In a significant development, the Consortium of Management Education (COME) has announced the dates for the admissions process for its 25 member B-schools, which are based in the state of Maharashtra. COME is an association of unaided management institutes offering PGDM programmes.

Informing about the important dates of the admissions process to MBAUniverse.com few hours back, Dr. Apoorva Palkar, President, COME and Director of Sinhgad Institute of Management and Computer Application, Pune said, “We are announcing the common admission process for our member institutes. This is a common admission process for member institutes of COME.”

“The Common Admission Process (CAP) involves GD and PI conducted centrally by COME. Students who have given any of the tests namely: CAT/MAT/XAT/ATMA/JMET/MHCET/Any state level CET is eligible for the process,” added Dr. Palkar. The forms sale will start from June 2, 2011. The GD PI will be held from 8 June to 21 June. The CAP rounds will commence from 27 June. The GD and PI's will be conducted at various locations namely: Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nasik, Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Indore, and Jaipur. More centres will be added soon.

Forms will be available online on COME website: http://www.comeassociation.org