Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India

The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) was established in 1984 as a not-for-profit educational society in Telangana, India. The institution has been offering quality education to students across the country through its various programs in the field of higher education. The institution was founded by pioneers in private education - N.J. Yasaswy, Besant C. Raj and Dr. Prasanna Chandra, the Director of Centre for Financial Management.

With the sponsoring and establishment of eleven universities across the country, the institution today has a good national presence. Ten of these eleven universities have been established in the states of Uttarakhand, Tripura, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh through acts passed by the legislative assemblies of the respective states. The eleventh university, namely the Icfai Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), has been declared as a deemed-to-be University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956. A few more university applications are at an advanced stage of processing by the respective state governments.

Rankings

The ICFAI Business School Hyderbad (IBS-Hyderabad) was ranked #19 by the Business Today 50 best business schools of 2011,^[1] #12 by the prestigious national daily Hindustan Times India's top 50 business schools of 2011^[2] and #20 by the 2012 edition of CNBC-TV18's Top B-Schools in India.^[3]

Notable alumni

• Saurabh Dudeja, B.Tech. in Computer Science from ICFAI University, Dehradun, Class of 2011 - Best selling Author and Speaker.
• Sachit Singhi, MBA from ICFAI Business school, Hyderabad, founder of stayzilla

See also

• Indian CFA
• Saurabh Dudeja.

References