IIM-A Offers Better Career Growth Than Harvard Business School: Survey

IIM Ahmedabad has yet again secured a prominent position in a survey of global B-Schools.

A recent survey by the British newspaper Financial Times has ranked IIM Ahmedabad at the 26th position in its list of best B-Schools in the world. What's more interesting is that the survey has positioned IIM-A on the second place in "career progress" ranking, next to Stanford Graduate School of Business and ahead of Harvard Business School.

The Financial Times calculated "career progress" of B-Schools according to changes in the level of seniority and the size of the companies their alumni are working now, compared with before their MBA. (Key to the 2015 FT Global MBA rankings)

On an overall basis, however, Harvard Business School was ranked the top B-School in the world, followed by London Business School and University of Pennsylvania, Wharton. (See full list here)

The other Indian B-Schools that featured in Financial Times top 100 list were Indian School of Business (ISB) and IIM Bangalore, which were placed at the 33rd and 82nd positions. However, IIM-Bangalore was ranked at the 5th place when it comes to "career progress" and ISB at 33th.

While IIM-A and ISB moved up charts as compared to their last year's overall rankings of 30th and 36th, IIM-B has fallen to 82nd from 68th.

"Global MBA Ranking 2015" by Financial Times is based on surveys of the B-Schools and their graduates of 2011. MBA programmes were assessed based on the career progression and salary of alumni, value for money, the school's idea generation and the diversity of students and faculty, among others. (See methodology)

Earlier in 2014, the Economist magazine had ranked IIM-Ahmedabad as fourth best B-School worldwide in offering "Good value MBAs."