There’s nothing more heart-breaking for a sister, than to see her struggling brother wearing an ‘Epic Fail‘ T-shirt, even if it’s in jest. Priyank put his life on hold for 4 years in pursuit of his long-term ambition – to get into an elite MBA program. His long battle with the GMAT and applications finally … Read more
Each year, many MBA aspirants approach us and ask about IIM executive MBA placements. There’s a general perception that the one year full-time MBA programs in India are ‘executive MBA programs’. They’re not! The confusion could be due to the fact that the two year MBA programs have been immensely popular in India, and you’d … Read more
The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Calcutta, are the only Indian b-schools in the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2018, which includes 100 institutions. Strange for a country with 5,500 MBA colleges? Not at all, it turns out. For quite a few reasons.
It’s an India specific problem that MBA aspirants from other countries don’t face. Blame it on regulatory policy constraints or a lack of consistency or an overload of creativity, we are stuck with management program names that confuse more than clarify what the student is getting. Consider this: The traditional 2 year degree you get … Read more
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Laura Trott is considered to be among the most successful cyclists in the world, for the number of titles she’s won in a short span of time. Among her accomplishments is a double Olympic gold in two disciplines – the ‘Team pursuit’ and ‘Omnium’. ‘What’s the big deal?‘ you might say, ‘Beyond the fancy names … Read more
It’s not just the students who are confused about difference between a regular 2 year MBA in India for freshers and a GMAT-based MBA for executives. The lack of awareness extends to HR folks and recruitment managers working in leading companies as well.
Among the various one year MBA programs across the world, one program stands head and shoulders above the rest – the Post-Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (IIMA PGPX) at IIM Ahmedabad. Consider these facts. The class size is small (85 students in the current PGPX classroom), but the class profile is among the most … Read more
Here’s another addition to our blog posts on one year MBA programs in India. The Executive Post Graduate Programme in Management (EPGP) offered by IIM Indore is a 1 year course where the average experience in the class is 7.5 years. In the class profile PDF hosted on the official site, we couldn’t find the … Read more
Though we’ve written extensively about one year MBA programs in India, it’s been more of individual success stories of folks who’ve got into these colleges. We also published one on the best one year MBA in USA. However, we didn’t have a single motherhood post on the Indian one year MBA programs, collating all the … Read more
The green lady you see in the background has been trying hard to woo Abinesh. She made multiple offers he couldn’t resist. One was worth $40,000 and another that was over $100,000 (70 lakh rupees) in the form of MBA scholarships to come and attend a leading MBA program, virtually gifting him a free MBA … Read more
Nisha Shukla faced a dilemma that’s not-so-uncommon among professionals who’ve been working for quite a while and are now looking for some serious career rejuvenation. The options at that stage seem pretty limited. With an experience of 10+ years and a 6XX GMAT score, Nisha didn’t want to target the traditional MBA programs where the … Read more