Colleges in Karnataka

At GIBS Business School, Industry Engagement is an important part of the student learning journey; we host frequent guest speakers from the Corporate World, along with our extensive network of Alumni and Mentors. While we offer many opportunities throughout the academic year to connect with industry leaders and Corporation, we also provide regular opportunities for students to meet with our extensive Alumni and Mentors.

The frequency of our Corporate Guest Talks and Speaker Series has greatly increased over the past ten years. Now, we hold Corporate Guest Talks and Speaker Series once a month or even more often, which give students valuable insight from high-level executives, Human Resource professionals, and leaders within the Corporate Community.

In addition to Corporate Guest Talks and Speaker Series, GIBS provides many opportunities for Students to connect with Alumni and Mentors on an ongoing basis. Our Alumni return to GIBS regularly to share their career experience and provide support for students with respect to Networking, Internships, and Career Preparation. We currently have over 2000 active alumni and these interactions are a key component of the GIBS educational experience.

In conclusion: GIBS Business School provides our students with a number of opportunities to connect with Industry through Corporate Talks, frequent contact with Alumni and Mentors, enabling our students to develop connections to Industry throughout their entire academic career, not just at one or two events each year.

At GIBS, students have many opportunities to have roles of leadership within various clubs, committees, and campus events that are critical to their overall growth. Students can be club leaders, committee coordinators, event leaders, team leaders or managers, marketing and content leaders or heads, finance and budget coordinators, and a representative of students from all academic, cultural, and sport clubs and professional clubs. Along with being asked to plan and execute events with faculty and industry guests, students will manage the budget and marketing for events, lead the coordination of teams to execute events successfully and provide an overall smooth execution of onsite activities for fests and conclaves, workshops, and competitions. In developing these leadership roles, students are able to develop leadership, decision-making, communication, ability to work within teams, ability to manage time, and ability to problem solve, all of which are required in the corporate world; by having worked in these various leadership roles, GIBS students are better prepared for managerial responsibilities.

Numerous major national ranking bodies across many different years have recognised and ranked the GIBS Business School for its overall quality in management education and for placing students in jobs after graduation and for its reputation as an institution of higher education in India, and for many aspects of this. The following are a few of the more prominent ranking organisations that have ranked GIBS Business School:

The Times / Times B-School Rankings – for placements and best business schools in South India for GIBS Business School, 34th (2025) for placements, and 16th (2025) best business school in South India 

GHRDC – for being one of the top 10 private business schools (ranked by GHRDC) in Karnataka and India.

Business Today – for being ranked for emerging B-Schools in India 

Fortune India – for being ranked among the top business schools in Bengaluru and also for being an elite business school in South India

The Week – for being included on the best emerging business schools list.

IIRF (Indian Institutional Ranking Framework ) – ranked GIBS Business School 3rd best Business School in Karnataka and best Business School in South India regionally 

Times BBA Education Ranking Survey – recognised that the GIBS Business School offers some of the top BBA programs in India.