Welcome to the third edition of the PaGaLGuY.com Business School Rankings. In the 2010 rankings, we have gone beyond what we have done in the previous years. We had an extended data collection period and this has helped us in ensuring the ranking is more accurate. Furthermore, due to the extended data collection we are now also able to display regional rankings. This is the first year we are doing regional rankings and we hope to increase this to more regions over the years.
This year we had over 12000+ respondents, but post data sanitization we were left with responses from 9500+ people. This is a big leap from last year’s total respondents of around 5400.
A total of Ninety two B-schools have been ranked of which fifty five schools have been provided a national ranking and the rest have been ranked regionally. We have regionally ranked schools in Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Jaipur. This allows prospective students to make better choices beyond the nationally ranked schools. This rankings survey captures the perception of the nation across a whole host of parameters such as regions, gender, student bases (aspirants, current students, alumni) as well as freshers and experienced candidates. The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad is the undisputed choice as India’s top ranked business school across all these categories. IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta are other IIMs which round up the top three B-schools of the country. In the top 10, ISB has taken a hit and has gone from 4th last year to 7th this year. The new IIM Shillong has moved up a couple of notches to 21 and now shares its rank with MICA, Ahmedabad. FMS has moved up from 7th to the 4th position. This could be because of its low cost education and the value addition people percieved during the financial tough year.
Every year, some school students invariably try to rig the rankings. But the volumes are usually less and when we don’t see a concerted effort, we just remove the offending entries and then process the data. This year, however two schools have been disqualified from the rankings due to the way the students tried to rig the rankings. We feel sad that we can’t show the students a complete picture, but until the business school authorities and students understand that their ethical bearings do affect the real world, there is not much hope for them.
The key changes in the rankings this year:
1) The national rankings has been brought down from 84 schools to 55. The reasons being some schools didn’t offer MBA/PGPM programmes, some had quotas for their own cities and therefore were not schools that people across the country aspired to get into.
2) The Regional rankings are city wise rankings – Our goal is to provide more useful information so as to help them take a better call regarding their education. Beyond the nationally ranked schools, we found that people had very strong locational bias and the regional rankings should help people make better choices. We wanted to provide more cities that you see in the rankings, but the data in certain cities was not statistically valid for us to display them to you. We would rather work harder for the next year rankings and try to increase the no. of respondents so that we can include more cities in the rankings.
3) Spiffier way to compare schools across all types of respondents. You can slice, dice, sort data the way you need.
Onwards to the 2010 rankings: https://www.pagalguy.com/rankings/
How we arrived at the rankings: https://www.pagalguy.com/2010/02/how-we-arrived-at-the-rankings/
An overview of the rankings: https://www.pagalguy.com/2010/02/national-rankings-an-overview/
Most questions about the rankings have been answered in the above three links. Readers are advised to go through them carefully.
We wish you the very best and hope you make it to the school of your choice.