Friday, December 12, 2008

IIM-A entrance tougher than Stanford, Harvard

By siliconindia news bureau
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Ahmedabad: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), country's leading business school has outdone the world's premier business institutions like Stanford and Harvard on the scores required for admission. The minimum Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score required for admission in IIM-A's one- year post-graduate executive management programme (PGPX) for the 2009-10 batch was fixed at 722 out of 800. This score exceeds the score required for admission in institutes like Harvard or Stanford, where the GMAT cut-off is between 710 and 715.
The IIMs use Common Admission Test (CAT) scores for admission in their management programme (PGP), while they accept GMAT scores for the one-year executive management programme. GMAT scores are accepted by all top universities globally for taking in executives for management training, reported The Economic TimesTogether with a good GMAT score, IIM-A also looks for a good academic and career record in candidates interested in joining the course.

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