IN continuation of the Top 3 clusters of 137 B-Schools, which we listed in our December 2009 issue, and the ranking of top 50 B-Schools in our last issue, we now bring out a list of the best B-Schools (arranged alphabetically) within the next three clusters. We hope this listing will help students select the right B-School for themselves, beyond the much discussed top ones.

Methodology:  As shared with our readers earlier, we picked up four major B-School rankings over the last five-years (2005 to 2009) and made a normalised listing of schools, so as to arrive at a CLUSTER-BASED grouping. We have used the ranking methodology to convert groups or clusters into equivalent ranks, so that multiple-year rankings could be compared and combined. After having the normalised ranking for all the B-Schools, these next 221 B-Schools were grouped into three  clusters of 30-35% each. Within each cluster so formed, the schools have then been arranged alphabetically. Though we have not reviewed any of them, we thought the list might help the student in at least forming his consideration set.