Masters in Business Administration or MBAs are in real demand these days. And if someone is holding his or her MBA degree from a reputed business school, it’s an icing on the cake. The students of top business schools bag lucrative offers from the corporate world.

Almost all the universities conduct the MBAs program today. With the phenomenon of globalization taking the practical shape, whole world has emerged in to a big market. This has led to the great increase in the business activities all over. Products and services are being sent and received across continents. This situation has posed a huge demand for the skilled professionals in the industries. In an MBA program, syllabus is prepared in such a manner that it covers all essential elements of business.

MBA Specializations:

There are various streams of MBA course which can be studied as specializations. Some examples are: MBA in Human Resources (HR), MBA in Hospitality & Tourism, MBA in Entrepreneurship, MBA in Communication, MBA in Marketing, MBA in Health Care Management, MBA in Finance, MBA in Operations.

Some prestigious Management Institutes in India are enumerated below:

List of MBA entrance examinations 2009
• AIMA-MAT
• INC Adam Smith Institute of Management
• National Institute of fashion Technology
• West Bengal University of Technology, JEMAT 2009
• Department of Commerce, University of Delhi
• MDI School of Energy Management
• KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
• Department of Financial Studies, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi
• ATMA – AIMS Test for Management Admissions
• Faculty of Management Studies , University of New Delhi
• NMAT
• SNAP Test
• TATA Institute of Social Sciences
• XLRI Jamshedpur, XAT 2009
• Joint Management Entrance test (JMET)
• Institute of Rural Management Anand
• Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)
• IBSAT
• Common Admission Test (CAT)
• Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management, Ahmedabad
• SIES, Navi Mumbai
• Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi
• VIT- Business School , Vellore
• Institute of Management Development and Research, Pune
• IILM Institute for Higher Education
• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras
• MICA, Ahmedabad
• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bangalore
• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune
• Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, Nashik
• Symbiosis Institute of Healthy Sciences (SIHS), Pune
• Great Lakes institute of Management, Chennai
• Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow
• Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development
• Welingkar
• Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management
• K.J.Somaiya
• Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
• S.P Jain, Dubai, Singapore
• Symbiosis Center for Information Technology
• Asia-Pacific Institute of Management
• Institute of Management Technology, Dubai
• Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship, Bangalore
• Indian Institute of Forest Management
• Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune
• ITM Business School
• Panjab University, Chandigarh, University Business School
• AIMA, Aligarh Muslim University
• Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
• IILM Graduate School of Management, Greater Noida
• NITIE, Mumbai
• Department of Financial Studies, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi
• Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna
• National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
• Institute of Insurance and Risk Management
• Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
• Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies
• NIRMA Institute of Management
• University of Hyderabad, The School of Management Studies
• Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and Nagpur
• NICMAR
• Goa Institute of Management, Goa
• Mudra Institute Of Communications, Ahmedabad
• Asian Institute of management
• Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
• Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
• Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai
• IIM Lucknow, Noida campus
• IIM Bangalore
• XLRI Jamshedpur
• Indian Institute of Forest Management
• Birla Institute Of Management Technology, Greater Noida
• Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
• Institute of Petroleum Management, Gandhinagar
• National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
• GITAM Institute of International Business
• Lal Bhadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi
• Balaji Institute of Modern Management, Pune
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• S.P.Jain Institute of Management & Research
• Fore School of Management
• T.A. Pai Management Institute
• Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi
• NMIMS University (School of Distance Learning)
• Anna University, Chennai
• Pondicherry University, Directorate of Distance Education
• Institute of Public Enterprise, Osmania University Hyderabad
• Entrepreneurship Development Institute Of India
• Fortune Institute of International Business
• SCMS, Cochin
• Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics
• Globsyn Business School
• AICAR Business School, Karjat
• International School Of Business & Media
• NILLM -CMS, New Delhi
• National Insurance Academy School of Management, Pune
• Suryadatta Institute of Management & Mass Communication
• International School of Management Excellence, Bangalore

XAT, acronym for Xavier Admission Test is a national level admission test conducted by XLRI Jamshedpur to select students for admission to management courses. There are 35 other Management Institutes which selecting students on the basis of XAT. Some of them include XIMB (Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar), LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai), and BIM (Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy).

XAT is usually conducted on the first Sunday of January in 31 cities all over India. These include: Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Trivandrum, Vadodara, and Visakhapatnam.

Eligibility :

An applicant for XAT must have three-year Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.

Test Pattern:

XAT is an objective paper consisting of multiple-choice questions. There are four alternative answers for each question. One mark is awarded for each correct answer and 1/3 mark is deducted for each wrong answer. The duration of the test paper is 2 hours and there is an essay paper of 20 minutes.

The objective paper comprises three sections: (1) Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability (2) Quantitative Ability, Reasoning and Data Interpretation (3) General Awareness. There is a time limit of 40 minutes for each section.
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