How does an MBA degree from ISB compare to FMS, XLRI, JB ?

ISB's Postgraduate Programme in Management is equal to top-ranked MBA programs and it's just of a year's duration. It has more than 11500 alumni and over 85 faculty members who are serving as professors or senior fellows. 

FMS has the lowest fee of the lot at 10,000 a year. It is also part of the premier University of Delhi. It has an executive MBA program and a full-time MBA program.

XLRI's PGDM program is its flagship program and has been accredited by AMBA and AICTE. JB has 6 faculty members for its programs who are all Ph.D. holders and its Popular programs are the MMS and MSc Finance programs.

The table below gives an overview of the management programs at the institutes:

Students should have at least 50% marks in graduation to apply to these programs. In addition to these, CAT/MAT/XAT/SNAP, etc entrance exams can be qualified to get admissions into these programs.

Infrastructure

• IBS, FMS, JB, and XLRI have conference halls, seminar halls, sports facilities for basketball, cricket, or table tennis; there is a computer lab present and 2-4 hostels for boys and girls.
• The Tata Auditorium at XLRI with 1500 seats has the finest acoustic system in the region.

Placement Statistics

IBS

• The 2019 batch saw 96% placements on-campus and 4% off-campus. 
• The average CTC offered was 7.3 LPA and the highest was 16.5 LPA, which was 27% more than in 2018. 
• The top recruiters were Zomato, Wipro and Oracle.

FMS

• The students received 23 LPA as well, which was more than last year's 21 LPA. 
• The highest CTC though went down from 54 LPA to 48 LPA. 
• A total of 48 students were accepted by PPOs. 
• Amway, Asian Paints, and OYO were major recruiters.

JB 

• It saw a rise in its average payment from 20.3 LPA in 2019 to 23.4 LPA in 2020. 
• 38% of the batch was placed with the BFSI sector. 
• The most recruitments were done by Accenture, JP Morgan, Amazon, TCS, and HDFC Bank.

XLRI 

• MBA saw 100% placements in 2020 with a rise in average payment to 24.3 LPA. 
• The BFSI sector made numerous offers of 50 LPA with the highest pay of 58.1 LPA from international companies. 
• This year, 24 new recruiters joined namely, Myntra, Agra Investment Company, Varroc, etc.

Students can choose any of the colleges because each has a 100% placement average.