B-School Evaluation

Updated on: Saturday, January 28, 2012

The fourth edition of Annual B-School Rankings conducted by CNBC-TV18 witnessed IIM-C maintaining its third position. The comprehensive list covered 145 B-Schools, 235 recruiters and 217 faculty members in a Data Based Quantitative Survey & Perception Ratings.
IIM-Ahmedabad continues to occupy the top position, making it the benchmark of MBA education in India. However, IIM-Bangalore is fast catching up with its remarkably improved performance in core areas like industry interface and international linkage.

On the placement front, FMCG, Consulting, BFSI and IT accounted for 70 per cent of the total B-School recruiters. Although, this year, the average salaries at India’s top B-Schools portrayed an increase of almost 20 per cent, the lower-ranked B-Schools faced difficulties in procuring placements and also in terms of intakes and increment in salaries.

The maximum package offered at IIM-A for an Indian job was Rs 37 lakh and that for a foreign placement was $ 139.64 thousand per annum. About 14 per cent of the IIM-A graduates got placements with companies abroad. IIM-A recently launched a ‘cohort’ based placement programme whereby companies with similar job profiles visit the campus collectively and at a specific time-basis batch preference.

There has been a significant amelioration in the quality of research published by leading B-Schools in A-grade journals with IIM-A accounting for the majority of the contribution.

“Similar to last year’s evaluation, this year too, B-Schools have been evaluated on the basis of numerous parameters. The B-Schools on the upper end of the ladder have shown marked improvement, however, the 4000 plus B-Schools that occupy the middle to lower ranking positions have not registered any significant growth,” said Premchand Palety, chief executive, C-Fore.

Overall the B-schools were assessed as per their intellectual capital, placement performance, infrastructure and facilities, industry interface, international linkages and recruiter’s satisfaction.

The fourth edition of B-School Rankings at a glance:
IIM-Ahmedabad
IIM-Bangalore
IIM-Calcutta
IIM-Lucknow
XLRI, Jamshedpur
MDI, Gurgaon
NITIE, Mumbai
IIM-Indore
SP Jain, Mumbai
IIM-Kozhikode

Note: ISB, Hyderabad and SIBM, Pune had not participated in the data survey.

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