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title: LBS vs IIMB
date: "2000-10-07T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - london-2000
wp_id: 2167
description: I compared London Business School and IIM Bangalore across faculty, placements, and campus life. While LBS leads in industry connections and location, IIMB offers superior physical infrastructure and a traditional student campus experience.
keywords: [london business school, iim bangalore, mba, business school comparison, education infrastructure, higher education]
---

How would I compare LBS against IIM-B so far? Let's see.

- Faculty: LBS probably wins marginally. More famous faculty, more industry experience, better communication. But like I said, marginal.
- IT infrastructure: IIM-B wins!
- IT management: LBS wins. They manage what they've got extremely well.
- Companies coming for placement: LBS wins.
- Placement process: Debatable. IIM-B definitely has a more student-friendly process.
- Library: Books-wise, IIM-B wins. Electronic resources-wise, LBS wins.
- Students: Comparable. Too early to tell the difference probably. The point is, however, that everyone in LBS has a lot of work-experience.
- Campus: IIM-B wins hands down. I mean, LBS faces Regent's Park and all that, but it doesn't really have a campus.
- Lecture rooms: LBS wins marginally. Slightly better rooms, better equipment.
- Hostel: IIM-B wins. LBS doesn't have one.
- Location: LBS wins. Heart of London.
- Exchange programmes: LBS wins.

LBS is ahead, but not by far.

Today, I saw a train coming late for the first time. The British Rail comes to the Ilford station at minutes ending in 3 (11:03, 11:13, etc.) Today, the train was TWO MINUTES late. Two whole minutes. Probably because it was raining. I hear people complain about the punctuality of these trains.

Well, most of the day was spent at the computer center doing assignments. If you want a flavour of what I'm doing, check out my report on [Koito](http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/443d16aam281aef44/bc/Reports/Koito+Manufacturing+Case+Study.zip?bfiPUrFB1dC13khw), which is about [Pickens](http://www.famoustexans.com/boonepickens.htm) trying to [take over Koito.](http://www.gwjapan.com/ftp/pub/policy/miscpol/tboone.txt)