Look beyond the high performers and it is a do-or-die world for many business schools, where supply of seats is overtaking demand. For their students, the attraction of an MBA may be fading.

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The salary offered to the top 50% of the batch saw an upward trend. It rose to Rs 21 lakh per annum in 2018 from Rs 20.1 lakh per annum in 2017.

According to Professor Errol D'Souza, director of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), the disruption has already started to happen.

Why so few women are taking the start-up route.

A team of three IIM-C students, Alan Shaji Idicula, Urjaswit Lal and Tushar Kumar, came up with the unique idea of installing wall-length billboards on the walls of the metro stations designed to look like a series of supermarket shelves and tying up with e-commerce majors like Flipkart or Amazon to start the virtual store.

Executive MBA programmes at leading B-schools are gaining ground among recruiters.

From the 3,000 applications received, 50 startups were shortlisted. All of them underwent training and mentorship programme for a week at IIM-A on business model, customer expectation, and commercialisation.

One of the primary reasons for this skewed male to female student ratio is because majority of IIM students are from engineering schools.

With the battle for this red-hot pie intensifying, the biggies in the business are upping the ante on recruitment - aggressively vying for the best and brightest at India's top campuses.

The survey was conducted across 114 engineering and 80 management institutions during the recently concluded campus placement season across different regions in India.

Vijay Mahajan says his immediate goal at the foundation is about ensuring that the foundation reaches its full potential but the long-term goal is to use RGF to establish programmes and activities built around its founding values, which are really the constitutional values of India.

In January this year, the B-school had pulled off an equally impressive showing during the summer placements for the third batch of PGP students.

With industry needs rapidly changing due to advancing technology, a host of online courses, both globally and locally designed, have sprung up to help professionals upgrade their skills.

The recent announcement in Mumbai about establishing Krea University inAndhra Pradesh has greater significance than just another liberal artsand sciences institution coming up in India.

The agitation, as is apparent, has moved from the Parliament to national highways and some of the industry leaders Business Today spoke to felt it may be time to brace up for temporary disruptions considering that there are less than 12 months left for the elections. Special Category status after all is also an emotive issue.

The average salary for the top quartile offers is Rs 16.29 lakh per annum (LPA), and the top half is Rs 14.14 LPA.