India has always remained one of the top-notch breeders of management graduates and the current economic development has certainly catalyzed the considerable demand for quality MBA education. MBA graduates have always remained at the top of the preference for the recruiters globally and this has only made the quest of premium B-schools a lot dense. In the post-pandemic world, where corporate leaders are eager to streamline their businesses to start afresh and the global recruiters are shifting their focus to management candidates, the demand for MBA programs is also starting to explode. Amidst the ubiquitous upscaling of management education, the demand for business schools that implement up-graded curriculum across their offerings to provide industry-specific learning opportunities are also surging significantly. Emerging as one of the most preferred qualifications by the top-notch corporate firms, MBA is extensively perceived as a panacea to address all business challenges. Influenced by the amalgamation of technological disruptions and advanced curriculums, the MBA education sector evolving predominantly. Upgrading to online platforms to tally along with the post-pandemic challenges, the bourgeoning of B-schools has served a plethora of opportunities in front of the future MBA aspirants. Preparing rigorously to acquire a seat across the prestigious management institutions, students expect to be guided and nurtured prolifically to reach the summit of success. With the arrival of a large number of public and private institutions offering eminent MBA programs across the country along with concurrent curriculum and hands-on experiences for students, the conundrum prevails further. In this highly competitive domain, the challenges to secure a distinguished position as a qualified and successful business professional are intense. Overcoming the numerous evident as well as imperceptible hurdles to carve identity across this niche sector, students often tend to remain in inexplicable stress to choose the right B-School for themselves. Upholding an impeccable curriculum and rendering impressive employment opportunities, there are few institutions that are counted amongst the eminent B-schools of country and are considered to be equivalent to IIMs in every single aspect. Helping students to pursue a bright career, these management institutions have managed to outshine amongst the others by the virtue of their novel educational offerings. To help the aspirants finding the right institutions which are lauded for providing an extraordinary quality of management education, we at Higher Education Review have managed to conduct a survey, titled 'Beyond IIMs Top 100 B-Schools in India - 2021'. Recognizing the quest of students to find exceptional B-Schools catering top-notch management studies. With the help of our expert panel consisting of our editorial board and industry enthusiasts, we have come up with some of the premier B-Schools of the country which stand apart from the crowd owing to their unparalleled research facilities and globally accepted training methodologies. Leveraging various factors such as their journeys since inception, distinguished offerings, and students' placements, we have ranked the B-Schools in order along with a detailed description. We believe that this survey and listing will be helpful for students as well as to all the stakeholders of management education.
