The summer placements at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A)  was a four-day affair last year will continue for weeks this year, until each of its students is placed. The institute is focused on a more precise match making of student and job.IIM-A will discard the day-based placement system and adopt an open-ended and comparatively relaxed cohort-based placement system, for its summer placements this year. This system was experimented for the first time this year during the institute's final placements.

UPTU has announced that to fill the vacant seats in the private colleges there will be the re councelling scheduled from 4 August.

An interesting bit of information came to light during our conversation with the IIFT Registrar yesterday. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), which has its campuses at New Delhi and Kolkata too would have made its entrance test computer-based had it not been for the collapse of the system during the controversial CAT 2009.

Harvard Business School (HBS) has no plans to compete with Indian b-schools, but it would continue to help them build capacity to meet the local demand, said Harvard Business School Dean Prof Nitin Nohria in Mumbai on Tuesday.

IIM Ahmedabad today released the placements statistics for its one-year PGP Executive batch that graduated in 2010. “Of the 66 students seeking placements 64 have been successfully placed. The average salary for the batch was Rs. 26.1 lakhs – an increase of 29.5% over the previous year’s average. Students who participated in the placement process received 1.77 offers per person,” said an official statement released by the institute.