News Burger of the Day - Your Daily Prep Diet - Sep 5, 2015
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Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, announced the admissions open for its flagship One Year full time Post Graduate Program in Management (PGPM) which will commence in April 2016. Great Lakes’ PGPM has been consistently ranked in the top 10 one year MBA program in the country. In 2014 the program was ranked 7th by both Outlook India and Business Today. There will be two cycles of admission and the deadlines for applying are 30th November & 31st January respectively. Students need to have at least 2 years of experience by 31st March, 2016 for applying and should have valid GMAT/CAT/XAT/CMAT scores. Candidates meeting the eligibility criteria can apply online on the institute’s website www.greatlakes.edu.in.
Approved by AICTE and accredited by SAQS, IFIM B School’s Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) for Working Professionals consists of specializations like Data Science, Digital Business, Finance and Marketing, enabling study of new age tools relevant to current industry demands
There is very little change to the IIM Calcutta shortlisting or selection process as compared to last year. Clearly, it is a formula which has worked for IIM C.
In 2013, an engineer with high-flying dreams graduated from BITS Pilani. With a perfect undergraduate life and a CGPA of 7.4, he was placed with Oracle Financial Services Software (OFSS) as a Senior Technical Associate during 3rd day of campus placements. He had also cracked IIM Kozhikode (IIMK), a premier B-School that provided a 2-year MBA course. The icing on the cake was a pre-placement offer (PPO) from a startup where he enjoyed working during a 6-month internship program that was christened Practice School-2 (PS-2) by BITS Pilani. Here he was, standing at the cross-road, wondering which path to take. You may note that there were three roads instead of two mentioned in Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’. Additionally, it was not a yellow wood but a harsh economy that had just started taking baby steps after the recession period of 2009-11. What did he do then?
MICAT to be conducted in 14 cities on December 20 | GE-PI in Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai by Mid-January 2016
Being a Chartered Accountant, decision of pursuing an MBA is something unusual. Already earning decently, working in a Big 4, age more than an average but still why not. And when I have completed my two years, re-entered the job matket, I realize that the decision of getting back to a b-school and especially, SPJIMR was really worth it. And if I wouldnot have invested my 2 years, it would have been a great regret. It would be something which I would never realize because I would have never seen it. There would have been a blank, a gap, a vaccum in my life.
Every time the pattern of the CAT exam changes, a need to calibrate your strategy arises.