Engineer MBAs- at IIM and at IIT-M

it is interesting to note that in the competitive MBA slots at IIM-A and IIT-M, engineers dominate.

It's engineers galore at IIM-A-Education-Services-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times: "Unlike last year, the number of girls entering the coveted institute fell sharply. For the 2009-11 batch, as many as 19% of the entrants were women, a sharp rise from the 2008-10 batch figures of 6%. This year, however, just 11% of the successful candidates are girls.

While 369 out of a batch of 385 are engineers, only one student from the arts background has made it to IIM-A, and only nine students, or 2% are from the commerce background, as against 4% last year. The others have a degree in science. The institute has maintained the percentage of candidates with prior work experience, at 61% of the total batch. The previous batch had nearly 60% candidates with work experience.

With the third and final round of implementation of the non-creamy layer-other backward caste quota complete, the strength of the current batch has gone up from 315 to 385. While 182 candidates belong to the general category, 104 are from the NC-OBC section, 87 from SC-ST and 12 from the differently-abled category.

In a shift from last year’s practice of offering tutorials to students from the SC/ST category who are weak in communication, mathematics and computing skills, the institute has broadened the scope to include students from the general category as well."