CAT 2009 will offer 560 extra IIM seats

Sources from HRD ministry confirm CAT committe has been asked to add 560 more seats at IIMs for aspirants this year
CAT Cabinet approved 4 new IIMs in August at Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Rohtak (Haryana), but the institutes are yet to be established.
New IIM shall admit 140 students each.
Some IIM directors [...]

IIM-B starts student exchange prog with Paris-based HEC

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IIM-B and Paris-based HEC School of Management (HEC) started a student exchange programme – HEC-IIMB (Hiep)

20 students from each of the institutes will visit India and France and work jointly on projects of mutual interest
IIMB Director Pankaj Chandra: “This initiative is part of our strategic vision to increase the size of the institute in terms [...]

IIMs face many hurdles in mentoring newer ones

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IIMs face difficulty in mentoring new ones due to shortage of resources like faculty, staff etc
In August, the govt. approved 7 new IIMs, with 4 becoming functional in 2010-11 and other three a year later
Each new IIM to start with batch of 140 which will rise to 560 eventually
However, unlike the existing IITs, existing IIMs [...]

7 New IIMs coming up!

Better chance for MBA aspirants to grab a seat at IIMs
The Union Cabinet on August 27, 2009, approved 7 new IIMs to become operational in two phases at:
Tamil Nadu
Jharkhand
Chhattisgarh
Haryana
Jammu & Kashmir
Uttarakhand
Rajasthan.
Phase I – 4 will start functioning from 2010-11, with an intake of 140:
Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu)
Ranchi (Jharkhand)
Raipur (Chhattisgarh)
Rohtak (Haryana)
Phase II – Rest 3 will be [...]

IIMC students gave up seats at foreign B-schools

Several IIM Calcutta’s 2009-11 batch students turned down foreign B-schools – LBS, Stearn (NYU), Cornell University, University of Texas, Georgia Tech Univ. and Univ. of Southern California etc.
20 students of the batch left jobs paying over Rs 20 lakh p.a. to pursue MBA at IIMC.

Av work ex – 27 months. Students from [...]

Good times are back: Job offers flood IIMs

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BANGALORE: Pre-placement offers from all sectors pouring in for IIM grad class 2010
IIM-B:

Consulting firms that participated in last year’s summer placement announced PPO results – all students received PPOs.
Vineet Sharma, Placement rep :  IIM-B is only institute with 100% success rate – better than even last year.
Last year’s PPO highlights:

120 companies confirmed participation for [...]

CAT 2009: Frequently Asked Questions (1 July 2009)

Q1: I hear that CAT will be held online. Is that correct?
A1: CAT is going to be a computer based test (CBT) and not internet based test (IBT). I.e. Candidate does not take the test on an internet site. Instead of reading the questions in a paper booklet and darkening the ovals on the answer-sheet, [...]

CAT 2009 is a computer based test

It has finally been confirmed – CAT is definitely going to be a computer based test (CBT) from this year.
As per this press release from IIM Bangalore:

The Common Admission Test (CAT) of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is going to be a Computer Based Test (CBT) from this year onwards, comparable to the existing [...]

Half of India Inc CEOs from IITs, IIMs

Nearly half of the India Inc’s professionals in Chief Executive role hail from the country’s elite institutes — IIT and IIM, a study says.
“A whopping 50 per cent of the professionals in Chief Executive or Strategic Business Leadership roles hail either from the IITs or the IIMs or both, across corporations studied,” global executive search [...]

Good news in bad times, for IIM Calcutta

Everyone is talking about recession and poor job prospects for business school graduates. But despite the hue and cry, schools like IIM Calcutta are not complaining. And here’s why.
It is good news in bad times from IIM Calcutta. Recession may have affected pre-placement offers which fell from 90 last year to 54 this year, but [...]