MBA in Agri-Business and Rural Development: Admission Process

The admission process for this course involves a common entrance test based admission process (as seen across various Universities and colleges in the country). 

• Most of the Universities/Colleges conduct a common entrance test for admission into MBA courses or take admissions through commonly held entrance exam like CAT, GMAT etc.  Hence students would have to make an application for such exams.
• Students have to qualify these exams (for which they should be eligible to appear) in order to get admission in the course.
• After the conduct of the test, a merit list of finally qualified candidates is prepared and candidates are invited for counseling cum admission process by the respective university or college.
• After counseling cum admission process final allotment of seats to the candidate takes place and the candidate is asked to deposit the fee for the course and register for the respective academic year.

Admission process would mostly be same across all the B-schools and universities that are offering this course.

MBA in Agri-Business and Rural Development: Eligibility

Candidate must have passed the UG or equivalent examination in any stream with at least 50% (relaxable for reserved category candidates) of the marks at graduation level from a recognized state/private/deemed or central University

• He/She shall not be having any backlog or compartment in any of the subject/subjects at UG level that is yet to be cleared at the time of taking admissions.
• Apart from the above-mentioned eligibility criteria’s various colleges and institutes may have their own additional criteria’s which the students would have to satisfy in order to take admission(like work experience in the domain).
• In case of reserved category students, they would have to present their reservation certificates issued by the competent authorities in order to avail the benefits applicable to them.
• Most of the Institute give admissions through Common Entrance Test (CET) (like CAT, MAT, etc). To get admissions in these institutes candidates would have to qualify the respective entrance exam by securing minimum qualifying marks.

The eligibility criteria’s mentioned above are common to most of the universities and colleges across the country that are offering this course to the students.

MBA in Agri-Business and Rural Development: Entrance Exam

There are many national-level or state-level entrance exams that are considered for admission into MBA Data Analytics courses. Mentioned below some of the top entrance exams conducted to shortlist the most eligible candidates for MBA Data Analytics course admission in India: 

• CAT stands for Common Admission Test is conducted every year by IIMs to shortlist candidates wishing to get admission into various MBA and PG Diploma courses. The exam comprises three segments which are Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation and Quantitative Ability.
• MAT AKA Management Aptitude Test is a national-level entrance examination conducted by All India Management Association four times in a year. This exam is conducted to offer admission in various MBA or PGDM in more than 600 business schools across India. 
• XAT stands for  Xavier Aptitude Test is another national-level entrance exam conducted by XLRI for admission into various MBA programs offered by XLRI once in a year.  Candidates must secure a score of 30+ to land in top XAT Colleges.
• SNAP is a national-level entrance exam conducted by Symbiosis International University for MBA course admission. After clearing this exam, candidates need to appear for the Group Discussion, Written Ability Test (WAT) followed by a personal interview (PI).
• CMAT is a national level entrance exam conducted by the National Testing Agency to shortlist the eligible candidates for admission into various Postgraduate Management courses offered by AICTE. This test facilitates institutions to choose appropriate understudies for affirmation in all administration programs. CMAT is a numerous decision-based examination for students seeking interest in MBA courses.