THE 50 institutes ranked in the Careers360 survey are by no means the complete list of say, the best 5% of the 2000 odd  B-Schools in the country. We had identified nearly 86 more schools, that when normalised over five years, could occupy the same slot. And some of them like IIM Lucknow, SP Jain, NMIMS, GIM, SIBM, SCMHRD, KJ Somaiya, all the Departments of Management Studies at IITs, would have qualified to be the top 50 list.

But  unfortunately most of the these colleges refused to participate in the survey. Some like NMIMS, SIBM and SCMHRD, did allow us to review their campus, but for reasons best known to themselves, did not provide us the data. And for most of these colleges we also could not gather sufficient information from the public domain. However, we believe that non-submission to our ranking scrutiny doesn’t alone take them out of the consideration set for students and hence have listed them them out. Hopefully, next year this list will be shorter.