B-schools will offer ‘free counselling’

This is the season for admission to business schools for studying one-year or two-year MBA courses. The prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are students’ first choice, but not everyone is able to get in. There has been a mushroom growth of MBA schools, which has confused students. There is a golden opportunity available “for one year MBA admission seekers” in north India, especially those residing in the National Capitol Region of Delhi.

Many IIMs and top league business schools are organising a “free counselling” fair at CyberHub in Gurugram on 27 September, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The event has been organised by top global advisory resource, oneyearmba.co.in. One can book a “free seat” by visiting its website. Shikhar Mohan, the founding chairman of oneyearmba.co.in says that because of lack of awareness, many students take admission in wrong schools, and find it extremely difficult to get the right worthwhile placement later. A majority of the top-50 MBA programmes are now offering one-year programmes. Almost every new entrant to these top ranking B-Schools in the past five years has taken admission to a one-year programme. Like in America and Europe, the Indian corporate world has started showing preference to one-year MBA degree holders as they, as per the admission requirement, already have minimum five years’ work experience and are more mature compared to fresh two-year MBA students.