About Hyderabad Business School

Hyderabad Business School (HBS), GITAM University, Hyderabad Campus, strives to build itself as an institution of quality management education, research, executive training development and consultancy. In a short time, the School has built an excellent faculty pool, rich in experience and a high intellectual capital base. State of the art infrastructure and excellent technology enabled campus facilities along with commitment to quality education are the hallmarks of HBS.  The emphasis has been on preparing business leaders for the society and developing sound academia-industry collaboration.

HBS is ranked 9 in an All India B-School Survey conducted by IMRC and 4Ps B&M for 2012. Earlier HBS has been conferred with two prestigious awards, the "B-School Leadership Award" by DNA, and "B-School with Excellent Industry Interface", by Star News. HBS has bagged the 19th Dewang Mehta Business School Award for 2011 in the category of the Business School that encourages Leadership as a part of the Curriculum.

Fee structure

The following fee structure includes books, study material, formal attire and other common facilities. The first installment of the fee is due to be paid at the time of issue of allotment letter.
 

Important Dates:

•    Last date for receipt of filled in application for HBSAT-2012:  21 January
•    HBSAT-2013 Test Date: 2 February
•    Last date for receipt of filled in application with other scores (MAT/CAT/GMAT): 18 February
•    Date for GD and PI: 2  March

ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION

• Educational background

Applicants to the MBA Program must possess a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent, with a minimum of 50% aggregate marks or equivalent in any discipline. The Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification obtained by the candidate must entail a minimum of three years education after completing higher secondary schooling under the 10+2 system or equivalent. Candidates appearing in the final year of their Bachelor's Degree or equivalent are also eligible, provided they furnish the proof of having met the minimum eligibility criteria by July 10, 2012.

• Candidates’ Profile

Applicants may be from any discipline such as Engineering, Humanities, Commerce, and Economics, Medicine or any other branch of education. Candidates with relevant work experience as also fresh graduates awaiting results are welcome to apply.

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

Application form

Brochure and Application Form can be obtained by payment of Rs. 1000/- for men and Rs. 600/- for women through the following means, within the datelines specified earlier:

•   Through DD in person at GITAM University City office at Khairatabad, Hyderabad
•   By post (enclosing DD or pay order drawn in favor of GITAM University payable at Hyderabad)

Additional Information about the institute is available at www.ghbs.in/www.gitam.edu
On-line application can be accessed through http://admission.ghbs.in

Admission Test

Admission to the program is through the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management across India.  (Refer to CAT Bulletin for further details). HBS will receive the test scores from the IIM for those candidates who have appeared for the CAT and have also applied to HBS for the MBA program. Foreign students and NRI sponsored candidates are also eligible and are required to take the GMAT at a test centre outside India, taken not earlier than November 2011, and submit such scores while applying to HBS. Admission to the program is also made on the basis of ranks obtained in MAT. (Refer to MAT Bulletin for further details).

Selection process

Candidates who have appeared for the CAT 2011 or furnished valid MAT/GMAT score and have applied to HBS will be short listed on the basis of information provided in the application form, CAT scores (sectional and overall) or MAT/GMAT score, educational background, marks in 10th, 12th, graduation and work experience. Only short listed candidates will be called for the final stage of the selection process. Group discussion, personal interview besides other qualitative parameters will constitute the core components of the final stage of the selection process. The objective is to assess the candidate's potential for a managerial career.

Test  Centers (Group Discussion and Personal Interview)

Besides Hyderabad, the selection process is normally conducted at other centers including Aizwal Bhubaneswar, Bellary, Bangaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Gulbarga, Kozhikode, Patna, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Raipur, Kolkata, Kathmandu, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Jalpaiguri, Pune, Trivandrum, Tirupathi, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Visakhapatnam & Warangal. Candidates should indicate their preferred center(s) for interview in the application form. If a candidate's preferred centre is not allotted, for any reason, the candidate will be informed of the change. HBS reserves the right to change any of the centers for the selection process, without assigning any reasons.

Admission Offer

A list of successful candidates will be announced on HBS’s website and offer letters will thereafter be dispatched. Successful candidates will have to pay the 1st installment of fee within two weeks of the date of offer, failing which the offer shall stand lapsed and admission offered to the next candidate on the waiting list, without any further intimation.