PGSEM 2013 Admissions - Open House on July 28, 2012

The 2nd open house for clarifying your queries related to PGSEM, admissions for 2013 batch and interaction with students, alumni & faculty will be held on July 28, 2012 at IIM Bangalore Auditorium. If you are interested in the program or planning to apply for the program next year or have queries, please make sure you attend the open house next Saturday. Register for the event here.

As we noted earlier and also clarified in Facebook and IIMB website, the major policy change with respect to admissions next year onwards is that ONLY CAT 2012 and GMAT (taken after Jan 1, 2010) will be considered and there is NO PGSEM Admission test.

This is a good opportunity to spend your Sunday in a green resort-like campus of IIMB :) Also the best opportunity to meet current students of PGSEM, alumni, Professors to clarify all your doubts about PGSEM and IIMB admission philosophy. The agenda for the day is provided below.

Timings	Agenda
10:00 A.M	Participants Assemble @ Auditorium
10:10 - 10:15	Welcome Address by Prof. S Ramesh Kumar, Chairperson, PGSEM
10:15 - 10:20	Address by Prof. Narendra M Agarwal, Chairperson, CSITM
10:20 - 10:25	Mr. Rakesh Godhwani, PGSEM Alumni
10:25 - 10:30	Mr. Rajesh Pandit, CSITM
10:30 – 10:35	Mr. Karthik Srinivasan, PGSEM Alumni
10:35 – 10:40	Ms. Bhavani Koti, PGSEM SAC
10:40 – 10:50	Coffee/Tea Break
10:50 - 12:00	Q & A  with a Panel consisting of : Ø  Prof. S Ramesh Kumar, Chairperson, PGSEM Ø  Prof. M Jayadev Ø  Mr. Akshat Kumar, PGSEM Alumni Ø  Mr. Kapil Gupta, PGSEM Alumni

Diwali break that was

It’s been an end to a very festive season here in India and the school gears to start the PGSEM classes this Friday. Most students have utilized the time to network and catch up with family. Even though the end term is lurking just 3 weeks ahead, it was time to unwind and stretch considering the whole batch was finishing up the R assignment till 2 days before Diwali. This was the time when almost all groups would have worked remotely, a very important aspect of today's business world. Learning to balance leisure and work is as good a lesson at MBA School as is the actual subject.

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Coming to the R package: I cannot end this post without a few words of appreciation for this excellent statistical tool. Beyond a class on introducing the various possibilities at R, most of the learning happened through moodle (An open source collaborative platform). It was a collective effort of many that could help everyone learn the nuances of R. Working on R reminds you of beginner days as a programmer where you know what to do logically but have to read a lot of stuff on internet to actually accomplish it. Possibilities of R package are amazing and with so many folks with IT background, I am waiting for the date when all share their assignment outcomes. For now I’d say there’s some interesting data that we’re analyzing.

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The activities at campus would have already picked up, number of remaining classes before end term is dwindling and so most of the students would be putting their head down to study and various student committees would get into action for upcoming events. The first of which is the open house for the prospective students. What you get out of an MBA depends to a great extent on how well your short term and long term goals are aligned with what the institute offers. So my advice to those interested is to contemplate and come prepared to the open house where you can see the campus, get your questions clarified and most importantly meet the current students.

Till then have a smooth transition to some interesting work. Cheers!

PGSEM Open House This Sunday

Check the PGSEM web site at http://www.iimb.ernet.in/pgsem/ for more details. You can use http://hrm.iimb.ernet.in/pgsem2006/openhouse.asp to register. It's this Sunday (17th December, 2006) in Bangalore , and next month (7th January, 2007) in Chennai.