Need for an MBA

In growing economies, companies proliferate and thus the demand for professional managers grows proportionately. The growth in industry and services in India and abroad has thrown up challenges of managing company operations. In an environment riddled with these challenges,  professionals with sound knowledge and experience of the dynamics of global business are much sought after by companies. MBAs with specific domain knowledge to lead and execute company strategies are always in high demand.

Only a Remote Connection to IIM

Each year 500,000 students aspire to an MBA career, sitting for any of the various entrance tests. Only less than 5 percent of them will make the cut to any of the top 50 B-schools. That leaves more than 95 percent looking for options that are less than the best. What are the various courses of action for them? They may join any one of the remaining 3,000 B-schools in the country. But is doing a course in any of them really worth it?

361◦ Minds presents the largest MBA scholarship drive of the year

361° Minds, a learning and education company, has initiated the largest MBA scholarship drive of the year. A team of professionals who have worked with corporate companies across India for over decades offers a quality, complete, and comprehensive online MBA program that is designed to suit corporate workers 100% as it is totally convenient and can be done ‘Anytime Anywhere’.

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Twinning Programs: Pros and Cons

If you want to save money and also enjoy the convenience of studying part of your course in India and part of it abroad, then a twinning program is what you might consider. Take, for instance, the Ansal Institute of Technology (AIT), Gurgaon; it collaborates with four US colleges, out of which a student could choose one and study partly in the United States. ECube Global College, Mumbai, has an arrangement with Newcastle University, UK in three engineering disciplines. Lovely Professional University has twinning linkages in BSc Hotel management, MBA, and others with the University of Missouri, USA, Thames Valley University, UK, and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. Educomp-Raffles, which offers twinning in seven programs, allows students to choose from 12 destinations including Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and others. In ECube Global College, virtual access to Newcastle University library is allowed to students while in India.

Indian Institute Of Management, Ahmedabad: The Enviable Salary Offer Statistics

So, the IIM-A top offer stats for the year 2011 are finally released. The report released under the Indian Placement Reporting Standards (IPRS) was audited by CRISIL. 120 firms participated in the placement process; they came mostly from banking, financial services and insurance, consumer goods, consulting, information technology, engineering, energy, telecom, and real estate.