Admission interview has begun for
the management institutes. I went to Bangalore for the same. My preliminary
observation is that over 95% of students are from engineering background. And
over 95% of engineering graduates were from one of the following branches:
Computer Science, Information System / Communication and Electrical/Electronic
or both. And the overwhelming number of students is with work experience.
Infosys, TCS and Cognizance dominate the list. This is the classical case of
fishing from the fish-tank. Looks like either younger generation is very eager
to leave these companies or they have the best of talents who could crack
entrance examination.
This information is regarding
Bangalore only, that too only about the first five days. If the situation is
similar in all cities and all centers, then even God can’t help us –homogeneous
group lead to one line of thought and action, and engulf itself with one kind
of discussion and conclusion. Already engineering students dominate the
management institutes, and now it is going to be specific branches of
engineering students who are going to rule the circus.
People are already analyzing the
data and coming with several interpretations. Following are some of the
hypothetical propositions, they can be totally wrong:
- Software engineers are very soft and coding for years is driving them crazy and they are cracking, as a result they end up cracking admission tests too.
- Seven years ago the best of the lot went into to these branches of engineering, so it is a natural outcome.
- Software engineers have more free times in comparison with others and so they spend more time for the preparation.
- XAT and CAT are designed to suit students with engineering background.
Whatever may be the reason, the
outcome can’t be changed. Postmortem doe s not give much kick for me. When
something is inevitable, we need to celebrate it by embracing it (one more reason to hit the bottle).
When I was a student, it was less than
30% who came with engineering degree for personal management and little more
for the business management programs, lot more was with science, art and
commerce degrees. As the world being increasingly dominated by machines,
engineers started dominating the schools of management.
For an expert with hammer,
everything will look like nail, for experts in engineering; everything is going
to be either nuts and bolts or zeroes and ones.
Life is going to be boring for sure
in the coming years and I am contemplating on taking sabbatical. Where to go?
and what to do? still remain mysteries
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