I am Pratham Mittal, Founder of Masters' Union. Ask me anything!

@Doopermind The placement report is released by our auditor and not by us. They release the placement numbers (mean, median, Top 25% etc) by their own accord and we only release the supporting data. Our auditor is the same firm and the same person as IIM A etc

Politically correct response but it doesn’t communicate what actually is happening in the cohort, from the data that I have from the 2nd cohort the audited report looks inflated, or the auditors made a mistake ?

@WittyFeed I come from a SaaS background and I think education industry can truly change and be disrupted if people from tech and other industries come into it. Hard from incumbents to disrupt. Most incumbents are prisoners of their own legacy. Not by their own mistake but because of the bureaucracy of the system and the highly regulated regime.

Thanks for answering. Completely aligned with incumbents being prey to their legacy. But I meant your family background in education and how much you feel that helped in building MU too

@randomjocke TBH, I always thought that there has to be a better way to learn that goes goes beyond lectures and exams. We started researching on the science of learning and figured that we can do an experiment with a small number of students. Thats how Masters' Union started - as an experientent to see new ways of teaching

@DoubleChurn Its a college where you study by building businesses across 7 countries. Its for the global audience and it turns out that it is actually chepaer than studying in America.

I'm kinda jealous I will never be able to afford something like that. but perhaps MU I can

@Careermode If you want to learn "how to build a business", I think Masters' Union is apt. But if you want to become a "consultant" or become an "Investment Banker", then I think IIM ABC would be more suitable. Generally, if you think you want to build your own business sometime in ur life, either right after graduation or a few years after, then I think MU is better. If your interest is to climb the corporate ladder for a longer period of time (and i do not think there is anything wrong with that), then I think traditional setups may be better.

Noted, thanks for answering this Just curious. I know at ISB sub 5% people actually end up building. Does this % look different at MU?

@salt Yes, the founders of Stoa, Mesa, Scalar are all good friends and we compare notes quite often. We have a lot to learn from each other. I strongly feel that in education there is no competition as such. The market is too too too large and even if there were 100 Masters' Union, there would still be space to build one more. India has unlimited appetite for good education and we need as many as possible to develop as a nation.

@BasicWeather Yes, this is a tough one. I have not yet figured out a way to manage this to be honest. I think the best way is to never leave your students' hand. Even if they are having a tough time crack a role, we must always stand by them and give support as long as it takes. Thats always been our policy and after initial hiccups, i think we are all set now!

Seems everyone got a reply but I didn't xD

Where is your question? 🥲

@DaringTrain 1. Network: Now we have a good alumni base, and we are slowly reaching the stage where there is a critical mass of alums, masters and community associates. The idea is to go after the quality of the connections and not the quantity of connections necessarily. I went to Doon School which is perhaps the strongest and most helpful network in India with just 2000 active alums. As compared to that, my college UPenn, which has millions of alums, the connections are not as deep as my school's. Hope that makes sense. 2. Early signals from initial cohorts: most recruiters have come back which is heartening and now we have reached the stage where alums are also coming back and recruiting. Generally speaking, the only way to be successful is for ur products (alums) to be doing well. That leads to word of mouth. This has been the secret of our success, though its not really a secret lol 3. UG is really important. the edu quality problem in India is way more grave at the UG level. PG, we still have good colleges. 4. I get super happy and excited when I see new colleges like Mesa, Scalar, Altera come up. Masters' Union alone cannot change the edu industry. Even a bit. We need a movement and I hope more and more versions of Masters' Union, ideally at different price points, keep coming up.

Thanks for answering

Source is the article from Ken - just to clarify

@jinyang We never claimed to get AACSB. There is nothing on our website to that effect. Its take 5-6 years to qualify. We are in the process and we hope to complete the process sooner than later.

@LastBrother Thanks! Every company should also be a media company. We have a in-house team of media professionals who's job is to document everything that is happening on campus. That, invariably, leads to good honest content on youtube which people vibe with. Production quality nd scripting needs to be A+, otherwise people have a lot of content to watch on YT and IG.

@BiryaniEnthu Anytime! pratham@mastersunion.org

@AlphaGrindset We started a UG program last year :) Its exactly what you mentioned

Okay that’s nice Hope it takes off well! Have cousins it would make sense for

Ah I see Doon School folks here toox

@moonchild woohoo

@Vindhyachal I am quite "besharam" about asking people to work with us :)

Thanks so much for replying! Appreciate it

@sos 1. Maybe 10-15% across various programs. Some more selective than others. 2. Oh lots. There will be a cloud kitchen challenge, new courses in AI, study abroad programs etc. 3. Yes, some startups have received upwards of 10-15L while still in college. But many end up raising from

@PrathamMittal ...external investors as well

@MT_Ego Honestly, my audience is anyone who wants to become a more wholesome businessman or businesswomen. Whether its UG, PG or Exec, the aspiration of my target audience shd be to become better at building and running a business. That is how we try to do our profiling. Hope that makes sense?

@Acid oh awesome! let me know what I can do to make ur life easier :)

Interesting! What's your profile, @Acid

@Axiomatic I don't plan to "break their legacy" - they are also working hard and we have a lot to learn from them. They do not need to do badly for me to do well. Education is a public good. We can all rise together Not a zero sum game.

But it is a cyclical game isnt it. For good legacy you need good prospective candidates, and good prospective candidates will go to legacy institutions.

@CoolLoad7 A movie did - we bought a zoo