Hi Suprotik,

To get admission into any top B-School in India, it is mandatory to take some or the other exam. In general CAT is accepted by majority of the B Schools in India. Aprt from that we have NMAT, SNAP, XAT, IRMA Aptitude Test, CMAT, MAT etc.

Since it is still October, the applications for SNAP and XAT could be open. You can check them. Similarly NMAT has a huge window to give the exam. You can check if that is still open. Also, MAT is conducted 4 times a year. So you can look out for the MAT in December or February.

However, it is mandatory to qualify in one of the exams for which the scores are accepted by the instituteyou aspire to join. So look out for applications that are still open. All the best.

Admission to all Recognised MBA colleges by AICTE shall need students to appear for MBA exam.

Students also must be either in final year or have graduated to pursue MBA an dhave atleast 50%aggregate marks in graduation for eligibility

List of all MBA exams for colleges below.

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/top-12-mba-entrance-tests

If u completed ur BTECH that mean u r a graduate.

But u need to choose between MBA or MBA in specialisation.

My response primarily relates to India, and experience in other countries is likely to be different.



The primary reason for engineers opting for MBA is Engineering studies has become boring. There is hardly any hands-on experience relevant to the real world and lot of learning by rote, driven by exams that test memorizing of text that no one understood why they must learn.



Syllabuses are created without much insight, and the delivery is not focused on Why things happen, what are the alternatives or how these are applicable in real life. Programs are memorized, and machines are not to be explored.



Around ten years ago, I accompanied Dr Mihir Ravel (now faculty at Olin) to a premier engineering college in Bangalore, and we had a discussion on education with the 1st year Engineering students. We proposed there should be more labs, so students learn the how. The students said that they cannot experiment in experiments in the lab. Step by step instructions are given, that they are expected to follow, without deviation. How is this an experiment, they asked?

Over the next few years, I realized how widespread this sad phenomenon is in engineering education.

We have made engineering education into a mugging up of facts and figures we do not relate to. The syllabus is overloaded, and teachers complain they have no time to explain or relate concepts to the real world even if they tried. Besides, the academic system does not encourage this.

Why MBA? Well, we have created the perception (maybe based on reality) that MBAs are the highest paid in the country, so its a natural place to move to. Now there is also social and family pressure to do MBA, so many youngsters are decided on MBA even before they begin engineering.

Third, I see a large number of engineers are not happy with their jobs (the reasons for such dissatisfaction is not the subject of this discussion), I am sure their advice is making its way into shaping career decisions of youngsters.



Thanks,

Azim

CIEM Kolkata

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