IIT Business Schools – Kharagpur, Delhi and Roorkee have featured in the top 10 list of NIRF Management ranking this year. A total number of 542 business schools who submitted data for the rank.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was approved by the MHRD. The management schools of IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee were ranked sixth and eighth. IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) was ranked seventh in the ranking list. The strength of these three B-schools has turned out to be research and professional practice for which they are the top-ranking B-schools in India.
While ‘teaching and learning’ remained the primary aspect of every B-school, research and research output such as research publications, intellectual property, consulting services, development programmes, opened up new paradigms of management initiatives.
Acting Dean of Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), IIT-Kharagpur, Prof Prabina Rajib said, “Faculty must undertake innovative and deep-learning R&D projects to add new dimensions to classroom teaching”.
Vinod Gupta School of Management was set up in 1993. IIT-Kharagpur was the first IIT and among the foremost engineering colleges to set up a business school.