India's leading professional education institutes - the premier business schools and engineering colleges - seem to be strangely cocooned from the grim economic reality gripping the nation. Even as gross domestic product (GDP) growth slows and companies struggle to maintain growth rates, b-schools in particular continue to ride a hiring gravy train. Job offers from blue-chip companies are on the rise, so are salaries; and this year, joining bonuses have grown in popularity adding to the array of sops imaginative companies are offering to lap up the best talent. Pande, S. (15 April, 2012). Confounding expectations. Business Today. #Administration School #Article-News/Media #Administration Faculty/Staff