An astounding 8 out of the 10 students (IIM Students) selected for the Aditya Birla Scholarship Programme are T.I.M.E. Students!

New Delhi, October 1, 2009: The list of Aditya Birla Scholars has been released yesterday and out of the ten students, who’ve been recognized as scholars, eight are the alumni from T.I.M.E., the premier test – prep institute which has been a leader in training students for various entrance exams including CAT.

One of the most prestigious scholarships, the value of the Aditya Birla Scholarships Rs 1,75,000 per annum. The Scholars are assessed regularly on qualitative and quantitative parameters to judge their performance on the academic and leadership front. This assessment forms the basis for determining the continuation of the scholarship for the next academic session.

To be eligible to apply for the scholarship a student needs to be in the top 25% in his/her batch, receive a rating of 7 or more on a 9 point scale in at least 60 per cent of the assignments during the course of the programme and must also be an active participant in campus activities.

About T.I.M.E.

Triumphant Institute of Management Education (T.I.M.E.) is India’s leading test–prep institute with a pan-India presence and is headquartered in Hyderabad. From its entrepreneurial roots in 1992, T.I.M.E. today has 190 offices in 94 towns and cities across the country and has trained over 650,000 for various courses since 1992. T.I.M.E. has grown into a specialist, multi-location, multi-programme training provider run on corporate lines. T.I.M.E. today offers a wide range of programmes not only for national and state level entrance exams like the CAT, XAT, SNAP, IIT-JEE, AIEEE, Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), Chartered Accounting Examinations, Bank PO Exams, Maharashtra CET and the TANCET, but also for international exams like the GMAT, GRE and the TOEFL. T.I.M.E. also offers a unique IIT Foundation programme aimed at students of the 8^th, 9^th and 10^th standards.

In 2008, T.I.M.E. forayed into the pre-school business with Trishna Kids. In 2009 Trishna Kids was renamed T.I.M.E. Kids and currently, 4 pre-schools in Hyderabad and 3 in Cochin are operational with plans of making another 100 branches operational by 2012. Apart from this, T.I.M.E. has also announced the launch of its schools–based on the CBSE curriculum.  

T.I.M.E.’s performance in financial terms have been outstanding as well and it has grown from a brand turnover of Rs. 40 crore in FY ’04 – ‘05 to Rs. 200 Crore in FY’08-’09. The drivers of this success are T.I.M.E.’s commitment to students, its excellent franchise network, its highly committed team of R&D professionals and its material and pedagogy.