The school is the first Management institute in India and South East Asia.

The list includes MBA (D), MBA(E), MBA-HRM, MBA-Public Systems, Masters in Social Welfare and several Post Graduate Diploma programmes in Sports Management, Media Management, Fire and Industrial Safety etc.

It was ranked 34th among management schools in India by Business Today in 2014.

[5] In August 2017, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suggested IISWBM upgrade to a university.

[7][8] The institute publishes a management journal called Survey.