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EW INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS 2021-22
INDIA’S TOP 100

PRIVATE B-SCHOOLS

Given good leadership India’s best private B-schools, promoted,
constructed and commissioned at great expense, have the
potential to re-imagine and conceptualise innovative, organic
syllabuses and curriculums to stimulate a massive productivity
leap in India Inc and other sectors of the economy

Dilip Thakore

T HE BEST OF INDIA’S ESTIMATED 6,000 1 Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

business management schools, aka B-
XLRI — Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur
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schools, represent a curious social para-
dox. On the one hand they are widely
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Management Development Institute, Gurugram
respected not only in India but around
the world. Apart from invariably top-

Mumbai
ping all media surveys domestically,
the premier Central government pro- 4 SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR),
NMIMS, Mumbai
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moted Indian Institutes of Management IIMs) sited in
Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Bangalore, Lucknow and 5 Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad
Indore are routinely ranked among the world’s Top 200 6 Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
by respected international rating agencies including the 6 Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
London-based QS. Moreover the privately promoted Indian
School of Business, Hyderabad is regularly ranked among 7 TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal
the Top 20 worldwide by the Financial Times. 7 ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad
Yet Indian industry has little to show for the thousands
of alumni of these top-ranked postgrad B-schools who have 8 International Management Institute, Delhi
streamed into India Inc since 1961 when IIM-Calcutta and 9 KJ Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai
IIM-Ahmedabad were promoted. The record of Indian in- 10 Amity Business School (Amity University), Noida
dustry and the economy measured by workplace produc-
tivity, innovative research and revolutionary products and 10 Symbiosis Centre for Management & Human Resource
services, compares very poorly with American, Western and Development, Pune

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