With as many as eleven talented young people opting out of the placement system to start their own ventures, the trend of taking this less traveled road has grown stronger. These students have plans to start their ventures in areas as diverse as logistics, manufacturing, advertising, finance and agro-processing in addition to information technology.

New programs and initiatives are envisaged simultaneously in Pune, India and London, UK where the School of Entrepreneurship and Business centre is located at the UoEs campus in the Southend of London.

298 offers were made for a batch of 180 students, with the average domestic offer coming in at 14.75 Lacs and the highest domestic offer being Rs. 28 Lacs. 12 international offers were also made with an average of $90,000 USD.
Says XLRI, A notable feature of the entire process was not just the increased leeway for the average student to choose, but also depth of specific roles that were tailored to woo the best of the countrys business graduates.

with national and international experts in the higher education field highlighting the opportunities and challenges of globalisation of education in India. Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Smt. D.Purandeswari, was the chief guest for the valedictory function. Dr. K. Kasturirangan, MP and Chairman of the EDGE vision Group, narrated the deliberations that took place during the three-day conference.

Proton Business School will offer a 2 year UGC recognized MBA, along with Protons Post-Graduate Program (PGP) in Business Leadership and Corporate Excellence.
PT Education informed MBAUniverse.com that the program on general management will commence by July 2008 and the GD/PI is being conducted in the 1st and 2nd week of March. Apart from this GD/PI performance, admission points are also being allocated for basis of CAT / XAT / GMAT / MAT scores.

The ceremony was presided by Mr Anand G Mahindra, Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, who inspired the management graduates recalling the spirit of ancient master Doronacharya as the MDI is based in the city of Guru Dronachraya.

The series will see a host of eminent speakers from the IT and consulting domain. Indias leading management portal MBAUniverse.com is the Official Management Portal of the series.

The Systems Continuum will be on the theme The Evolution of IT in the Changing Macroeconomic Scenario while Consulting Continuum will focus on The restructuring of organizations to make the most of Indias current growth scenario.

Mr. Mittal has been nominated by Pearl School of Business (PSB), which is promoted by the House of Pearl.PSB has academic collaboration with Babson College, USA, the world leader in Entrepreneurial Management Education.

With over 95 companies registering for the process making 367 offers to 173 students. The average salary of accepted offers stood at INR 13.07 Lacs per annum. The mean domestic salary has increased by more than 20% as compared to that of the previous year. Whats more, the top 50 offers have an average of nearly INR 18 Lacs per annum with offers spanning diverse sectors and roles, informs IIM-I.

The list of recruiters, in continuation of the trend in the last few years, burgeoned both in terms of number and their diversity. More than 120 companies evinced interest in recruiting from the 115 students who had enrolled for the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM), 31 students enrolled in the Post Graduate Programme in Human Resource Management (PGP-HR) and 22 students enrolled in the Post Graduate Programme in International Management (PGP-IM). Of these, 35 were placed in the lateral placement process and 12 accepted the Pre-placement offer extended to them.