A Review of the Post Graduate Programme Curriculum at IIM Bangalore

Abstract

The paper presents a new approach for comparing the curriculum of a business school with the curricula of a set of bench marked schools. A novel method of comparing the core curricula of any school with a set of bench marked schools is first discussed. This algorithm is used to compare the core curriculum of IIM-B with the core curricula of 14 top management schools. A separate methodology for comparing the elective offerings is then developed and used for positioning IIM-B against the 14 schools in terms of elective offerings. These core and elective positions are used to provide direction for change in the core and elective offerings of IIM-B to move it closer to the top schools.