26 private B-schools opt for centralized admission process

Updated on: Wednesday, June 08, 2011

With the decision from a group of private unaided business schools providing autonomous management courses to conduct centralized admissions online, students aspiring to join diploma courses in management can heave a sigh of relief as they need not run from college to college seeking admission.

Most management schools running the PGDBM (post graduate diploma in business management) courses are located in Mumbai and Pune, with a handful of them in Nagpur. Among which 26 colleges (3,161 seats) are yet to start their admission process have formed the consortium of management education (COME), which will conduct admissions online.

The institutes have come together following the December notification issued by the All India Council for Technical Education, following a Bombay high court ruling.

Briefing on the admission process, Apoorva Palkar, executive president of the consortium said, "Two rounds of centralized admissions will be held. In the first round, if a student is allotted a seat in any of his first five options, she/he must take it. If a choice from the lower options is allotted, the student can participate in the second round".

Most of the courses are in the fields of retail management, general management, agribusiness and pharma management and their fee range from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh. If seats go vacant after the admission rounds, the consortium may conduct a common entrance test to fill them. "We have already approached the Pravesh Niyantran Samiti, the body overseeing admissions in the state for permission to conduct our own CET," added Palkar.

"Group discussions and personal interviews for Maharashtra students will also be common; they will be held at the five venues - we have shortlisted in Mumbai and Pune," said D Y Patil, COME vice president.

Students will be charged Rs 750 for the online process. Admission process would be based on 50% marks from the written common entrance exam (CAT/ MAT/ XAT/ ATMA MHT-CET) and 50% marks through GDPI will make up the total score.

26 private B-schools opt for centralized admission process

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