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Cover Story EW India Private B-schools Rankings 2020-21

quired notorious global reputation.
On the bright side, Singh believes that
the online learning given wing by the
Covid-19 pandemic crisis is likely to
provide a substantially larger number
of business management students ac-
cess to study programmes of the Top
100 B-schools (see p.76).
A GAINST THIS backdrop

of the collective failure of
the country’s B-schools
to produce entreprenu-
ers and business leaders sufficiently
equipped to catapult India into the
league of second, let alone first world
nations, we commissioned Centre
for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd
(C fore estb.2000) — the well-known
Delhi-based market research and
opinion polls company — to conduct Amity Business School students: Top 10 debut. Inset: Dr. Sanjeev Sanyal
a nationwide field survey and prepare
a league table ranking the country’s internationalism, life/soft skills edu- India’s #1 private B-school by a com-
most respected private B-schools. cation and value for money. fortable margin ahead of X L R I —
Your editors are of the opinion that The sample respondents were X a v ie r S c h ool of M a n a g e m e n t,
inclusion of government B-schools in asked to award perceptual scores to J a m s h e dp u r ranked #2 for the sec-
the exercise would result in domina- B-schools on these parameters given ond year consecutively. Previous to
tion of the league table by the six pio- differing weightages with research 2018, ISB was not assessed by C fore
neer IIMs sited in Ahmedabad, Ban- (400), infrastructure (400), industry because it offers a compressed one-
galore and Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore interface (400) and placements (500) year MBA diploma programme (cf.
and Kozikhode which routinely top all accorded highest weight. “The rank- the standard two-year programme
media league tables. With entry into ing was based on objective data col- offered by most B-schools). However
these capital-intensive government lected from B- schools directly, from in 2018 the exclusion of ISB was re-
B-schools restricted to a mere 5,000 secondary sources plus a perceptual scinded on the advice of our Board
students per year, it makes greater survey conducted among faculty and of Advisors and unsurprisingly this
sense to assess private business man- industry,” says P re m c h a n d P a l e ty , now 19-year-old B-school, routinely
agement institutes which absorb the the founder CEO of C fore (estb.2000) ranked among global Top 30 by the
great majority of B-school aspirants explaining the rankings methodology. London-based F inancial Times, was
every year. Unsurprisingly, for the second year immediately promoted to the head of
Accordingly, to conduct the latest in succession, the I n dia n S c h ool of top table.
EW India Private B-schools Rank- B u s in e s s , H y de ra b a d (ISB, estb. “All of us are delighted to learn that
ings 2020-21, 150 C fore field per- 2001) promoted by the leading lights ISB is standing tall in the EW rank-
sonnel persuaded 1,279 knowledge- of India Inc with a capital investment ings. This is a proud and fulfilling
able sample respondents comprising of over Rs.200 crore on a 265-acre, moment for team ISB and we heart-
a mix of B-school faculty and industry state-of-the-art campus in Gachibowli ily thank and congratulate Education-
representatives countrywide, to rate in suburban Hyderabad, is ranked World, for its in-depth research and
India’s most well-reputed 100 private objective assessment. This accom-
B-schools on 12 broad parameters plishment will surely stimulate us to
and 55 sub-parameters of academic To conduct the 2020-21 scale greater heights and set new stan-
excellence. The parameters: leader- private B-schools rankings, dards in global business education,”
ship, faculty welfare and develop- 1,279 knowledgeable says D r. P h il ip Z e ril l o, an alum
ment, competence of faculty, student of Texas University and the Kellogg
intake process, curriculum and peda- sample respondents were School of Business, North-Western
gogy, industry interface, research interviewed countrywide University, USA (and a former radio
culture, infrastructure, placements, jockey and stand-up comedian) with

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