B-schools see non-engineers rise: Engineering dominance cracks; What’s behind the management reset?

India’s elite B-schools are witnessing a paradigm shift: engineers no longer dominate MBA classrooms. Non-engineers—economists, commerce graduates, and humanities students—are now matching or surpassing their peers in institutes like IIM Ahmedabad, Lucknow, and Indore. Changing corporate demands, revamped admission policies, and rising aspirations among non-engineers are driving this transformation, signaling the end of engineering monopoly in management education.