It is that time of the year again when thousands of students across the country appear for a slew of entrance examinations conducted by various business schools in the country.

This year, the examinations begin on November 11 and end on January 6. Unfortunately, Symbiosis National Aptitude Test (SNAP) and ICFAI Business School Aptitude Test (IBSAT) are scheduled on the same day (December 16).

Speaking to The Hindu, Ajay Arora, Director, Triumphant Institute of Management Education, Bangalore centre, said that the clash in the dates of a few management aptitude tests is not uncommon. “I do not know what the fuss is all about. Every year, something similar happens,” he said.

Last year, the entrance exam for Faculty of Management Studies and Narsee Monjee Aptitude Test were held on the same day. “One cannot blame the institutions for the clash in dates. The best time to conduct the entrance tests is between November and January, as the students will not be over-burdened with mid-term examinations,” Mr. Arora said.

The admission cycle is such that for a programme to commence in June, the entrance test must be conducted between November and January, so that the results may be announced in April. Mr. Arora said that around 20,000 students of the country appear for the IBSAT and 18,000 to 20,000 appear for SNAP. “The question is how many of those students will appear for both the entrance tests. That group is not very big. The number of students ‘affected’ is minimal,” he said.

The Faculty of Management Studies, College of Materials Management (FMS) Jabalpur, a Business School Founded in 1994, admits 55 students per batch. Number of hits on the basis of benefits in terms of Madhya Pradesh common entrance test (MPJET). The Institute has a youth hostel, 154 students.

FMS covers 39 hectares.

It has 5 classrooms and an auditorium for 200 people. It has 75 computers with dial-up Internet. Suryavanshee RN is the director of SGF and A Natarajan is the president.

It is a system that offers numerous references to the correct terminal. Management of men, materials and the image of an institution.

The students’ register Delhi University (DU), manages the admission of more than 500 students at sea each year, ensures that the experience is smooth for her.

Even as their Indian counterparts welding it out in serpentine queues, foreign students go through the completion of formalities for admission with ease. A little planning in advance, this aspect is simple.

Students from more than 50 countries for admission to the AU per year. The process begins in January, when the issues of registries formal notification to all countries. The information is also available on the website of YOU.

“We expect the students, their applications not later than the end of April,” informs Professor AS Narag, foreign students “consultant. A professor at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) since 1969, Narag place all tools, although the system oiled.

After a short list of students, eligibility requirements are the letters at the end of May to allow them to apply for student visas.

“Most students come from the first week of June and formalities. As a general rule, they have a pleasant experience,” Narag informed, this mandate has been for the past 17 years.

Aziza Zyivoddin Khan of Uzbekistan, here’s you connect to the MBA program has agreed not to have to go through the usual loops.

Your elder sister Zyivoddin Feroza Khan, followed by an MBA from FMS, but believes that it is a little more junior level are responsible for advising small problems faced by foreign students in their daily routine.

Narag recognizes that the university is positive prejudices vis-à-vis foreign students. The diplomas for students are heavily subsidized - they pay only $ 100 per year to their schools.

However, the university is a single registration fee of up to $ 300 for Undergraduate courses, $ 400 for Post-Graduate Programs and $ 500 for MPhil and PhD. On an average of 500 students enrolled each year, you in a cool Rs 70 lakh.

“This happened for a good Corpus created for better opportunities for students,” said Narag.

A State-of-the-art International House students for women is an example. The hostel, inform Narag, everything - from microwave ovens on rice cookers and washing machines.

“Do you think these students go to the ambassador of our brand and help the country’s image management,” said Narag. Indeed, current high Commissioners of Uganda, Ethiopia and Mauritius are old.

“Once I met with three government ministers of Uganda, had studied at YOU,” remembers Narag. The majority of foreign students come from the SAARC countries, but also more recently, students from countries in Southeast Asia have also been coming in

MBA students of the Institute of Management in Kerala (IMK) are organising a South Indian Management Meet, christened ‘Mania-2004′, here on August 7 and 8.

IMK is the Faculty of Management Studies, the University of Kerala, and operates from the University Campus, Palayam, in the city. ‘Mania - 2004′ will be the 10th edition of a regular annual feature in IMK’s scheme of things right from year 1994.

According to student representatives of IMK, ‘Mania’ enjoys the patronage of reputed business houses across South India and draws participation from premier B-Schools. Last year, 21 institutions had participated and the Institute of Financial and Management Research (IFMR), Chennai, won the overall championship.

Sanjay Rishi, forty-something top-flight finance director, under the direction of American Express Global Services Centre in Asia over the past two years. The son of an officer of the Indian Air Force, in Amritsar, he was born and grew up with her two sisters in New Delhi. He went to school in Mussoorie and Delhi.

After his graduation from St. Stephen’s, it registered at the Faculty of Management Studies, where he met his future wife Vibha Paul Rishi, now Pepsi’s high-profile Chief Marketing in India. Rishi started in Asia for colors. His career, click on “Fast-Track, if it is done by American Express during the year 1985.

Rishi and his wife live in Gurgaon Vibha Varun with children (14) and Sanjana (12), animals and Labrador and German Shepherd Nugget Prince Andrew aka Andy.

Are you a spender or savings?

A donor, without question. Through good and bad times, I have always tried my best to consumer spending. I think it will help the economy.

How much money do you have in your wallet?

If people of my business to read this article, I think a lot of money, this is not true. For example, right now, I have Rs 323 and fifty paise in my wallet. The three rupees and paise coins are - they badly when I rest.

Do you have any credit cards?

I take the American Express staff (Gold) Card and American Express Corporate Card. I helped launch both.

Have you ever really hard?

As qu’enfant, I’ve never really had enough money to buy goodies in the school canteen. But it did not matter, and this is an important issue through philosophy, I life: It is never enough, or it is appropriate depending on your perspective. I prefer the latter. I have my parents for that value.

The first four or five years of my life work has been quite tense and I had a girlfriend (now my wife) to promote! For some time, she was in Mumbai and I was in Nagpur. Our parents were in Delhi. Scrounged me, until I had enough to go meet the weekend, and beat my savings expensive restaurant or two. It has borne fruit and taught me the pay-off, that financial discipline.

I remember an extended weekend, I drove to the reservation of Bombay electronics and slept on the floor of the train. I have the station Dadar, and it was raining bucket of water. I’m hanging in turn a PG hollow and completely soaked, his mother for opening the door: she was also visited by his daughter in the same weekend! Planning is everything …

How does the youth look at the general budget? For most college students it’s no more than ”just another political gimmick”.

Said Nishat Ahmed, a second year English (honours) student of Hindu College: ”The budget, like any other political announcements, shouldn’t be taken at its face value. It takes time for political promises to translate into substantial action. The annual budget for me is just another political stunt.”

A BA (pass) final year student of Kirori Mal College, Anil Sharma, felt that students do not usually face the repercussions of the budget. ”Most students don’t earn, hence we are not affected by increasing taxes,” he said.

While some students did express some interest in the budget, they also confessed that the curiosity was more academic in nature. Harman Dhillon, a final year MBA student at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), said: ”As a management student, I look for insights into the possible repercussions that it may have on companies and consumers.”

India had 840 Business Schools (B schools) from March 2002, which have 65,000 Masters in Business Administration (MBA). A survey by Cosmode and the World Series Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in the first top-10 B-schools in 2003.

– IIM Bangalore, Calcutta, IIM, IIM Lucknow, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, Faculty of Management Studies, University of New Delhi, Delhi, J and Shailesh Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, follow Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. According to the survey, the main factor that separates a top school is the rest of the Faculty and teaching, the others are research, publication and consultancy. On an average edge of the addresses of schools B-50 full-time professors, 73 percent with a promotion. The second phase of the school has 24 full-time professors, 47 percent with a promotion, while the third stage, 17 full-time teachers, of whom 35% have a doctorate.

The number of books published by the school average of 11.53 with the top-15, against 3.28 for the second phase of 25 schools and 1.08 for the remaining 60

On average, Management Development Programme Guidance and revenue amounting to Rs312.84 lakh for the Top 15, Rs42.38 lakh for the next 25 and Rs6.49 lakh for 60

A prize-giving ceremony of the unique initiative “Business Start-up plan competition 2003″, launched by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and General Engineering Co Ltd (GECL) from Japan this year is on 11. November on the headquarters of FICCI in New Delhi.

The competition, open to students of post-graduate diploma in management courses and select vocational institutions in the country, is intended to promote and support entrepreneurship among students by creating a platform for managing new ideas, concepts and new organization of the process.

The winners will be GELDPREISE of RS 1 lakh, RS R 60000 and 40000 at a cost of the special ceremony to congratulate the performance of the young institution. This is the first of its kind ever trying, under the leadership of FICCI.

GECL, the supply of human resources in construction companies Japan and Japanese companies operating abroad, like previous competitions in China and Vietnam. FICCI, as part of their world, trying to promote India forces in human resources and skills related GECL company to introduce talent and contacts between the economy and youth of both countries.

More than 75 contributions were received by students of the management leaders, engineers and vocational training institutes in the country, for example, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Indian Institute of Technologys (IITS), Indian Institute of Management (IIMS). Bids were selected on the basis of innovation and competitive advantage, in addition to the risks, feasibility, financial viability and values. Other factors taken into account the characteristics of the market , Success factors, strategy and implementation plan and organize the team.

Entries classified by five courts have been invited to a final presentation on the FICCI office in New Delhi, where students were shown on the basis of criteria decided by the screening committee of the competition. The evaluation and short list business plans was conducted by a prestigious jury composed of professionals in business management and representatives of the world.

Indian Institute of Management (IIMS) still can not enter, but some other countries topline B-schools are investments in equities brand for future students.

In order to commission the best brains in difficult times of competition between institutions and increased revenue from fees, the B-schools are now more focused and adoption of One-to-One Marketing Concepts.

AND spoke with a cross section of some major schools B and discovered that now more and more below-the-line (BTL) to reach directly strategies that the applicant.

BTL is a sales technique that requires less conventional methods, such as events, promotions and programs running, as usual channels of advertising to promote products or services.

And the results are obvious - Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), which are very lively, the number of candidates increases of 35000 to 58000 in the last year. “The revenue from the sale of application forms are manifold, but the sales activities of the cheapest solution for the creation of the mark for the best students,” said director SIBM Arun Mudbidri.

SIBM has adopted several strategies, such as sending e-newsletter regular candidates on their web site and online service management consultancy 85-100 applications each day. “We have also started,” friends “program, whereby selected candidates from a written test may be a clear concept Alumni and their fears.

This ensures that the student will ultimately be chosen to confirm their immediate admission, “said Mudbidri. Indeed, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi, is based mainly on” académico-related ’strategies marketing aimed at increasing the visibility of its brand.

V said Harish Verma, Associate Professor (Marketing), FMS: “We are conducting a number of events under the banner of” Fiesta management “, including several competitions. Furthermore, we have a lot of companies, to maintain the participation of several workshops and invited people from the industry. ”

These events also promote the Institute for mostly by mouth-to-mouth advertising. Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghazaibad, is also the strategy through its 7000 former members. “We send bulletins to old and they create mouth-to-mouth advertising to their friends and relatives,” said BS Sahay, director, LMI.

New Delhi-International Management Institute (IMI) Number of seats directly to the Human Resources Division of different companies for the flagship Executive MBA program. “We also focused Road Shows, where our graduates about the relevance of the course. Through these initiatives, the number of applicants has nearly doubled,” said Himadri, program director, IMI.

However, the IIMS BTL do not believe in activities to promote their brand on the MBA aspirant. “We are convinced that good quality education, the nature of the international orientation and relevance for the industry are the best development opportunities for our brand among potential candidates,” said Devi Singh, director , IIM Lucknow.

“Indeed, the IIMS not to use traditional means of advertising such as magazines or newspapers as often as other B-schools, unless, as it is for something like to announce the beginning of a new program.

This probably reflects confidence in the minds of all MBA IIM aspirants on the mark, “says Professor Anindya Sen, Dean, the program initiatives, IIM, Calcutta

Are they enough? India is emerging young CEO of its thriving b-schools, otherwise? On campus after campus, ingenuity already has the status of a national mark. Its own Insta-recognition logo (not missed a bout of double pencil sharpened), on its own coherence of action attributes, Buzz their own production facilities, and even its own rate of Devotees.

Another pirate

The annual cum-competition debate is taking place under the banner of the Business Standard Chartered Today, ingenuity, in collaboration with TCS. And the final year of the competition was held on 17 November in New Delhi’s FICCI Auditorium, packed capacity thunder (with only 500 seats, the party has been dumping bodies in the corridors). Most were screaming because of the large contingent of the University of Delhi, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS). It was one of two B-schools (IIM Calcutta are the others), that teams of the final phase for the quiz and discussion. But then, the number of students from schools B, which have not yet done so to the final was also boggling mental. And they were, with the action, as it were informed of the other to make their voice Quiz Master in Joy Bhattacharya would almost themselves a spark of madness mob with his questions and for home prices were very tempting, no doubt, Park Avenue Gift Certificate and T-shirts to Fast Track watches and HP webcams. Then there were the glue thrown on the debaters. With the exception of the scene, Shefali Talwar There was no sale compere is lost, and it manages for a number of issues.

The chief guest, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Rajiv Pratap Rudy, looked on bemusedly-schieren impressed by the arrivals of these young people had given in their heads. Amid all DIN, it seemed to really enjoy himself, smiling, most of the time.

Verbal Vying

The ingenuity of its work has begun on a note quite contradictory, with two semi-finals moderator. First, IIM Bangalore, represented by Bhaskar Choudhary and Faiz Azim, against-IIM Calcutta, represented by Gunjan Ananda Gupta and Chakrabarti. They have been discussed, if Promi-notes are a waste of money. This was followed by IIM-Indore, represented by Suchit Bansal and KP Sunil Rao, against the bites of their Latin FMS Delhi, represented by Siddharth Abhilin Mukherjee and kshatriya. They were discussing the usefulness or sheer waste of market research. The public has been treated for facts, facts meter recalled, missiles and verbal almost everything behind a Holster-Shootout considered.

The final discussion had the IIM Calcutta, where FMS Delhi. The theme: “When business is good for society?” It was quite the scene lay in a frenzy of no-hand, gloves-off fighting (with members of the public increasingly a haematoma here and there) . Votes were collected, empirical data were released into the air, and at the end of the IIM Calcutta-Duo had praised in the head high.

Then came the quiz-finals, with the decibel level in the lobby of a recovery. The participants? Kartik Vadlapatla Arora and Anahat Loyola, Chennai, and Amol Aloni Parinay Pakhriwal of symbiosis centre management, human resources development, Pune, Rohit and Kamath Raghu Gopalan of IIM Calcutta, Anindya Sen and Gaurav Misra and SGF - Delhi.