So, it’s time to kick off the biggest annual survey exercise on PaGaLGuY — the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2012. The survey taps the power of the PaGaLGuY community of MBA applicants, students, alumni and academicians to find out what India thinks about India’s b-schools.

Like every year, it shall be a rankings of India’s Most Preferred B-schools arrived at using the CommunityRank Methodology. There shall be two stages to the survey,

Stage 1: Shortlisting of 100 business schools that shall be included in the rankings.

Stage 2: The actual ranking of the shortlisted 100 b-schools.

This post is about Stage 1: Pre-rankings survey.

Stage 1 is closed, Stage 2 is live now! Answer the Stage 2 Survey

The survey will provide you with a list of 120 best-known b-schools in the country and ask you to ELIMINATE 20 b-schools that you are not so keen to see in the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings 2012. After the survey ends, we will drop the 20 most-voted-out schools out of the rankings and take the remaining 100 to Stage 2 of the survey. More about Stage 2 in the methodology description.

Please note, that this survey will not help us arrive at the rankings. This survey will only shortlist those b-schools which will be ranked in Stage 2.

We are planning to move to Stage 2 of the survey around January 20 and release the results by end February, just in time before b-schools declare their final results.

Just so that we can keep track of comments to the survey at one place, we are disabling commenting on this article. You can however post about the survey, any technical problem you encounter while answering it, etc in the forum thread created for the purpose: Discussion thread for commenting about survey Stage 1.

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