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Rajnikanth isn’t the only one getting attention in Chennai. Great Lakes has been stacking up on some good mojo too, as it quietly goes about doing its job. While everyone is getting enamoured by its more famous competitor (no points for guessing which one), many graduates of the 1 year PGPM program at Great Lakes … Read more
ISB Hyderabad (Indian School of Business) placements have been pretty successful over the years, with alumni in all the top industries and companies. This post is for those who’ve been curious to find out more about how ISB graduates track these jobs, prepare for them and then move in for the kill
GMAT verbal section has been a challenge for many Indian MBA applicants. Consider the GMAT reading comprehension section for instance. If you’ve grown up reading Tinkle, Chandamama or Economic Times, chances are you’ll still struggle with the RC passages. You might have wondered why they seem so different from your day-to-day reading and more importantly … Read more
Many MBA universities and colleges play up the post MBA salaries of their outgoing batch. It’s one of the parameters that gains enormous importance in global MBA rankings as well. But what does it really mean to MBA applicants who are considering whether to join these business schools? Averages are like…oh well, don’t worry, we … Read more
The average GMAT at XLRI Jamshedpur’s GMP general management program got a boost when Narendran Santhanam got his application to their 1 year MBA program accepted. He sent in this blog post at 3:51 AM, so you can imagine the kind of workload he’s dealing with as he nears the end of an eventful year. … Read more
Talk about modesty. Bodhisattwa Gupta considers himself the black sheep of the family…and he’s got into one of the toughest and most selective MBA programs anywhere in the world – ISB Hyderabad (Indian School of Business). So you can imagine what others in his family have achieved (we know but we can’t tell you!). Here’s … Read more
As the urban legend goes, when CollegeKumar was born, he didn’t cry. Everyone in the delivery room did. And he’s never shed a tear so far, until now. After reading our recent blog post about worthless GMAT preparation tips, he felt a strange moist feeling in an unusual part of his anatomy – his eyes. … Read more
There’s one trait that makes Nitin Vig special – Tenacity. Having known him for a while, I know more about him than this following post reveals. And that I think the quality to hang in there when the chips are down and keep pushing is gonna take him places. He had to struggle with an … Read more
There has been quite a bit of buzz around the GMAT test changes linked to the Next Generation GMAT as the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) calls it. Many Indian applicants have been getting just a little jittery about it.
For Indian MBA applicants who’ve spent a bomb on business schools – MBA applications, GMAT preparation, exorbitant tuition fees and living expenses – there’s still no guarantee that they’ll get a dream job at the end. For international candidates it’s been tough to get jobs in US and now UK seems to be making it … Read more
If you thought the numerous US University scams and images of students walking around with radio tags around their ankles would have opened up the eyes of higher education aspirants, think again.
Jeffrey just got ‘Bangalored’ and he’s lovin’ it. Most Indian MBA applicants are keen to leave the country in pursuit of their MBA dreams. Jeffrey’s story goes the other way around – starting off in Europe and ending in India. He was only looking at 1 year MBA programs in India (read this related post … Read more