{"id":1557,"date":"2014-01-21T20:06:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2014-01-21T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T14:36:37","slug":"iims-corrupting-iitians-engineers-field-specialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/iims-corrupting-iitians-engineers-field-specialization\/","title":{"rendered":"Are IIMs Corrupting IITians &amp; Engineers from the Field of their Specialization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1559\" title=\"Are IIMs Corrupting IITians &amp; Engineers from the Field of their Specialization?\" alt=\"Are IIMs Corrupting IITians &amp; Engineers from the Field of their Specialization?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>We all know how CAT toppers are mostly engineers. In CAT 2012, 9 out of 10 100-percentilers were engineers, including 5 IITians. CAT 2013 results only confirmed the stereotype. This year, all the eight CAT toppers (100-percentilers) are engineers, including two<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/iit-jee\/\"> IITians<\/a> and a BITSian.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Engineering + MBA has become a power combination in the corporate world.<\/b> Once you do your B.Tech from an IIT, you are sure to try Common Admission Test (CAT) and enroll yourself into an IIM in the due course of time.<\/p>\n<p><i>Does that mean that IIMs are actually leading our engineers and IITians away from the field of their specialization? <\/i><\/p>\n<p>If a student wants to enter into management ultimately, is it wise to waste a precious IIT or NIT seat?<\/p>\n<p><b>Should engineers be allowed to specialize only in MBA courses that are related to their technical expertise? \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Suggest ways to encourage engineers to pursue careers in fields related to their expertise.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Discuss how CAT can be made more accessible to students from other streams.<\/p>\n<p><b>Comment here and let us know what you think about so many questions raised by engineers moving into management arena.<\/b><br \/>\nThis post was contributed by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/109991842258352526490?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monika Rai<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\">Askiitians<\/a> expert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how CAT toppers are mostly engineers. In CAT 2012, 9 out of 10 100-percentilers were engineers, including 5 IITians. CAT 2013 results only confirmed the stereotype. This year, all the eight CAT toppers (100-percentilers) are engineers, including two IITians and a BITSian. Engineering + MBA has become a power combination in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}