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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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