What are the pros and cons of each of the IIM Ahmedabad and the IIM Calcutta? Which is better?

For some reason, many MBAs, as well as at least half of recruiters, believe that is the primary trade to pursue as an MBA.

Most recruiters are aware that IIM Calcutta is not particularly strong in finance (despite popular belief). The IIM C aura, on the other hand, has been carrying it, and the quant-heavy students from IITs prefer to load up on Bong Kolkata when they give up CAT in the pre-final year and choose the easy option. IIMC placements are notoriously shoddy, and due to the chilled campus name, they frequently load up on bottom feeders in the bottom half of the placement, as a result of which they produce more techs and outsourcing managers left behind in India offices than any other IIM campus.

IIM Ahmedabad graduates end up in jobs where they like to manage uncertainty in entrepreneurial roles, and they have had a significant chunk of bottom feeders in every other batch because their entrepreneurs are almost never confused with well-funded start-up entrepreneurs until they are. However, given this history and IIM Bangalore's management of many global placements, IIMB has, in my opinion, become the undisputed leader in Finance and Consulting placements, leaving the competition far behind. Most rankings make it painfully clear, and the proof of the pudding is in the eating. IIMA remains the number one Indian MBA school for CEOs and those aspiring to be CEOs.

A behavioral model will require awareness of how you will cope with things like peer pressure, and less academic pressure, which is a uniform thing, in order to choose between Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and Calcutta. This entails determining whether you will be able to be a confident leader in 6 months on that Campus. If you are capable of doing so, choose that Campus over others. Choose Bangalore if you know you need an I banking job. Stay in Calcutta if you know you've always been nerdier than others. Choose A if you know you can make it without reading through a lot of paper. If you are certain that you will be able to fly high, locational preferences abound for both mundane and interesting reasons.