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MBA programmes beginning in July 2009

There has been expansion of seats in all categories in all programmes of FMS from the figures that were advertised for admission in earlier years. However, additional number of seats and their distribution is provisional and awaits approval from appropriate authorities.

2-year Full Time MBAAdmission 2009-11: Total seats 144. Unreserved: General (70), Reserved: SC (18), ST (9), OBC (25). Supernumerary: PH (4), CW (6), FS (12).

2-year Full Time: MBA (Management of Services) Admission 2009-11: Total seats 64 including all unreserved, reserved and supernumerary seats. Unreserved: General (31), Reserved: SC (8), ST (4), OBC (11). Supernumerary: PH (2), CW (3), FS (5).

3-year Part Time MBA Admission 2009-12: Total seats 178. Unreserved: General (109), Reserved: SC (25), ST (12), OBC (19). Supernumerary: PH (5), and CW (8).

3-year Part Time MBA (Health Care Administration) Admission 2009-12: Total seats 31. Unreserved: General (19), Reserved: SC (4), ST (2), OBC (4). Supernumerary: PH (1), and CW (1)

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Different Categories of Seat

Each applicant will choose to apply in one of the following Nine Categories: Open or Unreserved (Gen), Scheduled Class (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Class, non-creamy layer (OBC), Visually Challenged (PH1), Auditory Challenged (PH2), Locomotor Challenged (PH3), Children of Defense Personnel killed/disabled in Action (CW1), Children of Defense Personnel killed/disabled on Duty (CW2), Foreign Nationals not studying in India (FS).

Eligibility criteria for 2-year full-time MBA programme

For both the full-time programmes, the eligibility criteria are same.

OR

Relaxation of 5% marks in the minimum eligibility will be allowed only to candidates of the following categories (SC/ST/OBC/PH/CW)

Note: Candidates in the final year of Bachelor’s Degree/Post-Graduate Degree programme are eligible to apply and appear in the Entrance Test, irrespective of their percentage of scores obtained so far, as long as they expect to fulfill the eligibility criteria when their results are declared. (The candidates will have to provide their final result before 1st October 2009)

Eligibility criteria for 2-year full time MBA (Management of Services) programme

For both the full-time programmes, the eligibility criteria are same.

OR

Note: Candidates in the final year of Bachelor’s Degree/Post-Graduate Degree programme are eligible to apply and appear in the Entrance Test, irrespective of their percentage of scores obtained so far, as long as they expect to fulfill the eligibility criteria when their results are declared. (The candidates will have to provide their final result before 1st October 2009)

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is FMS admission Test all about?
FMS is one of the pioneers in India in conducting Entrance Tests for its highly-rated programmes. Our own test, since 1967, is designed to examine the skill and aptitude of an applicant for the management courses taught at FMS, University of Delhi. There is no prescribed syllabus or format for this multiple choice 2-hour admission test. The previous admission tests usually comprised the following basic areas:

Important Note: The total percentile rank and sectional percentile rank scores will be declared in the result of FMS entrance tests to be held in 2009. The merit list will be prepared on the basis of total percentile rank scores. At least 50th percentile rank score in each section of the test is required by a candidate to qualify for being short-listed in GD and Interview. The percentile rank will be calculated on the basis of the category of the candidate. Therefore, inter-category transfer or comparison will not be possible.

2. What are the important dates for Admission Tests 2009?

Announcement in major English Dailies: 12th October, 2008

Sale of Forms Last Date Test Date
MBA (Full-Time Programmes) 20/10/2008 1/12/2008 11/01/2009
MBA (Part-Time Programmes) 20/10/2008 1/12/2008 25/01/2009

3. How many seats are available for MBA programmes beginning in July 2009?
There has been expansion of seats in all categories in all programmes of FMS from the figures that were advertised for admission in earlier years. However, additional number of seats and their distribution is provisional and awaits approval from appropriate authorities.

2-year Full Time MBAAdmission 2009-11: Total seats 144. Unreserved: General (70), Reserved: SC (18), ST (9), OBC (25). Supernumerary: PH (4), CW (6), FS (12).

2-year Full Time: MBA (Management of Services) Admission 2009-11: Total seats 64 including all unreserved, reserved and supernumerary seats. Unreserved: General (31), Reserved: SC (8), ST (4), OBC (11). Supernumerary: PH (2), CW (3), FS (5).

3-year Part Time MBA Admission 2009-12: Total seats 178. Unreserved: General (109), Reserved: SC (25), ST (12), OBC (19). Supernumerary: PH (5), and CW (8).

3-year Part Time MBA (Health Care Administration) Admission 2009-12: Total seats 31. Unreserved: General (19), Reserved: SC (4), ST (2), OBC (4). Supernumerary: PH (1), and CW (1)

4. What are these different Categories of Seat?
Each applicant will choose to apply in one of the following Nine Categories: Open or Unreserved (Gen), Scheduled Class (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Class, non-creamy layer (OBC), Visually Challenged (PH1), Auditory Challenged (PH2), Locomotor Challenged (PH3), Children of Defense Personnel killed/disabled in Action (CW1), Children of Defense Personnel killed/disabled on Duty (CW2), Foreign Nationals not studying in India (FS).

5. What are the eligibility criteria for 2-year full-time MBA programme?
For both the full-time programmes, the eligibility criteria are same.

OR

Relaxation of 5% marks in the minimum eligibility will be allowed only to candidates of the following categories (SC/ST/OBC/PH/CW)

Note: Candidates in the final year of Bachelor’s Degree/Post-Graduate Degree programme are eligible to apply and appear in the Entrance Test, irrespective of their percentage of scores obtained so far, as long as they expect to fulfill the eligibility criteria when their results are declared. (The candidates will have to provide their final result before 1st October 2009)

6. What are the eligibility criteria for 2-year full time MBA (Management of Services) programme?
For both the full-time programmes, the eligibility criteria are same.

OR

Note: Candidates in the final year of Bachelor’s Degree/Post-Graduate Degree programme are eligible to apply and appear in the Entrance Test, irrespective of their percentage of scores obtained so far, as long as they expect to fulfill the eligibility criteria when their results are declared. (The candidates will have to provide their final result before 1st October 2009)

7. What is the difference between MBA & MBA (MS) programme?
Two-year full-time MBA programme is the time-tested programme of Faculty of Management Studies. The Students get excellent exposure in all the functional areas (Finance, Marketing, Operations, IT, HR etc.) encompassing both manufacturing and service sector. They specialize in above functional areas. 2009 admissions will be 43rd year of admission for this long-established programme.

In view of the dominant role being played by the service sector in both Indian as well as Global economy, the demand for skilled professionals in service sector is increasing at a rapid pace. Sensing the growing opportunities available in the service sector, another 2-year full-time MBA (MS) programme was launched in the Golden Jubilee year of FMS. Students of MBA (MS) Programme also get the same exposure in all the above functional areas. In addition, the students are required to specialize in one of the service sectors of their choice in the final year. 2009 admissions will be 6th year of admission for this refreshingly different MBA programme.

8. Is there any relaxation in eligibility criteria or cut-off marks for General category candidates?
No relaxation in eligibility criteria or cut-off marks is permitted for General category in any MBA programme.

9. Is there any relaxation in eligibility criteria or cut-off marks for reserved category candidates?
Relaxation of 5% marks in the minimum eligibility will be allowed to candidates of all reserved categories (SC/ST/OBC/PH/CW) in all MBA programmes.

10.What are the eligibility criteria for 3-year Part-Time MBA programme ?
Every candidate seeking admission to 3-year MBA programme should have passed a bachelor’s degree examination of at least three years duration with a minimum of 45% marks in aggregate. Relaxation of this criterion may be made for those who scored more than 55% marks in aggregate in their post-graduate degree or at least 60% in a Diploma in Personnel Management, Diploma in Sales & Marketing or Diploma in Administrative Management of Delhi University conducted by FMS in earlier years.

Note: Sponsorship means that the application needs to be certified by the present employer. The employer need not bear any financial responsibility.

11. What are the eligibility criteria for 3-year part time MBA (Health Care Administration) programme?
Candidates seeking admission to MBA (HCA) programme should have passed a Bachelor’s Degree Examination in Medicine in the University of Delhi or an examination recognized as equivalent.

Candidate must be sponsored by his/her present employer.

12. When are classes held for Part-time programmes?
All MBA programmes of FMS require regular classroom attendance—a minimum of 75% of the classes held in each course.
While full-time programme classes are held from 09.00 hr till afternoon in all six days of the week, part-time programme classes are held in the evening from 18.30 hr to 21.00 hr, 5 days in the week. Some elective courses may also be offered on Saturday.
While MBA (Part-time) has two sections, one in the North Campus and the Other in the much-desired South Campus, MBA(HCA) programme for Medical Professionals are held only in the North Campus facility of FMS.
As FMS will shortly build a bigger integrated campus in the South, classes of all programmes may be shifted from one campus to another, if required.

13. Is there any other programme that FMS offers?
FMS offers no other Degree or Diploma programme or any programme based on Distance Learning/ Correspondence/ Week-end classrooms. The only other programme offered by FMS is full-time PhD programme that has different eligibility and admission process. Besides these academic programmes, FMS does conduct short-duration non-credit Management Development Programme on the request of specific corporates/institution.

14. How can I apply for FMS Entrance Test?
There are Two ways you can apply for FMS programmes: Physical Form or Online Application.

Mode-I (Physical Form)
Information bulletin along with the application form can be purchased from the designated branches of State bank of India located in the cities specified in the advertisement for the admission test. The cost of the Information bulletin also includes the Admission test fee as per the following:
For General category (unreserved) candidates:

For SC, ST, OBC (Non- Creamy Layer), PH, and CW candidates

At the designated SBI branches, applicants have to fill-in a printed Bank payment counter-foil (supplied by FMS) with their Name, Name of the Branch and the required amount. The bank will return two portions of the counter-foil to the candidate along with a packet containing the Information bulletin and the application form.

The Candidate is required to attach one stamped counterfoil, in original, with the duly filled application form while sending it to FMS. Application forms without the counter-foil or with the counter-foil showing incorrect amount will be rejected and the amount received will not be refunded.

15. What are the SBI Branches from where I can buy a Form for fulltime programmes?
Following is the List of SBI Branches that would sell the FMS Form from 20-10-2008 to 1-12-2008.

Wherever the name of branch is not mentioned, it may be treated as the MAIN BRANCH of the City.

North India : Agra, Allahabad, Amritsar, Bareilly, Chandigarh (Punjab University), Delhi/New Delhi (Connaught Circus, Delhi University North Campus, Delhi University South Campus, IIT Delhi, Lajpat Nagar-Ring Road, Swasthya Vihar, Vikas Puri), Gorakhpur, Gurgaon, Hissar, Jaipur, Jallandhar, Jammu, Jodhpur, Kanpur (CSA University, IIT), Karnal, Lucknow, Ludhiana, NOIDA, Patiala, Roorkee (IIT), Shimla (The Mall), Varanasi (BHU).

East India: Bhubanaeswar, Cuttack, Guawahati, Jamshedpur, Kharagpur, Kolkata (Alipore, Ballyganj, Park Street, Kalighat), Patna, Ranchi, Rourkela, Shillong

West India: Ahmedabad (Gujrat University), Baroda, Mumbai (Colaba-Cuffe Parade, Dadar, Peddar Road, Powai IIT), Nagpur, Nasik, Pune

South India: Adyar, Bangalore (St.Marks Road), Chennai (Besant Nagar, Madras University, IIT Chennai), Cochin, Coimbatore, Hyderabad (Begum Bazar), Kochi, Madurai, Mylapore, Mysore, Thiruvanantapuram (MG Road), Tiruchirapalli, Tirupati, Visaakhapatnam

Central India: Bhopal (Bhopal University), Bilaspur, Gwalior, Jabalpur City, Raipur (Ravi Shankar University)

16. What are the SBI Branches from where I can buy a Form for MBA part-time programme?
You can buy MBA (Part Time) programme application form only from the following Delhi/New Delhi SBI Branches between 20-10-2008 to 1-12-2008.

Connaught Circus, Delhi University North Campus, Delhi University South Campus, IIT Delhi, Lajpat Nagar-Ring Road, Swasthya Vihar, and Vikas Puri

You may also apply and pay online by going to www.fms.edu

17. Where can I buy a Form for part time MBA (Health Care Administration) programme?
MBA(HCA) Application Forms are available only from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi North Campus, Delhi 110007 against a bank draft of Rs. 500 (Rs. 125 for SC/ST/OBC/PH/CW) drawn in favour of the “Registrar, University of Delhi” and payable at par in Delhi.

18. Can I apply Online for FMS Admission?
From this year, you can not only apply but also pay online for FMS Admission Process. Downloading facilities of Application Form and Postal Requests or Counter Sale from FMS Office in North or South Campus are discontinued.

Mode-II (Online Registration)

Visit the FMS website http://www.fms.edu

Those who want to apply online would be directed to the Online Registration page. Fill in the required information correctly.

Verify the data entered. After the registration information is confirmed, no data can be modified.

You will be able to pay the admission fee in two ways. Choose the appropriate mode of payment after you have confirmed your registration information.

Route A: Payment through Demand Draft

A page (Admit Card format) would appear stating the candidate’s name, registration number, address, space for photograph, space for signature and the amount to be paid by the candidate as admission test fee.

Take a printout (in triplicate) in A4 size page and fill following columns in all three copies: Details of the demand draft, signature and affix your passport size photographs (on all three copies). Demand draft needs to be drawn in favour of ‘Registrar, University of Delhi’ and made payable at Delhi.

Send the completed forms above (all three copies) along with the Demand draft and caste/category certificate (if any) to Administrative Officer, Faculty of management Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 clearly postmarked before the last date.

Your online application will be further processed only upon the realization of the Demand draft and satisfactory verification of caste/category certificate (if any) by the FMS admission office. The receipt would be acknowledged through e-mail once the demand draft is realized.

Route-B: Payment through online Internet Payment Gateway

You would be directed to the Internet Payment Gateway of the Axis bank. Confirm payment through credit card / debit card. Same Fee is applicable across all modes.

After successful online payment, you would be directed back to the admission website. A page (Admit Card format) would appear stating the candidate’s name, registration number, address, space for photograph and space for signature.

Take a printout of the page (in triplicate). Affix your recent passport size photographs and put your signature at appropriate places on all three copies.

Send the completed forms above (all three copies) along with caste/category certificate (if any) to Administrative Officer, Faculty of management Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 clearly postmarked before the last date.

Your online application will be further processed only upon receipt of the above documents and satisfactory verification of caste/category certificate (if any) by the FMS admission office.

Note:

Applicants for part-time programs should also send ‘Sponsorship letters’ from their organizations in the prescribed format along with the documents mentioned above.

Unreserved or General Category candidate in Full time programme need not send any certificate.

No inter-category transfer of candidate is allowed and the candidate needs to choose only one of the category (General or Unreserved, Reserved: SC/ST/OBC/PH/CW).

Unreserved or General Category candidate in Full time programme need not send any certificate.

19. What should OBC candidates do?
OBC Candidates need to send both caste and non-creamy layer certificate to claim reservations against OBC quota. Creamy layer OBC candidate need to apply as General category candidate.

20. What should PH candidates do?
PH (Physically Handicapped) candidates should apply under PH1 (Visually challenged), PH2 (Auditory challenged), and PH3 (Locomotor challenged) and send the certificates accordingly. Note that only those candidates who qualify the test in their respective PH category and are cleared by the Medical Board of University of Delhi set up for such test-qualified candidates will receive call letters for the GD &PI.

21. What should CW candidates do?
CW (Children of War Widow) candidates need to clearly enclose the category of CW. CW1 (Armed forces including paramilitary personnel Killed/Disabled in Action) candidates will have preemptive claim over all other CW category candidates (such as CW2: Armed forces including paramilitary personnel Killed/Disabled while on Duty). Entitlement Certificate only from Secretary, Kendriya Sainik Board Delhi; Secretary, Rajya/Zila Sainik Board; Officer-in Charge, Record Office; and First Class Stipendiary Magistrate is acceptable

22. What should Foreign Students (FS) do?
Foreign nationals presently studying in India need to apply as General Category Indian students and are required to qualify the admission test.

Other foreign nationals who are graduates and are out of India for a minimum period of one year need to apply via their consulate and embassy (with mandatory GMAT scores). Only hard copy applications should be made and sent to Foreign Students Advisor, C/O Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007.

There is no quota for NRI or PIO and all such candidates need to take the entrance test as General Category Candidates.

23.What are the tentative dates for issuing admission ticket for FMS Entrance Tests 2009?
Admission tickets for Full time programmes will be dispatched in the first week of January 2009. Admission tickets for Part time programmes will be dispatched in the Second week of January 2009.

24. What is the fees structure for MBA programmes?
The fees for various courses are payable at the beginning of the academic year.
The annual fee payable to FMS, University of Delhi is Rs. 10,000 approximately and is considered to be one of the lowest in the world for any high-quality MBA programme.
Besides this fee, the students of the full-time programmes have created registered bodies in the form of various societies. These societies charge membership fee for the services provided to the current students.

25. When will the Entrance Test for full time programmes MBA & MBA (MS) be held?
The Common Entrance Test for admission to MBA & MBA (MS) full-time programmes is scheduled to be held on January 11, 2009.

26. When will the Entrance Test for MBA (Part-Time) be held?
The Entrance Test for admission to MBA (Part-Time) programme 2009 is scheduled on January 25, 2009.

27.Will there be an Entrance Test for MBA (Health Care Administration) part-time programme?
There is no admission test for MBA (HCA). Selection will be made on the basis of their eligibility and Interview performance.

28. What are the tests centres in India for MBA & MBA (MS) 2009?
The admission test for both full-time programmes; MBA and MBA-MS will be through a common FMS entrance test to be held on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 2.00pm at allotted centres in the following cities: Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubneshwar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Delhi, Guawahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pune, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam. However, FMS reserves the right to cancel any of the above centres at its own discretion.

29. What are the tests centres for MBA (Part-Time) 2009?
The admission test for the MBA (part time) will be held on January 25, 2009 at Delhi only.

30.What all enclosures are required along with application form?
Attach only three copies of Admit Card with photograph and filled-in details, original bank counterfoil or a demand draft for Rs. 500/- (or Rs.125) in favour of Registrar University of Delhi for each programme applied, self-attested Caste Certificate (SC/ST/OBC) or category certificate (PH/CW). OBC candidates are also required to attach certificate for non-creamy layer. No other certificate is required along with application form.
Applications without the Counter-foil or with counterfoil showing inadequate test fee for applicable category will be rejected and the amount received will not be refunded.

31. Is there any reservation for students residing in Delhi?
There is no reservation or quota in FMS for students residing in Delhi.

32. Is there any reservation for NRI students?
There is No reservation or quota in FMS for NRI students.

33. What are the tentative dates for holding GD and personal interview?
GD and personal interviews of successful candidates will be held in March/April 2009.

34. Is attestation of certificates required?
FMS accepts self-attested copies of documents/papers provided by the students. It is made clear that if any false attestation/falsified records are detected, the student will be debarred from attending any course of the University for the next five years. In addition, a criminal case under the relevant section of IPC (viz. 470, 471, 474 IPC etc.) will be instituted against him to subject him to the requisite criminal proceeding.

35. Is there any Hostel accommodation available for pursuing two year MBA Programme?
Yes, hostel accommodation is available for students pursuing full-time MBA & MBA (MS) programme. However, under the present rules of the University of Delhi, the residents of Delhi are not entitled to apply for highly subsidized hostel facilities.

36. Is there any foreign students exchange programme in MBA course?
Select Foreign students exchange programmes of limited nature for full-time students of MBA are available. Rapid developments are taking place in this front.

37.Is there any one-year specialization programme in Marketing, Finance or in any other area?
No, FMS, University of Delhi does not offer any programme of one-year duration.

38. I bought one FMS admission Form from a SBI branch for Rs 500/-, indicating my preference for one program (MBA). How can I apply for both the full-time programmes?
You may simply attach a Demand draft for Rs. 500 in favour of Registrar, University of Delhi along with the Bank Counterfoil for applying for both the programmes.
Please note that the Application Form of Full-time programmes cannot be used in Part-time programmes or vice-versa.

39. Can I use previous year’s application Form or Downloaded Application Form?
Application Forms bought only after 20.10.2008 can be used for admission process 2009. Downloaded application forms, previous year’s Application Form etc. are not admissible for 2009 admissions.

40. I applied last year also; what is the major difference in this year’s process?

41. What are the contact numbers for any Admission enquiries?
E-mail: admissions@fms.edu; Phone: 011-27666382, 27666383, 27666384; Fax: 27667813
Administrative Officer
Faculty of Management Studies
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007

42. Where is FMS Located?
FMS is located within the campus of University of Delhi. The Administrative Office is situated in Delhi University North Campus, on Malkajganj Road, in front of Kirori Mal College and behind Delhi School of Economics of University of Delhi.
FMS also has its own premise in the University of Delhi South Campus (Near Dhaula Kuan, on Benito Zuarez Road). Currently MBA (MS) programme and one section of MBA (Part-time) programme is conducted from the South Campus facility of FMS.
As FMS is going to build much bigger facility in the South Campus, classes in the South Campus may be temporarily shifted to the North Campus only.

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Eligibility: Graduates in any discipline with 50% minimum marks from any university recognized by the Association of Indian Universities are eligible. Candidates in their final year of graduation may also apply.

Having Work Experience is not a requirement for admission to the program, however candidates with work experience are welcome.

Application procedure: The PGDM 2009-11 Application Kit may be acquired at a cost of Rs. 200/-

The Processing Fee, to be submitted along with the application, is Rs. 800/-

There are several ways to purchase an Application Kit:

A) In-Person: Candidates may purchase an Application Kit for Rs.200/-from:

Any of the ITM Campuses in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderbad, Navi Mumbai and Warangal.

At all IMS Learning Centers across India.

At all PT Education Centers across India.

At all T.I.M.E Centers across India.

At all Career Launcher Centres across India.

B) By Post: Candidates may purchase an Application Kit by post:

C) Online Application :

Candidates may also download the PGDM Prospectus and Application Form. You must print and fill out the Application Form and sent it by courier to the Admissions Department along with a Demand Draft of INR 1000/- (as above).
Email : admissions@itm.edu
Further details can be taken from: Phone: (91) (22) 2774 0903 / 2774 0904
Website: www.itm.edu
Address: The Admissions Coordinator (PGDM 2009-11) Institute for Technology and Management 25/26 Institutional Area, Sector 4, Kharghar (East), Navi Mumbai 410210 INDIA

Last date of submission of Forms: 30th March, 2009

Selection Procedure : ITM uses standardized management entrance test scores as a part of its overall selection process. Candidates are not selected/disqualified on the basis of their test scores only. The test score is just one part of an overall candiate profile. The following test scores are accepted: • CAT (Common Application Form) • XAT (Xavier’s Management Test) • GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) Submit an attested copy of your Test Score Card along with the application form. If you have not received your test score, give details of Test Registration Number, Test Centre Code, etc.

Note: ITM uses the CAT score for short-listing candidates called for Group Discussions / Personal Interview. IIM’s have no role in selection or in conducting the program.

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XAT 2009 BULLETIN:
XAT Bulletin containing the details of XAT and application procedure for admission to XLRI and other institutes can be obtained from the branches of AXIS Bank for a non-refundable amount of Rs.800/-. Enclose the third copy of Bank (XAT) pay-in-slip along with the XAT PP Form that can be downloaded from the website www.xlri.edu

Alternatively one can obtain the XAT Bulletin by sending a non-refundable DD for Rs.850/- drawn in favour of “XLRI Jamshedpur A/c XAT” payable at Jamshedpur along with the XAT PP Form that can be downlaoded. For XAT Registration visit the above site.

PROGRAMMES AT XLRI:
BM – Business Management Programme: Two year full time residential programme that facilitates learning in theory and practice of different functional areas viz. Economics, Finance, General Management, Information Systems, Marketing, Operations Management, Organizational Behavior, and Strategic Management and Personnel Management & Industrial Relations, to equip the students with an integrated approach to management function and managerial skills
PMIR – Personnel Management and Industrial Relations Programme: Two year full time residential programme that facilitates learning in modern concepts, techniques and practices in the management of human resources and industrial relations. It exposes the students to different functional areas of management to enhance their effectiveness
GMP – General Management Programme: One year full time residential programme for Working Executives who have completed minimum of 5 years of experience as on 31st March 2009
Click here to download the application form to apply for GMP with GMAT Score

FPM – 4 year Fellow Programme in Management: The Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) is a Doctoral level (Ph.D.) programme. The FPM is a full-time, residential, doctoral programme that trains prospective scholars to become highly skilled and innovative researchers and teachers in various aspects of management. It primarily aims at preparing students for careers as faculty members at premier academic institutions.

XLRI PROSPECTUS:
XLRI Prospectus can be obtained form the branches of AXIS Bank for a non refundable amount of Rs.900/- (for one programme).

A candidate can apply for more than one programme, but not more than three programmes. If he/she intends to apply for more than one programme a non refundable amount of Rs.1500/- is to be paid towards XLRI Prospectus.

Enclose the third copy of Bank (XLRI) pay-in-slip along with the XLRI PA Form that can be downloaded from the website www.xlri.edu.

One can also obtain the XLRI Prospectus by sending a non refundable amount of Rs.950/- for on eprogramme or Rs.1550/- for more than one programme in the form of DD drawn in favour of “XLRI Jamshedpur A/c Prospectus” payable at Jamshedpur along with the XLRI PA Form that can be downloaded. For XLRI Registration visit the above site.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
A candidate interested in applying for XLRI’S programes (BM, PM&IR, GMP, and FPM) has to obtain both XAT Bulletin and XLRI PRospectus. CAndidates are expected to take the decision of applying to one programme or multiple programmes before obtaining the XLRI Prospectus form the Bank.

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One under-reported fallout of the faculty shortage in premier Indian business schools such as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is the increased poaching of faculty from each other. Among the IIMs, there has been high movement of faculty between IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Indore in the past five years. This practice has also resulted in the decline of academic standards, as some faculty members don’t have to do quality research to get promoted—they simply have to change jobs.

Top B-schools lure faculty from other campuses in myriad ways. The most common is by offering promotions—from assistant professor to associate professor or from an associate professor to professor. In the normal course, a faculty member has to produce some amount of research to qualify for promotion. But, owing to a faculty shortage, some faculty members have been promoted by simply hopping from one IIM to another, without significant research output or publications in reputed national and international journals.

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Another lure is through assuring consulting assignments, though this is has been done in a limited way. Some B-schools, especially the top four IIMs, get good patronage from government. In IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta, the per day charge for consulting is about Rs1 lakh, of which the faculty can retain 60%. Admitting the existence of such practices, Pritam Singh, former director of IIM-L and Management Development Institute (MDI), says that unless the government takes proactive measures to increase the pool of good faculty, these practices will continue.

A look at the permanent faculty at IIMs in the past three years, including members on so-called long leave—often as directors or faculty in other B-schools—is revealing.

Meanwhile, the number of students at IIM-A, IIM-B, IIM-C and IIM-L varies between 550 and 700 each year. For IIM-K and IIM-I, the total student strength is 350-400 per campus. The internationally acceptable ratio of faculty to students is 1:10.

Only IIM-A and IIM-B have been good at regularly matching this ratio. IIM-L claims to have 64 on the permanent faculty but has seen high attrition rates during the tenure of former director Devi Singh, with numbers dropping to less than 40 in the past three years.

The numbers don’t give the entire picture.

In the race for numbers, quality is often compromised. Some former IIM faculty members say at least half the faculty in various IIMs doesn’t deserve to be there. This is also the view of Vijay Shanker Pandey, a former joint secretary in the human resources development ministry, whom I met a few months back. He conducted an enquiry and found IIMs had many members who neither teach properly nor do research. No wonder IIMs are always on the lookout for good faculty.

The government needs to take important policy decisions to counter the shortage of good faculty. One is increasing the stipend for PhD or the fellows programme in management (FPM) candidates. It is a mere Rs12,500 per month. For an IIM student who spends at least Rs10 lakh for the two-year programme, this stipend won’t even service the education loan. As a result, hardly any IIM graduates are joining the doctoral programme. Instead, graduates of lower- rung B-schools who don’t get good jobs elsewhere are joining. If the stipend is increased to, say, about Rs30,000 per month, more competent minds would be inclined to join.

In my view the difference between what companies offer and what a B-school offers should not be more than five times, as it seems to be now. Consequently, even FPM scholars prefer jobs in companies to teaching. IIMs could also think of ways to incentivize scholars to agree to a five-year commitment to teach after the programme. And the programme should be restructured to enhance the teaching skills of students.

Without these measures, there will be a perennial shortage of good faculty. The government is planning six more IIMs, four Indian Institutes of Technolgy and 30 universities. But the ambition of expanding quality higher education in India will remain a dream without good faculty.

Premchand Palety is director of the Centre for Forecasting and Research (C fore) in New Delhi, from where he keeps a close eye on India’s business schools. Comments are welcome at businesscase@livemint.com

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MUMBAI: In a shocking development, the three-member R C Bhargava committee report has revealed that the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have not been fair to every meritorious candidate. High fees and scholarship rules that vary from one IIM to the next have kept deserving candidates out.

Speaking to TOI, Bhargava, the former chairman of Maruti Udyog Ltd, said, “Each board member feels that education at the IIMs must be ‘means-blind’, which means that anyone with the required qualifications must not be denied admission due to non-availability of means. The IIMs have not been following that entirely.”

The committee has recommended “further improvement”, added Bhargava, in the IIMs’ schemes for scholarships, fellowships, freeships and other forms of financial assistance given to students. The panel pointed out that the upper-limit of a family’s total income to make a student eligible for a scholarship varies from one IIM to the next. However, on the contentious issue of fees, panel members felt that the decisions “must be left to each IIM board”, which is the policy followed currently.

Apart from defaulting on a fair admission policy, the three-member review committee, which visited the IIMs and submitted a report to the Union HRD ministry, found that several recommendations suggested by previous panels remained only on paper. The earlier panels were the H P Nanda IIM review committee (of 1979) and V Kurien’s second IIM review (1991).

“We have not given an action-taken report, but some of the recommendations of the earlier two committees have not been implemented. But we did use the earlier reports to draft our recommendations,” said Bhargava. Bringing more cheer to aspiring MBAs, the committee has recommended that the IIMs should look at expansion. “We have recommended an increase in intake. The economy needs more business graduates,” he added.

However, Bhargava refused to give details of the expansion plans suggested by his team. Unconfirmed reports, however, peg an annual increase of 750 seats at the IIMs each year.

The committee submitted its report to HRD minister Arjun Singh on Friday and presented some broad questions. The report is likely to be put up on the HRD ministry’s website soon, added Bhargava.

The other members of the committee are Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO of Rediff.com, who is also the chairman of IIM Calcutta’s Board of Governors, and Anusua Basu, retired deputy CAG. A source in the HRD ministry pointed out that the committee has recommended the creation of a Pan-IIM group and also spelt out the need for reconstituting all existing boards.

The panel also recommended that IIMs that refused to mentor new management institutes planned by the HRD ministry must look at expanding domestically before dreaming of setting foot on foreign shores, the source added.

Bhargava refused to comment on whether the panel recommended a heavier government hand in IIM functioning or whether the panel was in favour of formulating a legislation for the IIMs on the basis of the Institute of Technology Act, 1961.

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Mumbai : The R C Bhargava committee report has revealed that all is not fair in the IIMs and it has mooted further improvement in the prestigious institutions.

We have not given an action-taken report, but some of the recommendations of the earlier two committees have not been implemented. But we did use the earlier reports to draft our recommendations, said Bhargava. Bringing more cheer to aspiring MBAs, the committee has recommended that the IIMs should look at expansion. We have recommended an increase in intake. The economy needs more business graduates, he added.

However, Bhargava refused to give details of the expansion plans suggested by his team. Unconfirmed reports, however, peg an annual increase of 750 seats at the IIMs each year. The committee submitted its report to HRD minister Arjun Singh on Friday and presented some broad questions. The report is likely to be put up on the HRD ministry’s website soon, added Bhargava.

The other members of the committee are Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO of Rediff.com, who is also the chairman of IIM Calcutta’s Board of Governors, and Anusua Basu, retired deputy CAG. A source in the HRD ministry said the committee has recommended the creation of a Pan-IIM group and also spelt out the need for reconstituting all existing boards. The panel also recommended that IIMs that refused to mentor new management institutes planned by the HRD ministry must look at expanding domestically before dreaming of setting foot on foreign shores, the source added.

Bhargava refused to comment on whether the panel recommended a heavier government hand in IIM functioning or whether the panel was in favour of formulating a legislation for the IIMs on the basis of the Institute of Technology Act, 1961. Some of the other terms of reference of this committee included: to review courses offered in IIMs in the light of their relevance and national priorities and to review their organisational and administrative structure and suggest suitable changes therein.

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The Central Government has initiated the process of establishment of 6 IIMs, 8 IITs and 12 Central Universities across the country including one in Uttarakhand by starting site selection for these institutes . The Human Resourse Development ( HRD ) Ministry has constituted various committees for accessing the site offerred by the state governments for the new institutes .

The central government has decided to set up new IIMs in the states of Tamil Nadu, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Uttarakhand. “The site for  IIM should be spread over about 200 acres of land while over 500 acres of land is required for each IIT and central University, Besides connectivity through air, rail and road is a mandatory requirement for each Institute”, a senior HRD minstry official said.

while the government has allocated Rs 2,725 crore in the 11th Plan for 12 new Central Universities , the allocation for new IITs and IIMs are  Rs 2000 crore and Rs 600 crore respectively. Several commitees, headed by Thakur, have been constituted to examine the sites offered for IITs. The Committee will visit the sites offered by Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh for inspection.

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New Delhi, October 18 : The IIM Review Committee report submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource Development on Friday is learnt to have recommended a series of measures that will substantially tighten Government control over the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and their Board of Governors. The 40-page report, packed with over 20 recommendations, is said to have made a case for stronger government role on the Boards of IIMs, stating clearly that the institutes cannot expect to become fully independent of the government.“We had given the report earlier to the HRD Ministry but we made a formal submission to the minister on Friday. The Ministry is now studying it. Several recommendations have been made in the report and it is likely to be put up on the HRD Ministry’s website soon,” said R.C. Bhargava, former chairman of Maruti Udyog Ltd, who headed the three-member IIM Review Committee. The other two members of the committee are Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO of Rediff.com and chairman of IIM Calcutta’s Board of Governors; and Anusua Basu, retired Deputy CAG. The Government had constituted the IIM Review Committee after a gap of 15 years.

A key recommendation of the committee is the creation of a 15-member pan-IIM Board and reconstitution of all existing boards. Calling the existing 24-25 member IIM Board of Governors (BoGs) rather unwieldy, the committee has apparently suggested an 11-member Board for each IIM. Of these members, six will be independent professionals while the other five will include a nominee of the Centre, State Government, faculty member and chairman and director of the institute. The committee has also recommended that a special committee headed by the Secretary of the HRD Ministry and three other independent professionals make the initial selections to the BoGs—an exercise that defeats the autonomy of the IIM boards. It adds that at a later stage, the boards can fill the vacancies on their own.

Interestingly, while the report says that the IIMs cannot expect to be fully independent of the government since they were set up by it, it admits that the government’s involvement can only be limited

The IIMs, meanwhile, have been strongly resisting the recommendations. They feel a pan-IIM structure will only ‘cannibalise’ and ‘duplicate’ the functions and powers of each institute’s board. Downsizing the board of each institute will also mean it will become less representative. The idea of the HRD Ministry Secretary directly appointing BoG members goes against all corporate…

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New Delhi: HRD Minister Arjun Singh has stated that he wants the government to gain control over the prestigious IIMs.

After clinching victory in the quota debate, Singh could soon move to implement his pet project, viz. controlling the Indian Institutes of Management, held so highly in regard the world over.

A committee appointed by the minister to review the functioning of the IIMs has recommended setting up of a 15-member pan-IIM board with at least six government nominees to give guidelines for framing policy for the IIMs.

Earlier, the ministry had drafted a bill to regulate the function of the IIM’s through an act of parliament but the same was shelved.

The government however persisted with the idea to constitute Bhargave Committee to review functioning of the IIMs.

The former Managing Director of Maruti Udyog, R C Bhargave, in his report has clearly stated that IIMs have been established by the Government with public funds and thus can not expect to be fully independent.

The proposed pan-IIM board will approve the Mission and Vision statement and review the performance of the IIMs every two years. It will also advise the government on all matters related to IIMs. The individual IIM boards however, have been given powers to determine fee for all courses

All along, all IIMs have been autonomous institutes with each one having an independent Board to govern and administer.

But with the proposed pan-governing board brought into function, the union will have more ways and means to influence the policy of the premier management institutes of the country.

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