Admissions to MBA at BITS Pilani for the academic term starting august 2009 has been released now . Its certainly a very wise decision to invest 2 years in a techno MBA degree at BITS pilani in times like this. Since the programme limits its input normally to only BE BTech and a separate test is conducted for it, the eligible applicants might have a great chance of getting an admit.

Specializations offered:

1.    Engineering & Technology Management

2.    IT enabled Services Management

Academic Flexibilty: Students can take electives of Marketing and finance, the specialisations are hence quite flexible as well.

Full program duration: 2 years; 4 semesters of 6 months each; this year classes start 1^st august 2009

Unique features: Focus on techno management advantage and half an year of industry exposure/internships in last semester

Eligibility: Any integrated first degree of BITS or only B.E./B.Tech degree in Engineering disciplines from any other recognized University with a minimum of 60% aggregate in the qualifying examination (CGPA can be converted to equivalent % 7.5/10= 75%). Both freshers(results by 25^th july 2009) and experienced candidates can apply.

Application process:

1.    Apply online here

2.    Pay admission fee Rs 1000 via credit/debit cards and other options

3.    Print the online form and post it to BITS Pilani Admissions Officer (to reach before 30^th may 09)

Selection process:

1.    Online test at test centers

2.    Interviews of shortlisted candidate and test in Reading Comprehension and a Group Discussion at Pilani.

Test/Interview Dates:

1.    Online Test: 12th-13th June 2009

2.    Interview and GD at Pilani – 27th July. 2009

Test centers: Probable list

1. Pilani 2. Goa 3. Bangalore 4. Chennai

5. Delhi (Noida) 6. Hyderabad 7. Kolkatta 8. Nagpur

Test Admit Cards: candidates who register for test have to download the ‘Hall Ticket’ from the website during 7th June – 11th June 2009.

Important dates and deadlines:

30th May 09           Printed applications to reach Pilani.

4th June, 09            Test Center/ slot allotment and announcement to Candidates on website

7th – 11th June, 09   Candidates to download Hall tickets (Admit cards) from website

12^th-13th June,09      Online Tests

15th June, 09         Announcement of short listed candidates for Interviews

27th July, 09            Interviews/GD’s at Pilani

27th July, 09            Admission of Selected students

Official admission site: http://www.bitsadmission.com/mba/mbamain.htm

Full details about the selection process and syllabus of tests, please download and save/print: http://www.bitsadmission.com/hd/BITSHDAPPLY/HDbrochure.pdf

Or you may see the previous post on test details.

Details of online Test: total 4 hours, Test I and II & Management Aptitude test

Test I: Duration: 60 Minutes. Total No of questions: 60

15 questions each from

1.    Core Mathematics

2.    Core Physics

3.    English Language Skills & Principles of Management  

4.    Computer Programming

Test II: Duration: 120 Minutes. Total number of questions: 100

Includes questions from your chosen subjects, candidate to choose subjects of his first degree (for list of courses download syllabus here )

Management Aptitude Test: Duration: 60 Minutes Total number of Questions: 48

For Management Aptitude test each question will have five answer choices, only one being the correct choice. Each correct answer fetches 4 marks, while each incorrect answer has a penalty of 1 mark.

Syllabus for Management Aptitude Test

The Management Aptitude Test will consist of sections related to Mathematics and Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Data Sufficiency and Verbal Ability.

1> Mathematics and Data Interpretation: It tests the quantitative reasoning ability. Problem-solving questions present multiple-choice problems in arithmetic, basic algebra, and elementary geometry. The task is to solve the problems and choose the correct answer from among five answer choices.

2> Logical Reasoning: It tests the student’s competency on deductive logic and whether he can deduct logically conclusion based on the premise/s.

3> Data Sufficiency: This tests the quantitative reasoning ability using a peculiar set of directions. The student is given a question with two associated statements that provide information that might be useful in answering the question. The student then must determine whether either statement alone is sufficient to answer the question; whether both are needed to answer the question; or whether there is not enough information given to answer the question.

4> Verbal Ability: It tests the students on their competence in English language both in terms of vocabulary, grammar and verbal reasoning.

MBA @ BITS Pilani, the beginnning and the change, And an outlook about an investment really promising!

This follows the post “Let us see how we have changed since inception”

Let me introduce myself, I am Nirupam, 4^th year BE Civil, MBA Dual (5 years), so that means I was admitted to BITS in the year 2005 (the year when BITS started BITSAT), We were admitted to Master of Management Studies (MMS) programme and took a transfer to MBA when BITS Management Department re introduced its MBA degree in 2006. I hence have had the opportunity to overlook the programme since its conception and would like to summarize its metamorphosis;

In 2006, when the first admission notification was released, we got a few online queries about it and we were ourselves not sure, what it was going to be like, We finally came to know that we were allowed a transfer to MBA and would be doing a Dual degree of engineering and MBA in 5 years. We had the opportunity to meet the 15 member batch of MBA 2006, and we came to know that they had come through the BITS higher degree online test and subsequent interviews at pilani. They told us that the two specializations were in Engg and Tech Mgmt and IT enabled services Mgmt, but the flexibilty would allow them to pursue electives of their interest (which in its true meaning holds true, the set of electives I have attended are Project Appraisal, Marketing research, Strategic Financial Management, Financial Engineering, and Security Analysis and portfolio Management)

The courses and electives have evolved over the three batches of MBA and Marketing research, Financial engineering, Risk Managemnt and Insurance, Enterprise Resource Planning, Strategic financial Management, Project Appraisal have all been conducted in a very unique way, depicting the BITS Pilani excellence as a rich pool of faculty from Economics and Finance Group, Management Group, and across other disciplines at BITS have been collectively involved in the design/conduct of MBA curriculum. The special focus on courses like Negotiation skills, Business and society and strategic management also sets the BITS MBA education model apart from others.

The Admission procedure has also gone a change where the online tests are now conducted at centers across the country unlike the previous model where they were conducted only in Pilani. The intake has also steadily increased and this year 2009, should be around 60. With the advantage of a strong Alumni network, and unique practice shool program, BITS MBA is set to achieve its own niche in near future.

The placements are what we have monitored over 4 years, When MMS programme was there (for three decades), the MMS students were well placed and some of notable alumni of MMS are in top executive positions across the globe. The first MBA batch was meagerly placed from first phase of campus recruitments, for obvious reasons that it was BITS MBA’s first batch, but the Practice school programme in the last semester of MBA curriculum helped them get good positions in MNC’s and they are all well placed now. The second batch made a good attempt by reaching out to Industries with a very well drafted BITS MBA Brochure and we all expected things to improve in a big way for BITS MBA placements bu they were hit by current market sentiments; they are all currently at Industries doing their practice school and trying to find opportunities for them which we hope will definitely come by either in form of offers from their Internship firm or elsewhere only because, we know they are good! The batch of 2010 has started its endeavours for placements and hopefully, things would be in place from now on.

About the 2 year golden investment (1.5 in academia and 0.5 in industry): The BITS MBA students come through a good entrance, get a unique model of education in the finest academic environments at Pilani and a great deal of exposure by organizing and manging events; benefit a lot from the happenings and activities at BITS, get a chance of guest lectures and workshops from the best in the Industry and academia, and get hands on exposure to the Industry as a part of their program. The placements have to kick start and am sure once they do it would be one of the most sought after programs, The Admission notification for Batch of 2011 is about to be released and it’s a golden opportunity for all to invest their two years to change the way they think and shape their life, because of not so hyped publicity, it might just be easier for the new batch to get into and the returns from this investment will surely be titanic as by 2011, definitely placements, (the only one thing that could raise qualms of this program as of now) shall go a way ahead.

Now comes the Second batch.
Course structure was improved with some new additional subjects like Risk management and insurance, strategic financial management thats all.
But placement scene became even worse and being a placement volunteer for our batch i can surely tell u that if we have to improve it then our placement cell has to be remapped.

Since, many of the blogger’s here are from coming batches we can start a thread on how this has to be improved and how we can share our practice school experiences and knowledge with you.
Perhaps we should have a knowledge management and courses designed out of live scenarios we all face in real corporate world…

So the ball is in your court..lets start a new game together.

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Participants can find details for submission etc at http://bits-mba.org

You should submit your full paper before 22md March 2009 to pp@bits-mba.org

There is no need to submit an abstract, but you must include an abstract of atmost 150 words with main paper.

Thank you

Important Dates:
•Submission Deadline for Full Length Papers : 22nd Feb
•Notification of Acceptance: 28th Feb
•Presentation of Full-length Papers : 7th March

For Paper topics and details,
see http://bits-mba.org or download http://bits-mba.org/pp.pdf

CONTACTS
For information/updates, log on to website or contact Paper presentation team at
paper@hrbitspilani.co.cc
+9199883523350

ABOUT INTERFACE
INTERFACE is a thirty two year old all India management convention organized by the students of Management Association, BITS-Pilani, where students come live with skills and ideas that are necessary to run the ever dynamic and fast growing industries of India, INTERFACE is the culmination of the work of 50 plus dedicated management students of BITS, Pilani and the 28-member organizing committee of the association.

Updates and Information:
Periodically at
www.bits-mba.org

How to reach Pilani:
Pilani is located 200 km west of Delhi and 220 km north of Jaipur.
Direct buses to Pilani are frequently available from Delhi (ISBT, Kashmiri Gate). There are frequent buses to Pilani starting from around 4:55 AM to 10:00 PM.
From Jaipur: (RSRTC Bus Stand, Sindhi Camp). There are frequent buses to Pilani starting from around 4:00 AM till mid-night.
It takes about 4 hours by taxi and 6 hours by bus from both of these two cities to reach Pilani.
The campus is very close to pilani bus stand.

REGISTERING FOR INTERFACE 2009:

One may choose to register for Interface after reaching BITS premises or pre-register. A nominal registration fee of Rs 200 per head shall be charged. For further registration details please contact Publication & Correspondence Team, Interface 2009.

VINODH 9772976044 vineeinfo@gmail.com
ANAND 9772974122 nirola_anand@yahoo.co.in
TARANG 9983525879 tarangchhabra@gmail.com

For Further Information INTERFACE 09, Kindly log on to http://bits-mba.org

Important Dates:
•Submission Deadline for Full Length Papers : 22nd Feb
•Notification of Acceptance: 28th Feb
•Presentation of Full-length Papers : 7th March

For Paper topics and details,
see http://bits-mba.org or download http://bits-mba.org/pp.pdf

CONTACTS
For information/updates, log on to website or contact Paper presentation team at
paper@hrbitspilani.co.cc
+9199883523350

ABOUT INTERFACE
INTERFACE is a thirty two year old all India management convention organized by the students of Management Association, BITS-Pilani, where students come live with skills and ideas that are necessary to run the ever dynamic and fast growing industries of India, INTERFACE is the culmination of the work of 50 plus dedicated management students of BITS, Pilani and the 28-member organizing committee of the association.

Updates and Information:
Periodically at
www.bits-mba.org

How to reach Pilani:
Pilani is located 200 km west of Delhi and 220 km north of Jaipur.
Direct buses to Pilani are frequently available from Delhi (ISBT, Kashmiri Gate). There are frequent buses to Pilani starting from around 4:55 AM to 10:00 PM.
From Jaipur: (RSRTC Bus Stand, Sindhi Camp). There are frequent buses to Pilani starting from around 4:00 AM till mid-night.
It takes about 4 hours by taxi and 6 hours by bus from both of these two cities to reach Pilani.
The campus is very close to pilani bus stand.

REGISTERING FOR INTERFACE 2009:

One may choose to register for Interface after reaching BITS premises or pre-register. A nominal registration fee of Rs 200 per head shall be charged. For further registration details please contact Publication & Correspondence Team, Interface 2009.

VINODH 9772976044 vineeinfo@gmail.com
ANAND 9772974122 nirola_anand@yahoo.co.in
TARANG 9983525879 tarangchhabra@gmail.com

For Further Information INTERFACE 09, Kindly log on to http://bits-mba.org