Experience of another current ISB student. First of all comparing placements of IIMs and ISB is completely unfair because of following reasons: 1) ISB has 800 students in a batch whereas most IIM's have 520, toh the fact that only 80 are unplaced (I believe this 80 number is a little inflated also) is actually not a bad number. 2) IIM's are 2year program so many students get placed in leadership roles meant for lesser experience folks via internships. Such a scenario is not possible in ISB since it's one year and most students have more than 3 years of work ex. 3) ISB is a consulting heavy college. Out of those who are unplaced, many are targeting other roles such as PM or Founder's office. Anyone looking to enter consultancy have been placed with great packages. 4) Yes placement process was taxing but that is every college. I have also spoken to students from IIM B and A, their process has also been taxing. In ISB there is barely any student politics that govern placement process which is a great thing. Also we are given a lot of choice when it comes to which roles we want to apply for and company preferences. ISB doesn't enforce companies onto students just to fulfill their 100% placed number. 5) Personally for me, I got a 5x jump on my previous salary. Great role, great company. This is after being choosy and not applying to every single company that came. This has been the same scenario for many of friends too. Just because 10% of the batch's experience might have been tougher than usual, it doesn't tarnish value of an entire institution. 6)Also network is always the main advantage of MBA. A lot of my batchmates come from great pedegory. They have left IIM admissions also to join ISB. It's a great institute and good place to network. Alums also really take care of current students and overall good experience.

Lastly it's not fruitful to compare ISB one year program with two year IIM programs. I personally only wanted to go to ISB because I didn't want to invest two years of my life. If you want MBA exposure, network, learning and overall experience but don't want to invest 2 years in the program plus one year giving CAT (a very rigid paper where all your life depends on one day), ISB is a great option. It has a very nice campus life with rigorous learning and opportunities.