Global MBA Ranking 2018: IIM Ahmedabad, Indian School of Business slip, details inside

The Financial Times on Monday released its 20th edition of annual global ranking of business schools. According to the report, premium Indian business schools, IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta have improved their global rankings this year. 

Surprisingly, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad have slipped from their previous ranking. 

The ISB in a statement notified that its post graduate has been ranked 28th among the top 100 global MBAs and is the top-ranked business school in the country. 

"We will continue to focus on providing world-class education while steadfastly investing in our faculty, research centres and institutes. ISB will continue to proactively partner with government and industry to drive performance and to contribute to society at large," said Dean Rajendra Srivastava.

The ISB was ranked 27th in 2017 slipped one notch to 28 in the current year Financial Times rankings while IIM Ahmedabad, which was at 29th position last year, is at 31, the Financial Times London said. 

However, after snubbing Stanford Business School from the list, the school has finallymade its comeback and has returned to the top of the FT's annual MBA rankings, followed by the French school Insead.

IIM Bangalore has improved its position and climbed to 35th from 49th. Likewise, the IIM Calcutta too considerably improved its position to 78th this year from 95th, sharing the honours with McGill University Desautels, Canada.

Following is the complete list of top 10 Business Schools: 

1. Stanford Graduate School of Business, Unites States
2. Insead, France / Singapore
3. University of Pennsylvania: Wharton, Unites States
4. London Business School, Unites Kingdom
5. Harvard Business School, Unites States
6. University of Chicago: Booth, Unites States
7. Columbia Business School, Unites States
8. Ceibs, China
9. MIT: Sloan, Unites States
10. University of California at Berkeley: Haas, Unites States

And below are the Indian schools that made into top 100 

 Indian Schools in Top 100

28. Indian School of Business
31. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
35. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
78. Indian Institute of Management Calcutta