Radio City 91.1 FM recognises Narayana Business School As Growth Driver Of Gujarat in 2026 at the Gujarat Growth Drivers event. The event also marked the unveiling of the Gujarat Growth Drivers coffee-table book, celebrating businesses and entrepreneurs contributing to the state’s development.
The recognition comes as Gujarat continues to strengthen its position as one of India’s major economic centres. As industries adopt new technologies and businesses expand into emerging sectors, the need for skilled management professionals, analytical thinkers, and future-ready leaders continues to grow.
The state’s Viksit Gujarat@2047 roadmap identifies industry-linked education, employability-focused learning, stronger academia-industry partnerships, and incubation support as important elements of its long-term development agenda.
Gujarat’s Industrial Policy 2026 also emphasises a skilled, adaptable workforce, entrepreneurship, and alignment between education and emerging technologies.
Gujarat is widely recognized as one of India’s primary economic growth engines, backed by highly robust macroeconomic, industrial, and infrastructure metrics. For the 2026–27 fiscal year, Gujarat’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is projected to reach ₹33.24 trillion ($361 billion USD) at current prices, marking an 11% growth over the previous fiscal year.
For Narayana Business School, preparing students to meet these evolving requirements remains central to its approach to management education. It offers AICTE-approved programmes including PGDM Dual Specialisation, PGDM Quantitative Finance, PGDM Data Science and Business Analytics, and an MBA with a Post Graduate Programme in Corporate Excellence (PGPCE).
Its contribution can be viewed through three areas: the talent it develops, the opportunities its students pursue within Gujarat, and the practical business experience it offers beyond the classroom.
Student Outcomes And A Stronger Regional Footprint
Narayana Business School is some of the few B school in India to have received 1 Palme of Excellence by Eduniversal in 2026, recognition given to a B school having strong local foundations i.e., a strong presence in the residing city. Institutions with 1 Palme of Excellence demonstrate a solid local or regional presence.
Furthermore, Narayana Business School reports a network of more than 10,200 alumni and over 670 corporate recruiters. The school also reports a 100% placement record year-on-year, with an average salary of ₹8.4 lakh per annum and the highest package of ₹21 lakh per annum in its 2026 placement cycle.
And around 60% of its graduating students secure placements in Gujarat, particularly in Ahmedabad. Coming from different parts of the country and contributing big regionally. This also provides one indication for other business schools of how management education in the city can contribute to the regional talent pool.
Together, its residential and academic environment brings students from different parts of the country into Ahmedabad, while its programmes and corporate engagement connect them with opportunities in Gujarat and beyond.
Preparing For The Changing Business Environment Of Gujarat
Businesses increasingly expect new hires to interpret data, work across functions, communicate clearly, use digital tools, and respond to unfamiliar problems. Artificial intelligence adds another layer to this shift: graduates need to understand emerging tools while retaining the ability to assess information, question outputs, and make decisions responsibly.
Gujarat’s Viksit Gujarat@2047 roadmap highlights the need for market-driven education, continuous workforce training, and closer alignment between skilling and industry needs. The state’s Industrial Policy 2026 also stresses industry-academia links, digital and automation-focused learning, modular training, and upskilling for a future-ready workforce.
For business schools, responding to these priorities requires more than adding technology to the curriculum.
It demands regular attention to what employers need, how students practise their skills, and whether learning remains relevant as industries change. It also requires maintaining academic depth while helping students develop the flexibility to work in different roles and sectors.
Narayana Business School’s programme mix, professional collaborations, digital learning resources, and experiential initiatives represent different parts of this response.
Other experiential learning initiative by NBS include:
- Business Baazigar, giving students an opportunity to operate a business for a limited period of around 10 to 15 days, with institutional capital support.
- The Business Acceleration Lab which helps students explore three broad professional directions: employment, entrepreneurship, and family business.
- The 24-hour Industry Sprint which places student teams against a fixed deadline to work on business problems. The format requires participants to organise their teams, assess a problem, develop a solution, and present their thinking within a limited time.
- Narayana Centre for Research and Innovation (NCRI) for research and incubation as Gujarat’s long-term development roadmap similarly identifies incubation centres, accelerators, and stronger links between higher education and industry as elements of a more innovation-oriented ecosystem.
Narayana Business School: A Growth Driver of Gujarat
Dr. Amit Gupta, Founder and Director of Narayana Business School, said: “The real outcome of education is not only the opportunity a student earns, but the capability they develop to make the most of it.”
Recognized by the Indian Institutional Ranking Framework (IIRF), including the 2026 Education Impact Award for Excellence in Employability and Placement Performance, Narayana Business School’s vision is to be a distinguished institution delivering transformative business education.
As Gujarat continues to invest in industrial development, services, entrepreneurship, and future-ready skills, institutions such as NBS have a role to play in preparing people for the opportunities these priorities create. That role rests not only on the programmes a school offers or the recognition it receives, but on the knowledge, judgement, and practical capabilities its graduates carry into the workplace.
