The US is introducing fee waiver schemes to help Indian MBA students if they promise to return home after their course. But in an era of outsourcing, are there too many takers?

For once the Americans are willing to help if we promise to return home after four or five years. But our own students say they have no intention of settling down in the US in the first place — especially since the best jobs are in India anyway.

A new scheme devised by some leading US business schools, now aims to introduce a ‘loan forgiveness programme’ for students from developing countries. This basically means, if you want to return home to work, your case will be considered for a fee waiver. The idea, apparently is to encourage students who want to go back to their country of origin. And students from India, Eastern Europe and China are likely to be the beneficiaries.

But strangely most MBA students here are not overtly excited. Chirag Talati, an MBA student from the Faculty of Management Studies, MSU, says: “Very few Indians are able to make it to the Ivy League colleges. It will be useful if more US universities offer such options. UK institutions offer one-year business programmes and Australia is a cheaper destination anyway. So the US needs to give such incentives.” Agrees IIMA student Naman Vidyarthi: “Indians generally rush to US for a degree in medicine or engineering. The percentage of people opting for a management degree is comparatively less. If you consider Harvard or Stanford, feewaivers do help. But how many Indians get accepted there?” he says.

Even if such programmes are implemented by universities abroad, experts are not sure whether all legal angles would be covered. Prof. Kiran Joshi from FMS says, “In a country like the US, how do you compel a student to come back, when potential recruiters are all set to file for their H1 visas?”

Ami Ravat, a British Chevening scholar agrees: “We are aware how desperate some people are to settle in the UK or US. But there also students, who want to explore, learn and come back to work in India.

Education counsellor Jagat Patel seconds this view. “A fee-waiver sounds good but there are a lot students who have both, the money to go and family businesses to return to.”

An option instead, aspiring managers suggest, would be to introduce assistantships along with the Masters programmes in premier institutes of India. “We have some of the best engineering and management schools. They already offer quality education but if it’s coupled with a paid internship or fellowship, it would help a lot,” says Vidyarthi.

A survey on India’s best institutions of higher education has reconfirmed what most already knew: That the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is still, unquestionably, the best B-School in India.

Ironically though, not too long ago, the six IIMs had taken a joint decision to abstain from such ranking surveys, except for a select few international ones conducted by the likes of Business Week and Financial Times. So is IIM-A angry at being declared numero uno, despite abstaining from the competition? “The news did come as a bit of a surprise,” says Indira Parikh, Dean, IIMA, adding that the institute did not divulge any information to the survey team.

But shouldn’t everyone participate in such surveys so that students get a better idea? Professor in the Faculty of Management Studies, MSU, Kiran Joshi says: “Sometimes an institution reaches a level where it doesn’t need to be ranked. It is like trying to rate Shah Rukh Khan or Amitabh Bachchan.” Anup Singh, director, Nirma Institute of Management, though, doesn’t agree. “The survey may not have required active participation from the institutes themselves. However, it is desirable for institutes to participate in such surveys so that information can be disseminated among the student community,” he says.

Most students agree that such surveys sometimes help them make an informed choice. “Nobody really thinks these surveys are completely accurate. Often, undeserving institutes get unexceptionably high rankings. But overall, they give us a general idea regarding resources and placements,” says Ashita Mehta, waiting to crack the CAT next year.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi University (DU) is again at the centre of discussions. This time, not for school, but also for cinema, the role of teachers. The Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), the United Kingdom Bhalla, has been invited, not as head of the department, on Friday. The reason was the irregularities found during the examination of passage of the Institute for their MBA (part-time), earlier this year.

CD Bhattacharya, an executive member of the Faculty FMS, and titled: “Yes, I have a letter from the authorities of the university to give me, as head of the SGF, pending further orders.” According to some sources, the issue is now in the executive branch, Council of the AU, where the former dean, Bhalla fate is decided.

The incident has emerged in April, when a member of the Faculty, Preetam Khandelwal, wrote a letter to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, complained of irregularities during the examination for admission, Jan. 23. Times of India reported the contents of the letter as well as the dean of attempting to cover up the matter then.

In the letter, Khandelwal had argued that one of the observers for the qualifying examinations, JK Sharma, had helped his station during the test, so that the dean had also supported. Khandelwal I explained later, they fear that the door in this field at the University to terminate the contract.

This is not the first time that a senior member of the FMS came out in favour of admitting the axe-related issues. A few years ago, another dean, Professor Adhikari, was apparently released reports on the irregularities in the certification process.

SGF said a leading member of the Faculty: “The institute is extremely sensitive to allegations, like this one. The sanctity of the Office must be maintained and that this is why the University has such a dramatic step. Bhalla today, was not available for comment.

MUMBAI: In a period of a few months, students in small technical institutions in the rural areas of Maharashtra technology with a great idea can be tie-up with a financial advisor in a European company starting a business.

A group of students from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay (IITB), the development of a Web-Forum, through which human beings in all parts of the world to share ideas, research partners with different skills interested in the same idea, search tutelage of some of the best Faculty countries who are in contact with potential donors the money - all for free.

For the past eight years, IITB’s cell entrepreneurship, or e-mail to cell, it was inspiring entrepreneurial spirit to thousands of young heads through the competition plan Business, conferences and workshops.

“The great resonance, we are in contact with humans and many other extension of the e-Cell resource for students from small schools,” says Abhishek Mohta, a second year, students Mechanical and e-cell member.

As a first step, the e-IITB cell has a network of 14 e-smooth functioning of the cells of higher education throughout the country - the five IITs five IIMs; Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Navi Mumbai, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli.

The network is a student, we say to NITIE, with a technological idea, and link with a student, say IIM Ahmedabad, who believes the idea of management and know-how and offer them the possibility of creating Together of a company, while still in school.

A student can be similar to engineering, to seek tutoring IIM professor. IITB students of the initiative, leaders of the contact network and assist students and other venture capitalists potential donors.

“We in an interview with e-cells, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford in the United States, we have a very positive,” says Abhishek Sharma, a second year student of mechanical engineering.

Since February this year, students work on a web forum, tentatively called the Global Entrepreneurship Network, which allows people, for a brief summary of his ideas and looking for a partner, anywhere in the world.

This is the time of year when advertising for the B entrance exams in schools across the country have barely begun their first appearance in the national daily press. And with it, prospective students looking for attendance at such schools B began to prepare for a place in the coveted top B-schools.
In general, an MBA exams are in three parts - written, the working group and discussions and interviews for you on the right track, he was the best, for a programme of coaching.
There are a variety of courses available to the tutorials - both posts and contact data, which are generally well documented to help brushes foundations.
The practice of testing of these courses are selected on the basis of the last model year for credentials and a good understanding of the various forms of investigation.
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The Common Admission Test (CAT), on behalf of all six Indian Institute of Management (IIM), and several other institutions such as the Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) and the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) are few Among the required examinations. Most of them have the same model with a few minor variations.
The first step - a written examination, the objective verification, testing skills in English and math. It is further divided into the ability of quantitative interpretation of data and adequate, reading, verbal reasoning and ability. Some tests have a section on general knowledge.
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Spend you the first few days of preparation for the review of the understanding of the review and selection of samples, institutions You want to communicate with us. Then move to your preparation for the identification of weak points of each test.
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The BT-Cosmode survey made a study of Indian business schools that award MBA degrees.

Such schools number about 1,000 in India. Some famous schools like Indian Institute of Management of Ahmedabad, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies of Mumbai, Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi, XLRI of Jamshedpur and Indian School of Business of Hyderabad did not participate in the study.

The topmost ten of the rest were Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Indian Institute of Management, Indore, Shailesh J Mehta School of Management of Mumbai, S P Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. The number of recruiters visiting these institutes ranged from 27 to 70. The average salary obtained for recruitees ranged from Rs 5,45,000 for Shailesh J Mehta School of Management to Rs 7,60,000 for Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

The MBA is back this season. The first block of the move has been the Commonwealth Admission Test (CAT), November 20, for its inclusion in the Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) across the country. In the coming weeks, you have access to tests for admission to the Faculty of Management Studies (SGF), the University of Delhi, Xavier Admission Test for XLRI, Jamshedpur and other institutions, the joint management of the entrance to test for admission to the B-schools in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and much more. Infact, throw the ring and the bidding war around the attitude of the MBA training is only increasing each year.

According to a conservative estimate, 1.7 lach students this year to examine the CAT. It is a far, far, if you come not to 75000 students in the CAT before Y2k era. The lure the starting salary for sevenfigure, foreign affairs and the advance in the business world is quite an MBA preposition binding on all graduates. Ask Sabihur Syed Rehman, the class of 2007, SGF component relating to the remuneration, and he said: “It is a determining factor in the decision of a B-school, because a number of lucrative wages is also regarded as a synonym Career promising growth prospects in Labour.

But what is fuelling this enthusiasm for an MBA? Anil Kumar R-Class of 2007 at the IIM Kozhikode that, with increased awareness on the major exams, the preparations begin early, often three years before the CAT. “The Indian economy booming, and, consequently, the demand for graduates in management, all have an important role to play in addition to the enthusiasm for MBA-training,” says Kumar.

Rahul Srinivas, the class of 2007 at Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon has, however, another perspective on the whole issue. He believes that for an MBA is still the first choice among students from the engineering school, students of art and commerce are increasingly flow payment of the offer high in the BPO sector College. “These students are of the contrary opinion, BPO jobs to a temporary phase, and select earn an MBA after a few years of professional experience,” says Srinivas …

… Career opportunities post-MBA from the variety of areas that we go into the social status and a graduate of MBA as a contribution to the draw. Ashish Gupta, class of 2007 at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, however, found that MBA is still not the first choice of profession among students during UG. “It was only after their graduation, and students decide to go to graduate school, and so they choose this option,” said Gupta.

The perception on different schools of B among students and parents play a crucial role in zeroing on the right side. Investments, the course content, faculty, alumni or network infrastructure, ie what is the decisive factor in the choice? “Good B-schools, businesses and wages, and therefore the first choice for all-MBA aspirant,” said Marut Setia, Class of 2007, the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi.

Geeta Bajaj, assistant professor, communication, MDI, but believes that the salary should not be the determining factor when students zero to a certain B-school. The salary offered a graduate MBA differs from year to year. Campus of experience, the quality of the faculty, including their guidance in research, interaction with industry and the global society of exposure vis-à-vis students through exchange programmes should also be taken into account while selecting the proper B-school, “says Bajaj.

Students passing out of private business schools (B-schools) in Delhi are being offered high salary packages to the tune of Rs7 lakh per annum, which is better than that offered to Indian Institute of Management (IIM) students. At the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, 94 students of 2005 batch were offered a compensation of Rs7.28 lakh per annum on an average as against Rs6.28 lakh per annum in 2004. At Amity Business School, 153 students out of 167 passing out in 2005 have been offered packages of Rs4 lakh in campus recruitments and the highest offer is Rs7 lakh per annum. Out of 95 students passing out from Birla Institute of Management Technology in 2005, 87 have already been placed with salaries being 70 percent higher than 2004. Campus placement exercise at the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, is yet to begin.

Degree in Management of Hospitals (30 seats) Ahilya Devi Vishwavidyalaya, Indore; Eligibility: 10 +2 with 50 per cent in the scientific disciplines such as biology with a subject.

B. Sc in Health Information Administration, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.

B. Sc Hospital Management, Bonsecours College for Women, Thanjavur, affiliated with the Bharatidasan University, Trichy.

PG courses

Master of Health Administration (MHA) and Master of Hospital Administration (MHA), the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (last date of application - Jan 24, 2005).

Master’s degree in administration of the hospital, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (MBBS for candidates with five years of practice or the sponsored candidates with seven years’ experience hospital).

Master’s in management of the hospital, Madurai Kamraj University, Madurai.

Master of Administration and Master of the Hospital Authority health care, the administrative staff of the College of India, Hyderabad, ASCI-Hinduja Institute of Health Care Management, Hyderabad.

Master of Hospital Management, Apollo Institute of Hospital Administration, Hyderabad.

MBA (Hospital Management), the Institute of Management Studies, Indore.

MBA (Administration health care), Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.

Masters of Hospital Management, N.G.P. College of Arts and Sciences, Coimbatore (KMCH) affiliated with the University Bharathiar.

M.Sc. In Heath Information Administration, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal.

Masters in Health Care and Hospital Trustees of the Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Kolkata.

Program Master of Health Sciences, University of Pune.

MD Program

MD Hospital Administration, Nizam at the Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.

MD Hospital administration in MAHE, Manipal.

PG diploma courses

PG Diploma in Health and Hospital Management (PGDHM), the Indian Institute of Health Management and Research, Jaipur. The institute has a campus in southern Bangalore.

P.G. Diploma in Health Education and Health Administration, Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University

Programs for Distance Education

Mr. Phil. Program Hospital and Health Systems Management at BITS Pilani (course is conducted in collaboration with CMC Hospital, Vellore, Tulane University Medical Center New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and Bombay Hospital, Mumbai).

Post-graduate degree Hospital and Health Administration, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

P.G. Graduated from the hospital and the health care management, Bharathiar University, School of Distance Education.

Diploma in Health and Hospital Administration, the State of Karnataka, Open University, Mysore.

Degree, PG Diploma and Advanced Diploma in hospital administration and the administration of the hospital staff at the Institute of Directors health care, Chennai.

Programs Online

PG Diploma in Hospital and Health Care Management, in PGDiploma medico-legal system, Symbiosis Health Care Centre, Pune.

P.G. Administration Degree Hospital, Medvarsity, Apollo Hospitals.

Are they enough? India emerging young CEO of its thriving b-schools, who else? On campus after campus, Acumen has already acquired the status of a national mark. Its own Instafence logo recognition (not escape double-End sharpened pencil), and its own coherent action attributes, their buzz production equipment, and even a number of his own supporters.

Another biscuit

The annual amount cum-competition the debate under the banner of the Business Standard Chartered Acumen Today, as part of the TCS. And last year, the competition took place on November 17 in New Delhi’s FICCI Auditorium, packed thunder capacity (with only 500 seats, the party was umschüttend masses in the corridors). Much of the shouting was due to the large contingent of the University of Delhi, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS). It was one of two B-schools (IIM Calcutta, on the other), teams of the final phase for the game and the debate. But then, the number of students from schools b, which are not in the final was also zurückschreckend mental. And they were to become familiar with the action, as it were on top of each other to get their word Quiz Master in Joy Bhattacharya would almost themselves to wake up a mob madness with his questions at home, prices were very attractive, No Doubt, Park Avenue and gift certificates to T-shirts and watches FastTrack PS webcams. Then, there were those who violate Disputanten adhesives. With the exception of the stage, Shefali Talwar There was no moderator of sale is lost, and it managed to agree issues.

The evaluation, the head of the Union Minister for Civil Aviation Rajiv Pratap Rudy, we looked bemusedly impressed by the height of one of these young people had data in their heads. For all the din, he seemed to really enjoy himself, smiling, while most of the files.

Verbal Fight

Acumen proceedings began on a note to be contradictory, with two semi-final lively debates. Between the first IIM Bangalore, represented by Bhaskar Choudhary Faiz Azim and against the 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 Sunil Bansal and KP Rao, pitting the forces of law and order against the SGF Delhi, represented by Siddharth Abhilin Mukherjee and Kshatriya. They were to discuss the advantages or the waste of market research. The public has been treated, facts, facts, counters, questions of fact, verbal abuse and missiles just about anything, which is a Holster-Shootout considered.

The panel discussion took IIM Calcutta-face FMS Delhi. The theme: “If business is good for society?” It was enough to throw in the scene, in a frenzy of no-holds-barred, gloves-off battles (with members of the public to a haematoma, here and there). Voices have been raised, the empirical data were in the air with tiny, and at the end of the IIM Calcutta leading duo, and expect to triumph.

Then came the final quiz, with the decibel level in the room with a big boom. The participants? Kartik Vadlapatla Arora and Anahat Loyola, Chennai, and Amol Aloni Parinay Pakhriwal of Symbiosis Centre for Management, personal development, Pune, and Rohit Kamath Raghu Gopalan IIM Calcutta and Anindya Sen Gaurav Misra and SGF Delhi.

It took only a few laps of the high-speed ausfragend Loyola zip, with a view to the future, so that the other three teams are fighting to get into the queue empty. Loyola, but kept its leaders are well on the curves of the track. Some of the questions were quite esoteric, some periodic quizzes and some simply amazing. Examples: “After the Guinness Book of the smallest announcement was increasingly on the knee from a band of bees, for what?” And “Siemens’ market share in mobile telephony in Spain and Brazil have shot up to a quarter and two-thirds respectively. As far as Siemens attribute this success? “Yahoo! The Guinness Book of Records, and Siemens, together with the team of Real Madrid, respectively. At the end, Loyola checkered flag, followed by Symbiosis, IIM Calcutta and the FMS.

The awards ceremony had something for everyone. All participants, whether game or debate, on Park Avenue costumes and Fast Track-watches. In addition, it was the third runner-up got Rs 15000 cash prize. The second runner-up, Rs 20,000. The actual runners-up, two laptops Presario PS. The bumper Price won the winners? Summer courses at Middlesex University.

Thinking Aloud

The real test for the popularity Acumen, perhaps, later, with the beginning of a panel discussion on “What they did not teach you at B-school.” Moderated by BT’s Senior Editor R. Sridharan, the panel featured cricket commentator and IIM-A Alumnus Harsha Bhogle, Electrolux India Managing Director Rajeev Karwal, founding editor of the youth magazine JAM Rashmi Bansal, hr head of the Standard Chartered Bank and S. Chandrasekhar A winner of the last debate Acumen, Ankur Huria.

Wisdom of the real world, the question was, above all, and the panel points on the human dimension of learning and the importance of achieving your own capabilities (to be seen in public all the advice they lay Gekrakel below). The interesting comments came from everywhere. Among the questions: What really been b-students, and how is it to work with the elderly to age.

So that the party has rounded. Words of advice. The public has had more time, energy and voice garbled. ” The winners received more. Acumen, it must be said, already has some expansion CEO placing on his curriculum vitae.

Golf tee-off

The Business Today-Royal Challenge Pro-Am championship, in 2004, began to the west of qualification. A brief report.

They were all there. Corporate India Golfer’s hungry, on a warm Saturday morning at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club, the event qualifying for the tour of the western part of the Business Today-Royal Challenge Pro-Am Championship, a golf tournament exclusive. About 75 of Chairmen and professional golfers (the only two passports at the entrance), 7:30 am to tee-off in search of sporting fame.

It was a Who’s Who case. It was Vikram Singh Mehta of Shell, Rana Kapoor of Rabo Bank, Bharat Patel, P & G. .. Some PSU honchos and several stars of the firmament finance. Handhabend their favorite Calloways, they were well prepared for what is now a fixed point annual golf on the national calendar.

In keeping with the Stableford format for playback on 18 holes-5957 presidency of the Court of Bombay, of course, the participants were divided into three categories according to their handicap. Corporate bigwigs little variability in the single-digit handicap on 20 years, in part, on the subject of lunch. For Kapoor Rabo Bank, it was great fun. “Indeed, that is what is happening all around golf for relaxation, networking is the significance of the accessory.” Networking, of course, was both. “It is magnificent, world-class for people at the scene of world-class,” says Ranjit Pandit McKinsey, a 2-handicap golfer, which is a member of the prestigious Westchester Country Club in New York and a more regular Buick Classic Tour of the event each year in May.

And the winners? Captain A.S. Mann, a professional in the group of 0-12 people with disabilities; Fyzee Riad, MD, Fairfield Atlas, in the 13-17 group, and Ajay Anand, MD, Faze III, in the 18-14 group disability.