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2014: B-school survey

Top 10 B-schools: 2014

Average salary, tution fees and return on investment: government and private sector

India Today

Sonali Acharjee

October 16, 2014

With 1.90 lakh students registering for CAT this year, plans for setting up six new IIMsand focused specialisations such as ruralMBA, sports MBA and even luxury MBA coming into the market, one might think that the future of management education is well on track. However, while four lakh graduates come out every year, only a fifth find suitable employment in the long run. "It's all very well to have plans for new institutes and courses, but are they of acceptable quality?" asks M.L. Singla, dean, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University.

It is this question of quality that the Business Today-MDRA Top B-schools Survey seeks to address. The ranking draws on extensive research to determine which schools are the best not just in terms of placements and academics but also for their impact on student life after graduation, their infrastructure, quality of faculty and admission process. This year a new sub-parameter, governance, was also added to this list.

For the twelfth year running, IIM Ahmedabad has topped the survey, while Mumbai's SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJMIR) has secured a spot in the top five for the first time. But when it comes to individual parameters such as future orientation and learning, IIM-A falls behind SPJIMR and IIM-Calcutta. In value-for money ranking, FMS, Delhi tops the list with the Department of Financial Studies, Delhi University, and the Department of Business Management, University of Calcutta, emerging second and third respectively. The survey has good news about placements. While the average salary offered to students in the top 25 schools is pegged at a decent Rs 12.64 lakh per annum, many institutes also reported a marked increased in hiring last year. For the session that ended in March 2013, IIM-A witnessed a 25 per cent rise in international job offers and 10 per cent in domestic placements.

Interestingly, it is no longer the MBA tag that many aspirants are after. Instead it is the long-term return on investment that has come to matter the most. "I scored a 100 percentile in CAT and secured a seat at IIM-Calcutta. I am working with IBM but have dreams of setting up my own firm. An MBA won't fulfil one's dreams overnight but it's a stepping stone," says 23-year-old Ankit Garg, who topped CAT in 2009. Others such as Bindumalini Krishnan, an executive management graduate of Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, say an MBA makes more sense after one has worked for a few years. "It's a path to higher management," she says. Despite the many reasons given for pursuing an MBA, attractive placement packages, frequent corporate interactions and strong alumni links still make it the most coveted professional qualification

2013-15: the number of MBA institutes in India

147 B-schools shut shop during 2013-14

Ramya M The Times of India Feb 04 2015 Chennai

DISCONCERTING NEWS FROM EDUCATION SECTOR

`Scarcity Of Students The Main Cause'

Management programmes across the country may be losing some of their sheen. Latest figures released by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) show that 147 standalone Bschools and MBA programmes offered by engineering institutions across the country closed down in the last academic year. The number of postgraduate diploma programmes in management institutes has also dropped from 606 to 600 in the same period.

Maharashtra where 24 MBA colleges shut down and TN with 23 account for the largest number of closures followed by Andhra Pradesh with 19. Among other states, only Bihar, Jharkhand and Kerala have shown growth by adding new institutions.They have each started one new institution in this period.

Educational consultant Moorthy Selvakumaran said most institutions closed down because of lack of patronage.The decline started a couple of years ago after a dip in number of registrations for CAT, scores of which determine admission to the premier Indian Institutes of Managements and other management programmes across the country .

T N Swaminathan, director, branding and alumni relations, Great Lakes Institute of Management, said the reason for the closures was surplus supply and a demand crunch.

Indian business leaders are making their presence felt around the world, Graphic curtesy: From the archives of The Times of India

2014: India no. 5 in the world

The Times of India Apr 08 2015

Manash Gohain

India among top 5 MBA destinations now: Study

Good news for Indian B-schools, as the country comes among the top five preferred study destinations worldwide, ahead of countries like Hong Kong, Germany , Singapore, Netherlands and Australia.Moreover, a new study revealed that during the decision making process for selection of B-school criteria, quality of faculty , job placement, programme type and fee structure matter more than the rankings for aspiring management graduates. According to the study by Graduate Management Admission Council which conducts the GMAT for admission to 6,100 graduate business and management programs worldwide, rankings don't feature in top five consideration criteria for actually selecting a program and a study destination.

The number of B-school aspirants seeking to study outside their country of citizenship has increased from 40% in 2010 to 52% in 2014. India features among the top five destinations, while the leader's (the US), popularity decreased from 73% of prospective students in 2010 to 66% in 2014. Two-thirds 66%) of prospective students across the globe, however, still prefer the US, fol owed by the UK (6%), Canada (5%), France (3%), ndia (3%), Hong Kong (2%), Germany (2%), Singapore 2%), Netherlands (2%) and Australia (1%).

The four main reasons prospective students prefer o study outside their coun ry of residence include a desire for an international ca reer, the welcoming nature of the study destination, English-language development, and word-of-mouth recommendation.

Though the survey does show that published rankings have an influence in candidates' school consideration, it places rankings overall as the third most consulted information resource for prospective students after school websites and friends and family .