This is the most common query students have shared with MBAUniverse.com.
To deal with such questions MBAUniverse.com talked to the officials of leading CAT preparation institutes like T.I.M.E., IMS Learning, Career Launcher and PT Education on how they are planning to help the MBA aspirants to appear for the CBT-CAT 2009.

Mr. Adi Godrej, CMD, Godrej Consumer Products remotely inaugurated the new campus, in the presence of Chief Guest, Thiru. K.S. Sripathy, IAS, Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu.
Some of the other guests who attended the ceremony were Jamshyd Godrej, CMD, Godrej & Boyce Mfg.Co.Ltd.; Madhur Bajaj, Vice Chairman, Bajaj Auto Ltd.; M.S. Sundara Rajan, CMD, Indian Bank; Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Former Under Secretary General, UN; and G.R.K. Reddy, CMD, Marg Ltd.

IIMB is the only Indian management Institute to rank amongst the top ten, which includes MBA Institutes in Australia, Singapore, China and Hong Kong.
The Employers top 10 preferred MBA Institutes in the Asia Pacific region are: INSEAD Singapore, Melbourne Business School, NUS, AGSM, CEIBS, IIM Bangalore, Macquarie, HKUST, Monash and Nanyang.

They have gone back to the original guru to take inputs from these gurus for their latest book on Branding titled The Titans of Branding. The voices whose views have been amalgamated into the book include the likes of Kevin Lane Keller, David Aaker, Don Schultz, Jagdish Sheth, Leo Berry, Bernt Schmitt, Raj Srivastava, Rod Brodie and Leslie de Chernatony. All of them are world-renowned academicians from some of the best B-schools in the world like those at Northwestern University, Berkeley, Emory University, Dartmouth College, Auckland and Birmingham.

The class comprising of 162 & 38 students respectively. Present at the occasion were the Chief Guest, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Former Under Secretary General, United Nations; Dr. Bala V. Balachandran, Founder & Honarary Dean, Great Lakes, Dr. Arthur D Warga, Dean, Bauer College of Business, Houston, USA, and Mr. John T McNabb, Chairman, Deans Executive Board, Bauer College of Business, Houston, USA.

Using this platform, MBAUniverse.com reader Manish Sankhla from Bangalore asked: I am doing Bachelor of Business Management from Bangalore currently in 2rd year (4th semester) I want to know what is the best time to start for preparation of MBA and which options is better either to study here or abroad. Responding to the query Mr. Ulhas Vairagkar, Director, T.I.M.E, Delhi, said, Dear Manish, for doing an MBA in India, you should start preparing right now for CAT 09 and other MBA entrance exams. I presume that you are now in pre-final year and will complete your BBM in 2010.

Read more to find out in this regular column by Indira Bisht, Consulting Editor for Jobs & Career domain at MBAUniverse.com. Summer internship is exciting; most likely this is your first brush with a corporate job which will mark the start of your career. Therefore, its obvious that there are a lot of questions running through your mind when it comes to embarking on this test-run for your future. In this column, Ill address the common queries and questions regarding Summer Internships.

As reported first on MBAUniverse.com on April 27, Prometric was awarded the $40 million dollar contract by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) to computerize the prestigious Common Admissions Test (CAT). According to Prometric, CAT 2009 will be held across 23 cities in India.

To aid our readers, we decided to speak Mumbai based IMS Learning believes that while the mode of examination has changed, the core purpose of the CAT Entrance Exam is the same, and hence students need not worry.

This landmark development replaces the 33-year pen and pencil exam that CAT has been. Commenting on the development, leading test prep company Career Launcher said that CATs new pattern will impact the preparation strategy of students.