Indian School of Business

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The Indian School of Business (ISB) is a private business school in India with campuses in Hyderabad and Mohali. It was established in 2001 by Rajat Gupta and Anil Kumar of McKinsey & Company, who helped bring in international partners Wharton and Kellogg. The school’s first dean was Pramath Sinha, and Rajat Gupta served as its first chairman, followed by Adi Godrej in 2011.

Today, ISB is led by Chairman Harish Manwani and Dean Madan Pillutla. It has about 65 permanent faculty and 104 visiting faculty, and its campuses cover a large area on urban sites. The Hyderabad campus is the older one, opened in 2001, while the Mohali campus began operating in 2012. The Mohali campus was designed by Perkins Eastman and hosts ISB’s programs and executive education. In 2025, ISB opened the Motilal Oswal Center on September 5.

ISB holds triple accreditation from AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB, and it became the 100th institution worldwide to achieve triple accreditation in 2020. It is not accredited by AICTE and offers certificate programs rather than a degree or diploma that AICTE would approve. The US USCIS has noted that ISB’s post-graduate certificate is not equivalent to an MBA for visa purposes.

ISB runs a range of post-graduate and executive programs, including its flagship Post-Graduate Programme in Management (PGP). It also hosts the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Entrepreneurs Certificate program in India and runs the Young Leaders’ Programme (YLP), which mentors undergraduate students and provides scholarships. The Management Programme in Public Policy (MPPP), started in 2015 with the Bharti Institute of Public Policy and in consultation with The Fletcher School, focuses on mid-career professionals and public policy topics. ISB also organizes an annual Policy Conclave and publishes ISBInsight, a biannual management research periodical.

In rankings, the Financial Times listed ISB 27th in its Global MBA Ranking 2025. QS World University Rankings for 2025 placed ISB 86th globally and 11th in Asia, while the QS EMBA ranking for 2024 placed ISB in the 101-110 global band and 13th in Asia.