A Dummies Guide for Using B-School Ranking to Take Admission

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A Dummies Guide for Using B-School Ranking to Take Admission

May 15,2010

Rule 1: All B-School rankings are of advisory nature only. Don’t try to see too much into the rankings beyond what is necessary.

Rule 2: Compared to what business magazines would like us to believe, B-School don’t trade like shares and hence it take ages to build reputation and also to slide in so if some school is climbing 5 points up or five points down every year, it is not about ranking, it is about methodology or relationships, Treat these surprises as surprises only that is statistical error.

Rule 3: When it comes to ranking, it is more of a cluster than that of ranking so you can join between JBIMS / SPJAIN / FMS or XLRI without any severe impact.

Rule 4: Go for colleges but also go for your career choices. If you think you want to make a career in Operations NITIE is the place so try to identify your core strength and also see what is on offer

Rule 5: when it come to 15-100 bracket B-schools, just avoid rankings, try to gather as much data on your target as much as possible. Check its website, see quality of faculty and infrastructure but don’t give too much weigtage to infrastructure as today B-School is big business and first thing you is building but not much happen on term of peer group quality, faculty level and placements. Peer group quality is very important.

Rule 6: This is difficult task but we strongly recommend that you must visit your target B-school ( especially if it is in 15-100 bracket) to get a feel of it, though the process may look very cumbersome but remember that you are going to spend next two years of your life in that place which will impact your whole life and career in a significant manner. So do try to visit at least the top two schools on your target list.

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