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are in the process of stepping up our
research and deepening our industry
interface. Fortunately our location in
Gurugram, which has emerged as a
tech and industry hub, enables us to
do this quickly. We also intend to im-
prove our public visibility and expand
our intake capacity in the near future.
These initiatives will go a long way in
improving our rankings in media sur-
veys,” says Chakrabarti, an alumnus of
Presidency University, Kolkata, IIM-
Ahmedabad and former dean of the
O.P. Jindal School of Business, who
signed up as Director of MDI in June
2021.
With XLRI, Jamshedpur retain-
ing its #2 ranking of the past three
ISB's Prof. R.S. Thirumalai (centre): prestigious international accreditations years, further down the Top 10 table,
the School of Business Manage-
ing able to offer substantial value to in its one-year postgraduate diploma ment, NMIMS Deemed Univer-
students through the involvement of programme mentored by 60-plus fac- sity, Mumbai has been given a pro-
all stakeholders. ISB has always been ulty. motion and is co-ranked #3 (4) with
forward looking and invested with Rajesh Chakrabarti, director MDI; the Institute of Manage-
the mission to offer competitive ad- of the highly-reputed but low-profile ment Technology, Ghaziabad is
vantage to our students. This school’s Management Development Insti- promoted to #4 (5); S.P. Jain Insti-
future-ready approach has enabled us tute, Gurugram (MDI, estb. 1973), tute of Management & Research,
to remain ahead of the curve and con- which has been steadily ranked India’s Mumbai has retained its #4 rank of
sistently set new benchmarks in busi- #3 private B-school, is also pleased 2021-22; and Symbiosis Institute,
ness management education,” says with MDI’s Top 3 ranking. “I’m very Pune, ICFAI B-school, T.A. Pai
Prof. Rambhadran S. Thiruma- pleased that MDI has retained its Top Management Institute and several
lai, deputy dean of ISB. 3 ranking for the past several years. other B-schools have been moved by
Thirumalai isn’t perturbed in the For our curriculum and pedagogy and a rank. The Top 10 table is completed
least that this premier B-school is not strong industry connect, MDI is com- by the S.P. Jain School of Global
recognised by AICTE and therefore monly accepted as the most progres- Management, Mumbai which has
by government. “Over the past two sive B-school in North India and I’m made a great leap forward in public
decades, ISB has carved a niche for it- glad that your survey reflects this. We esteem to #10 (15).
self as a top-ranked Indian B-school. Chakrabarti: north India #1 satisfaction It is pertinent to note that state
Although ISB has not had the honour rankings are perhaps as important
of AICTE recognition, we are accred- for B-schools as national rankings. For
ited by the US-based Association to instance, the School of Business
Advance Collegiate Schools of Busi- Management, NMIMS Deemed
ness (AACSB), Belgium-based EFMD University, Mumbai ranked India
Quality Improvement System (EQ- #3 is the premier B-school of Maha-
UIS) and the UK-based Association rashtra, India’s most industrial state
of MBAs (AMBA). These are highly and of Mumbai, the country’s commer-
prestigious international recogni- cial capital. Likewise TAPMI (T.A. Pai
tions for B-schools. ISB is one of only Management Institute, Manipal) is the
100 B-schools worldwide to have been #1 private B-school in Karnataka and
awarded the ‘triple crown’ of AACSB, Bengaluru which hosts India’s largest
EQUIS and AMBA accreditation,” says cluster of new genre ICT (information
Thirumalai, a Ph D in finance from the communication technology) corpo-
Indiana University of Bloomington, rations. It would be a grave error to
who signed up with ISB in 2006. Cur- evaluate B-schools merely on the basis
rently, ISB has 900 students enrolled of national rank.

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