MBA Colleges of India- A Walkthrough to The Best B Schools

by Rain Rabbit

MBA Colleges of India- A Walkthrough to The Best B Schools

Feeling jittery about MBA admissions? Well it’s obvious. With so many MBA institutes mushrooming around the country it is indeed a huge task to choose the right one.

The leading B Schools are of course the six IIMs- namely Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode (Calicut) and Lucknow. With modern curriculum, futuristic approach, unique facilities and avant-grade faculty, the management education level of an IIM is at par with the best business schools of the world.

Next to the IIMs comes the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University and Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. For decades now these colleges have been imparting quality management education in all core disciplines. FMS Delhi is considered the best B School in Delhi. To augment the conceptual, analytical and decision making skills of its students the institute implies some unique methods like case analysis, simulation games and exercises, syndicates and practical project work. Established by the University of Bombay in 1965, JBIMS is supported by the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. The Institute also ranked in Asia’s Top 25 business schools by Asia Inc.

Founded in 1949 by Fr Quinn Enright, S.J. in the Steel City of Jamshedpur, Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI) has contributed a lot to the professional growth of innumerable management students. It’s star course being the two-year full time programme in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations.

The SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai is another eminent college for MBA. Its core philosophy being “influencing practice” and “promoting value based growth”. The Institute offers various regular and part time management programmes for students.

Delhi/NCR houses some of the top MBA institutes. To name a few, Institute of Management Technology (Ghaziabad), Management Development Institute (Gurgaon), FORE School of Management (New Delhi), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (New Delhi). They offer a range of classical and innovative MBA courses. Like the MBA in International Business of IIFT, PGDM of IMT, the National Management Programme of MDI or the Future Managers Group at FORE. You can give your career new dimensions with them.

Some other MBA colleges known for their career oriented courses and quality faculty are NMIMS – Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and Higher Studies, ISB – Indian School of Business Hyderabad, SIBM – Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Nirma Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, IRMA – Institute of Rural Management at Anand and MICA – Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad.

If you can’t join the above classic MBA colleges you can even try the following hugely successful private Institutes. Asia Pacific Institute of Management is ranked amongst the top private Business Schools in the Delhi region. It started in 1996 and has achieved the status of distinction with time and various popular PGD Programs in Management. Other is the same category include Amity Business School, Noida, SIMSR – KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research and the LIBA – Loyola Institute of Business Administration.

All the colleges mentioned are AICTE approved MBA colleges. The average fees of a standard MBA program will vary from college to college. Anything from 5,00,000 to 15,00,000 for two years is standard.

Finding the right B-school can be an arduous task. Just keep in mind that just getting a MBA degree from anywhere is not enough. Relevance also lies in the program you choose. If the course you’re pursuing has good prospects? Whether the MBA College of your choice is AICTE recognized? After all a prudent step today will ensure a brighter tomorrow for you.