Your Odds Of Entering IIM Ahmedabad Or IIM Bangalore Have Just Gone Up
Should we be opening more IIMs or should we increase the batch strengths of the existing IIMs? Or should we do both?
Should we be opening more IIMs or should we increase the batch strengths of the existing IIMs? Or should we do both?
Now that you are done with CAT, you are probably preparing for the interviews that await you. One of the questions you must’ve encountered very frequently during your preparation, is “Why MBA?” and to be honest, this is the single, most important question you will ever answer. Know this, there is no ideal answer to this question.
CAT just got done! Before I go on, I’d like you to take a moment, take a deep breath, and pat yourself on the back for completing such an amazing achievement! No matter how you did, getting through the CAT is no joke, and it takes an incredible attitude to even take the test. Good job!
In this digital era, many are opting for the online course instead of going to the classroom coaching, as it seems a good option and has its own advantages. Even I covered the pros; online coaching has over the regular classroom coaching in one of my earlier articles Is Online Coaching Worth A Try?. Even now many of you are thinking of joining online coaching for your management examinations preparation for 2019, and many of them are those who were not able to clear the exam earlier, but did you guys ever realise that less attention span while studying online might be one of the primary reasons behind your failure? If yes, then I hope both pro and newbie find this article helpful.
MBA is a means to an end, and not an end in itself. The whole point of doing an MBA is to give yourself a better career, isn't it? So with CAT done and dusted, what steps are you taking to move a step closer to your dream career? What is the point of scoring a good percentile and getting into a b-school if you don't know what career path you want to take?
To do or not to do? This is the question that haunts most of the MBA aspirants. Most of the times this could be because of the enormous amount of effort that goes into securing your seat into a dream B-school. But when do you know that doing an MBA and putting in the effort to get that coveted place is actually worth the fight. Read the below chain of thoughts if you still haven’t been decisive enough about this life-changing course and want to know if you fit into it:
Before I start elaborating on the factors that went into deciding which IIM is better, I would like to mention that being a student of IIM Bangalore, it is natural to have a bias towards the institute. However, in this article, I have tried to remain as neutral as possible basing my decision solely on facts.
In the job market, work experience prior to doing an MBA is undervalued as opposed to the work experience after doing an MBA. I will give two scenarios here and compare how work experience prior to doing an MBA is heavily discounted. Consider two students who have completed their undergrad from the same college and graduated in the year 2015. Now one person went on to work for 3 years and after the hikes and promotions managed to get a salary of 10-12 lakhs in 2018, he later decides to join a B-School. Whereas his batchmate went on to do an MBA as a fresher from one of the top B-Schools and now earns a whopping 21 lakh after a year of work experience. This difference is very drastic and even if we consider an investment in management education, the breakeven point is within 2 years. Unless the person who worked for three years was unsure of doing an MBA back in 2015, he/she has worked three extra years at a lower salary than his fellow batchmate to eventually reach the same position that his friend has reached three years before!
Should we be opening more IIMs or should we increase the batch strengths of the existing IIMs? Or should we do both?
Now that you are done with CAT, you are probably preparing for the interviews that await you. One of the questions you must’ve encountered very frequently during your preparation, is “Why MBA?” and to be honest, this is the single, most important question you will ever answer. Know this, there is no ideal answer to this question.
CAT just got done! Before I go on, I’d like you to take a moment, take a deep breath, and pat yourself on the back for completing such an amazing achievement! No matter how you did, getting through the CAT is no joke, and it takes an incredible attitude to even take the test. Good job!
In this digital era, many are opting for the online course instead of going to the classroom coaching, as it seems a good option and has its own advantages. Even I covered the pros; online coaching has over the regular classroom coaching in one of my earlier articles Is Online Coaching Worth A Try?. Even now many of you are thinking of joining online coaching for your management examinations preparation for 2019, and many of them are those who were not able to clear the exam earlier, but did you guys ever realise that less attention span while studying online might be one of the primary reasons behind your failure? If yes, then I hope both pro and newbie find this article helpful.
MBA is a means to an end, and not an end in itself. The whole point of doing an MBA is to give yourself a better career, isn't it? So with CAT done and dusted, what steps are you taking to move a step closer to your dream career? What is the point of scoring a good percentile and getting into a b-school if you don't know what career path you want to take?
To do or not to do? This is the question that haunts most of the MBA aspirants. Most of the times this could be because of the enormous amount of effort that goes into securing your seat into a dream B-school. But when do you know that doing an MBA and putting in the effort to get that coveted place is actually worth the fight. Read the below chain of thoughts if you still haven’t been decisive enough about this life-changing course and want to know if you fit into it:
Before I start elaborating on the factors that went into deciding which IIM is better, I would like to mention that being a student of IIM Bangalore, it is natural to have a bias towards the institute. However, in this article, I have tried to remain as neutral as possible basing my decision solely on facts.
In the job market, work experience prior to doing an MBA is undervalued as opposed to the work experience after doing an MBA. I will give two scenarios here and compare how work experience prior to doing an MBA is heavily discounted. Consider two students who have completed their undergrad from the same college and graduated in the year 2015. Now one person went on to work for 3 years and after the hikes and promotions managed to get a salary of 10-12 lakhs in 2018, he later decides to join a B-School. Whereas his batchmate went on to do an MBA as a fresher from one of the top B-Schools and now earns a whopping 21 lakh after a year of work experience. This difference is very drastic and even if we consider an investment in management education, the breakeven point is within 2 years. Unless the person who worked for three years was unsure of doing an MBA back in 2015, he/she has worked three extra years at a lower salary than his fellow batchmate to eventually reach the same position that his friend has reached three years before!