Pagalguy has launched its B-School Ranking 2010. I went through the Rankings and the methodology of calculating the rank of the B-Schools.
Salient features of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010
Total number of valid respondents polled (sample size): 9,576
Total number of b-schools in the initial list: 184
Total number of b-schools in the final rankings: 92
Of which Nationally Aspired-to b-schools: 55*
And Regionally Aspired-to b-schools: 37
(5 from Jaipur
14 from Mumbai
10 from Hyderabad
8 from Chennai)
2 Colleges got black-listed from the Ranking: Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur and International Management Institute, Delhi
Quite different from last year’s Rankings - New looks, More Colleges, Regional Rankings, New options of Ranking. Well I found some good points and some not-so-good points in this year’s PG B-School Ranking , and I have jotted them down to share it with you guys.
Good Points:
1) It’s all about Looks: Decent looking Blue theme is used in user interface and the speed of the Javascript used is also good. Full points to them. Here is the screen-shot:
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2) Awesome UI: Whole user interface is very friendly and have provided some salient features like
- Filtering of colleges according to the score they accept.
- Link of College website on hovering through the college name in the list.
- Rankings on different criterion like: Freshers, Work Ex, Women,Alumni, Aspirants, MBA Students.
3) Full Transparency: Whole methodology of calculating the Rankings is published. Also different opinions has been published regarding the rankings.
4) Comparitoption: the ‘Compare B-School‘ section which helps you compare different colleges is seriously very solid. Saves lot of time in deciding which gd/pi to attend in case of clashes 
…just kidding. Clashes are solved by re-arranging instead of dropping one option.
5) Quant-Savvy Ranking: All kind of Statistics/Mathematics is used in calculating this ranking. According to Apurv, the ranking was put to the test of Recursive Induction (I forgot when did I hear this term last time, well Apurv has tried to explain it here) in order to maintain the authenticity of the Rankings.
6) New Ivy Leagues : Last but not the least PG has for the first time introduced the Regional Rankings (R.R) this year. They have included those colleges which have only regional reach. 4 Regions – Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Mumbai have been included in R.R.
Not-So-Good Points:
1) Only 4 regions are covered in Regional Rankings. I don’t know the reason behind this but more regions would have made the Rankings more worthy.
2) Regional Colleges of Delhi (Capital of India) is ignored. Still I don’t have any clue. Delhi guys don’t you want to know the rankings of the regional colleges in Delhi? or everyone is eying only IIFT, IMT, MDI etc…
Few Nitty-Gritties:
1) If you will go to the ‘Compare B-Schools’ section and you don’t know the name of the college then you have to ‘double click‘ inside the B-School-search-box so that you can select your college directly from the B-School list. Here is the screen shot.
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2) Mouse Over the B-School Name in the list in order to know more about its ranking. A pop-up will appear consisting its different ranks, website link of the college, and the discussion thread related to that college in PG Forum.
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Note: I have used B-Schools and Colleges interchangeably in the above article. PG means ‘Pagalguy’.
