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A brief idea about the flagship program is given below.
The two-year PGP, leading up to a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) is the flagship programme of IIM Bangalore. It is designed to equip students with the skills and capabilities that will enable them to reach responsible global positions in management. The PGP revolves around the principle that world-class business leaders are not mass-produced; they are nurtured and developed with personalized care and attention, in small work groups and teams, and in a practical, application-oriented, user-friendly environment.
IIM Bangalore has declared the Admission Criteria for admissions to the PGP 2011-13. The B-School follows a two phase process for short listing the CAT 2010 takers for Essay Writing and Personal Interview and selection. The first phase process is applied to all eligible candidates who appear for CAT 2010 to determine those qualifying candidates who will be called for personal interview (PI).The description of different phases is given below.
The candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of the overall and sectional CAT scores. For a General category candidate, the sectional and overall cut offs are 80 for Quantitative Ability, 80 for Data Interpretation and 80 for Verbal Ability and 90 in total. However, IIM Bangalore mentions, “These cut-offs are not for those called for interview whose scores would be much higher.”
The candidates who are shortlisted on the basis of their percentiles, their percentage scores for the 10th, 12th graduation and professional course (if any) scores were also calculated.
The maximum score for Work Experience in the pre PI stage is 5. The Phase 2 has the maximum score of 10. Candidates who have pursued professional course or work experience are considered under a common weight of 10 since both provide a professional work experience relevant for MBA.
Other than work experience or professional course, the weights for the
remaining four components (each of them being standardized) are fixed as:
CAT = 20, 10th board=15, 12th board=10, Bachelors = 15.
The Phase 2 of the selection process consists of Essay Writing of 30 minutes duration and Personal Interview. In the Essay Writing, Note Content and Note Style are considered. “The performance of each candidate on the note will be scored by each interviewer individually in terms of content and style. Each interviewer will use the Personal Interview to comprehensively evaluate the candidate’s motivation and ability to fit in and benefit from the PGP program. All candidates will be required to provide three confidential reference letters from their employers or faculty and this will also be used in the personal interview evaluation,” informs IIM Bangalore.
During the interview, the quality of the work experience will be evaluated by the panelists. The average quality of work experience score will be multiplied by the pre-PI work experience score and accordingly the work/professional experience component score (maximum score 5) used in Phase 1 will be revised in Phase 2 (maximum score 10).
Overseas candidates are admitted through direct applications. Overseas candidates are Indian nationals or foreigners with valid passport or travel document residing outside India and not in a position to take the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management at various centers in India. These candidates are required to take the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) and have an official result reported to the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). The GMAT code number for IIMB is 7036. Final selection is based on performance in GMAT, scholastic achievement, work experience, and three letters of reference.
Domestic candidates have to register for the CBT based CAT from the website www.catiim.in. For Registration for other programs, please visit the website http://www.iimb.ernet.in.
The Total Intake will be 375 for 2011-13.
The fee structure for students of the batch 2011-13 will be around 14 Lacs for the 2 year course.
The Final Placements of the graduating IIM Bangalore PGP Class of 2011 saw the recruitment of 332 PGP students out of a batch of 348, the largest in the history of the Institute thus far. 16 students deferred their placements in pursuit of entrepreneurial ventures. Over the duration of the process, 105 companies made their presence felt on campus and recruited students in large numbers. Over 90% of the batch had received one or more offer at the end of the third day.
A total of 461 offers were made from the visiting companies, 35 of which were first time recruiters. Of these, 84 were Pre-Placement offers made to students based on their summer internships. Close to 36 % of the offers came from the Finance sector making it the largest segment. Firms from the Consulting sector accounted for 31% of the offers.
Around 21% of the offers were made in Sales & Marketing, and approximately 7 % of the offers came from the General Management sector, with the balance 6% of the offers coming from the Operations & Product Management sector. Participating firms offered assignments in India as well as abroad, including postings in Singapore, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Dubai, New York and London.
For more info please contact
Administrative Officer, Admissions
Admissions Office
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore, India
Pin Code: 560 076
Phone Number: +91-80-26582450 / 26993996
Fax Number: +91-80-26584050 / 26584004 / 26584181 / 26581602
Email: pgpadm@iimb.ernet.in
Website: http://www.iimb.ernet
IIM Bangalore offers Executive Education catering to diverse needs of
different types of organizations in the private and public sectors. The
Executive Education Programme (EEP) caters to a wide variety of organizations
in government, the public and private sectors and non-governmental
organizations, with open and customized programmes ranging from two days to one
year.
For more details about “other courses”, please visit the official website of IIM Bangalore: www.iimb.ernet.in.
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