Admissions open in Maharashtra B-schools

The Consortium of Management Education (COME) for the first time has started centralised admission process (CAP) from June 1 for students seeking admissions in its member institutes.

COME is a collaboration of 52 private unaided business schools of the state. These B-schools belong to the Sinhgad Technical Education Society, the Indira Group of Institutes and the Suryadatta Institute of Management and Mass Communication.

Under CAP, the students need to apply online for admissions to 3,000 seats in postgraduate diploma in business management (PGDBM) course in 26 B-schools.

Announcing the admission process, executive president of COME, Apoorva Palkar said that the aspirants can download forms from www.comeassociation.org/index.

"Students, who have appeared for entrance tests like CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA, JMET, MHCET or any other state-level entrance test, are also eligible for the process," she said, adding that students who do not have any scores can also apply.

Palkar said that the CAP round involves group discussion (GD) and personal interview (PI) conducted centrally by COME.

Group discussions and personal interviews will be conducted between June 8 and June 21 in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nashik, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Indore and Jaipur.

COME had moved the Bombay high court (HC) challenging the state government's decision to conduct a common entrance test (CET) for admitting students in PGDBM courses in private B-schools.

However, a division bench comprising chief justice of the Bombay HC, Mohit Shah, and justice SJ Vazifdar, in an interim order in February this year, restrained the state government from conducting CET for admitting students in PGDBM courses conducted by private unaided management institutions across the state.