I became aware of this program from the following ad in Samaja. I was not aware of any such program before.
More details about the program is available in the site http://www.hdf.org.in/graminITC/Introduction.
June 24th, 2010
Using the ranking of business schools given in a Businessworld article and adding a few well-known business school that were not part of that ranking, following is a clustering of those schools with respect to the metropolitan areas of India.
| Metropolitan areas | Top ranked management schools |
| Delhi, NOIDA, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Faridabad (25 schools) | MDI (8), IIFT (9), IMI (14), IMT (15), IIT D (17), BIMTECH (top 30), EMPI (42), NDIM (44), Fore (46), IMS (48), NILM (49), Amity (51), NIMT (53), Accurate (57), DSPSR (59), Jagannath (59), JK (64), ITS (69), Skyline (71), Jagan (75), NSB-NILM (81), APIM (84), SMS (87), Shiva (87), IMR (101) |
| Mumbai (14) | NIIE (5), NMIMS (7), Bajaj (10), IIT B(11), Jain (12), Somaiya (16), Welingker (23), Sydenham (30), ITM (39), St Francis (58), Thakur (65), IMSR (86), SIES (90), NCRD (102) |
| Kolkata (7) | IIM C (2), IISWBM (33), U Calcutta (61), Eastern (78), ISBM (92), CMS (104), Eastern (108) |
| Bangalore (6) | IIM B (top 5), Acharya (20), IFIM (53), PES (62), IBMT (80), Dayanand (97) |
| Ahmedabad (4) | IIM A (1), Mudra (25), Nirma (26), BK (79) |
| Hyderabad (7) | ISB (top), Icfai (top 20), IPE (55), Siva (66), Vignana (85), Dhruva (91), Aurora (100) |
| Bhubaneswar (5) | XIMB (13), RCM (30), KIIT (77) , Srusti (99), Biju P (106) |
| Chennai (4) | Great Lakes (18), Loyola (19), IIFMR (38), MOP (110) |
| Pune (8) | Symbiosis (24), Suryadatt (49), Balaji (56), Vaikunth (62), Balaji (73), ISBM (76), MIT (103), Balaji (108) |
| Kozhikode | IIM K (4) |
| Jamshedpur | XLRI (3) |
| Indore | IIM I (6), Prestige (52), IBMR (66) |
| Lucknow | IIM L (top 10), Jaipuria (68), |
| Manipal | Pai (21) |
| Coimbatore | PSG (22) |
| Bhopal | IIFM (27) |
| Varanasi | BHU (28) |
| Kharagpur | IIT KGP (29) |
| Goa | Goa Inst of M (32) |
| Nagpur | IMT (34) |
| Jaipur | NIAM (34), IRM (96) |
| Trichy | Bharatidarshan (36), NIT (37) |
| Chandigarh | ISB-branch (new; would be top 10), Gian Jyoti (40) |
| Cochin | Sc of Comm and Mgmt (40) |
| Jalandhar | Lovely (42) |
| Meerut | Master (44) |
| Ludhiana | Punjab C (70) |
| Pondichery | SMS (71) |
| Neral, Maharashtra | AICAR (74) |
| Thiruvanthapuram | Kerala U (81) |
| Jagadhri, Haryana | Maharaja (83) |
| Salem | Sona (89) |
| Mathura | HIMCS (92) |
| Allahabad | United (94) |
| Baroda | MS Patel (95) |
| Visakhapatnam | Integral (98) |
| Dehradun | IMS (105) |
| Ujjain | Mahakal (107) |
| Ranchi | ISM (111) |
Based on the above clusters following are some remarks.
With regards to Bhubaneswar, besides the above ranked schools there are some other good schools that are in existence and some more are coming up. The one that exists are: HDF and IITTM; the ones that are coming up soon are: campus of IMI and campus of BIMTech; the ones that will come up further down the line are: Business schools of Sri Sri University and Vedanta University. One thing to note is that all the top ranked business schools in Bhubaneswar are private ones.
June 20th, 2010
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