Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai

Firstly, no; it's not necessary to have work experience in order to apply for the 2 year programme.
Secondly, if you have work experience; it's necessary to have a certificate.

The admissions for PGDM 2016-2018 are finished. The classes for the batch have commenced. But you are welcome to try next year! MAT score cut off is almost above a certain number between 85 to 90. But we look at the overall profile of a candidate rather than just their aptitude test score. Best of luck and hope this was helpful.

Yes. The college is worth. We have an average placement record for Rs.8.5 lakhs. Our faculty are professors from IIMs and other other international colleges. Other than that we have various sports facilities, cultural activities. We aim for an overall development rather than academic.

Placement details are uploaded on college website.

Great lakes does not provide HR as a specialization. PGPM is a one year course needs minimum experience of 2 years. PGDM is a one year course and has an upper limit of 2 year experience.

Yes you may get a call from XISS and some reputed b-schools.

For now we are not eligible, but after our course complete 5 years, college is going to apply for that and we are expecting it to be done by 2018. After that all the students who has completed their graduation from great Lakes will be eligible.

Admission process is over for this year.

It absolute depends on your luck. there are companies who places you in Mumbai, but they are relatively less in compared to Hyderabad,Bangalore and Chennai.

http://www.greatlakes.edu.in/pgdm/placement-snapshot
You might have read about PGPM.