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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (USA) – Andrew Jackson University’s unique sponsored tuition program allows those holding acceptable baccalaureate degrees to obtain an American MBA from an accredited university for less than $3,000. University president Don Kassner expects this revolutionary low cost program will severely disrupt the pricing strategy historically used American universities. “Spiraling tuition and fees at most universities have far outpaced other costs for years, but Andrew Jackson University is changing the direction of the spiral. From now on the spiral is headed down,” said Kassner.

In order to qualify for this low cost program a student must sign up with a sponsor and participate in a beta test, agree to receive a newsletter, or be added to a membership list. There are, however, no contractual obligations and a student may opt out at any time. The low sponsored tuition cost levels remain as long as a student is enrolled.

One such sponsor, Pupilcity, is in beta test for a social network for college students worldwide. Prospective enrollees agree to participate in the beta test, expected to begin in early 2009, but there are no contractual responsibilities obligating a participant. Pupilcity benefits by attracting actual college students who will help guide the social network content and design. The student benefits from sponsored tuition, and Andrew Jackson University benefits by eliminating student acquisition costs.

All courses are presented online in English. The university’s admissions department will help with language and credential verification requirements. Tests are conducted online using webcam proctoring. Proctor fees and the estimated cost of books, plus an administrative fee of $400 per semester are included in the $3000. Baccalaureate and associate degree programs are also available for similar cost savings.

Andrew Jackson University (AJU) is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (www.detc.org). The DETC is listed by the United States Department of Education as a nationally recognized accrediting agency. AJU offers three master’s, three baccalaureate, and five associate degree programs, all online and all available to students enrolling through the sponsored tuition program. See www.aju.edu for more information.

Since AJU’s degree programs are provided entirely online there are no residency requirements. Students therefore do not qualify for U.S. student visas.

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Currently a large number of institutions of higher learning offer programs in MBA Correspondence Courses. The degree – MBA – Master of Business Administration- is especially attractive to working professionals who either don’t have the time or the opportunity to attend full-time learning programs.

It is becoming increasingly popular to do the work over the Internet because it is not so tedious, even to regular full-time students. Distance learning is becoming the mode of fashion and is on the rise.  The candidates for enrollment are required to possess at least a Bachelor’s degree in any of the faculties.

In India, The MBA Correspondence Courses are available in most of the specialized areas.  These include Human Resources, Finances, Marketing, Operations, Banking and more.

Multi-tasking in today’s world is a must, thus the courses are totally applicable. All areas of management have the same demand: that the student be in the know and flexible. Long distance learning gives the advantage of doing the work at your own pace, while covering all the material and possibly earning your living at the same time.  This was virtually impossible under the previous system of full-time attendance at a recognized institution of learning. Apprehension about using this mode of learning is not longer an issue.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is one of the institutions that offer an MBA Correspondence Program.  Other fine institutions in India that offer programs of this nature are:

Annamalai University

Bharathiar University

Bundelkhand University (Est: 1975)

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

Dr. BR Ambedkar Open University

Guru Jambheshwar University

Indira Gandhi National Open University “

Kakatiya University

Karnataka State Open University

KOTA Open University

Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open) University

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (1990)

Sambalpur University (1967)

Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU)

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Education gives shape to your life. Today, receiving education has become so much simple with the use of technology such as internet.  Distance learning education is a powerful medium of learning. Internet has thus become a useful tool in this world and has opened up new educational opportunities for people around.

Distance learning courses have increased in number mainly because of the internet. Distance learning MBA course is offered by many prestigious institutions across the country. Online MBA almost sounds magical. If an extensive course like MBA can be offered on the internet…things become much simple.

Distance learning MBA allows you to give your exams online. The study material is either mailed to you or sent through courier. Distance learning MBA allows you to save on time that one would otherwise spend on traveling. Online MBAs are affordable. You save on costs that you will otherwise incur on a usual full time MBA.

An appropriate MBA distance learning program that is suitable to you can be chosen from the various options that colleges offer. The things that should be taken into consideration are:

Whether the university or the institute is renowned, Whether the course matches your expectations , The fees , The elective subjects , The flexibility that the program offers, The study material that it provides, Does it provide campus placements?

Some of the popular institutes that offer distance learning MBA in India are Symbiosis, Pune, IGNOU (Indira Gandhi Open National University), Delhi, Amity Business School, Indian Institute of Commerce and Trade, Lucknow and many more. Distance learning MBA fees are quite affordable.

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A survey conducted among final year students of India’s best MBA schools — including the IIMs, XLRI Jamshedpur and Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management — shows that 71% would rather work in India than abroad, and don’t expect a rise in average compensation packages from last year.

Besides, leading Indian groups like the Tatas and Reliance are among their most preferred employers, following the fall of top investment banks like Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan.

The study, ‘B-school Pulse’ done by leading staffing company TeamLease, global research company Synovate and management portal MBA Universe throws up some interesting results. Traditional favourites like McKinsey, Hindustan Unilever, Boston Consulting Group and Proctor & Gamble make up the top four, while the MBA students shrugged off recent rumours about ICICI Bank to make it their fifth most preferred employer.

Tata Group moved up four places in the list of ‘Top 25 Most Coveted MBA Recruiters of 2008′ to the sixth most coveted company to work for. A similar survey done in 25 B-schools last year ranked Tata Group at number 10.

The rise of Reliance Group is even more remarkable. It moved up a whopping 10 places and has become the seventh most attractive place to work for. Last year, the Reliance Group was ranked number 17. The Aditya Birla Group moved up two notches to No. 19 while Mahindra and Mahindra debuted on the list at No. 20.

“The recent meltdown of the financial markets has made a significant impact on majority of the B-school graduates. They prefer to tread cautiously in making career choices,” says Sampath Shetty, VP, Permanent Staffing, TeamLease Services.

The fall of big investment bank like nine pins has meant they have lost their sheen among MBAs. Lehman Brothers, ranked number four last year and JP Morgan ranked number 11 last year have fallen off the list. Other foreign banks like Deutsche Bank and Barclay’s Bank, too are no longer part of this coveted list. The void created by them is being filled by strong Indian brands like ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, HSBC and others.

In fact, MBA graduates feel that the sectors most likely to benefit and pull more quality talent due to the meltdown is: Management Consulting, FMCG, Telecom and Retailing. Diversified and Manufacturing is also likely to benefit. Interestingly, the meltdown has also meant compensation package which hovered between Rs 6 to Rs 15 lakh last year has not really changed. Their expectations have not risen at all this year.

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Stacy Blackman’s Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence

Wall Street’s collapse is creating divergent effects for business school students and applicants, The Washington Post reports. MBA students are thankful to ride out the downturn in the sanctuary of academia, while those applying to master’s degree programs in business administration are jittery about a surge in competition.

It’s not just in finance that the inquests have begun, Brittan’s Guardian newspaper reports. What part have the business schools and business academics played in the implosion of the world’s banking system? That was the question posed in a letter to the Financial Times by Nottingham University Business School’s professor Ken Starkey.

The MIT Sloan School of Management is teaming up with four international business schools to offer a one-year Masters in Management Studies degree, beginning in the 2009-10 academic year, Financial Times reports. The four schools are HEC Paris, in France, the business schools at two Chinese universities, Tsinghua in Beijing and Fudan in Shanghai, and the SKK Graduate School of Business at Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University.

As jobs shrink in the troubled economies of the West, some of their top business schools are increasingly networking with India-based alumni to explore opportunities. Indian companies are still averaging double-digit growth and the broader economy, despite a slowdown, is predicted to grow 7% this year. That’s why many western B-school graduates are scouting for jobs in India, the Hindustan Times reports.

EMLYON Business School has announced the first Global Entrepreneurship Program, which launches in September 2009 and will prepare entrepreneurs for success in a global context. This rigorous Master of Science degree is conferred in conjunction with some of the world’s most prestigious entrepreneurial MBA programs, including Babson College in the U.S. and Zhejiang University in China.

The Wisconsin School of Business of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will partner with HEC Paris in the development and delivery of a new Real Estate program at HEC, as part of the HEC Real Estate Chair sponsored by Morgan Stanley and Unibail-Rodamco. Ranked #2 by U.S. News & World Report among leading real estate programs in the United States, the Wisconsin School of Business will contribute its experience and bring an international dimension to HEC’s program.

UC Davis Graduate School of Management dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart will receive the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education’s 2008 Faculty Pioneer Award for Institutional Impact. The annual recognition, dubbed the “Oscars of the business school world” by the Financial Times, celebrates MBA faculty who have demonstrated leadership and risk-taking in integrating social and environment issues into academic research, educational programs and business practice.

In a new podcast, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Entrepreneurship John Mullins discusses teaching entrepreneurship to Executive MBA students at London Business School, and the importance of the real world experience they share with each other.

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ATMA 2009 test will be held on Feb 8, 2009. Last date for receipt of application forms is Jan 20.

Graduate in any discipline from a recognized university are eligible for the exam. Final year degree course students can also apply.

Click here for more About ATMA 2009, Important Dates, Registration, Test Cities, Test Pattern ATMA Institutes and Contact details

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MBA and MBA IN RURAL MANAGEMENT ADMISSION

Declared U/S 3 of UGC Act 1956
Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

KIITEE MANAGEMENT – 2009

ADMISSION NOTICE – 2009

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
SCHOOL OF RURAL MANAGEMENT

The Management schools of KIIT University invite applications for admission in Master in Business Administration (MBA) and MBA in Rural Management (MRM) programs for the Academic Session 2009-2011, both the schools have state of art facilities, experienced faculty and innovative learning delivery system. The schools are fully equipped to be in the league of the top twenty B-schools in the country.

ELIGIBILITY:
Any Graduate or equivalent with 50% marks or equivalent CGPA at graduation level.

APPLICATION FORM:
Application Forms and Brochure; will be available on payment of Demand Draft of Rs.1000/- drawn in favour of KIIT, payable at Bhubaneswar. Candidates applying to both the schols will fill one form but pay application fee of Rs.2000/-.

Forms will also be available at different campuses of KIIT (Bubaneswar, Bangalore & Pune) and at designated branches of Allahabad Bank (refer their web sites for details).

The Application form and Admission Brochure can also be downloaded from their websites.

CANDIDATES CAN ALSO REGISTER FOR KIITEE MANAGEMNET-09 ONLINE BY LOGGING ON TO www.kiitee.ac.in

EXAMINATION CENTRES:
Ahmedabad, Balasore, Bangalore, Berhampur, Belgaum, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Dehradun, Durgapur, Guwahati, Hissar, Hyderabad, Imphal, Indore, Jaipur, Jammu, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, KOchi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Pantnagar, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Trivandrum, Varanasi, Vishakhapatnam.

Online Application form: 16.10.2008
Issue of Application Forms: 20.10.2008
Last Date of receiving form: 24.11.2008
Date of Entrance Exam: 14.12-2008
Publication of Result: 05-01-2009

EXAM TIME (Resheduled): 3.30 pm to 6pm

INTERNATIONAL QUOTA
15% Supernumery seats of each programme will be reserved for foreign nationals.
. MBA – 36 Seats.
. MBA (Rural Management) – 15 Seats.

International & NRI Admission Fees
Annual Fees (Including Hostel Fees & Mess Charge):
6000$ (US) per annum for SAARC Countries
8000$ (US) per annum for other Countries

CONTACT:
Director (Admissions),
KIIT University, Campus-1
Bhubaneswar-751024
Phone: 067-2742103, 2741389, 2741998. Fax: 0674-2741465
Email: admission@kiit.ac.in

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NMAT (National Management Aptitude Test) is the entrance test conducted by Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) for admission to its various MBA programmes. Every year NMAT is held in the month of December in over 20 centres across the country.

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an autonomous institution of the University Grants Commission (UGC) has accredited NMIMS University with Grade ‘A’. Based on the recommendations of the University Grants Commission and All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, has accorded Deemed to be University Status to NMIMS in January 2003.

MBA Programmes conducted by NMIMS School Of Business Management are :

1. MBA – Core Programme
2. MBA – Pharmaceuticals Management
3. MBA – Capital Markets
4. MBA – Actuarial Science
5. MBA – Global Business
6. MBA – Retail Management
7. MBA – Services Management

NMAT is an objective type test designed and developed to ascertain the aptitude of the candidates to undergo Post Graduate Programme in Management. Aptitude is the potential of an individual to perform subsequent to proper training. Therefore NMAT is designed to identify the potential.

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Eligibility:Executives with Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline or equivalent of 6 years full time post-qualification professional experience as on 31st March

GMAT score obtained recently

IPMX, the first, full time, one-year residential executive programme would be launched in April 2008 at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow-NOIDA Campus. The International Programme in Management for Executives, is designed for mid/senior level professionals, to prepare them for leadership roles. The programme is designed to develop business education that is grounded in the Indian and international business environment. It will accelerate understanding of business at functional and strategic levels, and prepare students to manage enterprises engaged in global business. The curriculum would focus on a strategic understanding of business, rooted in practical skill development through action learning projects and industry interface. A core component of the programme is an international module of 4-5 weeks at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal Canada which will provide students with the opportunity for an international learning experience to equip them with the knowledge and perspective relevant to current global business issues. The programme would be rigorous as well as rewarding as it would provide ample opportunity for personal development and professional growth through inquiry and insight in an interactive learning environment. NOIDA being the hub of commercial and industrial activity, the locational advantage of the NOIDA Campus would also extend to the learning process where industry related assignments and real management contexts form an integral part of the course curriculum. The delivery is oriented towards best practices, an integrated strategic perspective, project work and constant engagement with industry The Corporate Resource Centre of the Institute would facilitate in providing placement services for non-sponsored students. .
Programme Objective
The overall goal of the programme is to broaden the core managerial competencies to further enhance the professional growth of students. The specific objectives of the programme are to:

Provide students with the fundamental principles of effective management of modern business organizations

Develop understanding of the roles and responsibilities of business managers in increasingly global nature of social and economic orders and corporate operations

Sharpen diagnostic and analytical skills for effective decision making in complex business perspectives

Sensitise students to the issues of cultural diversity and develop skills for effective management within multi-cultural work environments
Strengthen strategic leadership and team working skills

Reference : IIML site

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UK — an unvoiced aspiration, a touch of class OR
Europe –  pretty, romantic, refined? OR
Australia — spanking new, cheerful, fun! OR
Far East — picturesque, ancient yet ultramodern OR
South East Asia — closer to home, familiar, comfortable, cheap!

The decision to go abroad for the MBA was made, but when the time came to decide where exactly to go, the number and variety of options was baffling me, to say the least! Where should I start?!

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