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Targeting the middle and senior level professionals from corporate, banking, insurance, government sector and cost accountants, IIM Lucknow has announced International Program in Finance for Executives (IPFX 2010-11), a one year full time residential MBA program. Starting from October 1, 2010, IPFX will be conducted in the Noida Campus of IIM Lucknow in collaboration with Mc Gill University, Canada.
IPFX program, with an emphasis on the Indian and international business environments, will be jointly delivered by IIM Lucknow and McGill University, Canada and will prepare the financial executive for more challenging careers in Finance. Upon the completion of the program, the Post Graduate Diploma in Finance for Executives will be awarded by IIM Lucknow while McGill University, Canada will provide Master of Management, thus awarding dual degrees to the successful candidates.
Bachelor’s degree with minimum 55 per cent marks along with quantitative skills and a minimum of five years full time post qualification work experience as on September 30, 2010 are the prerequisites to get admission in to this program. Besides this, GMAT scores, not older than two years will also be considered for granting admission.
Eduniversal, a unit of the French consulting firm SMBG has ranked the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) as the top B-School in India. According to the 2009 worldwide business school ranking carried out by Eduniversal, IIM-B, for the second consecutive year, has been recognized as the No. 1 MBA School in India.
In the Eduniversal Palmes 2009, IIMB has been awarded ‘5 Palmes’, the highest recognition under the evaluation, accorded to “Universal Business Schools with major international influence”. “We are delighted to once again receive this recognition as India’s top management school,” said Prof. Pankaj Chandra, Director, IIMB. “We are making several efforts to enhance the quality of learning and impact of our research so that IIMB remains the preferred management school for students with global aspirations.”
Notably, the Deans of the 1000 Best Business Schools from 153 countries have voted for IIMB with a recommendation rate of 395 per thousand, followed by IIM Ahmedabad (345).
Showing novel adaptability to the times, University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has restructured it’s MBA curriculum to arm students to combat the recession. The changes are also meant to empower MBAs from Darden to adopt better business practices, so that they can avoid making the same set of mistakes that led to the current global economic meltdown.
The course in it’s new avatar has an increased emphasis on ethics and a special module that covers investing in a turbulent marker scenario. Further modules on psychology, sociology and anthropology have been introduced to enable managers to take better and more humane decisions.
Given the radical change, it’s likely that in a few years time, MBAs from Darden will make their presence felt as a different class of leaders.
Kaplan conducts an annual survey of business school admissions officers. This year’s survey of admissions officers at 260 of the nation’s top business schools as rated by U.S. News & World Report, including 17 of the nations most selective MBA programs revealed that more than two-thirds of business schools surveyed reported an increase in applications this year compared to last year and 44 percent of admissions officers listed a low GMAT score as the biggest “application killer” thus making GMAT the key for B-School admissions.
Also half of the business schools surveyed reported seeing an increase in the number of applicants who report they are currently unemployed.
NIBM is the apex institution in banking and finance established as an autonomous institution by the Reserve Bank Of India with the Govt of India.
Applications are invited for admission to Post Graduate Programme in Banking and Finance 2010-12.PGPBF is a residential program.
Eligibility: Bachelor’s Degree with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA. Students completing their degree examination by June 2010 may also apply.
Candidates seeking admission to PGPBF should appear fot the Common Admission Test (CAT) by IIMs as a pre-requisite.
Selection: Candidates short-listed on the basis of CAT scores would be called for a Group Discussion and the Interview for final selection during mid April 2010.
Note: IIMs have no role in the selection process or in the conduct of the program.
Application Process: Request for Prospectus and Application form should accompany a DD of Rs.1200 drawn in favor of ‘National Institute of Bank Management’, payable at Pune. The request should specify the name of the candidate, address, email and contact number.
Request for application should be mailed to ” Dean, Post Graduate Programme, National Institute of Bank Management, NIMB PO, Kondhwe, Khurd, Pune-411048.”
Email: pgpbf@nimbindia.org
Applications can also be downloaded from www.nibmindia.org
Applications will be available from 15th September 2009 to 10th December 2009.
Last Date for receipt of applications is 10th December 2009.
IIFM announces admission to the following programs:
1) Post Graduate Diploma in Forestry Management:
PGDFM is a two year full-time residential program. Admission is through CAT examination conducted by IIMs.
2) Fellow Programme in Management:
FPM is a four year program open to post graduate. One of the tracks for admission to FPM is through CAT. CAT scores of 2008 and 2009 are valid for admission to FPM program 2010-2014. Information about the other tracks is available on the institutes website.
For full details of admission procedure for both programs visit www.iifm.ac.in
Email: admission@iifm.ac.in
Address: IIFM, Nehru Nagar, Bhopal-462 003 (M.P.)
TISS announces admission to the following Post Graduate Degree Programmes
1) Social Work
2) Disability Studies and Action
3) Development Studies
4) Education (Elementary)
5) Counseling
6) Women’s Studies
7) Human Resources Management and Labour Management
8) Social Entrepreneurship
9) Globalization and Labour
10) Public Health-Health Policy, Economics and Finance
11) Health Administration
12) Public Health-Social Epidemiology
13) Hospital Administration
14) Habitat Policy and Practice
15) Disaster Management
16) Media and Cultural Studies
Eligibility: A Bachelor’s Degree of a minimum of 3 years duration or its equivalent or any other pattern fulfilling mandatory requirements of 15 years of formal education.
Application Form and Information Brochure: Candidates can apply for a maximum of three programs. Cost of application form is Rs.750 per program. DD should be drawn in favor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, payable at Mumbai.
1) Download from website www.tiss.edu (available from 7th September, 2009) or
2) Send a request letter with DD to TISS or
3) Obtain from cash counter of TISS.
Last Date for submission of application is 23rd October, 2009.
For further details of programs, eligibility, applications visit www.tiss.edu
Email: pgadmissions@tiss.edu
Phone: 022-25525262/65
Address: TISS, V.N.Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai-400088
Joint Management Entrance Test 2010 (JMET 2010) is the first step in the process of seeking admission to the Post-Graduate Programmes in Management offered by IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee.
The application fee is Rs.350/- for SC/ST/PD candidates and Rs. 750/- for all other candidates. After applying ONLINE, there are some documents that you will have to post to the “Chairman, GATE Office, IISc Bangalore-560012”.
Submission of Data for Online Application Starts: September 7, 2009
Submission of Data for Online Application Ends: October 9, 2009
Last date for receipt of on completed online and offline application form: October 16, 2009 Test Date: December 13, 2009
