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Cover Story EW India Private B-schools Rankings 2025-26

School of Management (30).
Yet despite ISB’s modest interna-
tional rank, Dr. Madan Pillutla
who has received the benefit of excel-
lent education in BITS, Pilani; XLRI,
Jamshedpur; University of Illinois
with a Ph D from the University of
British Columbia, is evidently inno-
cent of the image building advantage
ISB could derive from disseminating
the B-school’s success story and fu-
ture plans. As happened last year, all
attempts to connect with him to elicit
a few words of wisdom on institution
capacity building proved infructuous.
I N EW’S 2025-26 TOP TABLE of

India’s best private B-schools,
there has been considerable
rearrangement of the seating Dr. (Fr. ) George (centre) with XSM board members: bridesmaid status fortitude
order. ISB, Hyderabad is followed by
XLRI — Xavier School of Man- private B-schools. “I derive consider- upon XSM’s top score under the lead-
agement, Jamshedpur which has able satisfaction from the fact that ership parameter.
retained its #2 rank of last year; the ISB’s Dean is an alumnus of XSM,” Swati Ganetti, an alumna of IIT-
newly-promoted (2020), previously says Dr. George, a highly qualified Delhi and the Wharton School of Busi-
unranked Masters’ Union, Gu- alumnus of Loyola College, Chennai, ness (USA) who began her career in
rugram which made a spectacular Satya Nilayam College, Chennai, XL- the Delhi office of US-based consult-
debut at #5 last year, has continued RI-XSM, awarded a Ph D by Madras ing major Bain & Co and served with
its upward trajectory to #3 (5); Man- University and post-doctorate quali- several edtech start-ups prior to co-
agement Development Institute fications by Case Western University, promoting Masters’ Union (MU),
(MDI), Gurugram is ranked #4 USA. Dr. George, has some additional Gurugram with Pratham Mittal,
(3) while the S.P. Jain Institute of cause for satisfaction. Under the pa- also a Wharton alum, is delighted
Management & Research, Mum- rameters of faculty welfare and devel- with this newly promoted (2020) B-
bai ranked second last year has had to opment and all-important leadership, school’s “continuous progress in the
cede considerable ground #5 (2). XSM has been awarded highest scores annual EW league table”. After a dra-
The School of Business Man- in this year’s private B-schools league matic leapfrog debut into top table
agement of NMIMS University at table. with a #5 rank in 2024-25, MU has
#6 (4); IMT, Ghaziabad #7 (6); T.A. “I believe the high score awarded risen higher in the esteem of the in-
Pai Management Institute, Ma- to SXM under the faculty welfare and formed public and is ranked #3 this
nipal #8 (8): Institute of Health development parameter is well-de- year with top scores under the param-
Management Research, Jaipur served because we are only too aware eters of curriculum and pedagogy and
#8 (10), K.J Somaiya Institute of that faculty is SXM’s backbone. As the internationalism.
Management, Mumbai #9 (7) and oldest B-school of India established in “Right from the start, MU’s mission
Amity Business School, Noida #9 1949 with a focus on human resource was to build a talent pipeline for the
(8) are tied with Symbiosis Insti- development, we practice HRM in world. So we resolved that our grad-
tute of Business, Management, continuous consultation with our uates must not only be employable
Pune #9 (7) and ICFAI Business alumni serving with the most respect- in India, but anywhere worldwide.
School, Hyderabad at #10 (6) com- ed companies worldwide. Moreover, Therefore, even as undergrads, some
plete the Top 10 table. as a Jesuit, service-promoted institu- of our students are sent abroad for im-
With typical ecclesiastical calm and tion, profitability is not a priority for mersion programmes with some of the
fortitude, Dr. (Fr.) S. George has no us. We are content to invest liberally world’s most efficient and innovative
complaint against having had to suffer in infrastructure development and the corporations such as Daiken and Nis-
bridesmaid status to the top-ranked welfare and well-being of our faculty san in Japan and Sintel and Sanofi in
ISB for the past several years in the and students,” says Fr. George, who Singapore. Moreover during the sum-
annual EW league table of India’s best “out of humility” declined to comment mer vacation, they serve internships

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