A Mars Shot for India’s B-Schools
A longside India’s successful fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and the Indian cricket team’s amazing Test wins recently against Australia and England, India’s B-Schools have underlined their global mettle in the most challenging of circumstances in 2020. For the first time, as many as five Indian B-Schools’ fulltime MBA programs — those of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (ISB), Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), and Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-I) — were ranked among the world’s 100 best programmes by The Financial Times’ Global MBA Ranking 2021.
The highest placed of them, ISB, came in at #23, just behind HKUST Business School, which was established in 1991, and a notch above USC’s Marshall School, which was founded in 1920. That’s a remarkable achievement, especially since ISB was set up just two decades ago, in 2001. There’s no doubt that India’s rapid economic growth over the last two decades would have been impossible without the pipeline of world-class talent created by India’s B-Schools, so their global recognition is undoubtedly cause for
