To find solution to the current challenges in MBA and PGDM Education, MBAUniverse.com will be holding its Round-Tableseries in Chennai onFebruary 27.Dr SS Mantha, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), will address the meet and discuss various issues facing PGDM B-school. AICTE has only recently restarted the process of annual approval of PGDM B-schools, and is also inviting applications for setting up of new B-schools.

MBA aspirants who have been shortlisted for final admission round by IIMs, XLRI, MDI, IMT, IMI or other top rated B schools should now understand the intricacies of GDPIWAT round.

Rising Importance of PI

Weightage of this round is much higher than their CAT/XAT percentile to convert their call. Personal Interview round is the key to success in securing final admission to the desired institute as all the B schools award maximum weightage to this round.

Apart from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore; Ahmedabad is the prominent centre for MBA education in the country. While Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) needs no introduction, other leading B schools in the city have also contributed to put the city on the map of MBA education in the world.

With this article about MBA in Ahmedabad, MBAUniverse.com shares the information regarding leading B Schools in Ahmedabad to enable you to choose the desired B school.

One of the big recent trends in Indian MBA education is the rise of Private University MBA programs. Unlike US, where all the top MBA programs are offered by University based B-schools like Harvard Business School and Chicago Booth School of Business, in India, stand-alone B-schools like IIMs, XLRI and SPJain have dominated Top rankings charts. NMIMS University and Symbiosis University are two notable exceptions. But this scenario is changing now.

International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi has collaborated with Mercer consulting. The collaboration will co-create the MBA course curriculum and enable delivery in subjects like Compensation & reward management, Performance management system and Learning & development to make it more industry relevant and provide exposure to the MBA students with better insights into the HR competencies and domain knowledge.

For all those who are dissatisfied with their CAT 2013 or XAT 2014 results, CMAT in February 2014 will provide an opportunity to improve their scores and get admission call from leading B schools.

UPES MET is the Management Entrance Test for admission to 10 specialized core sector programs offered by the College of Management & Economics Studies (CoMES) atUniversity of Petroleum and energy Studies -UPES, Dehradun. It will be conducted on February 22, 2014 at 24 locations across the country.

The last date to apply for UPES MET 2014 is February 7, 2014. The UPES MET results will be declared on or before March 10, 2014. Admissions to minimum 50 percent of seats in UPES MBA programs are done through UPESMET.

MBA Programmes offered by UPES:

Kohinoor Business School in collaboration with the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) organized an International Accreditation Awareness Seminar. The seminar was organized in association with standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation Trust (SEAA). Directors & faculty members from over 25 business schools of Mumbai participated in the accreditation seminar.

With the end of January 2014 many leading PGDM B Schools have closed their admission dates. But it is nothing to be worried about as there are still many leading B schools having open admission dates in the months of February and March. This article from MBAUniverse.com will inform you regarding the leading B Schools which have closed their admission recently and the others with open admission dates during the month.
MBA Admission 2014: B Schools which have closed their admission dates

After the grand success of 3rdMBAUniverse.com Directors Round-Table Bangalore, hosted by IIM B last November, the stage is all set for the1stAnnual MBAUniverse.com Vice Chancellors & Directors Round-TableChennai to be held onFebruary 27, 2014.David Wan, President & CEO of the Harvard Business Publishing and well known HR guru Mr K Pandiarajan, the Non-Exec. Chairman, Randstad India & MD, Ma Foi will deliver the Keynote Address.KPMG National Education Head Mr Narayanan Ramaswamy andDr MJ Xavier, Executive Director, VIT University will deliver special addresses at the meet.