Udaipur are expected to be out in the 1st week of May 2014. Brand IIM has definitely become a household name for MBA education and with the high standard of education during the short span of their emergence; these 6 new IIMs have also been able to maintain the standard of learning experience and placement which attract more and more MBA aspirants year after year.

Working managers who wish to pursue management course from Xavier School of Management (XLRI) have good opportunity as the premium B school has announced admissions to the Postgraduate Certificate in Business Management (PGCBM) and Postgraduate Certificate in Human Resource Management (PGCHRM) under their Virtual Interactive Learning (VIL) Programme with Hughes Communication.

Course USPs

Whats common among Jyotiradiya Scindia, Jitin Prasada, Sachin Pilot, Navin Jindal and P Chidambaram, apart from holding the Ministerial positions in Government of India?

The answer lies in the fact that they are all MBAs who have earned good reputation as Ministers.