[Apurv]

Dear all,

After two months of collecting opinions of people, we present to you the second edition of our highly acclaimed B-school Rankings.

Click here to launch PaGaLGuY.com B-school Rankings 2009

What's new this year?

• More B-schools: This year, we have expanded to 84 schools. (It was 85 earlier, but IISc Bangalore discontinued its MBA course in the middle of our survey exercise).
• How Women, Aspirants, Alumni, Current Students, Freshers, People with Work Experience differently rank B-schools
• Exclusive Opinions and columns by senior faculty from the IIMs and the industry exploring burning issues related to management education.

We've also made the rankings more usable with some simple features:

• One-click Access to all discussion threads, articles and interviews of every B-school featured in the rankings (test it out by hovering your mouse pointer over any b-school name)
• Compare rankings of upto 5 b-schools - choose upto 5 b-schools and compare how they are ranked by various people
• Filter rankings list by Entrance Exam, Location - in short, customize a rankings that fits YOUR needs!

Use this thread to discuss the rankings, spot trends and share insights you draw from the rankings. Think you have a suggestion for the rankings? Add it here. Also, do give us feedback.

Keep the discussion civil and be respectful to others. If you have any doubts about how the rankings were conducted, please go through the Methodology carefully first.

Regards,
Apurv

[Archon]

First of all...great job!

Didn't expect this much from a simple survey like this one

One query:
On the rankings page...is it just me or is there a little issue: the View discussion link in the popup for the first column (college ranks 1-21) does a google for the corresponding college in the 2nd column.

[sarvshwet]

Great Job!!!!

the interface etc in extremely good and easy to use....
over all the appearance and ease of use is great

Well done!!!!

[koolbuddy]

Good Work PG...! One could easily imagine the amount of effort by just looking at the analysis...

The best part I liked is the Compare B-School section... No need to say the interface is AWESOME..!

However as rightly said by PG:

"Do perception surveys provide accurate rankings of the 'best' b-schools? We don't think so and we doubt anyone's claims to be able to do so. But they accurately tell you which schools are preferred the most, riding on the perception of a large mass of respondents who are fairly exposed to mainstream and social media to have a well-informed opinion about b-schools. "

There is a clear indication of the same in the rankings. Preferences and perceptions are one thing and one's own research work is another. And hence, one needs to do (and must do) his/her bit of research work in order to choose a B-School "A" over another B-School "B".

Great Job PG...

Cheers,

[varun.jindal]

It is astonishing to see SIOM placed at rank of 67, down 19 places from last year's Pagalguy rankings. Perception based rankings generally don't reflect a sudden change in perception of the respondents about a B-School. It's difficult to interpret the rankings with not a significant change in size of the respondent base. Going by the placement figures, SIOM fares better than almost all the B-Schools placed after the rank of 50 and many between the rank range of 30-50.

Anyways, I mentioned the above point just to give a suggestion that from next year, PG should also provide an option whereby a respondent should be free not to choose between two B-Schools in case he/she doesn't have any prior knowledge to compare the B-Schools. Perhaps that's why some B-Schools like IMI, IRMA, Great Lakes and GIM have not been able to find a place in Top-30 list.

[bissvr]

Great GUI this time!!

Can you also come up with perception based list for engineers vs non-engineers?

[SureThisTime]

Kudos to Team PG.
At last they have broken the tradition by giving the rankings from all dimensions such as 'What other B school students think of your B school', 'What the Alumni of all B school think of your B school', 'Whats the women students perceive about your B school', 'How work exp students rate your institute'.

This approach will not be seen in any other ranking.
In future, we can expect PG methodology as a path breaking ranking system which can be used a benchmark for other Magazines' rankings.

I suggest PG to start taking views/ideas from the existing B school students/Alumni as how it can be improvised further.

[Ailurophobia]

Why is VGSOM placed so low? They have better placements than so many of the top 20 schools in this rankings. And how come it is lower than even IIT K?
I think people have a wrong idea about it because of its location.

[grey_havens]

Great job PG!
Really good work with the interface. Much cooler than before
The bschool compare idea is top notch! Another great feature i saw the filter tab right on the page. It's so convenient to find the right school for the exam. Nicely done

Coming to the rankings, I believe this years ranking is a much truer reflection of the top 10. I am sure there will be some people who do not agree.

IIM Indore is in its rightful place this time around. I always felt the last pg rankings did not do justice to the top 10. That was maybe due to very less participation from people around central India region.

Another point which I noticed in the insights page of ranking is that "it is surprising that IIMI is ranked above IIMK in spite of K being Older"
Well I am not surprised as there is very little difference in age. K is just an year older. So age is not an issue. I am not claiming that I is better than K here. Just an opinion (well, who am i Kidding! Of course I am)

Cheers!

[pagalguy]

Originally Posted by Ailurophobia

Why is VGSOM placed so low? They have better placements than so many of the top 20 schools in this rankings. And how come it is lower than even IIT K?
I think people have a wrong idea about it because of its location.

If you use the compare page and plug in VGSOM, you will see how it did and where it got its changes in rankings. From what I remember it took a huge beating with women, but so did almost all of the engineers only school. I also remember that alumni across school thought that the school should be ranked higher.

Take the time to understand the interface and the data within. It was challenging to build this product for us and display all this information which we have always wanted to in a user friendly format - any feedback and suggestions are always welcome

Can you also come up with perception based list for engineers vs non-engineers?

If its demanded enough, may be we would try it next year - but really does it help a cause? I mean, wouldn't they all want to go to the best possible schools irrespective of whether the school is engineer friendly or not?