IIM-B is 53rd on FT 2014 executive education rankings

Only Indian B-school in rankings moves up to 53rd rank

For the second consecutive year, the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) continued to be the only Indian B-school to be ranked on the Financial Times 2014 Executive Education Rankings.

What is more, the premier B-school moved up by 10 positions to be ranked at the 53rd position among the top 70 open executive education programme providers on the FT rankings. At its debut last year, IIM-B was placed at the 63rd position on the FT 2013 Executive Education Rankings.

The FT 2014 Open Executive Education Programmes survey, which had around 6,500 participants, was open only to internationally-accredited business schools that generated executive education programme revenues of over $2 million in 2013. (FINANCIAL TIMES EXECUTIVE EDUCATION RANKINGS 2014)

Talking about the rankings, Shyamal Roy, chairperson of executive education at IIM-B said, "IIM-B enables those who have been working after their graduation to formulate an action plan that identifies periodic goals and strategic steps for career advancement."

Through executive education programmes, IIM-B offers executives new knowledge, based on solid research, to enhance their managerial skills. "This experience also helps us enrich our teaching in the degree-granting programmes by citing real life examples underlying the theoretical concepts," Roy added.

Welcoming the rankings, Devanath Tirupati, director-in-charge, IIM-B, said, "The rankings reiterate that we are on the right track and offer information that helps our prospective students and stakeholders to make their choice."