CAP to the rescue
There is good news for students who could not seek admission to the B-schools of their choice. Students who missed out on giving any management entrance exam can now appear for the CET conducted by COME on July 10, 2011. COME or the Consortium Of Management Education, that comprises of 52 leading business schools across Maharashtra, concluded its first round of the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) on June 21. An initiative that was launched on June 2 and has already received applications from 600 candidates for the admission process, is still on. DY Patil, director, Bhartiya Vidyapeeth, Pune and also the vice-president of COME, explains the idea behind the initiative. “Last year, in December, the AICTE notified B-schools across the country to conduct a centralised admission test. This notification was met with displeasure by a number of PGDM institutes who felt their autonomy was questioned. Hence in our response, we constituted a coalition of management institutes in Maharashtra un...