IIM Ahmedabad’s new cohort system of placements 2010 entered Cluster Two this weekend, featuring Indian investment banks, corporate leadership program and global FMCG operations. “The second Cluster of the cohort-based final recruitment process began on February 19 evening to allow firms which wished to conduct group discussions enough time to do so before the interviews […]

By continuing with slot placement processes, business schools are doing more harm than good to their students’ careers and keeping them from finding ‘that one’ job, writes Allwin Agnel, CEO of PaGaLGuY.com and Wharton alumnus of 2008. (Special column written for the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010) At the end of every academic year, there is […]

In a press release sent this morning, IIM Ahmedabad informed that the CAT results would be announced at the end of February, instead of in the middle of the month, as was announced earlier. The institute did not provide any reasons for the delay. As an interesting aside, the press release is also the shortest […]

Welcome to the third edition of the PaGaLGuY.com Business School Rankings. In the 2010 rankings, we have gone beyond what we have done in the previous years. We had an extended data collection period and this has helped us in ensuring the ranking is more accurate. Furthermore, due to the extended data collection we are […]

With the launch of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2010 today, we figured it was a good time to illustrate the typical b-school student’s direction of thinking about B-school Rankings. Ever wondered why students from the top 10 b-schools never contest a rankings or the methodology of a rankings? Clearly, having made their way into the […]

The Regional Rankings for each city portray the preferences of candidates familiar with the colleges. In that sense, these are the most preferred regional-level b-schools for each of the featured cities – Mumbai, Jaipur, Chennai and Hyderabad. Most college included in the regional rankings accept the Management Aptitude Test (MAT). So if you have taken […]

A women-only IIM would ensure equitable management education to women, make for research opportunities on leadership issues faced by women and be a good proposition to recruiters who increasingly prefer women over men for competitive jobs, argues Prof Ganesh Prabhu, Professor of Strategy at IIM Bangalore. (Special column written for the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010) […]

(This article is based on the National Rankings list of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010.) The years 2008 and 2009 made business schools extremely vulnerable to the same market forces that they had been training managers to deal with. In many ways, the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2010 mirror the performances of b-schools during the economic […]

Ever wondered why you cannot differentiate between any two Indian business schools except by their rank and placement salary figures? It is because b-schools do a shoddy job of telling their own story to the outside world. Ankush Trakru, an alumnus of FMS, Delhi and a Manager at Tata Administrative Services dissects all that is […]

Business School Rankings have earned a bad name in India for all the wrong reasons. It would have been great to be in an environment where methodologies of various rankings were pitted against each other in an intelligent debate spanning students, professors, recruiters and what have you. Instead, b-school rankings in India have lost credibility […]