SPJIMR Rankings: NIRF, FT and National B-School Tables
SPJIMR Mumbai appears in several rankings, but their numbers describe different things. NIRF 2025 places the institute at 20 in the Management category. The Financial Times Masters in Management (FT MiM) 2026 table places SPJIMR at 26 globally and second in India. The institute also reports results from India Today MDRA and Business Today MDRA surveys. These are rankings of institutions or management-school offerings under different methods; they do not establish a single universal position for every SPJIMR programme.
A separate Financial Times result is easy to misread: SPJIMR’s Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGPM), an 18-month programme for experienced professionals, is 74th in the FT Global MBA 2026 ranking. That PGPM result is not the rank of the two-year PGDM or PGDM (BM). When you compare institutions, record the publisher, edition, category or programme, geography, rank and methodology together. A number without those labels can imply a comparison the source never made.
Rankings reported by SPJIMR
SPJIMR’s rankings page reports these edition-specific results:
- NIRF Management 2025: rank 20 in India’s Management category. This is the institute’s national category ranking, not a PGDM-only result.
- Financial Times Masters in Management 2026: rank 26 globally and rank 2 in India. This is the FT MiM table, not the FT Global MBA table. SPJIMR also reports first-place positions within that FT edition for Careers Service, Alumni Network, Value for Money, and ESG and Net Zero Teaching. Those are metric-level positions, not separate overall school rankings.
- Business Today–MDRA Best B-School Ranking 2026: SPJIMR reports rank 4 overall in India and rank 1 among private B-schools. The institute page describes the survey inputs as including student diversity, fees and funding, selection, learning and living experience, future orientation, placement performance and new-age courses.
- India Today–MDRA Ranking 2026: SPJIMR reports rank 5 overall and rank 1 among private B-schools. Its page says the survey considers academic rigour, faculty expertise, industry engagement and technological innovation.
- FT Global MBA 2026: rank 74 globally for SPJIMR’s PGPM for experienced professionals. This is a different programme from PGDM and PGDM (BM).
The institute’s rankings page links out to publishers and describes its interpretation of the results. For a decision that depends on one ranking, open the named edition at its publisher and check the full table, comparison group and methodology. The NIRF page is the institute’s reporting page; the official NIRF website may make individual ranking pages temporarily unavailable, so use the saved institution-specific record and retry NIRF directly when the original table is needed.
How to compare these results
Start with the question you want a ranking to answer. NIRF’s Management category compares institutions within its Indian framework. FT MiM is a global Master in Management table; its rank and metric placements should be read within that edition. The FT Global MBA result listed for PGPM concerns a programme aimed at experienced professionals, so do not put it beside PGDM as though it were a PGDM rank. Private-school subranks also sit inside their named national survey and should not be presented as overall India positions.
Ranking methods use different mixes of survey evidence and institutional data. SPJIMR’s own page identifies distinct inputs for Business Today and India Today and points to external publisher pages. The ranking results therefore are not interchangeable, and rank changes between editions do not by themselves explain why a position moved. Check whether a later edition exists before citing an older one. The list here reflects results displayed by SPJIMR on 9 November 2026; it does not imply that all publishers had released a 2027 edition.
For applicants, a ranking is one comparison signal. It does not promise admission, placement, salary or an individual learning outcome. Compare programme curriculum, entry rules, fee scope, residential requirements, career services and your own goals alongside the ranking. Keep PGDM, PGDM (BM) and PGPM distinctions visible when reading institutional results.
Use SPJIMR’s official rankings page for the institution’s current record, the PGDM programme page for programme context, and the NIRF page for the institute’s category-wise NIRF submissions and reported results. Confirm newer editions directly before using these positions for a current-cycle decision.\n\n## Use a ranking as a comparison tool\n\nWhen placing SPJIMR beside another school, compare like with like. A national institution-category result and a global programme table answer different questions; a school-level private-subset position is nested within an overall survey rank. A movement of one or more places can reflect a changed result, a changed sample, a new participant or a revised method. The institute’s summary page does not contain every calculation behind each publisher’s position, so avoid inferring a precise reason for a rank change from a short highlight alone.\n\nFor a shortlist, note the edition date and compare the same edition across schools, where possible. Read the methodology to understand which inputs matter to you, such as academic profile, student experience, value, career services or placement-related measures. Then check the underlying programme facts in their own sources: fees on the current fee notice, course structure on the relevant curriculum page, and admission conditions in the live eligibility document. Those items can change between ranking editions and should not be inferred from a rank.\n\nThe institute’s own rankings page is useful for discovery and for tracing which editions it highlights. The linked publisher pages are the next step for an independent comparison and fuller context. If a publisher table cannot be reached, retain the limitation instead of substituting a search-result snippet or a different edition. This guide records the pages available on 9 November 2026 and can be refreshed when the institute or ranking publishers post later results.