Information about B-schools

The most difficult aspect about tracking higher educational institutions is the sheer complexity and bizaare range of information that is available, much of which would be unusable as well!

I personally have always felt that the Rating and Ranking exercise I myself have been doing for the past eight years in India see www.bibschoolsurvey.com has actually brought out more information and knowledge about the business schools than any great inroads have been made in benchmarking the quality of each of the schools.

In any event there is so much of division among the bschools when it comes to quality and spread that it becomes nearly impossible to categorize them in any scientific manner.

There are IIMs to begin with, then there are university schools, there are autonomous schools, there are management departments of engineering colleges, post graduate colleges teaching management and so on. When it comes to graduate degree in management, it is complete chaos out there.

But thankfully there is also a lot of websites that give information about the schools and what they have to offer.

Here is one from abroad http://www.4icu.org/in/ which is a listing of some of the top Indian colleges and universities not confined to teaching only management. The list is elaborate and very interesting even though many of the fields of enquiry is empty which is quite predictable considering the the schools keep their information and their unwillingness to share knowledge as a matter of rule.