London: Three Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have featured in the top 50 list of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Masters in Management Rankings 2018. IIM Bangalore is placed ranked at number 22, followed by IIM Ahmedabad at 23 and IIM Calcutta at 46 globally.

At the global levels, HEC Paris (France) was crowned as the best institute in Masters in Management Rankings category, followed by London Business School (UK) at number two and ESADE (Spain) at number three.

Five Business Schools find a place in the Global MBA list – IIM Ahmedabad at 49, IIM Bangalore at 58, Indian School of Business (ISB) at 93, IIM Calcutta in the 121-130 rank and SPJIMR in 200+ rank.

QS Quacquarelli Symonds, international business school specialists with nearly three decades’ sectoral experience, released a new annual portfolio of four business Master’s rankings on 28 November 2018. For the first time, QS has released a Master in Management ranking. The rankings were part of a portfolio of four business Masters rankings released by QS which included Masters in Business Analytics, Masters in Management and Masters in Finance, and Global MBA Ranking.

Nunzio Quacquarelli, QS’s CEO, said: “Nearly three decades of close interaction with the business education sector have left us strongly-placed to provide the insights of most value to aspiring MBA students. We’re confident that our new portfolio offers a novel, needed perspectives on business school performance, and that our student audience will find the granular data complimentary to that provided by other sources.”

The five factors used by QS for ranking of these propgrammes are as followed: Employability, Entrepreneurship and Alumni Outcomes, return on Investment; Thought-Leadership; and diversity.