For those who found the last visualization esoteric, here is another one.

The following interactive chart depicts the fees charged by 37 of India’s top 45 b-schools (as per the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2011) versus the seat intake for their flagship programs, segregated by whether the schools are government-owned or private.

How to read the chart: The size of the box corresponds to the number of seats. The color of the box depicts the fees. The darker the color, the more the fees charged.

Some insights,

# Notice how among private b-schools, the bigger the b-school’s intake size, the more expensive it is to study there. The smaller the b-school, the cheaper it is.

# You would think that the smaller the batch sizes, the better the scope for personal attention and hence the more the b-school is entitled to charge you higher. But that’s quite not so.

# Government b-schools buck the above trend. A bigger intake size does not necessarily mean higher fees.

# Two of the most expensive programs are one-year programs.

PS: We’ve considered those MBA programs for which the age group 20-25 years is eligible. Data compiled by Shashank Prabhu and myself.