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- The academic diversity of business schools will be segmented based on batch-strength, as follows -
- The veracity of data from 3 institutes (IIMs Ahmedabad, Lucknow & Kozhikode) could not be verified by Team InsideIIM and therefore must be viewed with caution. - The data for XAHR, XSRM, XSC-MBF, XSoS, and XUMG will be collated under the umbrella term XUB (Xavier University Bhubaneswar). The data for XIMB is separate from that of XUB.
a) Batch Size > 300
b) Batch Size =< 300
c) Batch Size < 150
Rank |
B-School |
Percentage of Non-Engineers |
1 |
MICA Ahmedabad |
58.89% |
2 |
IIM Shillong |
42.46% |
3 |
XUB |
40.33% |
4 |
SDA Bocconi Asia Center |
39.66% |
5 |
SIBM Bengaluru |
38.12% |
6 |
IIM Ahmedabad |
32.83% |
7 |
IIM Udaipur |
32.70% |
8 |
IIM Jammu |
32.31% |
9 |
IIM Rohtak |
31.12% |
10 |
SPJIMR |
28.57% |
Turns out, the top business school in the country also hosts some of the most academically diverse students within its four walls! IIM Ahmedabad is an institute which has shown a significant increase in academic diversity - the Class of 2016 had 87% engineers; the Class of 2017 had 92% engineers, the Class of 2018 had 79% engineers, the Class of 2019 has 74% engineers and now, it has come down to below 70%.
This could possibly be due to the fact that during Round 1 of the selection process, IIM A shortlists the top 5% of applicants from each of 6 Academic Categories mentioned in the selection criteria, thereby boosting the academic diversity numbers. Additionally, in Round 2 of the selection criteria, non-engineers have higher scoring potential as compared to Engineers. Clearly, IIM-A is very serious about sending out a very diverse work-force into the corporate world in the coming years. MDI Gurgaon, a non-IIM premier management institute, has shown significant progress in admitting students from diverse backgrounds. With 82% Engineers in the Class of 2018, 80% in Class of 2019, and now 72% in 2020, MDI Gurgaon's efforts to become a leading business school in all respects are paying off. On the other end of the spectrum, with almost 90% engineers in its PGP 2018-2020 batch, IIM Bangalore is one of the least diverse business schools in this report. This does not come as a surprise, as there are no points for academic diversity in IIM Bangalore's selection criteria, even this year. Considering IIM Bangalore is known for recruitment by management consulting firms with an eye for students with an engineering pedigree, perhaps having a less academically-diverse batch could be explicable to some extent. IIM Calcutta is one of the least academically diverse business schools in this report. Even though the institute has points for academic diversity (including this year) while making the Final Merit List, the institute's performance is below par when compared to other institutes. When looked at historically, IIM Calcutta has faced a deficiency of non-engineers for quite some time now - from the Class of 2014 to the Class of 2019, the percentage of Engineers has never dropped below 90%, going up till 95% for the Class of 2016. However, that also implies that this year's academic diversity figures have been the best in a span of 7 years. IIMs Indore, Lucknow and Kozhikode have scope for improvement in the number of non-engineers in their future batches - especially the latter two, considering they have some points for academic diversity in their selection process. ISB (Hyderabad and Mohali campus), which offers a 1-year PGP programme, has 65% Engineers in its current total batch of 887 candidates, according to the official institute website. The data for NMIMS's Class of 2020 (batch strength of 630 students) could not be obtained. However, it can be noted that the Class of 2019 has 75% Engineers, while the Class of 2018 had 78% Engineers.
B-School |
Engineering |
Commerce |
Arts |
Others |
Total Batch Size |
IIM Ahmedabad |
67.17% |
22.56% |
7.27% |
3.01% |
399 |
MDI Gurgaon |
71.87% |
12.81% |
3.90% |
11.42% |
359 |
KJ SIMSR |
74.47% |
13.95% |
3.42% |
8.16% |
380 |
IIM Indore |
75.86% |
14.66% |
0.22% |
9.27% |
464 |
IIM Lucknow |
77.83% |
11.09% |
2.44% |
8.65% |
451 |
IMT Ghaziabad |
78.00% |
11.00% |
4.00% |
7.00% |
500 |
XIMB |
81.59% |
6.87% |
3.02% |
8.52% |
364 |
IIM Kozhikode |
86.97% |
4.98% |
0.95% |
7.11% |
422 |
IIM Calcutta |
87.26% |
6.05% |
0.86% |
5.83% |
463 |
IIM Bangalore |
89.30% |
6.28% |
2.09% |
2.33% |
430 |
B-School |
Engineering |
Commerce |
Arts |
Others |
Total Batch Size |
MICA Ahmedabad |
41.11% |
13.33% |
0.00% |
45.56% |
180 |
IIM Shillong |
57.54% |
28.49% |
6.70% |
7.26% |
179 |
XUB (XAHR + XSRM + XSC – MBF + XSoS + XUMG) |
59.67% |
18.33% |
6.00% |
16.00% |
300 |
SIBM Bengaluru |
61.88% |
19.31% |
2.97% |
15.84% |
202 |
IIM Udaipur |
67.30% |
16.35% |
2.28% |
14.07% |
263 |
IIM Rohtak |
68.88% |
7.47% |
4.56% |
19.09% |
231 |
SPJIMR |
71.43% |
16.39% |
1.26% |
10.92% |
238 |
IIM Raipur |
72.73% |
13.88% |
2.87% |
10.53% |
209 |
IIFT Delhi |
76.30% |
10.40% |
2.89% |
10.40% |
173 |
IIM Trichy |
78.49% |
8.60% |
1.61% |
11.29% |
186 |
SCMHRD |
80.13% |
8.08% |
2.02% |
9.76% |
297 |
IIM Ranchi |
81.18% |
9.02% |
3.14% |
6.67% |
255 |
IIM Kashipur |
89.84% |
3.91% |
0.78% |
5.47% |
256 |
NITIE Mumbai |
100.00% |
0.00% |
0.00% |
0.00% |
241 |
B-School |
Engineering |
Commerce |
Arts |
Others |
Total Batch Size |
SDA Bocconi Asia Center |
60.34% |
16.38% |
0.00% |
23.28% |
116 |
IIM Jammu |
67.69% |
12.31% |
0.00% |
20.00% |
65 |
TISS Mumbai |
76.00% |
3.00% |
10.00% |
11.00% |
62 |
JBIMS Mumbai |
83.82% |
13.97% |
2.21% |
0.00% |
136 |
SJMSOM Mumbai |
95.65% |
3.48% |
0.00% |
0.87% |
115 |
"The moment one enters a Harvard classroom, one would find a diverse student body. It’s like United Nations. Students are economists, computer scientists, historians, litterateurs while 95% students at IIMA are engineers. If you have students from similar academic backgrounds, you do not get a diverse perspective. Learning in class is little less at IIMA compared to Harvard."However, this report highlights that the top management institutes of the country are walking the extra mile to change the status quo and invite more non-engineers to take admission. This can be seen through additional points for academic diversity in the selection criteria of most business schools for the past few years. ----------- (If your b-school has a higher ratio but still hasn’t featured in this list, it is possible that the data wasn’t shared with us) In case you want your b-school to be featured on this list, please send the required stats to Nidhi at nidhi.malkan@insideiim.com