How good/bad is ISB?

2 Simple things to navigate through any MBA are -

1. You should have a decent resume to get shortlisted for interviews.
2. Be good at English aka know how to bullshit your way through an interview

These 2 will end up letting you land a job atleast.

Bonus points if you are a IIT/BITS/Faang/mbb/top startup alumni, have a big marketable skill, are a girl, have an exotic accent. In that order

Good or bad is relative and different from person to person. If you are looking to be at a certain place in your career, you should ask yourself if an ISB PGP will help, what you want out of it and how your likelihood to achieve your goal will change post the PGP - the input variables will matter like your grad scores, college, concentration etc. and other things like the fees, scholarships, opportunity cost etc.

I don't think you will hear that ISB is a 'bad' school often. The concern some people have with the college is that it is projected to be a lot more than it actually is. Getting objective opinions from alumni is rare (in general), even more so in the case of ISB.

Having worked closed with ISB graduates and not making into it last year, here is my take from my research

• get an admit first (it’s getting tougher with every passing year, in 2016-17 a GMAT of 710 would give you a good bet now even 750 folks are dinged because they don’t know why behind their MBA)
  On cons you have mentioned - what I have heard
• placement at ISB are more organised vs IIMs, as they are not organised by student groups (hence limited scope of bias, favouritism)
• consulting make up 300-350 offers (that is like the entire batch of FMS) top firms MBB, Kearney, Roland, LEK, EYP etc. make 120-150 offers offers
• Prod man has huge scope people with valid experience can even get Prod man 2 as well at FAANG, Indian tech firms
• On resumes, yes the vetting is limited. But, eventually recruiters are not dumb. Big lies get caught and impact candidature. Overall, the profiles are so diverse at ISB that is tough to validate every resume ( Indian Army, doctors, ISRO, WWF fund, news broadcaster, core engineers, IT engineers)
• on non-placement yes there are 5-8% of batch (40-70 people) that is not placed by graduation - 20-25 people out of these voluntarily drop off due to entrepreneurships, 5-10 go back to their old firms and drop off. 25-30 most have one offer but don’t take it as they want to apply off campus as competition is lower vs competing inside ISB. But there are 10-15 people who have no offers till graduation
  Hope this helps

This is the fundamental problem of aspirants : They start evaluating the school before they evaluate themselves.

By evaluating themselves, I meant -

• wat they want from the program

• if their profile is good enough for isb

• how MBA helped other people with similar backgrounds

They simply look for “an easy formula to accelerate the salary”. It’s evident from this post as pro/con has top points related to salary only.

If 800+ people are joining a program year-after-year, do you think they lack in IQ somewhere?

Try looking for answers of all the above questions, maybe you will be able to figure out yourself. There are many views on ISB and it’s too confusing here.

P.S. - I’ve no relation to ISB, I researched about it and went to other school basis my preferences.

Current student at ISB.

There is a positive in your bad things list and its that all these concerns will become irrelevant an year after graduation. BS resumes will go away and people will get better paying jobs.

Although, I wouldn’t say professors are “best”. I obviously haven’t studied at any other college but any Prof can be a hit or a miss in class affecting your overall experience.