B School News
Candidates seeking admission to the two years PGP of Rajiv Gandhi-Indian Institute of Management, Shillong need to apply separately to the institute. The deadline for Applications is extended to 22.01.2008 and downloaded applications Posted on or before 22.01.2008 and received before 30.01.2008 will only be considered.
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IIM B and IIM I will be raising their batch size by 20% and 33.3% respectively for the batch 2008 –10. |
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The AICTE has announced new guidelines for B school to deduct the processing fee when a student leaves the institute before the commencement of classes. As per the new instruction no institute can deduct more than Rs. 1000. |
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Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, (IIM-B) has increased it s annual fee to Rs. 2.5 lakh for the Post-graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programme. Currently the fee stands at Rs. 1.75 Lakhs. The decision was taken on Monday at the governing body met headed by Mr. Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of Reliance Industries. |
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ICFAI (The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India) - which has few privates universities in the states of Uttaranchal, Tripura, Sikkim, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Jharkhand is planning to increase the number of private universities to 15 by year 2010. The total cost is estimated to be of Rs. 1,000 crore. Private University is a university which does not receive any financial support from the government. The concept of private universities is new in India but its supremacy can be seen in all over the world esp. |
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In a major setback to the oversight committee’s move to implement 27% OBC quota by a massive intake hike at the premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) from 2007-’08, directors of six IIMs have thrown up their hands In a major setback to the oversight committee’s move to implement 27% OBC quota by a massive intake hike at the premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) from 2007-’08, directors of six IIMs have thrown up their hands, saying it would be practically impossible to implement the quota at one go. |
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The Indian School of Business (ISB) has been invited to join the Board of The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). This is because the GMAC data demonstrates that the ISB is one of the prime The Indian School of Business (ISB) has been invited to join the Board of The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). This is because the GMAC data demonstrates that the ISB is one of the prime drivers of the large growth in GMAT takers in India and in 2005, more Indians applied to the ISB than even to Harvard or Stanford. |
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KIIT deemed University with the help of Verghese Kurien (the man behind India's first rural management school - IRMA) is going to set up a rural management institute in Bhubaneswar in parallel with Institute of Rural Management at Anand. KIIT is one of the premier Engineering colleges in orissa. In last one decade the institutes has achieved many mile stones and has been successful in bringing many talented professors to it. The proposed institute‘ll be named as Kalinga School of Rural Management (KSRM) and KIIT has allocated 15 acres of land for it. |
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Source: Economic Times, Tuesday, October 9, 2007