Earlier this year the Delhi-based fortnightly business magazine Business Today (estd.1992) together with the well-known market research and opinion polls firm The Nielsen Company published its authoritative annual league table of India’s top B-schools. For the BT-Nielsen survey of India’s Best B-schools 2010, 1,449 “stakeholders” in 13 cities country-wide were polled to evaluate the country’s 50 most well-known B-schools on eight parameters (reputation, infrastructure, teaching methodology, quality of placement, faculty etc). The BT-Nielsen rankings:
1. IIM-Ahmedabad
2. IIM-Bangalore
3. IIM-Calcutta
4. FMS, New Delhi
5. IIM-Lucknow
6. XLRI, Jamshedpur
7. ISB, Hyderabad
8. IIM-Indore
9. LIBA, Chennai
10. ICFAI, Hyderabad
11. IIFT, Delhi
12. IIM-Kozhikode
13. SIBM, Pune
14. JBIMS, Mumbai
15. IIM-Shillong
16. DMS, IIT-Delhi
17. DMS, IIT-Roorkee
18. K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai
19. SPJIMR, Mumbai
20. IMT, Ghaziabad
Source: Business Today (October 3, 2010)