In India, IIM Lucknow is worth far more than ISB, particularly in MNCs and finance/marketing jobs.

The talk of a consulting and network-building pedigree revolves more around their flagship PGPX program and their tentacles in Microsoft and Cisco, both of which recognize the limited role of an MBA in their industry and provide well-defined jumps to ISB graduates back on campus. In the last 2-3 years, IIM Lucknow has done fairly well in global placements, and the sky is the limit for the right student.

It is clear that your decision should be motivated by your prospects of performance at either campus and should be carefully considered. 

It is true that those who can balance pressures and perform consistently have an advantage when it comes to placements on campus. Also, mobility in the industry should matter without the help of your b-school label and should be about your performance on the job in making friends. Students from each campus meet everyone on an equal footing in the industry.

Only if you accepted a different field in your campus placement or were assigned a backroom job will you face unequal pressure, as neither pedigree allows you much mobility.

IIM Kozhikode and IIM Calcutta are prestigious B-schools in India. But IIM Calcutta is slightly better than IIM Kozhikode in some aspects. 

The following are the reasons for choosing IIM Calcutta over IIM Kozhikode.

• It is the most prestigious IIM.
• IIM C has a better placement rate.
• Growing more Alumni Networks
• Upgraded Infrastructure 
• Higher brand value

 The table below will help you to make a better comparison:

For some reason, many MBAs, as well as at least half of recruiters, believe that is the primary trade to pursue as an MBA.

Most recruiters are aware that IIM Calcutta is not particularly strong in finance (despite popular belief). The IIM C aura, on the other hand, has been carrying it, and the quant-heavy students from IITs prefer to load up on Bong Kolkata when they give up CAT in the pre-final year and choose the easy option. IIMC placements are notoriously shoddy, and due to the chilled campus name, they frequently load up on bottom feeders in the bottom half of the placement, as a result of which they produce more techs and outsourcing managers left behind in India offices than any other IIM campus.

IIM Ahmedabad graduates end up in jobs where they like to manage uncertainty in entrepreneurial roles, and they have had a significant chunk of bottom feeders in every other batch because their entrepreneurs are almost never confused with well-funded start-up entrepreneurs until they are. However, given this history and IIM Bangalore's management of many global placements, IIMB has, in my opinion, become the undisputed leader in Finance and Consulting placements, leaving the competition far behind. Most rankings make it painfully clear, and the proof of the pudding is in the eating. IIMA remains the number one Indian MBA school for CEOs and those aspiring to be CEOs.

A behavioral model will require awareness of how you will cope with things like peer pressure, and less academic pressure, which is a uniform thing, in order to choose between Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and Calcutta. This entails determining whether you will be able to be a confident leader in 6 months on that Campus. If you are capable of doing so, choose that Campus over others. Choose Bangalore if you know you need an I banking job. Stay in Calcutta if you know you've always been nerdier than others. Choose A if you know you can make it without reading through a lot of paper. If you are certain that you will be able to fly high, locational preferences abound for both mundane and interesting reasons.

You cannot determine which institution is better just by looking at data. Figures tend to mislead you. Rather than relying on just statistics, you need to choose what’s best for you. All the top IIMs are top-notch B Schools. But you need to make a choice based on your personal preference. I have mentioned the specifications of some famous B Schools.

• IIM Bangalore: It focuses more on experience. Most of the students here are with 1-2 years of experience. 

• IIM Calcutta: It is rightly called the finance campus of India. If you are interested in Investment Banking, hedge funds, or venture capital firms then IIM Calcutta is the best choice.

• IIM Ahmedabad: Most of the CAT toppers and CAT aspirants dream to get into IIM Ahmedabad. 

• XLRI Jamshedpur: It offers the best MBA HR in Asia. 

• NITIE & SJMSOM(IITB): Go for this if you are interested in operations.

• FMS Delhi: If you want to have the best ROI from MBA then FMS Delhi is the best option.

Choose your college based on your aspirations and not on the basis of placement statistics.