In the September issue of the Journal, titled India’s Best B-School Survey, AIMA has ranked 199 B-schools into four primary categories: Super league, A Grade, B Grade and C grade. Ten B-schools are ranked in the highest Super League category, and further ten B-schools are ranked in A+ category. Apart from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkata, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi, Institute of Management Technology(IMT), Ghaziabad, International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai,
SVKM’s NMIMS University, Mumbai, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubneshwar and Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur make up the Super League.
Noting the developments in the world of management education, Indian Manager says, “The analysis throws up emerging trends like more applicants, curriculum changes, greater internationalization, upward movement in salaries and better placement records, and improvement in technology and infrastructure.”
Survey says that “a high powered committee comprising academicians and business professionals decided the parameters and weightages for arriving at the final ratings.”
AIMA Super League – 2007*
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkata
Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad
International Management Institute (IMI), Delhi
Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon
National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai
SVKM’s NMIMS University, Mumbai
Xavier Institute of Management (XIM-B), Bhubneshwar
Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur
Source: Indian Management, September 2007
*All institutes are sorted in alphabetic order
Survey research was conducted by leading market research agency IMRB. Questionnaires were sent to 1100 B-schools of which 199 institutes participated. Survey says that it made “maximum validation visits to nearly 80 institutes, which is high in comparison to any other survey.”
Survey notes that many new B-schools have emerged in the ranking. Says Survey, “while there are marginal changes at the very top, the A category of B-schools has seen significant changes with a lower share in the overall number. Further, the middle segment has grown with the B+ category recording a substantial increase.”
AIMA A+ Category B-schools
Alliance Business Academy (ABA), Bangalore
Babu Banarsi Das National Institute of Technology & Management, Lucknow
Dept of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, Delhi
Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai
KSR Business School, Thiruchengode
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Technology, Delhi
Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai
New Delhi Institute of Management, Delhi
Regional College of Management, Bhubaneshwar
Source: Indian Management, September 2007
