Hi Namrata,

An MBA degree from a random college wouldn’t bear you any fruits and your investments over there might be dangerous for you. Hence, making your investments count for the future, you must secure them today by getting yourself enrolled in top MBA colleges of the country. Now, there is some unique aura around these top MBA colleges. They offer management education in pace with global MBA environment. They are also accredited or in the process of getting accredited to one or more international accreditations. They have a unique pedagogical style and their faculties are highly qualified and having graduated from one of the top universities around the globe themselves. Finally, the kind of competitive environment that the students of these colleges set amongst themselves is highly noteworthy. They consistently get higher average placements every year as they are already industry ready.

Now coming to the shortlisting of the top colleges, we have to consider few standard parameters before positioning each college at their right position.

Brand of the B-School is a highly important parameter, when we shortlist the B-Schools. Hence the brand plays a crucial role here. Brand is also related to how good the placements will be in the particular college. The stronger the brand, the better will be the placements. Although, if you consider placements to be a short run goal, being an alumnus of a prestigious institute, can get you many laurels in the long run. Hence, your career can get an additional boost if you belong to such prestigious alumni network.

The students of any B-School form the lifeline of that school. They bring a sense of competitive environment around the aura of the school. Also, many of the corporates judge a school based on the quality of the students of that school. This competitive nature helps a lot in their peer to peer learning process. Hence, better the peers, richer is the learning experience.

Placements form undoubtedly one of the most key parameters for a student to consider joining any B-School. And, to be fair, they are right in their approach as at the end of the day, you will also look at the return on your investments that you receive in trusting any college. The big brand colleges, easily attract big corporates as they look out for good quality students. Although, these institutes claim a very high number for placements, one should do one’s own due diligence before joining these colleges.

While, the above-mentioned parameters are crucial ones, one must not forget to give equal weightage to other parameters for consideration such as Quality of Infrastructure, Fee, Programmes offered, Teaching pedagogy etc.

Based on the above parameters, we now consider the B-Schools as shown below,

Note: These listings are only for the flagship 2-year MBA programmes. Also, these listings are just a collection of institutes under top 20 and are not the same as their rankings.

The following are the top government as well as private universities that accept CAT scores for an MBA course,

Also, in government colleges, the limited number of seats gets a high competition because of quota system as well. So, if you are a GEM (General Engineer Male), then the above mention percentiles will vary as against a SC/ST candidate. So, I would advise you to carry out some research before to aim for the right percentile.