School of Medical Science and Technology (SMST), Indian Institute of Technology (IITK) Kharagpur issued admission notification for its innovative program, Masters in Medical Science and Technology (MMST) for the year 2011-12. The duration of the program is 3 years and is aimed at MBBS graduates to impart engineering related skills to them. The programme is intended to train medical professionals to inculcate research orientation in the areas of Medical Imaging, Biomedical Instrumentation, Biomaterials and Implants, Biophysics, Telemedicine, Medical Statistics, Molecular Imaging and Image Analysis, Early Detection of Cancer, Immuno-technology, Biomedical Simulation, Wound research, Recombinant DNA Technology etc. Following are details of eligibility and seletion process:

Eligibility: Applicants should have MBBS Degree with minimum of 55 percent marks in aggregate. They must have studied mathematics at +2 level. The selection of students for the program is based on the performance of the candidates in an objective type of written test. The duration fo the test is 2 hours. The candidate has to answer 120 questions out of which 75 questions are assigned to the MBBS syllabus. The remaining questions will cover +2 syllabus of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Total marks are 120 and each wrong answer will be given negative 0.25 marks. Those short listed in written test will be called for counseling at IIT Kharagpur.

Interested candidates can apply online only through http://gate.iitkgp.ac.in/mmst .

1. Start of online application process: 1st February 2011
2. Last date for online registration: 5th March 2011.
3. MMST 2011 Entrance Test: April 24th, 2011

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIMT), new one in the brand IIMs is inviting applications for admission to the 1st Batch of Two Year Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM) for the year 2011-13. The IIM Bangalore has been acting as nodal institute for IIM Tiruchirapalli. Selection will be based on CAT scores. Following are details of eligibility and application procedure:

Eligibility: Applicants should have marks and percentages from 10th class to UG as per the details below. They also should have CAT cut offs as mentoned below.

1. X / SSC/ 10th Class: Gen – 75 , OBC- 70; SC- 60, ST- 55, PWD-60
2. 10+2 / Intermediate/ XII: Gen- 70, OBC- 65, SC- 55, ST- 50, PWD- 55
3. UG/ Degree: Gen- 65, OBC- 60; SC- 50, ST- 50, PWD- 50

CAT 2010 Cut Off Percentile / Scores:

1. Total: Gen- 90, OBC- 80, SC- 60, ST- 60, PWD- 60
2. Verbal: Gen- 85, OBC- 70, SC- 55, ST- 40, PWD- 55
3. Quantitative: Gen- 80; OBC- 70, SC- 50, ST- 40, PWD- 50
4. DI: Gen- 75, OBC- 60, SC- 50, ST- 40, PWD- 50

Short listed candidates will be called for Group Discussions and Personal Interviews to be conducted at Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi and Bangalore. For more details, please view www.iimb.ernet.in/iimt OR Email to iimt@iimb.ernet.in