Dun & Bradstreet India (D&B India) is pleased to present ‘India’s Leading Business Schools’. This is an initiative to highlight prominent business schools in the country and create a platform to discuss academic issues by bringing together the institutes that are actively involved in management education. The endeavour was undertaken keeping in mind the progressive role that business schools play in creating managers of the future.

Over the past few years, the increasing number of institutes offering management education in India has helped the country produce more than 100,000 management graduates each year. As per All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), in 2009, there were 1,608 institutes, which conducted AICTE-approved MBA programmes with an approved intake capacity of 128,947 students. There were another 391 institutes, which conducted AICTE-approved PGDM courses with an intake capacity of 44,318 students.

However, with greater integration of the domestic and the global economy, the country’s higher education system, and by extension, management education, is slowly changing, with the adoption of practical techniques, vs. the traditional unidirectional method of theoretical knowledge, for producing professionals with better quality education. Universities and institutes of higher education are adopting innovative measures in traditional programmes and promoting research-based practices to meet the requirements of the corporate world.

The government plans to reform the higher education sector, as indicated in its Eleventh Five- Year Plan (2007 – 2012), popularly known as the knowledge investment plan. The government intends to ramp up capacity in higher education with the establishment of eight new IITs, seven new IIMs, 16 central universities, 20 Indian Institutes of Information Technology, and five new IISERs and polytechnic institutes. The recently-introduced Foreign Education Providers Regulation Bill is also set to bring about a massive change in the manner in which institutions operate in the country. Competition is expected to increase manifold once this bill is passed, and students will have more options on hand.

‘India’s Leading Business Schools’ reflects D&B India’s support to the management education sector in India. I hope you will enjoy reading the publication. I look forward to receiving your suggestions.

Kaushal Sampat
President & CEO - India
Dun & Bradstreet