For selecting a college, you should give due importance to learning culture in the college. How do we gauge the learning culture in a B-School? Is the college creating a learning environment that prepares a business manager?

Look for pedagogy to gauge if adequate focus is given in integrating conceptual learning with practical exposure. Website or college brochures must have it.

Look at the faculty profile in college website or brochures. This will give a good feel of class room learning environment. If you are not able to locate, do not hesitate in finding it through various channels.

The college must engage students in multi-dimensional learning, much beyond classroom teaching. Typically this comes through internships, industry projects, industry visits and level of interaction with practicing professionals and industry forums.

Find out if industry internship is mandatory. You should know some details of industries and companies where the students have spent their internship or projects. It should usually be listed in website. One may also find synopsis of various projects and studies undertaken by students in website.

Interaction with industry is an important dimension of learning environment for any B-School. You must find out if the B-School is participating regularly in industry forums such as CII, FICCI, NHRDN etc. These fora expose college and students to contemporary themes being discussed by industry. Also find out level of interaction with practicing professionals. Good B-Schools always make sure that practicing professionals from diverse sectors regularly visit the campus and interact.

Another dimension of learning is strong peer interaction - collaborative as well as competitive. Find out if regular group assignments and group projects are part of learning. Also, assess if students are active in participating in competitions such as debate and business quiz.

Apart from college website, it is a good idea to find Management college presence in social media and get a feel of it. If the information you are seeking is not readily available, do not hesitate to ask the college about it. Gauging the learning environment is very important. You need an enabling learning environment to create a well rounded confident.

You should evaluate the four critical factors for selecting your B-School - reputation which comes with years of effort, placement, location and cost. If you are still not able to zero in on one school, fifth useful factor could be €" to get a feel of student life in the B-School. A good way of feeling it is through social media such as facebook. B-Schools should have an active presence in this medium today. Business management Institute.