In the recent past, the management education in the US has come under fire from a lot of people. The MBA programs have had to deal with a lot of heat from various quarters - for lacking a focus on professional aspects of management - for encouraging learning the textbook - and not encouraging bright ideas coming from students themselves.
However, one of the biggest assets of US educational institutes lies in their ability to react quickly to constructive criticism and do fast non-bureaucratic curriculum reviews - unlike most other university systems. So schools like Graduate School of Business at Stanford, Kellogg School at Northwestern, Sloan School at MIT and the Johnson School at Cornell are among the schools leading …

Mrunal continues his series about the differences between MS and PhD - this time concentrating on the differences in funding scenarios between the two.
PHD is a long term commitment. Mostly in 99% cases students get admits from university if he shows a potential to be a PHD candidate and some professors finds him worthy to be working in his group. Professors control the funding. Professors have control on everything. They design the syllabus, teach, design labs, design exams, homeworks. They receive grants from different sources like industry, Government, national laboratories. The grants in US universities mainly arrive from Governments. National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), National laboratories are some of main sources which fund the …

This past weekend, we guys came out with a unique product - we call it mGRE. Its an SMS based GRE Vocab learning product - all you need to do is register your mobile number with us here: www.kaaledge.com/register-gre/ and we send out 1 to 4 SMSs daily to your cell phone - so that you can learn, revise and prepare for GRE on your cell phone, whenever and wherever you go!! A lot more features such as tests and ranking related stuff is going to come out with it soon. But for now, learn more about it here: www.kaaledge.com/mgre/
The idea is to help easy and quick access to vocab words - and so this is a help not only …

I got the chance to meet and interact with Mona Sharma here at Stanford this year and I must say Mona is a really inspiring person. I talked to her about various issues and i thought it would be good to get it out on kaaledge.com for everyone’s benefit. Mona is at Stanford on a year long Fullbright Scholarship - under the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching program.

Stanford India Association (SIA) has started the new academic year with a welcome function for the new comers at the Bachtel International Center. The current office bearers of SIA seem to be a highly motivated bunch. Their self-driven methods and dedicated efforts actually bore fruit with the success of their Welcome Party. In a first of its kind panel discussion - SIA hosted a panel of (desi) Venture Capitalists (VCs) living in the Bay Area, all of whom had spent time as students at Stanford, in a discussion moderated by Anand Rajaraman (who, btw I think is one of CS Departments star consulting professors and highly recommend his class cs345a in Winter). The discussions revolved around the role of Stanford, …

Hey Guys,
We want to announce the upgrade (and migration) to PHPBB3 for our forums! YE YE! Well, from the recent and quick interest shown by you guys in seeking help on the kaalEDGE - we thought it makes more sense to offer you guys not only an exceptional guidance and but also a slick user experience during the whole time that you are browsing the forums! So, go ahead and book mark www.kaaledge.com/forums as the new kaalEDGE forums - note that all the previous posts and your login information stay intact!
In case you find something not quite right, or have some insight/feedback that you would wanna share with us - or are just want to share your review of Om …

Hi Guys,
We are trying to push some updates to kaaledge forums and hence you might face some difficulties in posting queries to the forums. But I promise you that once we are done with those updates, you guys will have a much better user experience. So hold tight while we come up with a major upgrade!
kaalEDGE team!

I want to share with you all our idea and motivation behind this project. Its simple really - we want to show people a dream - people who are like what we used to be not too far ago from now - we want to show students and young people a dream and show them a way to get there. Here is a quote from a book that has recently come out, which goes something like this: “You were created to dream, empowered to plan and blessed with the insight to accomplish”. Think of us as a train - which starts at your current location - wherever you are - and shows you where you can get - and takes …

Hello folks!
Welcome to kaaledge, A new effort by a bunch of Indian grad students in the US to help out future grad school aspirants.
Do check out the forums and post any questions you might have about your application process, profile, selection of universities. We would be more than happy to answer your queries.
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Suchit