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Marketing and communications are fields where you need to be very agile and keep out of box view. These qualities are not easy. MICA, Ahmedabad has proved that it has done not just better but excels in this field. This shows in their record of past few years in placement, rank of their institute. Students have full freedom. MICA maintains the diversity of students, 50-50 sex ratio among students admitted that too by default and not by design. The innovative learning opportunities and the stability of hardcore management subjects will help the students at MICA know the people and the world around them better.Courses like imagining India, film studies and science, technology and society etc provides a cultural outlook which helps to reach a more integrated understanding which helps to all-round development. All in all unique way of teaching and course curriculum keeps MICA as the front-runner among B-Schools in mass communication and marketing.

The full forms for all of these are as follows:
PGP-Post Graduate Program
PGDM-Post Graduate Diploma in Management
FPM-Fellow Program in management
ABM-AgriBusiness Management
Most of the things are clear by the full forms itself.
PGP is a two-year postgraduate program offered by most of the colleges.
PGDM or Post Graduate Diploma in Management is offered by autonomous institutions as they cannot offer MBA.
FPM is a Ph.D/fellowship in management. Generally, people interested in research in management related fields do this course.
ABM is agri-business management which you will learn mostly about agribusiness. The course will be same in the first year as PGP and in the second year, you will learn more courses focused on ABM.
What course to take totally depends on your requirements in the future. So make a well-informed decision.

NMIMS Mumbai is one of the Tier-1 colleges in India offering a degree of MBA. MBA programs in information management integrate business and technology studies. On the technological side, students can expect to learn to work with large amounts of data, create secure networks, and build competent software for customers, while also taking business-related classes. Prior to graduation, students are obligated to complete group projects in information systems and fulfill a mandatory internship condition.
Graduates of these programs can have the technical skills to pursue administrative or managerial jobs analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of their computer systems, working with other IT staff to develop projects, managing databases, supervising workers on business strategies and upgrading technology for companies.
NMIMS ranks in top 15 colleges of India every year. They have good infrastructure and faculty. Also, they have foreign ties with Universities. Now you are aware of the both college and the course, I think you can make a wise decision. I would personally rank it somewhere a bit lower than excellent, on a rank of 4 or 5.

Every year, B-school placement reports throw up interesting data of MBA students and on-campus job offers. The main purpose of campus placement process is to introduce the best of talent to the best of recruiters. There are over 5500 B-schools in India and almost all of them provide campus placements to ensure a good start to the career of their students. Although overseas recruitments are currently low in number and restricted to only the top B-schools, the trend is growing year on year. While the number of international offers at IIM Bangalore in 2017 placement process was 13, a total of 20 international offers were made at IIFT in 2017. Similarly, at MDI, Gurgaon too, 15 international offers were made this year. Every year this stat varies. Generally IIMs bags highest number of overseas offer among the B-Schools in India.

Some of the good things about TAPMI are:-
TAPMI offer 100% placement opportunity to students. They have recruiters in IT, non-IT and technical verticals. The average salary is Rs 7 lakhs per annum and highest go beyond Rs 11 lakhs per annum in for domestic placements. The highest package offered in international is Rs 23 lakhs so far in the campus.
This campus holds direct tie-up for placement with some well known and famous multinational companies like Infosys, TCS, Tech Mahindra, EMC2, THOMSON and Reuters, Walmart, Cisco, Bosch, Zylog, L&G, Samsung, Mercedes, GM etc. A large alumni network of over 2000+ help the current students in getting a job with excellent placement package.
These are some of the good things about MBA at TAPMI.

Group discussions and presentations are an integral part of the MBA curriculum in any business school. Be it a premier institute or Tier II college, there are a lot of presentations and Group discussions. The number also depends on the college and the student to some extent. Talking about the average, we can say that a student has to give around 25 to 30 presentations throughout the two-year course. It also depends on the course structure and the professor but let us ignore it.
Group discussions are used by companies to differentiate between the exam sitters and future employees. So commonly Group discussions take place during the placement season. Besides the placement season, students can take part in informal group discussion sessions conducted by the institute or themselves to prepare for the real ones. So the number is less and is around 7-8.

Until a decade before, IIMs were the most desired B-schools. In 2009, things started to change with the opening of several new IIMs, starting with IIM-Rohtak, and followed by more, in Ranchi, Raipur, Trichy, Kashipur, Udaipur, Nagpur and six other cities. While this means that the aspirants have an elevated chance of getting admission, the value of brand IIM has been eroded in the method. The new IIMs have not been able to match the standards of the older ones on various parameters, including the quality of faculty/students, infrastructure, as well as ability to attract top recruiters.
Apart from quality education and research work of students and faculty, the older IIMs had been valued chiefly for the high-paying jobs their students got. This led to high expectations from the newer IIMs too. The reality has turned out to be contrary.
The newest IIM Jammu, IIM Bodh Gaya and a few others still have to get a campus. Though faculty shortage is affecting nearly every B-school, the situation is worse in the new IIMs, partly due to their geographical location.
So I think the government should focus on developing the older ones instead of opening new IIMs.

Just like any percentile score is calculated. A percentile represents the rank of a candidate in an examination, relative to the rest of the candidates who appeared for the same examination in the same time frame.
If there is an exam where 1000 people appeared, including yourself, and you ranked 75th, then there were effectively 925 test-takers who were ranked below you (because they scored lesser marks than you did). In this case, your percentile score will be (925/1000)x100 = 92.5 %ile
In CAT, the percentile is calculated up to three decimal places and rounded off. So, people scoring 100%ile have actually scored a percentile of 99.995 and above and similarly, people scoring 99.99 percentile are those who have scored a percentile greater than 99.985, but less than 99.995 percentile.
I hope it helps.

Hi,
MBA in Agri-Business is one of the fastest - growing sectors to be in, both as an entrepreneur and a professional. The course is related to the business of crop cultivation, food production and the various related business concepts in agriculture. The curriculum explores the whole range of agronomic products grown in India, their importance and needs. The course attempts to understand and innovate ways and means to protect and preserve agrarian sources, and also focuses on their related objectives and effectiveness in commercial operations, besides conducting constant research in farm- maintenance.
As a basic criterion of eligibility, to pursue this course the candidate needs to have attained a basic qualification of graduation in Agriculture or allied fields, from a recognized institute of higher learning. The next step in the procedure is to qualify any of CAT, MAT, XAT, etc. A college may also have its own admission procedure on the State level.

Masters in Business Administration offers various areas of specialisation like Management, Finances, Operations, Hotel Management, Public Relations, Human Resources, Information, and Technology. A career in MBA is not only progressive but also brings with it many perks. MBAs are great for a career change and thriving business opportunities. Graduates of part-time or full-time MBA programs have higher chances of holding a high-level management position and enjoying successful MBA careers. Over 50% of MBA graduates worldwide are senior managers or board directors. MBA course gives scope for innovative outlook. MBA degree not only enhances professional growth but also personal growth. I am a pass out from Lovely Professional University and have profoundly utilised my time here in shaping my personality along with self-analysis. Unlike other universities, rules and regulations are quite strict here. From academics to extra-curricular activities, thorough support is given by our mentors/seniors, professors and management. I did MBA from LPU and LPU has helped me grow professionally and personally with its career-oriented programs and support, I would say. The Business School of LPU is accredited from (ACBSP) Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs from the USA ensuring quality education and industry experienced faculty members, studying in LPU will get a degree accredited from a body of USA. LPU has recently Marked among Top 50 Best Management Institutes by NIRF ranking 2020. Also, LPU has won National Employability Award 2020. Highlights of MBA at LPU are -
1) Accredited by ACBSP (USA).
2) Credit Transfer - Student after successful completion of 1 year at LPU may be given option to join partner/ receiving university abroad for the completion of programme subject to conditions and norms of regulatory bodies.
3) International Exposure Option - Student may be given an option to go for 4 weeks study tour to USA/ European countries or any other country as decided by the University subject to conditions. Placements: Placements offered by the LPU for MBA course are very good. The minimum salary package offered is 5 LPA, and the highest salary package offered till now is 42 LPA. For more information, you can refer the official Website of LPU.

Hello,
In my opinion, IIFT Delhi (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade) is one of the most prestigious B-schools in the Delhi. The college offers MBA-IB, finance, marketing, trade and operations.
Let me mention that MBA in International Business is the flagship programme at IIFT.
The college was established in the year 1963. This college is the only one among the top-10 business schools in India that offers International Business program.
IIFT, Delhi has also an entrance test other than CAT. Applications are around 50,000 for around 280 seats.
If someone wants to go into e-commerce sector, IIFT is the best to give a plenty of opportunities.
Top companies visit IIFT, Delhi, for recruitment, some of them are Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, PayTM, etc. They recruit in a good number of students from IIFT. IIFT offers an MBA degree instead of PGDM.
The IIFT Delhi campus is spread over just 6.5 acres area. The rooms are triple sharing in for first year and double sharing for 2nd year.
I would rate IIFT 4.5 out of 5.