SIBM, Pune Ranked 4th

SIBM Pune has been ranked 4th best B school in the Business Today-Nielsen Survey and India Today Best B Schools Survey 2009 (Business Today October 18,2009; India Today, October 12, 2009) for the 4th successive year.

The following write up is based on Business Today-Nielsen Survey and India Today Best B Schools Survey 2009 rationale published by BT, October 18, 2009 .

The ranking methodology is significantly different. A key differentiator is the customer driven approach. An institute is only as good as its customers think it to be. The 596 respondent from 5 categories used in the survey were as under:
134 MBA Aspirants, with and without work experience (57 and 77 respectively)
110 Recruiters, HR managers who have been recruiting from B schools for the past 3 years
132 Current MBAs, Mostly but not only final year students in B schools
109 Young Executives, MBAs with two or three years work experience bringing in a retrospective assessment of B schools
111 Functional Heads, Managers with 8/9 years of work experience who interact closely with B school grads and play a significant role in deciding how many fresh MBAs are hired from where for their company
Respondents were from 12 cities: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Delhi and NCR (Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad), Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune
Attributes were: Reputation, Infrastructure, Placements, Faculty, Specialist Units, Quality of Placement, Teaching Methodology and Admission Eligibility

How SIBM ranked over the years:
SrNo. YEAR SIBM RANK
1. 1998 Did not feature
2. 2000 Did not feature
3. 2002 Did not feature
4. 2003 5
5. 2004 5
6. 2005 8
7. 2006 4
8. 2007 4
9. 2008 4
10. 2009 4

We at SIBM have received the ratings objectively and our quest to achieve is relentless.