The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore has been ranked 6 in the Asia-Pacific region in the QS Global 200 Business Schools 2009: The Employers' Choice, published recently by Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. IIM-B is the only Indian management school to rank amongst the top 10, which includes business schools in Australia, Singapore, China and Hong Kong.
Significantly, IIM-B at sixth place has improved on its ranking from the ninth place it received in the previous 2007-08 report.
The survey also states that the average GMAT score of students enrolled in the Post-Graduate Programme in Management at IIM-B is 780, which is the highest in the entire region.
The "QS Global 200 Business Schools 2009" originated in the early 1990s as an alternative to business school rankings and until this year has been known as the "Global Recruiters' Top Business Schools Research".
According to a statement from IIM-B, the report provides a list of 200 business schools currently preferred by the most international employers for the purpose of hiring MBA graduates.