Established in 2009, Universal Business School, Karjat is a wholly residential B-school, two hours drive from Mumbai, dispensing contemporary international business management education in association with several globally top-ranked offshore universities – Dipta Joshi Spread across 40 acres in a pristine valley near Karjat, a two-hour drive from India’s commercial capital Mumbai, the Universal Business School (UBS, estb.2009) is a wholly residential B-school dispensing contemporary international business management education to 480 students from 20 countries. Ranked among Mumbai’s Top 5 B-schools by the Times of India and The Week, UBS has established an excellent reputation for its experiential undergrad BBA programme, postgrad diploma and executive development programmes delivered in association with top-ranked foreign universities including the Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK; Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago; Lincoln University, USA; Swiss School of Management, Italy and INSEEC Business School, France. Founded by the late Gurdip Singh Anand (1942-2019), a highly-respected business management educator with teaching experience in the country’s top-ranked B-schools including Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, S.P. Jain Institute of Management Research (SPJIMR) and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (all in Mumbai), together with son Tarun, former chairman and MD of Thomson Reuters, South Asia, UBS boasts a stellar board of governors. Among them: Madhav Kalyan, MD & CEO, JP Morgan, South Asia; Motilal Oswal, chairman, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, and Dr. Indira Parikh, former dean, IIM-Ahmedabad. The school’s 30-strong faculty is highly qualified with seven of them serving as advisory council members of the globally-respected Harvard Business Review. “In UBS, our prime objective is to provide contemporary, experiential and industry aligned business management education to enable our students to mature into ethical, global business leaders capable of building strong and resilient organisations while adhering to the highest standards of corporate governance,” says Tarun Anand, an alum of the Tuck Business School (USA), Michigan Ross School of Business (USA), IE Business School (Spain) and SPJIMR (India). Currently, UBS offers the undergrad BBA and BA degree programmes, postgrad MBA and PGDM (postgrad diploma in management) in collaboration with Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK; Masters in business analytics with the University of Dallas, US; the MBA programme of the Swiss School of Management, Italy; and a Global MBA (Cardiff, IIM-Indore and UBS). Other international higher ed partners include INSEEC Business School, France and University of Economics, Bulgaria. With the Covid-19 pandemic still rampaging across the country and around the world, the school is offering its executive programmes in the digital mode, while 300 students who returned to campus in February are attending in-person classes. “The defining feature of UBS is not only what we teach but how we teach. The UBS Board of Governors comprising 60 CEOs, directors, and business leaders of top-ranked corporates reviews the school’s academic andragogies and processes twice each year to ensure that our curriculums are in sync with changing industry dynamics and our faculty is up-to-date with latest international pedagogies and business practice. Moreover, we ensure academic rigour through innovative projects and mandatory research assignments by developing students’…
