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with top-ranked companies in India
and abroad. In the circumstances,
I am pleasantly surprised that your
sample respondents have awarded us
highest scores under these interlinked
parameters,” says Ganetti. Currently
this degree awarding B-school has
400 undergrad and 250 postgrad stu-
dents mentored by 30 full-time faculty
and over 200 professors of practice
drawn from blue chip companies in
India and abroad — the USP of this
new genre, pace-setting B-school.
B EYOND THE TOP 10,

among the private B-
schools that have im-
proved their ranking this
year are the N.L. Dalmia Institute
of Management Studies & Re- Masters Union’s Swati Ganeti (centre left): global talent pipeline
search, Mumbai ranked #15 (cf.
#16 in 2024-25); Jaipuria Institute IFIM), Bengaluru ranked #14 na- (pop.71.6 million).
of Management, Lucknow ranked tionally is the #2 B-school of the Therefore, all B-schools listed in
#15 (18); Institute of Management highly industrialised ‘Silicon Valley’ the EW league table 2025-26 need to
Technology (IMT), Hyderabad state of Karnataka (pop. 65 million); be given high respect and encourage-
ranked #15 (17); Chitkara Business Jaipuria Institute of Manage- ment to improve and upgrade into
School, Patiala #23 (25); Heritage ment, Lucknow ranked India #15 world-class institutions. This is an
Business School, Kolkata #25 is the #3 ranked private B-school of essential precondition of the nation
(28) and previously unranked IBMR Uttar Pradesh (pop.215 million) af- achieving its Viksit Bharat and $30
Business School, Gurugram and ter Amity B-School, Noida, and trillion economy goals by 2047, the
Doon Business School, Dehra- the Institute of Management of year in which India will celebrate its
dun which have debuted at #59 and Nirma University, Ahmedabad centenary of freedom from over 500
#66 in this year’s 127-strong league ranked #34 nationally is #1 in Gujarat years of foreign rule.
table of India’s best private B-schools. Chitkara Business School, Patiala students: Punjab #1
Although somewhat overshadowed
by the IIMs, India’s private B-schools
are capable of responding quickly to
changes in the business environment
and customizing their curriculums
accordingly. Thus they are discharg-
ing an increasingly important role in
developing managers and executives
required to rapidly modernise and
upgrade India Inc to collaborate and
compete with the world’s most go-
getting and dominant corporations.
Moreover, it’s important to note that
B-schools that are modestly ranked in
the national league table, are not nec-
essarily also-rans. In their host states
— some of whom are more populous
than many European countries — they
are highly regarded.
For instance the Jagdish Sheth
School of Management (formerly

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