Taking MAT May 2011? Know the top B-schools you should aim for?

Management Aptitude Test (MAT), conducted by All India Management Association (AIMA), is a popular choice of MBA aspirants. MAT is conducted four times in a year, in the months of February, May, September and December. Recently, AIMA had announced the start of the registrations for MAT May 2011 exam. The MBA entrance exam will take place on May 1, 2011 in paper pencil format and May 7, 2011 onwards in computer based format. The registration process for the exam is going on at present.

MBA aspirants who want to take the MAT exam obviously want to make it to the top MAT allied colleges. But the list of top MAT colleges keeps fluctuating since the variables and the basis to decide are very dynamic. There are 584 B-schools across India which will accept the scores of MAT May 2011. In this MBAUniverse.com article, we talk about the top B-schools which you should aim for if you are taking MAT in May. North Zone There are about 230 institutes functioning in the northern zone, which will consider the MAT May scores. Some of the top B-schools of the North zone are: AIMA Center for Management Education (PGDM & PGDITM); Amity University, Noida, Manesar; Apeejay Institute of Technology, Greater Noida; Apeejay School of Management, New Delhi; Apeejay Stya University, Gurgaon; Asia Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management, New Delhi; EMPI Institutions, New Delhi; Galgotias Business School, Greater Noida; GL Bajaj Institute of Management & Research, Greater Noida; ICFAI University, Dehradun; IILM Group of Institutes, Lucknow, Greater Noida and Meerut; Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad; Institute of Productivity & Management, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Lucknow and Meerut; Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Delhi; Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Noida; JK Business School, Gurgaon; JRE Group of Institutes, Greater Noida; NIILM Center for Management Studies, Greater Noida. West Zone There are 92 B-schools in this zone which will take part in MAT May 2011 exam. Some of the notable names are: AICAR Business School, Neral; AIMA Center for Management Education; Amity University, Jaipur; Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Jaipur; Jaipur National University, Jaipur; Suryadatta Institute of Business Management & Technology, Pune; Xavier Institute of Development Action & Studies, Jabalpur. South Zone There are 165 institutes from this zone that will participate in MAT May 2011. Some of the prominent names are: Acharya Institute of Management & Sciences, Bangalore; AIMA Center for Management Education; IFIM Business School, Bangalore; Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad; Manipal University, Manipal etc. East Zone In this zone, there are 96 institutes that take part in MAT examination. The B-schools of the region which are notable are: AIMA Center for Management Education; Assam University, Silchar; Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kolkata; Birla School of Management, Kolkata; KIIT University, Bhubaneswar; Manipur University, Imphal; Mizoram University, Aizwal; Nagaland University, Dimapur; Techno India Group, Kolkata; Tripura University, Suryamani Nagar.

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