An MBA is a huge investment: top management programs in India can cost over 30 lakhs, not including the opportunity cost of investing one to two years into an MBA degree. So, is such a massive time and monetary investment really worth it? What does formal education in the form of an MBA add to your career? How will it be of use to you 40 years down the line? What are you going to do with your MBA degree?
Mr. Harshal Dhoke, an alumnus of IIM Rohtak of Batch 2015-17, started his initiative, Shashi Dream Foundation, a volunteering group in 2018. His mission was to make education affordable and reachable to underprivileged children to make their lives better. His efforts have borne fruitful results, and the NGO currently has 100 students under its ambit with plans of expansion across India. He has recently been conferred with the Swami Vivekananda National Youth Award for his social work in Maharashtra.
‘How am I going to finance my MBA’?, and ‘where should I get the necessary funds from’?. The two most common questions that keep running through an MBA aspirant's mind. Pursuing higher education, especially an MBA is of prime importance to students all over and many students often go the extra mile to achieve this quality education. However the cost of doing an MBA has now skyrocketed, with mounting tuition fees and additional expenditure to be incurred throughout the course. Thus, making financial preparedness a critical component of your MBA application process. In this video we will walk you through the various ways by which you can finance your MBA, without it becoming a burden for you.
InsideIIM had launched the Professor Of The Year Competition this year, where we recognize the efforts that various B-School professors throughout the country have put in to ensure that their students are not left behind and continue to meet their potential and achieve great things. We asked MBA students of the current batches in 2021 to nominate their favorite professors on campus for the title of 'Professor of The Year' as a small token of gratitude for professors.
It has been more than a year, and India is still dealing with the pandemic. One of the biggest impacted sectors due to this pandemic is the education sector. Though various new promising ed-tech services have started in the last year which has helped education institutes to continue with their teaching, many students who were supposed to join their internship or job in a physical mode this year are now again forced into working from home due to the second wave of the pandemic. For an MBA student like you who is currently completing his/her summer internship or just joining their job after b-school, it can be a little overwhelming to work from home. Thus we bring you some of the summer internship experiences of your senior batch who had also faced the same issue last year. Read their internship experiences and learn from them on how to adapt yourself to the situation and how you can make the best of it.
One of the key objective for MBA students is to get a good job; maybe even a dream job. This is why the campus placement process is one of the most crucial points in the MBA journey where everyone is trying to land their dream jobs offered by their dream companies. The placements process at b-school doesn't just begin towards the end of the MBA journey. As soon as you step into your business school, you need to start preparing for the summer placements process, which can go on to give you the coveted reward of a pre-placement offer (PPO). So how does one get a PPO? How can you ensure that your internship can be converted into a job offer? To answer these questions, we bring to you a live webinar with a panel of MBA students from India's top business schools, who will share their Sales & Marketing summer internship experiences and how they converted their internships into job offers.
B-school placement reports are, indubitably, amongst the most influential factors in deciding whether or not an institute is worth joining. A placement report is a gateway to understanding what kind of money you can expect to make after graduation, and what the return on investment of your MBA will be when you take up your first job. Placement reports are also a sales pitch for b-schools to invite more recruiters on campus, and attract a greater volume of applicants for admission. To this end, institutes are known to employ methods to spruce up their placement reports to look grander than what they really are. So what methods are these? How do institutes 'inflate' their placement reports? How should you read a placement report, and is there any b-school in India that is completely transparent about their placements?
Dr. Subrat Sarangi is MICA’s Professor Of The Year 2021. With more than 23 years of industry, management consulting, teaching, and research experience, Professor Sarangi brings vivid learnings from various domains to his classes. For his students, Prof. Sarangi has “made learning seamless with his hands-on knowledge transfer with direct real-world applications”. Find out more about Prof. Sarangi and why did his students at MICA choose him as Professor Of The Year here.
