A B-school ranking by an MBA website, which took into account what Indian students feel about institutes rather than analysis of courses, programs and faculty members, has ranked the IIM-Ahmedabad as the most preferred B-school in the country.

The ranking was done by pagalguy.com — a website for MBA students and aspirants, which has 2.5 lakh registered users according to a 2008 IIM-Bangalore case study — with a total of 9,576 respondents.

The respondents were categorised into various groups — freshers, experienced, women, alumni, aspirants and students, plus an overall ranking. The second and third slots were occupied by IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Calcutta, respectively. The three IIMs had also been the top three choices for respondents in the last ranking in 2009.

‘The Pagalguy B-school Rankings are perception rankings that measure the preferences of the population polled. We believe it is logically impossible to rank abstract entities such as B-schools by quality and be accurate too,” wrote editor Apurv Pandit.

Source: Indian Express