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Cover Story EW India Private B-schools Rankings 2024-25

visiting faculty. Therefore given this
feature of MU, I’m not surprised that
we have been awarded a high score
under the parameter of faculty com-
petence. Our close industry connect
also explains our high score for indus-
try interface and placement. Moreover
our good score under the research pa-
rameter is also very encouraging. I am
very pleased with our debut in the EW
league table,” says Ganetti. Currently,
this new B-school has 350 students
and 16 full-time faculty on its muster
rolls.
Another low-profile, differentiated
B-school with a unique globalised
study programme which has risen
high in the esteem of the informed
Masters Union co-founders Pratham Mittal & Swati Ganetti (left): encouraging debut public is the S.P Jain School of
Global Management (SPJSGM,
British Columbia, he is evidently inno- league table. estb. 2004). Ranked #12 in 2023-24,
cent of the image building advantage Swati Ganetti, an alumna of IIT- it is promoted to the Top 10 table with
ISB could derive from disseminating Delhi and the Wharton School of #8 rank this year. The defining char-
the success story and future plans of Business (USA) who began her career acter of SPJSGM is that in India, it
the blue-chip B-school he heads. Nu- in the Delhi office of US-based con- offers only a four-year BBA (bachelor
merous emails, phone calls and letters sulting major Bain & Co and served of business administration) degree
to his office and to ISB’s public rela- with several edtech start-ups prior programme. Under this programme,
tions agency yielded no response. to co-promoting Masters Union with students are taught business man-
I N THIS YEAR’S EW LEAGUE alum, is “super glad” that the “very obliged to attend classes in any one or

Pratham Mittal, also a Wharton
agement in India for one year and are
table of India’s best private B-
young” MU is ranked among the coun-
more of SPJSGM’s campuses in Singa-
schools, there’s been minor re-
school’s 18-month MBA programme
“The differentiating feature of MU
arrangement of seating at top try’s Top 5 private B-schools. pore, Dubai, Sydney and London. The
table. ISB, Hyderabad is followed by is that we don’t recruit full-time aca- open to students with three years’
XLRI – Xavier School of Manage- demic faculty. Unlike other B-schools corporate experience is provided in
ment, Jamshedpur at #2 (2), S.P. all our classes are conducted by over campuses abroad.
Jain Institute of Management & 200 industry leaders who constitute “I am somewhat surprised that it has
Research, Mumbai promoted SPJSGM's Nitish Jain (centre): unique global programmes taken so long for SPJSGM to
to #2 (3); MDI, Gurugram #3 make it into your Top 10 table
and NMIMS School of Busi- of India’s best B-schools. But
ness Management, Mum- this may be because most of
bai #4. However the previously our students are learning in
unranked Masters Union, our campuses abroad where
Gurugram (estb. 2020) — a we are routinely high ranked
new age B-school — has made a by Forbes, Bloomsberg and
spectacular debut in top table at Wall Street Journal and oth-
#5 with excellent scores under er well-reputed print publi-
the parameters of competence cations. However, SPJSGM
of faculty, research, curriculum is the only Indian B-school
& pedagogy and industry inter- with more campuses abroad
face. Moreover the Jagdish than in India. This is because
Sheth School of Manage- it was promoted in anticipa-
ment, Bengaluru (formerly tion of an increasingly glo-
IFIM) has made an impressive balised world of business
leap forward into the Top 10 and commerce. Our USP is

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