India had 840 Business Schools (B schools) from March 2002, which have 65,000 Masters in Business Administration (MBA). A survey by Cosmode and the World Series Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in the first top-10 B-schools in 2003.

– IIM Bangalore, Calcutta, IIM, IIM Lucknow, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, Faculty of Management Studies, University of New Delhi, Delhi, J and Shailesh Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, follow Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. According to the survey, the main factor that separates a top school is the rest of the Faculty and teaching, the others are research, publication and consultancy. On an average edge of the addresses of schools B-50 full-time professors, 73 percent with a promotion. The second phase of the school has 24 full-time professors, 47 percent with a promotion, while the third stage, 17 full-time teachers, of whom 35% have a doctorate.

The number of books published by the school average of 11.53 with the top-15, against 3.28 for the second phase of 25 schools and 1.08 for the remaining 60

On average, Management Development Programme Guidance and revenue amounting to Rs312.84 lakh for the Top 15, Rs42.38 lakh for the next 25 and Rs6.49 lakh for 60

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) is here for his mark on the international market for training Arena.

The Institute Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with several foreign universities for students and teachers exchange programs. XLRI now operates from a course in Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in collaboration with Dubai-based Al-Abbas Institute of Technology in the past two years.

XLRI director father P.D. Thomas, said the Institute had received a proposal from Kuwait at the beginning of a university gives the name of Xavier University of Kuwait. “Last year, we have the diploma program management system based on satellite class E program, in collaboration with Noida-based IT company Hughes.” He said, Faculty of plans for an exchange program with China Peking University Beijing for the International MBA program (BIMBA), shortly before the close. The tie-up with BIMBA, which is a joint venture between Jesuit-28 Business Schools in the USA and the University of Beijing, came after an agreement with the dean of the programme of Ron Anton, a former professor at Loyola College, Baltimore, USA. American visiting professor position for BIMBA is also XLRI.

XLRI officials said Bank of Oman, the Institute for a year of progress for its Muscat leaders. The Bank has agreed to classrooms and sends inns and XLRI of the Faculty.

Members of the programme for foreign students “Exchange (balance) said XLRI is likely to sign an agreement with the University Eichstätt November in Germany for teachers and student exchange programmes joint research and training.” The University invites members of the College of finance, marketing and human resources, “Nakul Gupta, secretary balance. Requests come from Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and universities in the north-east India.

A professor responsible XLRI, requesting anonymity, said the Research Institute on a common programme of the University of Waterloo, Canada, and research and the Faculty exchange programmes with Wharton School of Business, Pennsylvania, Loyola University, Chicago and the University of Yogyakartha, Indonesia.

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) of Mumbai is moving to the international arena. The 23-year old Business School is setting up its first overseas campus at the Knowledge Village in Dubai. SPJIMR, which is a part of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Education Trust, will establish the new institute in Dubai by the similar name of SP Jain Centre of Management (SPJCM). SPJCM will initially have a local faculty for core subjects and an international faculty for special subjects. In the long run, the two institutes will have a common faculty. The move will apparently be a good incentive for the faculty. SPJIMR has chosen Dubai as its first global base considering its proximity to Mumbai. The SPJCM campus is spread across 25,000 square feet at the Knowledge Village.

The Institute is looking forward to offer an executive masters in business administration (EMBA) programme targeting the local population comprising non- resident Indians, Pakistanis, and Egyptians among others. SPJCM has already attracted 80 applications for its post- graduate diploma in management (PGDM). The admission process will begin in the third week of Mar 2004. SPJCM has designed the curriculum to specially meet the needs of the region. Its course content will be different from the one at SPJIMR in Mumbai.

SPJCM will include programmes in retail, hospitality, wealth management, and investment banking. The Institute has launched road shows to create awareness among its target audience.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, has implemented its programme of DirecWay in association with Hughes Escorts, flagging off its satellite-based executive education.

Classes will be held at a studio in the classroom Institute. Students attend the classes may either in the classroom or log on from any of the interactive 36 centres across India.

However it will not offer full-fledged Executive Masters in Business Administration programme on the satellite platform.

XLRI Jamshedpur, Narsee Monjee of Mumbai IIM Kozhikode and have already been using the satellite platform.

(Extract from the India Business Insight)

The PSG Institute of Management (PSGIM) in Coimbatore focuses only with a request for study plan.

In a national survey of Outlook, the institute has been among the Top 30 Business Schools. The Institute provides, in addition to regular traffic Masters in Business Administration (MBA) program offers a Master of International Business (MPIB), and a third round one-year programme (GEP) in advertising and communication.

PSGIM encourages entrepreneurial skills and about 60 percent of students of the Institute have family members exploitation.