Business Management Studies

The XAT 2024 test will be held in 79 cities across India, including new locations such as Shillong, Jorhat, Rajkot, Tejpur, and Naharlagun. To accommodate applicants from various locations, the exam is often offered in many test centers. Some of the prominent cities where XAT is conducted include Bangalore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Gurugram, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Surat, Tiruchirapalli, Trivandrum, Udaipur, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vijayawada, and Visakhapatnam. During the registration procedure, candidates can select their desired exam center depending on their convenience and accessibility.

Whether you want to pursue an MBA at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA or Manipal University, Jaipur, India is completely your choice, however you can consider a few factors -

1) Global exposure - IUP gives you a global exposure and the opportunities that come from studying in the US. Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) provides an MBA programme accredited by AACSB, a globally recognised accreditation acknowledged by leading employers worldwide.

2) Program type - The MBA at IUP offers a genral approach with electives for specialisation while the MBA at Manipal offers MBA with specializations in Finance, Marketing, HR, and Entrepreneurship etc.

3) Costs & financial aid - You will end up spending higher in a US university. However  you can check out the scholarships and financial aid assistance programmes to offset the expenses.

No, Executive MBA at ITM Executive Education Centre, Chennai is not better than Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai. GLIM, Chennai is a very reputed and renowned institute and it is better than ITM Executive Education Centre, Chennai in many parameters.

ITM Executive Education Centre is a private institute established in 1991. This institute offers EPGPM course. It is a part time course offered in both online and offline mode at the institute. It has 5 campuses all over India. This college offer good opportunities to students for placement through job fair organized at the institute in which almost 30 companies participated and offered 1000+ job opportunities till now. It offers a blend of huge alumni base, diverse peer group, hands-on learning opportunities through live projects, internships, seminars, workshops. ITM Executive Education Centre, Chennai offers a great industry exposure to the students by organizing workshops in domains like Digital Marketing, Data Science & Business Analytics.The highest package offered at ITM Executive Education Centre, Chennai is INR 5.9 LPA, INR 6.5 LPA and INR 16 LPA in 2009-2011, 2010-2012 and 2011-2013 respectively. The top recruiters that participated in the campus placement drive of the institute are ING Vysya Bank, BNP Paribas, Federal Bank, TCIL and Wipro. The average package offered are INR 4.8 LPA, INR 5 LPA and INR 7.5 LPA in 2009-2011, 2010-2012 and 2011-2013 respectively. Most of the students got placed during the placements. Usually entry level and mid level jobs were provided in all the domains like Marketing, Finance, HR, Operations.

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai is a private institute established in 2004. It has received accreditations from AMBA, SAQS and NBA. It offer 3 courses which are Executive MBA, PGDM and PGPM. The flagship course offered by the institute is PGPM. The institute offers a blend of state-of-art infrastructure, highly qualified faculty, diverse peer group, excellent hands-on learning opportunities through summer internships, live projects, case study based discussions, seminars and workshops. The college has a great placement record along with a huge alumni base. The college is recognised by AICTE. The highest and average package offered to the students of PGPM are INR 34 LPA and INR 18.10 LPA respectively during the campus placement drive of 2023. The highest and average package offered to the students of PGDM are INR 46 LPA and INR 14.5 LPA. Top recruiters like Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, HCL, ZS Associates, BNY Mellon, Societe Generale, JP Morgan Chase, EY, HSBC and many more participated in the campus placement drive of 2023.