Sunday, March 8, 2009

Top B Schools in India : Rankings 2.0, based on the value of their Website

There have been loads of ways of trying to rank these B Schools. Most of the methods have certain drawbacks or the other. I have tried and used a technique that is independent of human factors to try and come up with the rankings.

This is, the estimated value of the websites, as measured by a new technique. The technique involves the usage of thew website www.stimator.com which analyzes any website whose address is entered. It then does a valuation of your website, and returns its current value in terms of US Dollars.

This is primarily an analysis of their websites. I believe that the amount of traffic on the websites of these colleges, and how popular these websites are to the outside world is one of the ways in which the college can be rated. Greater the popularity of the site, more the reasons linked with it being one of the Best B Schools in perception. And, of course, B Schools are ultimately all about perception!

The estimated value is based on a whole lot of factors like Web Recognition, Web Volume, Popularity, Linking Data, Social Score, etc.


The ranking as seen here is

Some of the Top B Schools in India are

1. IIMA
2. IIMC
3. IIMB
4. SPJain
5. FMS
6. IIML
7. IIMI
8. MDI
9. XLRI
10. IIMK

If we take the Top 4 in this list and do a breakdown of their analysis, The IIMB site scores very low on the Social Score (0.84) as compared to IIM C (1.37), IIM A (1.67) and SP Jain (1.23). The rest of the factors are almost equal or in the approximate order of their overall rankings.


The website I have used to come up with these numbers is called www.stimator.com

I have not included certain schools in this list like IRMA, SJMSOM, etc. The reason for not including SJMSOM is here.

The reason for leaving out IRMA is that I have considered only the general MBA course related B Schools. Otherwise, IRMA would push IIMK out of this list of Top 10.

Also, please note that these details are as of Early February 2009. Some website avlues have slightly increased / decreased in the last 1 month. That probably means that the best way to make a conclusive decision is by taking an average over a period of around 6 months - 1 year.

21 comments:

inevitable_monsieur said...

too much work...simply amazing concept!!!

Anonymous said...

good stuff

gnine said...

It's fake. My premise of this conclusion is that you will never get even the 50% of the value of that website if you sell it in market. Here I am talking about website, not the brand. If anyone purchase a website of IIM, then he will give money for the brand.

So, to concur, stimator is fake. BTW, I am a webmaster and I understand this market well.

Atul Mathur said...

Well Gnine have you heard of a fact of life that everything is relative? Even if one will not get 50% of the value, the same would effect all the sites. Once again, let me remind you, that the article is about relatively ranking the colleges - not actually sell their sites. Whatever impacts them impacts all of them. And a large number of those factors have been taken. Further, the fact that the ranking comes out quite similar to the perceived ranking, it also shows that the weights given by stimator the various factors are also reasonably accurate.

Amit Goel said...

I study in IRMA and even IRMA is above some of the sites mentioned by you.

Atul Mathur said...

Hi Amit,

Thanks for your comment. I actually avoided all sectoral B Schools. You are right, IRMA would come in the top 10 - as 9th, if I included it. I have now mentioned IRMA as well in my blog. Thanks again.

Amit Goel said...

I really appreciate the kind of maturity shown by you. Good Luck to you!!!!

Anonymous said...

I’ve found another site valuation tool and it seems to provide competitive analysis for free. I'm talking about
www.estimix.com .

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Rahul said...

after a long time seen some genuine ranking. Any ranking which does not have IIM A, C, B in the top 3 is bogus. I am glad they had the sense to give the top slots to these institutes where getting in and getting out is tough and research and placements are top class

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