How was your experience at ISB Mohali in general? Did you ever feel like you should've been in Hyderabad instead?

One of my friends is from the ISB Mohali campus. She is currently on an exchange term at Hyderabad. As I have visited both the campuses personally so have a decent understanding of the pros and cons for both.

Advantages at Hyderabad campus

• Huge size of cohort: Anyone who is interested in a large network can create one with 600 students studying here. The other aspect is that you may not know everyone who studies here.
• Extracurricular and social life: Due to the location advantage, the Hyderabad campus provides students with an opportunity to have a much more vibrant social life. There are various clubs and departments specifying different interests of the students.
• Company presentations & interactions: Most of the placement interviews take place by Mohali joining in via VC at the Hyderabad campus. However, to communicate with all students, the major recruiters usually visit both campuses.

Advantages at Mohali campus

• Faculty: Mohali campus is comparatively new, and it is located in a tier-2 city. However, the resident faculty on campus is quite less. This means that the school flies in some of the best faculty from colleges like Wharton, UNC, and Kellogg to teach.
• Accommodation & Food: The student villages at Mohali are much better in terms of furnishing, rooms, and quality of housekeeping, as it is a new campus.

Compared to Hyderabad, the catering in Mohali is also much better, but this may be a temporary phenomenon.

Obtaining subjects of your preference. During the elective terms, ISB follows an online bidding system for courses. Given the size of the Hyderabad campus, there are limited bid points so students wishing to take all the popular courses is not possible. There is no issue like this in Mohali campus.

Placements: The school tries its hardest to balance both the campuses equally, so no trend in placements is observed. The campus placements for the Mohali students this year was better compared to Hyderabad, but Hyderabad has done better in the past.

GPA per batch is calculated by the school. Therefore, for scoring a high GPA or scoring honours, there is no definitive edge to staying at either campus.