IIPM Ranking/Rankings Across India

B-schools rankings have now become customary practice adopted by the media. Over the years, the findings emanating out from their surveys were accepted as legitimate by B-school managements. B Schools survey have always evoked great enthusiasm among parents, students and academics and also among corporate recruiters on campuses who went by the ranking in making their estimation of quality of MBA programmes, calibre of alumni, Faculty , Infrastructure, Industry Interface, career prospects.

There is a mounting feeling that the exercises undertaken by these surveyors and monitors are not free from prejudice, favoritism and, sometimes, twisting of facts and figures. The parameters and yardsticks for the surveys, the weight ages dole out or the structuring of the questionnaires have been questionable. Keeping these considerations and limitations in mind, IIPM has regularly tried to stay out of various B-Schools rankings (the extremely credible Outlook ranking being the only exception) taken out by them. IIPM has strong qualms on the methods applied by most of the magazines to rank B-schools.

IIPM holds the opinion that the quality education and faculty should be the key factors taken into account while determining the rankings of the B-Schools as most of these B-school rankings give a maximum of only 20% to 30% weight age to the same. Magazines take out rankings without IIPMs participation-based upon student perceptions etc. In such rankings, IIPM has always been ranked consistently in the top 10 to 15 B-schools in India. In a country with more than 1000 B-schools, this speaks volume about IIPMs academic standing. IIPM is today a leader when it comes to Industry Interface between the institute, its faculty, its students and the corporate world .As a result it was ranked 4th in the outlook survey in the Industry Interface section.

In the year 2004, the Business Barons B-School Study 2004 ranked the Indian Institute of Planning & Management (IIPM) 8th overall in India. Five parameters were used for the qualitative rankings - infrastructure, placement salaries commanded, depth of industry interface, quality of course contents and quality of students. In the same year IIPM again in the survey conducted by Business Today-A C Nielsen ORG-Marg's 2004 listing of India's top 30 B-schools ranked IIPM Mumbai at 23rd and IIPM Delhi the 30th. The schools were ranked using AC Nielsen's Winning Brands model. The Outlook C-Fore B-School survey had ranked IIPM's Delhi campus in the top 10 among several parameters in 2003.