MBA Admissions 2011: COME Admission Process for 25 Maha B-schools; FAQ

The Consortium of Management Education (COME) has announced the Common Admission Process (CAP) for the 25 member B schools of Maharashtra. Dr. Apoorva Palkar, President, COME and Director of Singhad Institute of Management and Computer Application, Pune informed MBAUniverse.com on Friday, May 27, 2011, “We are announcing the common admission process for our member institutes. This is a common admission process for member institutes of COME.”

If you are intend to join any of the 25 Maharashtra B schools which are conducting the Common Admission Process, you should be aware of the following information as shared by Dr. Palkar with MBAUniverse.com on Friday, May 27, 2011.

Q: What is COME?

A: COME or the Consortium of Management Education is a forum formed by many leading Mumbai and Pune based private management institutes offering PGDM program to address the concerns created by the AICTE Notification dated December 28, 2010, that curbs the autonomy of management institutes.

Q: Which are the member B schools who are participating in the Common Admission Process?

A: There are 25 B-schools in Maharashtra who are participating in CAP. According to Dr. Palkar, the participating B-schools include, MIT group's-Maharashtra Academy of Engineering, Vishwakarma Global Business School, Sinhgad group's-Sinhgad Institute of Business Administration and Research, Sinhgad Institute of BA &CA, MERC-Institute of Management, Matrix Business School, Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management studies, International Institute of Management Studies, MITCON Business School, Suryadatta Institute of Management, AICAR Business School, IFEEL Institute, Institute of International Business & Research, Alard School of Business Management, Rajiv Gandhi Institute, Guru Nanak Institute of Management Studies, Bharti Vidyapeeth's Institute of Management studies and Reserach, Mulshi Institute of Business Management, Mangalvedhekar Institute of Management, Apex Group of Institutes, Indus Business School, Chanakya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Kohinoor Management School, Kohinoor Business School, Dr. Bedekar Institute of Management Studies, Abhinav IOM, Mulshi IOBM.

Q: What is the application process for the CAP?

A: Dr. Palkar states that the sale of the application forms will start from June 2, 2011. Application forms will be available online on the COME website, the URL of which is: http://www.comeassociation.org

Q: What are the important dates for the CAP?

A: The important dates for the Common Admission Process are as follows:

The form sale will start from Thursday, June 2, 2011 onwards.

The GD PI processes will be held from Wednesday, June 8, 2011 to Tuesday, June 21, 2011 onwards.

The CAP rounds or the process of allocating the B-schools to the candidates on the basis of their scores in the selection process will commence from Monday, June 27, 2011 onwards.

Q: What is the process to conduct CAP?

A: To apply in the COME Common Admission Process, you have to take any of the given MBA entrance exams, namely CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA, JMET, MAH CET or any state level CET. The GD and PI processes will be conducted centrally by COME. The GD PI processes will be conducted in the locations of Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nasik, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Indore, and Jaipur. “More centers will be added soon,” informed Dr. Palkar.

Q: What is the background of COME?

A: On December 28, 2010, the AICTE had issued a notification to B schools listing a new set of rules for the B-schools of the country to follow. The circular instructs not only the doing away with important MBA entrance exams, such as the XAT, ATMA or MICAT, but ascertains that only CAT, MAT or any state government-conducted exams (such as the Maharashtra CET) can serve as entry points to B-schools. Another point in the circular which has rubbed many B-schools the wrong way, instructs B-schools to admit students only through a state government operated process. The statutory body has also made it clear that such colleges and institutes cannot set their own fee structures. They can only charge fees approved by a competent state government body.

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more on the COME Common Admission Process.