ITM Kharghar’s published 2026 ranking record
ITM Business School’s rankings page lists several 2026 positions and awards, each with a different publisher and category. In Fortune B-Schools 2026, ITM reports #8 among private business schools in India, #8 in Mumbai and #22 in the West Zone. The Week 2026 entry is #7 in Mumbai and #63 overall. Business Today 2026 is listed as #8 in its Best B-Schools survey. These are separate lists, so their positions should be read within each publisher’s scope rather than combined into one overall rank.
The school’s page reports an A+ Diamond Band in the 2026 Outcome Based Education (OBE) Ranking Survey and a national “Best Institution in Placements” award from the World Education Congress for outcomes across the 2025-26 recruiting year. Those are a band and an award, not numerical positions in a general national college ranking. The distinction matters when comparing them with the Fortune, Business Today or The Week rankings.
What each position does and does not say
Fortune’s listed India result is specifically among private business schools; its Mumbai and West Zone positions use geographic scopes. The Week entry provides a city position, an overall position and a private-school position. Business Today’s page entry gives a position in its Best B-Schools survey but does not state a separate category in the ITM summary. A reader should preserve those labels when quoting a rank. “#8” alone is ambiguous because it could refer to Fortune’s private-school list, Fortune’s Mumbai list or the Business Today survey.
These results are useful as a record of where the school says particular publishers placed it in 2026. The accessible ITM page does not include the publishers’ full methodology, respondent base, eligibility rules, score breakdown or the participating-school list for each survey. It also does not establish that each ranking measures the same features. Do not treat a higher position in one list as proof of better placements, teaching or student outcomes without checking that publisher’s method and the specific indicator you care about.
Awards and bands are separate evidence
The A+ Diamond Band is attributed to the OBE Ranking Survey 2026. A band is a category, not an exact rank among all business schools. The World Education Congress award is described as “Best Institution in Placements” at the national level and tied to the 2025-26 recruiting year. It is an award label, not a placement percentage, average salary or audited cohort report. For measured placement outcomes, review the separate MBA batch data and its opt-in denominator rather than reading an award as a substitute for those figures.
Rankings and accreditation are different kinds of evidence. ITM’s page groups both under a rankings-and-accreditations heading, but an award, survey band or publisher position does not itself establish accreditation. If an accreditation matters to your decision, check the accreditor’s current register and the programme or institution scope that it covers. Do not infer a current accreditation from a ranking entry or from the heading used on the school’s webpage.
Earlier results are history, not current positions
The 2026 labels should stay attached to their publisher and edition. A 2026 position from one survey cannot be treated as a year-on-year movement from a different publisher’s older list, since the categories and methods may differ. The accessible ITM summary does not provide a consistent historical series, participating-school list or score breakdown for every entry. It therefore supports reporting the listed results with their dates, but not calculating a trend or saying the school moved up or down overall.
The rankings page is maintained by the institution and summarizes external results; it is not the ranking publisher’s methodology or full results table. This source distinction is useful when a school page presents several positions together. The current set can be described as ITM’s published 2026 ranking record, while the original publishers remain the responsible sources for category definitions, scoring, eligibility and the complete list of schools.
How to use the rankings when choosing
Start with the list whose scope matches your comparison. For a national private-school comparison, the Fortune private-school category is the clearest label on ITM’s page. For a Mumbai-focused comparison, both Fortune and The Week provide city positions, but each belongs to its own survey. Business Today’s #8 belongs to its Best B-Schools survey. Do not compare the numbers as if they came from a single table.
Then open the publisher’s original report and check the edition, inclusion criteria, category, methodology and whether the Kharghar business school is named distinctly from similarly named ITM institutions. If those details are not available, treat the result as an attributed school-reported ranking rather than a complete comparison. Use it alongside the course, current fee schedule, cohort-specific placement figures and your preferred specialization. A ranking is one input, not a forecast of your admission, internship or salary outcome.
For the current list and its stated categories, see ITM’s official rankings and placements page. The MBA iConnect page also refers to awards by ranking bodies, but applicants should consult each publisher for the full 2026 table and methodology before drawing a comparison.