B School Ranking 2016: CXOs, management guru release the Business Line MBAUniverse.com Rankings

Most awaited credible B-school Ranking of India is finally out! Former NASSCOM Chairman and Vice-Chairman of IT services major Cognizant Lakshmi Narayanan, Management Guru Dr TV Rao; Shailesh Kekre, Principal, McKinsey India; Sundar Kondur, Vice-President of Kasturi and Sons (The HinduGroup) and Amit Agnihotri, founder of MBAUniverse.com, released The Hindu BusinessLine-MBAUniverse.com B-school Rankings 2016 on December 4 in Bengaluru. The Rankings were unveiled at the MBA Career Conference organized by MBAUniverse.com and HBL. Complete ranking is now live on MBAUniverse.com.

IIM Ahmedabad has won the top honours inThe Hindu BusinessLineMBAUniverse.comB-School Rankings for 2016 followed by IIM Calcutta ranked at No 2, while the third place was taken by IIM Bangalore. XLRI Jamshedpur stands at No 4 position on this prestigious ranking.

HBL-MBAUniverse.com B-school Rankings 2016 - Top 10 B-schools:

B-school
Rank
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, AHMEDABAD
1

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, CALCUTTA
2

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, BANGALORE
3

XLRI, JAMSHEDPUR
4

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, LUCKNOW
5

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (MDI), GURGAON
6

S P JAIN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH (SPJIMR) ,
MUMBAI
7

FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (FMS), UNIVERSITY OF DELHI,
DELHI
8

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, KOZHIKODE
9

SVKMs NARSEE MONJEE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES (NMIMS), MUMBAI
10

Apart from IIMs, IIFT & NITIE, B-schools featuring in Top 25 include IMI New Delhi, SIBM Pune, XIM Bhubaneswar, TAPMI Manipal, IMT Ghaziabad, JBIMS Mumbai, BIMTECH G Noida, KJ Somaiya and FORE School of Management, Delhi. Complete Rankings of 90 B-schools, along with in-depth comparison of Top 25 B-schools on key parameters, are now available on MBAUniverse.com on this link.

The Ranking was conducted under the supervision of an eminent Advisory Committee, chaired by one of Indias most distinguished management academics. Dr Shekhar Chaudhuri, Professor & Former Director, IIM Calcutta is the Honorary Chairman of the Ranking Advisory Committee 2016. Other distinguished members are Dr TV Rao, Chairman, TV Rao Learning Systems (TVRLS), Founder President of NHRD Network and former faculty member at IIMA and XLRI; and Mr S Sivakumar, Group Head - Agri & IT Businesses, ITC. The research and analysis was lead by Dr Rajesh Shukla, author of over 30 landmark national studies for Goverment of India at NCAER and currently the MD & CEO of PRICE,a not-for-profit research think-tank.

The uniqueness of The Hindu BusinessLine-MBAUniverse.com B-school Rankings 2016 is that it follows a dominantly data-driven methodology where 100% weightage is given to objective and measurable parameters covering Quality of Cohort, Curriculum & Pedagogy and Outcomes, and no subjective or perception data is used. By comparison, almost all media rankings including by Business Today, Outlook and Week give as much as 50% weightage to perception survey data.

The Hindu BusinessLine will be soon publishing an in-depth eight-page special feature, with ranking highlights and proceedings of the conference. Further, a special BusinessLine-MBAUniverse.com Ranking Book will be released in mid-December.

Combining the reach, credibility and accuracy of the much respected The Hindu Group and Indias No 1 MBA portal - MBAUniverse.com, the BusinessLine-MBAUniverse.com Ranking will reach lakhs of MBA aspirant and parent community and help them in taking the right decision.

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for The Hindu BusinessLine-MBAUniverse.com B-school Rankings 2016 and highlights from MBA Careers Conference.