QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) is one of the top Institutional rankings measuring the popularity and performance of universities across the globe. In its release of World University Rankings for Executive MBA 2024 for the top 194 Business Schools, the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore has been ranked among the top 50, ISB and IIM Kozhikode have been ranked at 100+ places respectively.
QS World University Rankings cover about 51 subjects to rank the World's Top Universities in the subject areas. Such rankings enable prospective students to identify and make the right decisions for their future studies. QS World University rankings are awarded based on the following components/attributes for top Universities by subject. They are:
Academic Reputation: This Component/attribute accounts for about 40% of the overall score considering the teaching and research quality on the survey collators for over 13000 expert opinions.
Employer Reputation: This is intended to assess the preparedness of the Institute/School to provide competent, innovative, and effective students for their successful careers post-study.
International Student Ratio and International Faculty Ratio: This component is intended to survey the strengths of the University in providing a multinational environment and global awareness to the students in shaping them to demonstrate a high ability in their international skills developed through experienced International Faculty to shoulder the current challenges in the international job markets.
Research Citations per faculty: This component is intended to measure the research quality of the University with a citation per faculty metric taking the total number of academic citations in Papers submitted by a university in 5 years.
Faculty/Student Ratio: This component is intended to carry out a study on the ratio of student/faculty ratio. A high Faculty/Student ratio reduces the burden of teaching by the faculty to ensure an enriching experience in learning by the student focussing on the individual’s attention by faculty.
The following table depicts the overall ranking of Indian ‘B’ Schools as per rankings released by QS World Rankings:
University
Rank
Score
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
46
61.6
Indian School of Business
111-120
49.2
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode
170+
28.0
NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework), is a popular Agency approved by the MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) to rank institutions of higher education in India based on 5 (five) Parameters – Teaching, Learning and resources, research and professional practices, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity, and perception.
Over the years, the NIRF ranking has become well-known and extensively accepted, with the growth in participation of Institutes/Colleges in the Survey. NIRF in their survey covers the following categories for determining the top Universities in India.
Based on the above backdrop and parameters, NIRF on 12th August 2024 released Management Rankings 2024. The rankings' key features portray no changes concerning IIMs of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, and Kolkata, as they retained their place as number 1,2 & 3 respectively. Another key feature of NIRF Rankings is that they released the top 125 Business Schools across India, against 100 last year.
Top 100 NIRF 2024 Rankings of Management Schools (‘B’ Schools) in India have been provided in the following table along with their previous year’s (2023 and 2022) rank for comparison.
Top B School/Management Institute in India
NIRF 2024 Ranking
NIRF 2023 Ranking
NIRF 2022 Ranking
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
1
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
2
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
3
5
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
4
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Mumbai
6
7
9
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
Indian Institute of Management Indore
8
XLRI - Xavier School of Management
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
10
11
Management Development Institute
13
Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
12
16
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
17
Indian Institute of Management Raipur
14
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
15
27
24
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Indian Institute of Management Ranchi
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
18
19
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
20
21
SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
25
Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
22
Indian Institute of Management Kashipur
23
Indian Institute of Management Shillong
26
Jamia Millia Islamia
29
Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam
30
Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
28
Amity University
34
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Indian Institute of Management Nagpur
31
43
42
MICA
32
37
Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya
53
48
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Institute of Management Technology
35
38
39
Chandigarh University
36
47
Goa Institute of Management
33
Lovely Professional University
ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad
40
41
International Management Institute
UPES
49
Indian Institute of Management Jammu (IIMJ)
51
XIM University
52
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
44
55
Jaipuria Institute of Management
45
54
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad
Indian Institute of Management Amritsar
Banaras Hindu University
56
50
Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)
59
Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur
58
66
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
62
65
Fore School of Management
63
64
Chitkara University
68
Nirma University
61
International Management Institute, Kolkata
67
70
Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur
57
98
97
T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal
Graphic Era University
Christ University
60
69
International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar
72
80
Siksha `O` Anusandhan
78
71
K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research
Birla Institute of Management Technology
82
84
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
75
Loyola Institute of Business Administration
83
89
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
74
86
Malaviya National Institute of Technology
85
77
Anna University
92
Aligarh Muslim University
79
Alliance University
88
93
Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow
96
95
Manipal University, Jaipur
73
90
91
Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences
99
94
National Institute of Technology Calicut
76
Jain University, Bangalore
Jamia Hamdard
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University (KL University)
100
PSG College of Technology
Cochin University of Science and Technology
81
Thiagarajar School of Management
BML Munjal University
Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research (PGDM)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Jagan Institute of Management Studies Technical Campus
87
New Delhi Institute of Management
Pandit Deendayal Energy University
Birla Institute of Technology
National Institute of Bank Management
Panjab University
Rajagiri Business School
Bharathidasan Institute of Management
Tezpur University
National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management
Galgotias University
Krea University
National Institute of Technology Warangal