How to choose good but lesser-known MBA colleges? Ask Shiksha.com

With decent CAT, XAT or CMAT score, landing into a good business school is not an extremely difficult task.

But the ordeal of choosing a good MBA college becomes difficult if one doesn’t have a good score to fall back on. Often, such candidates have limited time and resources at disposal. And securing admission in an MBA programme, irrespective of college ranking or reputation, takes precedence. In such cases, candidates look for guidance on how to select an MBA college.

There are quite a few articles guiding us how to choose a top B-School or choose a B-School beyond the top IIMS. However, none of them address how to select a lesser known MBA college.

Let us take a look at some important factors that a student should consider while selecting a Tier II or Tier III MBA colleges in this article:

 

1. Quality of the Institute

With more than 3000 B-Schools operating in India, it’s extremely crucial to know the quality of the institutes. For this the candidates need to know basic details about the college such as infrastructure, faculty, MBA specialisations offered and so on. Applicants can refer to the official college website or Shiksha.com listings. Under each college listing, Shiksha provides a variety of information such as college details, top faculty and so on.

Candidates can also source their information from Shiksha College Reviews. In this section, students rate their college on a variety of factors. These reviews vary from positive to negative experiences and are verified by experts.

 

2. Ranking / Reputation

Another crucial criteria of selecting an MBA college is to know the college ranking (Shiksha College Ranking). However, not all colleges participate in rankings. In such cases, applicants need to know the reputation (goodwill) of the college. For this, candidates need to rely on their social circle to know about the college reputation. Candidates can also refer to Shiksha College Reviews to ascertain the reputation index of the MBA College. The reviews are submitted on five parameters and later verified by independent experts:

• Worth the Money
• Crowd and Campus Life
• Average Salary and Placements
• Campus Facilities
• Faculty

 

3. Return of Investment (ROI)/ Placements

For most management aspirants, MBA is a means of getting good job placements in respected companies. But deciding an MBA college and paying its enormous fees without verifying its placement record can be quite disastrous. Often colleges put up insufficient placement-related data on their website or refuse to answer queries. To solve your problems, Shiksha.com has a two-pronged approach:

• Shiksha College Reviews:
  
  As mentioned above, Shiksha College Reviews can be submitted by any individual related to the college. The review can choose to highlight a negative or positive factors. These reviews are independently verified by Shiksha.com and provide in-depth and accurate information about the college.

 

• Career Compass:
  
  Next, we come to Shiksha Career Compass. Through this tool, aspirants can check the average salary earned by the college alumni and firms recruiting from the college. This tool also allows MBA aspirants to select a college based on their desired profile or job. Career Compass is powered by data from Naukri.com which has nearly 17 years of employment data.

 

4. Talk to College Students

Another great way of ascertaining reliable information about college is connecting with current students. This is where Shiksha Campus Connect comes into play. In Campus Connect, a current college student comes on board to answer any and every query of an aspirant. Currently, more than 500 Campus Representatives from various MBA colleges are participating in discussions, answering all queries.