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Bengaluru, is “deeply gratified” by
JAGSOM’s re-entry into the Top 10
table.
“ FOR YEARS WE HAVE oper-

ated with the conviction that
most institutions quietly
avoid: the best measure of a
B-school is not the quality of students
it admits, but the distance it moves
them. The EW 2026-27 ranking tells
us this conviction is now visible to the
public. But we are also clear-eyed that
our entry into the Top 10 is a starting
point, not a destination,” says Sridevi,
a commerce postgrad of Osmania Uni-
versity, Hyderabad which awarded
her a Ph D in finance, after which she
signed up with IFIM in 2006. After a
long career with this progressive B-
school, she was appointed Dean early JAGSOM outdoor auditorium: Top 10 re-entry. Inset: Sridevi Varanasi
this year.
Although JAGSOM has been award- country’s 200 most well-reputed pri- #18 (54); ASM Institute of Busi-
ed above-rank scores under several vate B-schools serves a useful purpose ness Management, Pune #19 (31);
parameters of business management inasmuch as it beams a searchlight Balaji Institute of Modern Man-
eduation excellence — faculty compe- on easily accessible B-schools which agement, Pune #19 (43); and the
tence, research, industry interface, in- don’t receive the coverage and public- previously unranked Sheila Raheja
frastructure and leadership — Sridevi ity of the IIMs. School of Business Management
values its above-rank score under fac- Consequently, it is informative that & Research, Mumbai at #20.
ulty competence the most. “Teaching a there are numerous relatively unsung Even beyond the Top 20 there is
room where one student holds a post- private B-schools which are rising in considerable churn in the 221-strong
grad degree and another brings three the esteem of the informed public. EW league table 2026-27 of India’s
years’ experience of the shopfloor and Among them: the Great Lakes In- best private B-schools with several
moving both of them forward mean- stitute of Management, Chennai previously unranked institutions —
ingfully, demands scholarly depth, which has been given a big promotion Apeejay School of Management,
pedagogical range and professional to India #9 (from #24 in 2025-26) and Delhi; Calcutta Business School,
credibility to make every concept com- #1 in Tamil Nadu; GITAM School of among others — making impressive
prehensible. Our faculty do this daily. Business, Visakhapatnam to #10 debuts.
Everything else follows,” adds Sridevi. (28) and #1 in Andhra Pradesh; De- Moreover, readers aspiring for busi-
Currently, JAGSOM has 520 postgrad partment of Management, BITS- ness management education should
students mentored by 36 highly quali- Pilani #11 (23); Dalmia Institute also bear in mind that B-schools mod-
fied faculty on its muster rolls. of Management & Research estly ranked in the national league ta-
Albeit the country’s 23 IIMs, the first Studies, Mumbai # 12 (15); Jai- ble, may well be heavyweights in their
of whom was established in 1961, are puria Institute of Management, host states and cities. For instance the
the most well-known and reputed, it’s Ghaziabad #16 (36); KIIT School Xavier Institute of Management,
encouraging that an estimated 5,000 of Management, Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar (XIM-B) India #14
private B-schools of varying degrees of is top-ranked in Odisha; Chitkara
competence and reputation have also Readers who don’t wish to Business School, Chandigarh
been promoted in their wake. This is venture far from home and ranked India #22 is #1 in Punjab and
eminently in national interest because hearth in pursuit of business Heritage Business School, Kol-
the total factor productivity of Indian kata India #23 is #1 in West Bengal.
industry — including MSMEs (micro management education Therefore, readers who don’t wish to
small and medium enterprises) — is should also check out state venture far from home in pursuit of
poor by global standards. Therefore, and city rankings business education should also check
the annual EWIHER which ranks the out state and city rankings.

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