After the grand success of MBAUniverse.com Round Table Bangalore, hosted by IIM Bangalore, and MBAUniverse.com Round Table Chennai, hosted by VIT University, the stage is all set for MBAUniverse.com Round Table Pune. The Pune Round Table will be held on Friday, March 28 at the iconic Tata Management Training Center (TMTC), Pune. AICTE Chairman Dr SS Mantha is the Chief Guest for the program and will deliver the Keynote Address.

The key topics for discussion at the MBAUniverse.com Pune Round Table are:

Birla Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida is a highly ranked B school in India including IIMs in MBAUniverse.com B School Ranking 2013-14. While the final admission round for regular PGDM at BIMTECH is over, candidates may still seek admission in sectoral PGDM programmes. In a rare interview session with MBAUniverse.com, Dr. Arvind Shukla, Chairperson (Admissions) BIMTECH shares key trends, USPs of BIMTECH. Given below are the excerpts of edited interview

IES Management College and Research Centre (IES MCRC) is one of the premier B schools in Mumbai located in Bandra area that may cater to your dream of pursuing MMS/PGDM from a very good B school which provides great learning experience along with good campus placement.

The most important part in final admission is that the weightage on written examination is much less than the weightage on profile and communication skill. The institute is run by Indian Education Society- one of the oldest public cheritable Trust running 67 institutions.

Mumbai based leading B-school SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai has announced completion of its Final Placements 2014. SPJIMR beat previous records in placing the Class of 2014 with the average salary climbing to Rs 17.2 lakhs. This puts SPJIMR average salary amongst the Top 5 B-schools in India that officially announce their salary. 51% of the Class of 2013 received Pre-Placement Offers and Pre-Placement Interviews.

In a unique initiative, two AACSB Accredited institutions, TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) and University of Dubai (UD), have joined hands to offer an 18 months MBA programme to Indian students. The program offers placement assurance in Dubai and is open only for 20 candidates in the first year.

Sharing the similarities, USPs, key features of this collaboration, Dr R C Natarajan, Director, TAPMI Manipal sees a number of positives with a promising future for Global MBA education. Edited excerpts of the interview:

MAHCET 2014 aspirants have 11 days left for this another important management entrance test called Maharashtra Common Entrance Test or MAH CET 2014, which can open the gates of good B schools for them across Maharashtra. The most beneficial part of MAH CET 2014 is that it will not only provide admission to Maharashtra domicile candidates but also to outside Maharashtra candidates.

Read: MAHCET 2014 Paper Pattern: Prepare for MAH MBA CET 2014 to be held on March 15-16, 2014

Level of questions in MH CET Quant (LOD)

A five-member team from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, comprising Soumya Gupta, Pratik Jaipuriar, Saakshi Mahajan, Siddharth Agarwal and Abhishek Agarwal all Finance majors of PGP2, has won the National Finals of the CFA Institute Research Challenge 2013-14. They will represent India at the Asia Pacific Finals of the Investment Olympiad to be held in Singapore in April 2014.

In another Real account of Personal Interview, MBAUniverse.com is publishing details of a candidates interactions at IMI New Delhi. (Name of the candidate has been changed to protect the identity.)

Suvarna Kapoor is a B. Pharma from well known Jaypee University and has been working for last one year as a faculty with the role of developing training modules. She fared well in CAT 2013 scoring 90 percentile with a consistent good academic record of 80 to 90 percentages of marks from class 10thto graduation.

The biggest USP of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai is its student driven focus on various activities. JBIMS is one of the most sought after management institutes and is ranked 14 in MBAUniverse.com ranking 2013 among the top 100 Indian B schools including IIMs.

Number of seats in MMS
The present intake in JBIMS for the flagship MMS course is 120.

No separate GDPIWAT at JBIMS Mumbai

20 percent questions in Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension section of MAHCET examinations are expected to be based on vocabulary usage. Strong vocabulary may turn the table in scoring good marks and in securing a seat in a good B school in Maharashtra like JBIMS, KJ Somaiya, SIMSREE, etc. Outside Maharashtra candidates have more than 8 thousand seats waiting for them in 400+ B schools across the state.