Rankings 2.0 Continued..

So after writing my previous post, I got a call from some friends at IIT Bombay Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), saying I missed their name.

Now here's my explanation for leaving them out.

So what makes SJMSOM special? It is a subsidiary of IIT Bombay that deals with MBA. The entrance examination for this is JMET (Joint Management Entrance Test), and out of the 20000 odd people who write this exam, only the top 300 odd people get into this college. A lot of its brand value is associated with the fact that it is part of a premier institute like IIT. This makes it more sought after.

If we check on www.stimator.com, it clearly says that for evaluating sub domains, they measure traffic on the main domain as well. And the SJMSOM site is www.som.iitb.ac.in, which is a sub domain of the site www.iitb.ac.in. If we try and compare on an absolute scale, SOM comes at around 26000 USD, which means it should be ranked 2nd. Of course, the number here is strongly influenced by the fact that it is under IIT Bombay. Therefore, I chose to leave out SJMSOM..

No offence meant to SJMSOM! Just that this rating needed absolute values.

~Thanks to Seksaria of IIT Bombay SJMSOM to make me clarify.

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.