The Indian School of Business (ISB) has introduced an “early entry option” for its flagship Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP).

According to a press release, this is designed to address the increasing demand for MBA from fresh graduates, post-graduates and working professionals with less than two years’ work experience.

Candidates selected through the “early entry option” will get a deferred admission to the one-year PGP at the ISB, depending upon completion of 24 months of work at the time of joining the programme, the release added. ISB has campuses at Hyderabad and Mohali.

The option is said to have generated a “favourable response” from young aspirants and more than 800 applicants have already been registered for the Class of 2015 on ISB’s admission portal. Both domestic and international applicants have to register by January 15, 2014.

Eligibility criteria for the candidates are an undergraduate or post-graduate degree, less than two years of full-time work experience at the time of applying, a valid GMAT score and TOEFL or IELTS score where English is not the primary language of instruction during under-graduation.

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