Description: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is India's top B-school whose alumni includes Ajay Banga, Raghuram Rajan, K.V. Kamath, Arvind Subramanian, Shikha Sharma and Falguni Nayar. It was in an unusual spotlight recently as YouTuber Navya Naveli Nanda (granddaughter of Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan) took admission in recently launched blended MBA programme. It may not need that kind of publicity but this does indicate its appetite to change with the times.

While the B-school's two-year on-campus MBA programme continues to be the most coveted, over past few years, it has started democratising management education. Recently, it launched hybrid MBA, a combination of online and offline. Priced at 20 lakh compared to conventional two-year MBA's 26.50 lakh fee, it requires students to be present on campus for just 30 days. "Every term starts on campus. The remaining classes are online. The curriculum is 85% the same as the two-year campus programme (since you are working, you avoid certain base programmes). The faculty is also the same," says Bharat Bhasker, director, IIM-A