MBA students with work-experience jump to 89% at IIM-L

One of the most significant trends sweeping the Indian management education domain is the significant importance being attached to prior work-experience of MBA candidates.
Overwhelming percentage of students at IIMs and other top-schools are candidates with some prior work experience.
In the fresh data shared by IIM-L with MBAUniverse.com, a whopping 89% of candidates admitted to the [...]

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MBA students in biz venture

In business, it’s the early bird that rakes in the moolah. Taking cue from the age-old proverb, two MBA students have turned entrepreneurs even before graduating.
H.R. Sampreet and Saurav Dhiman, second-year students of the Vinod Gupta School of Management at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, have launched their own company, Enfount Business Solutions. Their [...]

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Setting sail with the MBA

Once again students from the School of Business & Economics MBA programme will be taking up the challenge of competing in the 2008 Cranfield Regatta, an international sailing event which is designed to allow MBA students and alumni from all over Europe to meet their counterparts from other business schools. The regatta will take place [...]

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Coming Soon to a GMAT Near You: More Security

Would-be MBA students getting ready to take the GMAT might be in for a little surprise when they show up at the testing center. In addition to all the usual security measures—including video monitoring and the computer adaptive test itself—test takers will soon be asked to submit to a new one: a biometric device that [...]

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Alliance to keep international MBA students in Denmark

The recruitment company Adecco has started cooperating with Copenhagen Business School (CBS) which is to result in the MBA students remaining in Denmark after their graduation, writes Børsen Business Daily.
“According to CBS many of the MBA students would like to work in Denmark. However, the tendency is that a majority returns to their own countries [...]

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Investigation into Cheating by MBA Students Online

An investigation is underway into alleged online cheating by prospective and current MBA students. Thousands are accused of looking at current questions on their entrance exams. The publisher of the test has shut down the domain and is looking into who used it to cheat. Those scores could be thrown out. A federal judge in [...]

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Duke MBA students available for consulting

Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is once again offering help to businesses in the Triangle who are seeking consulting services.
MBA students are available to work with firms that can’t afford to pay consulting fees. Students will receive course credit for their efforts.
Fuqua students have worked with more than 300 companies over the 25 years [...]

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Management meet.

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 [...]

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Inc launch of India returns to campus

After two years nail-biting, management and engineering students are finally breathing easy. India Inc is back on campus and is absorbed nearly 50 percent more students than any other during the last year.
Enterprise Information Technology (IT) sector, banks and financial services, industry and services are the largest employment agency.
Tata Consultancy Services, for example, plans to [...]

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The MBA students experience Ambani drama on campus

The Ambani “Kahani ‘is the word of the city B-schools. MBA students were stuck in Kochi, Ambani drama, as it unfurled in the last seven months, with all the ingredients of a Hindi film, where Mataji comes on Khandaan rescue.
The future leaders of the full marks Kokila Ben for resolving the issue by the division [...]

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