• TOP 100 B-Schools: Clusters for your 'consideration set'
  • by B Mahesh Sarma
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  • IN the November 2009 issue of Careers360 magazine, we did a detailed analysis on where existing B-School rankings go wrong. Now, we go a step further by segregating the top 100 institutes into clusters.

    Table 1
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    The positioning of B-Schools varies depending on the magazine that ranks them, and surprisingly even objective rankings differ. Life thus becomes difficult for a student when making decisions, since a Tier 1 school in one ranking is a Tier 3 in another.

    But for a data-starved nation attempting to make decisions, existing rankings are all that they have.

    So we picked up four major B-School rankings over a 5-year period and attempted to make a normalised list of schools that could make up the Top-100 schools in the country. Here's how the schools stack up alphabetically within clusters

    Methodology
    To arrive at a CLUSTER BASED grouping of leading Business Schools in India, we began by tabulating the B-School ranking of four magazines namely Business India (BI), Business Today (BT), Business World (BW) and Outlook (OL) for the period 2005 to 2009.

    Table 2
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    The 2009, BT and OL ranking are perception-based. On the other hand, the 2005-08, BI, BW and OL rank is based on objective parameters.

    A total of 185 schools constituted the universe. From this set we short-listed those who appeared at least once in three rankings or two times in two rankings or three or more times in a single ranking.

    We also eliminated institutions that were not ranked at all by any objective criterion (a threshold of A and above was maintained in case of BI ranking). By this methodology we short-listed 116 B-Schools. Another 18 schools, which appeared in universe, but did meet the criterion partially, were also included since we felt these institutions do have the potential to be in the Top-100 list (shown in green shade).

    These institutions were then classified based on the following approximation: In any ranking the top 15% were grouped as Top, next 15-20% as Tier 1 (t1), next 25-30% as Tier 2 (t2) and the rest as Tier 3 (t3). Since a considerable number of B-Schools figured in multiple categories across years and rankings, we created a cusp category at each level there by grouping the 134 schools into eight categories in all.


    Individual rankings and their corresponding levels
    Magazine/Level
    Top
    Tier 1
    Tier 2
    Tier 3
    Business India
    1-15
    16 - 50
     
    51 - 75
     
    76 - 125
     
    Business World
    1 - 15
     
    16 - 30
     
    31 - 60
     
    61 - 100
     
    Business Today
    1 -7
     
    8 -20
     
    21 -30
     
    -
     
    Outlook (05-08)
    1 - 15
     
    16 - 30
     
    31 - 50
     
    -
     
    Outlook 09
    1 -15
    16 -30
    31 -50
    51 -75

    Potential Schools
    IIT Madras (DoMS) Chennai
    Institute of Management Technology
    (IMT Nagpur)
    Nagpur
    Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management
    (RGIIM)
    Shillong
    Editor's Note
    In addition to the 134 institutions in Table 2, we have also included the three institutions, listed alongside to make up the 137 institutions that form the consideration set for Careers360 ranking and review exercise. If any school, which is not listed above perceives to beunfairly excluded, it is welcome to e-mail us (editor@careers360.com). We will try to incorporate them, after a preliminary review.
     


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  • Published on: October 09, 2010
  • 39 Comments
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  • logo |NC | Jan 18, 2010

  • The institutes shaded in green in ‘clusters for your consideration‘, partially met the criterion for shortlisting leading management institutions in India, and are thus co-opted.
  • hakimnama | Dec 29, 2009

  • In the tables , some institutes are marked in green colour. Can you please explain the significance of that?
  • Pallav Samar | Dec 28, 2009

  • well i m not satisfied with this ranking.
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