The ISB’s flagship Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) will be delivered in two locations. We will have a total intake of 770 students, spread across Hyderabad (560) and Mohali (210). Admissions are now open for the Class of 2013 (i.e. programme commencing April 2013).

Course offerings
The entire curriculum and the teaching pedagogy will be the same. The first four terms (core terms) will be the same on both the campuses. The elective course offerings will be as follows:

Hyderabad: Marketing, Finance and Strategy & Leadership, Operations, Information Technology and Entrepreneurship.
Mohali: Marketing, Finance and Strategy & Leadership, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship

India Locations

The ISB conducts Information Sessions to reach out to all prospective students. This is a unique opportunity for you to meet our representatives and seek answers to any questions that you might have regarding the management programme of the ISB.

Please register here to attend an Information Session in your city.

Note: The date, time and venue mentioned above are subject to change

Need any help regarding registration? call on 09999424123

ISB 2012-2013 Essay 1:
Please detail, your two most significant achievements. These could be either professional or personal but relevant to your application to the ISB. (300 words max).

ISB 2012-2013 Essay 2:
Where do you see yourself three years after you graduate from the ISB? (300 words max).

ISB 2012-2013 Essay 3:
Please provide additional information that will significantly affect the consideration of your application to the ISB.

I have not taken GMAT as of yet. I am looking for an entry in 2014. In the next two years i can either:

OPTION 1:
Pursue my career at Infosys, hopefully earn a promotion and lead a bigger team and have a cumulative experience of 4 yrs in IT only

OPTION 2:
Accept an offer from Teach For India, spend two years there, diversify my work experience, take my GMAT during these two years and work on my applications.

I understand i will need a very high GMAT score. I wanted to get your thoughts, assuming for a moment i indeed get a top 2 percentile overall GMAT score on what would be a better option ( option 1 vs option 2 above) that will push the envelope for a top 10 US b-school entry.

ISB Hyderabad PGP Admissions Info Sessions in New Delhi. 
 
Date: Sunday, 18th September, 2011
Time: 10 AM, 12.30 PM and 3 PM
Venue: Sheraton New Delhi Hotel, District Centre, Saket, New Delhi.

Widget Finn on why the GMAT exam has won global respect
IF YOU are applying to a leading business school to do an MBA, you may have to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) first. It is a universally recognised standard that many business schools include as part of their entry requirements.

GMAT was introduced in 1954 as the only standardised test designed specifically for use by graduate business and management programmes. In its first year 4,000 tests were taken but in recent years the number has topped 200,000.

The test, which costs $250 (£140) to take, is delivered in English from 400 centres in 100 countries. It consists of four separately timed sections, including two analytical writing tasks and two quantitative and verbal sections of multiple-choice questions.

Jeanette Purcell, chief executive of the Association of MBAs, regards GMAT as a useful test when accrediting business schools.

“It’s a good guide to a student’s competence although the business school would probably want to make sure that potential students also had a good solid breadth of work experience and a track record in management,” she says. “One of its benefits is that it is universal so students can take their results to a number of schools.”

GMAC (the Graduate Management Admission Council which administers GMAT) says that it is an exceptionally good predictor of how well a student will perform academically in the business school curriculum. Others are more cautious.

Purcell says: “It is a good indication of whether a student can cope on the course but not necessarily a predictor of success. GMAT doesn’t tell us anything about interpersonal skills or emotional intelligence which are so important.”

John McGee, associate dean at Warwick Business School, agrees that the exam cannot give a reliable picture of whether the candidate will do well. “Sometimes we accept people with slightly dubious GMAT results, who go on to succeed and vice versa,” he says. “Our students come from all over the world and without GMAT the information supplied may not indicate whether they are intellectually and psychologically appropriate.”

The GMAT is only required for the full-time MBA programme at Warwick. “For the part-time programme there is a greater element of corporate and self-selection of students and we can build a good profile of candidates with close referencing from people who know them,” he adds.

Some schools use a combination of GMAT and their own admissions tests.. Cranfield School of Management, for example, requires a good GMAT score (the average is 660) or a good score in its own test, although it recommends that candidates for the full-time MBA take GMAT.

There have been reports of cheating (see box) but today candidates must provide digital signatures, fingerprints and photographs when they check in at a GMAT centre.

Is it possible to swot for the test? Yes, McGee says. “We find that if you repeat the test you can improve by 10-15 per cent, so there is a learning element. The test subdivides into quantitative and verbal which is helpful for students whose first language isn’t English. You can see that someone with high qualitative points but low language is probably pretty smart and this can be established by doing an interview locally.”

There are also guides available on how to tackle the test. Alex Neame, a student at Warwick, advises: “Be prepared. You wouldn’t go for a job interview without doing research, so it would be pretty foolish to take the test without practising it first.”

Tight security to beat cheats

RESPONSIBILITY for running the GMAT exam was handed to Pearson VUE in January to ensure greater security, according to David Wilson, president and chief executive of GMAC.

More than 68,000 people took the exam in the first five months of last year but reports of widespread cheating raised questions over the big rise in the top score of 708 out of 800.

In 1997 Newsweek reported that candidates on the East Coast of America phoned through answers to a cheating ring which inscribed them on pencils sold to candidates on the West Coast sitting the exam three hours later.

Impersonators posing as candidates have been convicted for completing the GMAT fraudulently.? ? (Courtesy: www.timesonline.co.uk )

MCLEAN, Va., May 19 /PRNewswire/ — Newly minted MBAs are commanding significantly heftier salaries in 2006 than their counterparts did last year, with the average business school graduate’s starting base salary topping $92,000, according to new research from the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®).

Amid a healthy recruiting environment built on strong employer confidence in the economy, the average new MBA with a job offer in hand will earn $92,360 during their first year of employment, up 4.2 percent from the $88,626 graduates in 2005 received. Moreover, two-thirds of job offers to MBAs in 2006 come with signing bonuses that average $17,603, up slightly from last year.

“The MBA continues to demonstrate its strong value proposition,” said David A. Wilson, president and CEO of GMAC. “In a knowledge economy, leadership and management demand a complex portfolio of skills and talents. A selective MBA program gives its graduate those skills.”

In addition to earning bigger paychecks, more MBAs are finding jobs while still in school, continuing a multiyear upward trend. Fifty-two percent of respondents to the 2006 GMAC Global MBA® Graduate Survey said they had received or accepted a job offer before graduation, compared with 50 percent in 2005, 42 percent in 2004 and 36 percent in 2003.

The survey includes responses from 6,139 students at 147 business schools worldwide. A third of the respondents are citizens of countries other than the United States.

GMAC researchers also found that most MBA students feel their investment in business school was worthwhile. About two-thirds of respondents to the survey rated their degree as an outstanding or excellent value, and another 29 percent said it was a good value. Students revealed that they based their opinions about the value of their MBA on factors such as the quality of the curriculum, their ability to develop key skills and abilities, and the culture of the school they attended. Six percent of participants in the survey said they placed strong emphasis on the potential to increase their financial well- being when assessing their investment in graduate business education.

In addition, the survey found that MBA graduates are, on the whole, interested in the kinds of jobs that employers say they would like to fill. For example, nearly half of respondents said they hoped to land a midlevel position — the type of role for which recruiters say they are most likely to be hiring.

The greatest percentage of students said they are interested in working in the finance/accounting industry, followed by the products/services and consulting sectors. Respondents were least likely to express interest in entering the energy/utilities industry.

The Graduate Management Admission Council (http://www.gmac.com), based in McLean, Va., is a nonprofit education organization of leading graduate business schools worldwide dedicated to creating access to and disseminating information about graduate management education. GMAC annually surveys thousands of corporate recruiters, MBA students and business school alumni to gauge their feelings about the job market and collect other data. The organization also owns the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®), used by business schools around the world to assess applicants. The GMAT was created in 1954 and remains the first and only standardized test specifically designed for graduate business and management programs. ( Courtesy: biz.yahoo.com )

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An upcoming open house hosted by the University of New Mexico will focus on its Westside MBA Program. UNM’s Anderson Schools of Management will be holding free information sessions on May 2 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for prospective students interested in the Executive MBA (EMBA) and the new Professional MBA (PMBA) programs. This session will be the second in a series, following a free information session in Albuquerque earlier this month.

The 30-year-old executive MBA, or master’s in business administration degree, is a 24-month, on-campus weekend program for MBA candidates with at least three years of meaningful work experience. The program is held once each year, with the orientation weekend beginning June 23, 2006.

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The new Professional MBA, which will be offering its inaugural PMBA class on-site at Intel Corp. (NYSE: INTC) starting Sept, 8, offers off-campus, evening programs over a 28-month period for those with at least one full year of significant work experience.

The UNM Regents approved a deal earlier this year to acquire 216 acres of land for the Rio Rancho campus in a land swap with the State Land Office.

While the campus is under construction, Intel has agreed to host the Anderson Schools of Management’s classes from 2006 through 2008 at its facilities there. The MBA program in Rio Rancho will closely mirror Anderson’s Executive MBA program, offered at the university’s main campus.

Free Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) prep workshops also will be held in May at the Presbyterian Rio Rancho Emergency Center. A GMAT workshop in Albuquerque is scheduled for April 16.

(Source: bizjournals.com)