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What Online MBA Will Be Like For The Incoming Batch of 2023 | MBA Students Share Experiences And Tips

For MBA students, the pandemic has left the b-school experience in a mess. Instead of pursuing their management programs from within their beautiful campuses, and interacting with batchmates on-campus, students are stuck at home. So how good or bad is the online MBA experience? What is the online learning process like? What is the virtual summer internship process like? What is it like to sit for final placements virtually? How do you network with your peers and make friends through a laptop? To find out the answer to these crucial questions, we bring to you a panel of MBA students/graduates from India's top b-schools to share their experiences.

Team InsideIIM10 May 2021

How Important Are Clubs And Committees At B-School?

When you enter b-school, one of the things that'll come to your attention is the great number of clubs and committees that exist on campus: from the placement and alumni committees to the consulting, marketing, photography, and even amateur golfing clubs. Clubs and committees can significantly enrichen your two year MBA experience in many ways. But is it worth joining any club or committee at b-school, especially considering the heavy MBA curriculum? What are the clear-cut advantages of joining a club or a committee at b-school? Do these impact your CV in any way, and can it help you get recruited quicker? To find out, we bring to you a live webinar with panelists from IIM Kozhikode, MDI Gurgaon, and IIM Nagpur to talk answer all your queries about clubs, committees, and time management at b-school!

Team InsideIIM09 May 2021

The Real Cost Of An MBA In India, Ft. Kunj Sanghvi | The Ambitious Indian Ep 3

We all have seen the lucrative placement figures that the B-schools project at the end of the placement season. But very few talk about the actual cost of the MBA or advertise it in big bold letters. Is it just the tuition fee and some other semester fee that you need to pay which can be said to be the real cost of an MBA, or there is more to it? Kunj Sanghvi, the COO of InsideIIM and an MBA himself, breaks down the real cost of MBA in this episode of The Ambitious Indian.

Team InsideIIM01 May 2021

upGrad: Courses Offered, Fees, ROI, Pros & Cons, Placement, Salary & More | Know Your Campus Online

The world around us has changed drastically in a little over one year’s time. The way we look at education has also seen a sea change. In times like these, we have also updated our preferences and have become more open to courses and learning opportunities. Online learning has developed at a war speed globally and with that, a new digital campus is evolving every passing day. So, today, I welcome you to one such digital campus in this new series, Know Your Campus Online. We are going to know more about some of the online MBA full-time and certificate courses of UpGrad and how effective they are in this episode.

InsideIIM Career Services29 Apr 2021

A B-school That Makes Taking Part In Committees Compulsory For Holistic Learning, Ft. SPJIMR Students

Shreyas Rajeswar and Siddhartha Biyanee became part of SPJIMR at a time when the whole world was dealing with the pandemic for the first time. The B-school experience that they knew of was severely altered last year and conducting day-to-day classes for a lot of B-schools also became a daunting task at the start. But, how did a B-school like SPJIMR manage with the trying times, what are some of the committee work students took up that helped them learn beyond the classroom and what exactly is ADMAP, a full-fledged course with credits allotted in the curriculum at SPJIMR? To answer these questions, Shreyas and Siddhartha spoke to InsideIIM. Here are the excerpts:

InsideIIM Career Services27 Apr 2021

Why Placement Committee Members Get The Best Jobs On Campus: Explained By An IIM Graduate

The Placement Committee, or Placecomm, is one of the most coveted committees on a business school campus. Despite all the hate that Placecommers may get, at b-school, this is one of the most sought-after committees to join. So why is that? What are the advantages that come with joining the Placement Committee? Is it true that Placecommers get the best jobs on campus? If yes, why is that? How do Placecommers have an edge over others during the b-school placement process? And what are the cons of joining the placement committee? In this video, an IIM Kozhikode alumnus who has also been to business schools for recruitment explains why it can be in your favor to join the Placement Committee at b-schools, and how it can land you your dream job on campus!

Team InsideIIM23 Apr 2021

Life At IIM Calcutta And Gearing Up For An Online MBA || Live Interaction With IIM C Co' 22 Students

IIM Calcutta, one of the Holy Trinity B-Schools, has always been a dream B-School for the lakhs of aspirants appearing for CAT. Only a small percentage of the overall pool of students vying for a seat at IIM C finally end up securing a seat. So what is it that makes IIM C so special? Is it the beautiful campus? The pedagogy? Or is it the excellent placements? Moreover, how is life at IIM C? How do the brightest minds of the country spend their day at IIM Calcutta? To answer your questions, we have a few students from IIM Calcutta's Co' 2022 who will walk you through a typical day at IIM Calcutta, what is it that makes Joka so special, how has been their experience so far, albeit online.

Team InsideIIM20 Apr 2021

What made this Professional Shooter, Sailor, and Poet choose a B-school Degree? Ft. FORE Students

B-schools are male-dominated spaces where most engineers make the cut! This is a popular perception when it comes to B-school education in India. To counter that narrative, we have three FORE School of management students today with us, to talk about their journey of being a professional shooter, award-winning sailor, and published author to pursuing an MBA. With 45% female faculty members, more than 40% female students in a batch, and students coming in from 24 different states with 15 varied educational backgrounds, FORE School of Management is proud of its diversity. And to talk about it more, we spoke to these three distinctly different individuals coming from the different wake of life towards a common goal of learning from FORE School of Management. Here are the excerpts.

InsideIIM Career Services09 Apr 2021