Altera Institute's PGP Class of ‘26 has placed 80% of its students by the end of Wave 2. It has therefore published the Interim Placement Report mid-cycle so that aspirants are not left waiting to gauge this year's outcomes until October 2026, when the IPRS-audited final
Altera Institute’s 15-month PGP in Applied Marketing incorporates a profile-based admissions process. Much like SPJIMR, ISB, and BITSOM, it evaluates every application across several dimensions at once, weighing your CAT score alongside everything else you bring to the table. At Altera Institute, a CAT percentile of 90 is considered
If you’re finishing an undergraduate degree in India and already know you want a career in digital marketing, growth, product management, or eCommerce, the one-year MBA format historically had little to offer you. It was built for someone mid-career, not someone newly graduating, and therefore it exclusively requires work
Who’s hiring, what they’re hiring for, and how the numbers are verified: a closer read of the PGP Class of ’26 Interim Placement Report. Why the Recruiter List Is the Real Placement Story When students compare B-schools in India, the recruiter list is usually easy to overlook. They
A curriculum is only relevant if employers value the skills it teaches. That's the test most B-school brochures fail, because they tend to list subjects rather than answer the questions students are actually asking today. What will I learn that I can use right from day one? Can
Fresh graduates and professionals considering their options no longer consider one-year MBA courses as a backup option. The shorter program ensures a faster transition into employment, reduces opportunity costs compared to a traditional two-year program, and has also led to a significant increase in student admissions considering Altera Institute as
When students research programs, the first question they often ask is, “What salary outcome can I expect from a particular B-School?” While understandable, this question rarely captures the true quality and future relevance of an institute's placement outcomes. There are 5,500-plus B-schools in India, but fewer than
India produces thousands of marketing graduates through MBA, PGP, and PGDM programs every year. Yet it is common to hear in hiring conversations that recruiters can’t find people with relevant skills ready to contribute from day one. In fact, only 42.6% of Indian graduates are employable, according to
Delhi-NCR is one of India’s most valuable regions for a management degree, not just because of the colleges. Gurugram alone hosts over 250 Fortune 500 offices, including the India headquarters of Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and Deloitte. Noida adds an equally dense cluster of IT, BFSI, eCommerce, and GCC
If you have just completed your undergraduate degree and are considering an MBA, you have probably come across the same concern more than once: Do you need work experience to get in? It is a fair question, and for a long time, it has caused many fresh graduates to delay
The moment XAT results are declared, students immediately pull up cutoff lists and gauge whether their scores meet the bar at their target B-schools. And while it is the right reaction, it is built on a premise that only helps you in the first stage of admissions, which is securing
India has over 5,500 B-schools, so if you are still evaluating MBA programs by rankings and salary figures alone, you are looking at only half the picture. Today, in order to evaluate a program accurately, you must ask yourself, “Which specific programs will help me grow into the professional