My first attempt at CAT did not fetch me a percentile decent enough to get into XIMB. XIMB was the only private Institute I had applied to.
I have always been studious right from when I was a kid. Learning and constantly upgrading myself is something I always yearn for. Garnering accolades from school to college, I have always wanted to find myself in an environment where your academic achievements are acknowledged along with your co-curricular activities.
Hence, I chose to apply to XIMB for the second time through XAT. It’s one of the few B-Schools in the country that does not boast about its average package and low fees. But rather, it takes pride in the fact that it has one of the most rigorous BM programs in the country. Another distinct feature of XIMB is the fact that every member of the faculty force enjoys the bragging rights of holding a PhD. This is a testimony to XIMB’s tenacity towards providing quality professional education
Culture shock is something that is imperative while pursuing an MBA. Coming from the Western belt of the country, I longed to move out of Goa and expose myself to this Eastern culture shock. As I see today, there is no better place than Bhubaneswar to experience the same. With people from different eastern parts of India, interspersed with a few from the north and the south and me from the west, XIMB is the place to be to experience MBA like no other college. Some pessimists look down upon the batch size of 360. I, being an optimist see it as an opportunity to enhance my network by a tally of 360. With 60 students in a class, every business problem is tackled with 60 different perspectives. I see XIMB as an organisation where every individual is motivated towards striving on the academic, extracurricular,co-curricular fronts to maintain and enhance the dignity of the Institute.
ABG company I would like to work for:
I would love to work for IDEA. Each of Idea’s advertisements still reverberates in my ears; right from “No Ullu Banaoing”, to “IIN”, to the rifest dialogue of “What an Idea Sirjee”. I want to be a part of the Marketing and Advertising team where such ideas stem.
- Nilkant Karapurkar (BM, 1st Year, XIMB)