How Talented is our 'talent Pool': A Study on Indian Management Students Based in B-class Cities

With over 2000 Management colleges it can easily be said that India is sprawling in terms of churning Management graduates, but the question to be answered is-What quality of Management graduates? This paper brings to surface the standard of basic skills requisition among MBA students in B Class cities. Fifteen BSchools were selected for conducting practical exercises/tests to get a feel of the level of understanding amongst students (A total of 900) for the identified four skill sets. Considering the fact that the skills identified were very basic, the results were both eye opening and alarming. Amongst the most interesting ones were that the students are not even having a proper know how of basic computers (MS Office) and they are deficient in Business communication skills.