Chat Transcript: Kellogg Admissions



Kellogg's Beth Flye and Carla Edelston field questions on the ins and outs of the application process at the top-ranked school, financing an MBA, and job placement.


Jindal sets up B-school; specialised schools to follow

Haryana-based O P Jindal Global University (JGU), floated by the Jindal Group, has launched a B-school that will commence operations from August this year when a full-time MBA programme will be rolled out. The Jindal Global Business School (JGBS) is situated on the 54-acre fully residential JGU campus and will enroll 120 students in the MBA programme.
“Admissions to the two-year programme will be through CAT 2009 for Indian students and through GMAT for NRI and international students,” says professor C Raj Kumar, vice chancellor, JGU.

ISB launches EMBA @ 25 lakh

World’s Premier B-School ISB is launching an executive MBA (EMBA) for senior executives with 10 to 25 years of experience. As claimed by ISB this EMBA will be a world class program and it will cost Rs 2.5 million plus travel expenses.

GMAC seeks business faculty opinions for its new GMAT

Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), is currently developing the 10th generation GMAT which is expected to roll out by 2013. In order to make the exam more apt for the B-School admissions GMAC has requested business faculty from around the world to share their opinions on

IELTS scores required in Australia goes up!!

It has recently been announced by the Australian government that some dramatic changes to the immigration and education laws will affect the IELTS pass mark. IELTS, the International English Language Testing system from Cambridge University Press and administered in Australia by IDP is a must for many international people seeking immigration to Australia or entrance into a college or university.

The IELTS exam is extremely difficult for many speakers of English as a Second Language and it can take months of training and IELTS preparation lessons to be able to reach the pass mark of 5.5.


IELTS results fraud uncovered in Gujarat (India)

The police have arrested 10 persons and are looking for some others, to unravel the “IELTS result fraud” which duped gullible students from Gujarat, keen to go abroad despite scoring poorly in the IELTS examination which tests for English language skills.

The arrests were made in Kaira district in central Gujarat. The district Superintendent of Police Himanshu Shukla said the police had already recovered at least 110 “bogus certificates” of “updated revised marks” , and were confident of unearthing more.