Most b-schools are over stating the salary levels of their students. I thind that apart from IIM A and B all other schools have pretty ordinary packages.The best placed in these schools have work experience and other augmenting qualifications.This fact is never mentioned in the b-school placement records.
Respected Rashmiji, Your article was superb.You've given a true insight into the false myths people have about the PGP's in IIM's.Thank you and all the best for all your future endeavours. Kindly reply if you can spare your invaluable time. Thanking you Yours' Faithfully Muralikrishna.P
Hi peoples, All of you peoples are talking about MBA in IIM. What about peoples studying in regional collages. Don't make them upset. IIM are making very little amount of students than Regional Collages
It was a real relief to read your article which has done a fantastic job of highlighting the plight of oh so many 'aspirant' "M.B.A" students all over the country.(Including me, I might add!).I have a basic question:what are the qualities one looks at, in a manager?, apart from the obvious 'logical approach' which the CAT claims to test and identify?I would say, communication skills, understanding, of course-intelligence and he/she definitely should be a peoples' person.How would you link all these to an engineer who first excels at Math and Logic before anything else, in an exam like CAT?The way I see it,if CAT had some real case studies portraying life-like potential crises which a manager faces,thereby testing a person's qualities like decision-making skills and 'logical reasoning', that would definitely separate the real,deserving creme de la creme from the mere Math and logic Gurus, who should either be designing rockets or making planes which fly faster, or building bridges.....the list goes on!Why an M.B.A?,the answer is simple-because it is one of the most 'prestigious' and lucrative career to pursue.
RE:Way to go!
by Skynyrds on Sep 30, 2004 05:33 PM
Dear Nanditha,
Iam surprised at the heat this article generated, as if people were waiting to find an excuse for not doing well. Well ms. rashmi, you have just provided them. Imagine serious aspirants already justifying their possible failure at CAT !!! This is the difference, this is what separates the winners from losers. You spoke about case studies, well most IIM GDs involve a case study. So worry about cracking the exam first. You WILL get a chance to have a shot at 'engg' during GDs. (and am not an engg)
The article refelects the present state of affairs of the admission procedure of top b schools in india.With due respect to enigineers and other professional graduates i think this is a biased approach followed by the concerned people and as the article rightly conveys that not all people with good numerical ablity or logical thinking can make good managers .rather than ,the real skills are like man managment and just getting things done and there should be a kind of balanced approach followed by these b schools where in a diversified streams of education are taken .How could a commerce or a humanities graduate be inferior to an engineer.There is definetly more than life for people who are not from iits and iims .there is nothing impossible in life and definetly getting into iims or top b schools is never an impossiblity
Many engineering students take up finance or marketing mba instead of undertaking streams like systems which are technical in nature.It makes not much sense for a mechanical engineer to end up as a bank manager after undergoing an mba in finance.So i would suggest that additional weightage should be provided to students in the selection process for each stream of mba(finance,marketing,systems...etc) based on their course of study in graduation.
Well, the truth revealed in this article is probably the basics that need to be understood by the corporate world, rather than the college students or aspiring MBAs. Good piece of work Rashmi...
While I am not going to comment on your article, I must say that your article is a fine example of irresponsible journalism. I hope you realize that there are only two months left for the CAT. When such articles are printed, students who aren't studying engg, feel de-motivated. For a moment, I felt that way because I am a student of literature, studying for the CAT. I must say that rediff.com for once has disappointed me by printing such an article. For shame.
RE:comments
by Nanditha Kini on Sep 28, 2004 01:21 PM
Hi Tanushree,
Well, all the best! for your preparations for the CAT!, I do agree that it is a little disheartening to read articles like these, but the bottomline, am sure, is that the facts are there for all to see! I would definitely not want to run away from them or pretend that they don't exist!I think Rashmi has done a really good thing by highlighting the current scenario as of today.The Good Lord forbid, but how would you like it, if you really studied and put in a 100% effort count into preparing for the CAT, but still did not get into a top institute or the one of your choice?(IIMs' being the most obvious!!!!).I would be desperate to find out as to why this happened!After reading Rashmi's article and the facts stated in the, I do know that if an IIM does not accept me tomorrow, it's not because I am eternally dumb! or a bimbo!( my school records are proof!) ;),but probably because am not a genius at Math like most of our Engineer brethen are!
RE:comments
by Skynyrds on Sep 30, 2004 05:25 PM
Dear Nanditha,
You are being overly pesimistic. Engg degree (or the lack of it) is a non issue. Believe me there is no bias towards any stream, the bias is towards intelligence. It may happen that Engg form the bulk but there are quite a few top engg students who don't get thru and non-engg get selected. Its simple, there is a merit list which comprises of written, GD and interview. get on that list and stop cribbing abt ur educational stream.
Best of luck to the junta.. remember these articles have no intellence quotient. Treat them as page 3 articles, lot of gup shup but no gyan.
