The ICFAI Business School Hyderabad (IBS Hyderabad) is a

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in India. It was founded in 1995 and is located in Dontanapalli, Shankarpally Road,

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...

. IBS Hyderabad is a constituent of the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), a Deemed-to-be-University as per the UGC Act 1956. IBS Hyderabad is accredited by

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, also known as AACSB International, is an American professional organization. It was founded as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to provide accreditation to ...

(AACSB) in 2020.

History

IBS Hyderabad was established in 1995. It is promoted by the ICFAI Group.

Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India The Institute of Financial Analysts of India (IFAI) was established in 1984 as a non-profit educational society in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The institution has been offering education to students across India through its various programs ...

(ICFAI) is a not-for-profit educational society founded by

N.J. Yasaswy N. J. Yasaswy (9 February 1950 8 October 2011) was an Indian finance and investment writer and a founding member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India. Biography Yasaswy was appointed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh as ...

, Besant C. Raj and Dr. Prasanna Chandra in the year 1984. After the establishment of IFHE in 2008, IBS Hyderabad became its first constituent.

Programs

The major programs offered at IBS Hyderabad are MBA, PhD and BBA. As of 2020, it is also the only institution in India that is offering AACSB-accredited programs at the undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral levels. IBS Hyderabad also offers a number of certificate courses in Management. ICFAI Business School (IBS) offered scholarship program worth 10 crores to students.

IBS Case Research Center

IBS Hyderabad has adopted the case method of

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. The IBS Case Research Center is a

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at the institution. Led by

Debapratim Purkayastha Debapratim Purkayastha (Bengali: দেবপ্রতিম পুরকায়স্থ; born 1976) was a professor of strategy, academic leader and case method expert. Early life and education Purkayastha was born in Hailakandi, Assam, t ...

, the center has developed more than 6,500 case studies that are used in leading schools across the world. The center has a number of bestselling cases and regularly wins awards in international competitions. In 2020, number of bestselling cases from IBS was next only to that of

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

. In terms of awards won at The Case Centre since 2011, IBS Hyderabad was next only to Harvard Business School and

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

Accreditation and ranking

IBS Hyderabad is accredited by the AACSB in 2020. IBS Hyderabad is also SAQS (South Asian Quality Assurance System) accredited, an accreditation conferred by The Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA), since 2006. The faculty of Management of IFHE, i.e. IBS Hyderabad, was ranked 25th by the

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(NIRF) management ranking in 2020. In 2018, it had obtained its highest rank of 22nd in NIRF.

References

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