Why India's top 25 B-schools have reported lower admissions this year - Business Today
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Key takeaway
Top US and UK business schools are discontinuing full-time MBA programmes as applications and demand fall.
- Step 1 · The triggerApplications to full-time MBA programmes in the US and UK decline, prompting leading business schools to discontinue these programmes.
- Step 2 · Knock-onDemand shifts toward one-year, executive, and online business programmes, increasing enrolment in digital and flexible formats.
- Step 3 · Knock-onIndian business schools, including IIMs, begin to pivot away from two-year MBAs toward shorter and specialised offerings.
- Step 4 · Reaches youIndian SMEs experience a change in the available talent pool, with more candidates from executive or online business programmes and fewer from traditional two-year MBAs, impacting recruitment and upskilling strategies.
The trigger is reported by the source below. The steps that follow are Branch²’s traced reasoning — how the shock could reach a business like yours, not a prediction.
Source: Google News India Business
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