Your prospects after management entrance exams
Management education has almost revolutionized the work style and ethos in the sphere of all business related activities as well as in areas requiring management function. Globalization, world trade agreement and the national economic liberalization policy have revolutionized the field of management training, education and placements.
Business Managers are in high demand and the opportunities are increasing in diverse sectors such as rural management, hospitality management, materials, sales, strategy, finance etc. They are the most sought after professionals as businesses are expanding and foreign investments and businesses are coming to India.
Business managers manage marketing, sales, human resources and financial divisions of most corporations and financial institutions. All large businesses in IT, Financial, Hospitality, Exports, consultancies employ Business Managers.
An aspiring manager should appear for management entrance exams to seek admission in PGDM (Postgraduate Diploma in Management) or MBA (Master in Business Administration) programmes. The scores of these management entrance exams are used by management institutes and B-schools subscribing them to screen candidates for entry to their courses.
Some of the most popular management entrance exams in India are CAT, MAT, FMS, ATMA, JMET, IBSAT, SNAP, TISS, XAT, IIFT, and IRMA. Besides these, students also appear for AIMAT, GCET, HPCMAT, JEMAT, KMAT, MHCET, MICAT, MPMET, NMAT, OpenMAT, Orissa MAT, PGCET, RMAT, TANCET, UAJET, UP-MCAT.
Who can appear for management entrance exams?
Anyone can appear for management entrance exams after completing graduation in any stream. Coaching institutes that offer programs for management entrance exams accept students as young as high school students for preparation of major management entrance exams such as CAT and XAT.
According to the latest news, MICAT, JMET and FMS are scrapped. From now on, MICA, IITs and FMS, Delhi will accept CAT scores. There are also talks about MAT being pulled out of AICTE-approved B-schools to make way for the new management entrance exam CMAT, which will be conducted for the first time in 2012.
