Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research Mumbai Matunga West Answered Questions

HI Dishant,
There is not a particular process of preparing yourself for GD-PI, but what you can do is start reading newspapers (regularly), try to get some insights from quora or other platforms (online). Also, you can join some coaching classes for GD -PI practices.

You will hardly see any colleges putting how many got placed on their website. Apart from a few students who got placed in x companies. Placement this year is a bit tough as market is down. But still, placement scenario is quite good. Many companies have visited campus. At the end of the day, it depends on students too if they don't apply for companies then it reflects on overall placement scenario.

For PGDM courses, there will be a GDPI round where they will evaluate you on the basis on your work ex if any, previous academic record, entrance exam score and your performance in GDPI itself. You will be selected for a course on the basis of these factors. So it basically depends all of these factors and not just on your profile. They will try to match you profile with the course that you have applied for and if matches then you stand a good chance to get selected.

This college is better as they offer a lot of student exchange programs and also they have a Global Citizenship Programme which is offered only at Welingkar. This provides global exposure to the students. Also, a lot of foreign companies come for placements because of which students get a lot of exposure.

In marketing, you will mostly get sales profile. Welingkar charges 11 lakhs and its average ROI is 6.5-7.5 lakhs. BIMM charges 6.5 lakhs and its ROI is 6-6.5 lakhs. However, both the institutes are well known brands in the corporate world.
I would suggest you to go with BIMM as its hectic schedule will train you for corporate world and you will never feel the pressure of survival in the market.