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The Regional Rankings for each city portray the preferences of candidates familiar with the colleges. In that sense, these are the most preferred regional-level b-schools for each of the featured cities – Mumbai, Jaipur, Chennai and Hyderabad. Most college included in the regional rankings accept the Management Aptitude Test (MAT). So if you have taken […]
A women-only IIM would ensure equitable management education to women, make for research opportunities on leadership issues faced by women and be a good proposition to recruiters who increasingly prefer women over men for competitive jobs, argues Prof Ganesh Prabhu, Professor of Strategy at IIM Bangalore. (Special column written for the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010) […]
(This article is based on the National Rankings list of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010.) The years 2008 and 2009 made business schools extremely vulnerable to the same market forces that they had been training managers to deal with. In many ways, the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2010 mirror the performances of b-schools during the economic […]
Ever wondered why you cannot differentiate between any two Indian business schools except by their rank and placement salary figures? It is because b-schools do a shoddy job of telling their own story to the outside world. Ankush Trakru, an alumnus of FMS, Delhi and a Manager at Tata Administrative Services dissects all that is […]
How we arrived at the rankings Before you read further, we should remind you that the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings are a perception rankings that measure the preferences of the population polled. We believe that it is logically impossible to rank abstract entities such as b-schools by quality and be accurate too (read why). What a […]
Business School Rankings have earned a bad name in India for all the wrong reasons. It would have been great to be in an environment where methodologies of various rankings were pitted against each other in an intelligent debate spanning students, professors, recruiters and what have you. Instead, b-school rankings in India have lost credibility […]
Behind the glossy prospectus of any reputed and self-respecting business school are years of struggle and coordinated effort to get things right on multiple fronts – faculty, placements, adhering to complex regulations, credibility, research and much more. But in the midst of this, it’s easy to succumb to market pressures and lose sight of the […]
Distressed by rampant plagiarism in admission essays, USA’s Smeal College of Business, Penn State University has decided to revoke the admission of one student and cancel six interviews. The common thread between them? They are all Indian save one. The school has also found at least 18 cases of mild and moderate plagiarism from the […]
Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Tiruchirapalli, established in the year 1984 by the Bharat Ratna Shri. C.Subramanian offers one of the most coveted MBA programs in India. Consistently ranked among the top 15 government b-school in India, BIM Trichy has always been a hub of academic excellence and experiential learning. With an annual intake of […]
We all have been mildly aware of the fact that an increasing number of MBA graduates are choosing to work for the non-profit sector, either as entrepreneurs or employees of organizations driven more by the need for social good and not commercial profit. We came across one such rather unique and refreshing instance of a […]