The Indian School of Business (ISB) has been ranked the best in the country and 26th globally by the Financial Times (FT) Executive Education Custom Ranking 2024, released on Sunday. ISB, with campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali, has retained its top position in India, is ranked the second-best in Asia, and has risen three places from last year’s 29th rank.
Deepa Mani, deputy dean, Executive Education & Digital Learning, and professor of Information Systems, ISB, said that the FT Ranking resonates with ISB Executive Education’s commitment to equipping learners with knowledge essential for effecting transformative change in global businesses and society, at large.
Custom rankings
Custom rankings feature top 90 B-schools. Custom courses are tailored to the training needs of the organisations that commission them. To be eligible for this ranking, the B-school must have a minimum of 10 clients who have commissioned programmes from them.
Other Indian B-schools on Custom rankings are IIM Bangalore (48th rank, better than 53rd rank last year), IIM Ahmedabad (70th, down from 45th last year), and IIM Indore (85th, new entrant this year). India has two more representations in these rankings – France’s EMLyon Business School, which has campuses in France, China and India, has been ranked 35th, and Canada’s York University: Schulich (which has campuses in Canada, India and Costa Rica) has been ranked 42nd.
Open rankings
The FT also released the Executive Education Open rankings, which include top 80 B-schools offering open-enrolment courses – on specific topics such as leadership, directed towards professionals regardless of their employer.
IIM Ahmedabad was ranked India’s best and 43rd in the world in Open rankings, followed by IIM Bangalore (59th), IIM Indore (61st), IIM Kozhikode (70th), and IIM Calcutta (74th).
Like in Custom rankings, Open rankings also had two more India representations – EMLyon Business School at 22nd position, and York University: Schulich at 27th.