The first boo-boo is at this stage itself. Important schools like NITIE Mumbai and SJMSOM-IIT Bombay are missing (although IIT Delhi makes the grade).

Goa Institute of Management, IMT Ghaziabad and IMI Delhi (which any student should count in the Top 30) are also missing.

Symbiosis seems to be a 'blanket' brand - SIBM, SCMHRD, SIIB and other eight institutes are not listed separately.

Sectoral schools like IRMA Anand, MICA Ahmedabad are not considered at all, although many students would prefer to join them over other options included in the BT Top 30.

'BIMT' is apparently in Chennai. It's actually BIM Tiruchirapally.

For reasons unspecified, IIPM Delhi has not been included. The college ranked an amazing No. 11 last year, ahead of IIM Kozhikode and SP Jain, Mumbai. The sudden disappearance of IIPM Delhi (and the fall of IIPM Mumbai from No. 16 last year to No. 26 this year) begs an explanation.

And at an even more basic level, I fail to understand why they have surveyed 'MBA Aspirants' (these respondents make up close to 25% of the sample). The perceptions of the very people who NEED information about B-schools does not seem like a good idea at all.

Neither is using this survey to help in making the decision of a lifetime.

Concluded.

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Rashmi Bansal is an IIM Ahmedabad graduate and founder-editor of the popular youth magazine JAM (www.jammag.com). She can be reached at rashmi@jammag.com