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
| 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.