Mumbai Indira Gandhi Institute Of Development Research

I want to do M.Sc course in Mumbai Indira Gandhi Institute Of Development Research so can you tell me the duration and the eligibility of the course?

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Indira Gandhi Institute Of Development Research, Mumbai offers M.Sc. in Economics course of duration 2 years.

M.Sc. in Economics

This is a two-year programme, which imparts students with a rigorous and hands-on training in Economics, with special emphasis on analytical and problem solving skills as well as exposure to emerging policy issues at the national and international levels.

This programme involves a successful completion of either 16 courses or 15 courses and a Master’s thesis.

Admission Eligibility:

B.A./B.Sc. in Economics/B.Com./B.Stat./B.Sc. (Physics or Mathematics)/B.Tech./B.E. with at least a second division for Economics discipline and first division for other disciplines. The applicant must have studied mathematics at the higher secondary or higher level.

Course Structure -

First Year course work exclusively focuses on the following compulsory courses: Microeconomics-I and II, Macroeconomics-I and II, Econometrics-I and II, Mathematics for Economists, and Development Economics.

In the second year students are required to choose eight optional courses (or seven optional courses and a Master’s thesis) that includes

(i) one Major Field of Specialisation consisting of four optional courses in a related field,
(ii) one Minor Field of Specialisation consisting of two optional courses in a related field, and
(iii) two (or one in case the student opts to do a Master’s thesis) other optional courses that may be from un-related fields.

The following is a list of possible Fields of specialisation / optional courses:

Microeconomics, Institutions and Trade; Macroeconomics, Finance and Growth; Econometric Theory and Applications; Energy and Environment; Development. The optional courses include Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Special Topics in Microeconomic Theory, Theories and Behaviour of the Firm, Theory of Institutions, International Trade, Applied International Trade and Investment, Topics in International Economics and Finance, Financial Economics, Issues in Industrial Economics and Corporate Finance, Financial Econometrics, Time Series Analysis I & II, Applied Econometrics for Policy Analysis, Applied General Equilibrium Models, Energy & Environment I & II, Natural Resource Economics, Tools for Sustainability Indicators I & II, Socio-Economic and Policy Issues in Energy & Environment I & II, Agricultural Economics, Contemporary Issues in Indian Agriculture, Contemporary Issues in Human Development and Policy.

Contact-

IGIDR
Gen. A.K.Vaidya Marg
Goregaon East,
Mumbai - 400 065 (INDIA)
Tel: (022) 2840 0919/20/21,28416200 (Board Number)
Fax: (022) 2840 2752/28416399