Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur has scored a notch over IIM Ahmedabad, in the Indian business schools ranking this year.

UT Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management, Texas has released the ranking table based on the research contributions by the top business schools of India.  UT Dallas has prepared a list of the top 24 research journals globally and ranked the contributions made by each business school in terms of papers published between 2013-2017.

Last year, IIMU was ranked 4th when the period under consideration was 2012-2016.  This years ranking has brought IIMU to the third spot, while Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and IIM Bangalore have taken the first two slots.

Research priorities at IIMU

• IIMU publications in A category journals: 37 papers
• IIMU publications in B category journals: 140 papers
• Two committees to manage research priorities
• 50% faculty allocated towards research projects
• Two research projects approved each year, with an allocation of Rs 3.25 lac per project faculty
• Rs. 12 lac given under research incentive plan
• Travel, both national and international seminar and workshop participation
• Guest faculty also given research opportunities

Prof Janat Shah, Director of IIMU informed that four papers have been published by research faculty of IIMU in the top journals, getting them an average score of 1.27.

The ranking list:

1. Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
2. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
3. Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur
4. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
5. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
6. Indian Institute of Management, Kolkatta
7. Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli
8. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Institute of Rural Management Anand
9. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
10. TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal