ATMA, the MBA entrance exam conducted by Association of Indian Management Schools has been announced, which will open the door for MBA admissions 2012-14 at leading B schools. Unlike previous years, there is a major change in the mode of delivery of the exam.

ATMA which was traditionally a paper pencil based test will have two avatars from 2012. ATMA will be held five times in the year 2012. While the first one will be held in the usual paper pencil based format, the next four tests will be held in the online format.

With CAT 2011 getting over, you may think that your battle is over. But apart from CAT there are many other MBA entrance exams which are yet to come and whose registrations are going on. If you want to widen your horizon and ensure your admission to a good B-School, you should take other MBA entrance exams as well.

The IIFT 2011 exam is just four days away. At this stage, you cannot start with anything new but if you wisely utilize these four days, you can definitely improve your current preparation level. To help you in this regard, this article of MBAUniverse.com brings to you the IIFT topper mantras for the last week to IIFT 2011.

CAT 2011 got over last week, but now it is time for MBA aspirants to crack yet another important MBA entrance exam. The big MBA entrance exam to be held this week is IIFT 2011, the entrance exam for IIFT Delhi and Kolkata for the Academic year 2012-14. The exam will be held on Sunday, November 27, 2011. As there are 5 days to go for IIFT 2011, this article of MBAUniverse.com talks about the overall pattern of the exam. The pattern of IIFT exam keeps changing. IIFT 2010 had 135 questions, whereas IIFT 2009 had 122 questions.

The biggest and most popular MBA entrance exam of the year, CAT 2011, is ending today, 18 November 2011. The exam which received 2.5 lakh registrations had commenced on 22 October. In these 20 days of testing, Prometric, the exam executing agency, reported a glitch free test with no major complaint received from test takers.

In the year 2011, IIM Calcutta continued the good work and maintained the success. There have been some positive trends, which have contributed to the success of the big MBA entrance exam this year.

MBAUniverse.com has started a special series on MBA Admissions 2012-14. In this series, we discuss the various aspects of admissions and the profiles of the top private B-schools which you look up to for getting admission. In todays article, we will discuss the admission process of one of the reputed private B-schools of India which has expanded its campus in three major cities, International Management Institute (IMI).

In the last article of the special series of MBAUniverse.com on MBA Admissions 2012-14 of the private B-schools, you have seen the cut offs of the top B-schools. Continuing with the special series, in this second article, we move towards the other aspect which you invariably look for while selecting the B-schools to apply for, which is the number of seats. The number of seats is an important factor that decides your chances of getting through to a particular institute.

XLRI Jamshedpur has successfully concluded the Summer Internship Placements 2012. 77 recruiters participated with 365 offers made to a batch of 240 students. 112 companies had confirmed participation this year in the Summer Internship Placements.

The average stipend for the internship period this year was Rs. 123,000, an increase of 10% over last year. The median stipend for the internship period this year was Rs. 100,000. Microsoft, ITC, Standard Chartered, Aditya Birla Group and Tata Motors were the largest recruiters.