IIT Madras Launches New MA Programmes to Begin from March 2023

New Delhi: IIT Madras has launched new MA programmes that will be offered from the 2023 academic session. Admission procedure for the same is expected to begin from the month of March or April 2023. 

IIT Madras has added Economics to its already existing specialisations of Development Studies and English Studies, offering all the three streams as two-year programmes instead of the current five-year integrated MA programmes. 

The institute has planned to offer a total of 25 seats for Indian students under each stream. The new MA course at IIT Madras will also be made available to the international students on a supernumerary basis.

Instead of HSEE, candidates' admission at IIT Madras to the two-year MA programmes will be done on the basis of an entrance examination conducted by the institute. The course curriculum will be reframed in such a way that it will include more contemporary subjects such as Economics of Innovation, Urban Planning and Development, Health Policy, Environmental Humanities, Climate Economics, Technology and Policy, and Computational Linguistics, among others. 

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Highlighting the major impacts of the new courses, Prof V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, said that the restructuring of the MA programme is done with an objective to make the same accessible to more students who have completed their graduations from multiple streams spreading across humanities, science, commerce, engineering etc. 

Such a type of humanities and social science exposure is very much necessary for the next generations of students to face and address different challenges posed by the fast-paced world, Kamakoti said.

Further, he added that this expanded list of MA courses will provide new avenues of placement and employability for the students, who will be trained as domain-specific experts with international readiness and national focus.

According to the IIT-M reports, the unique aspects of the new programmes include evidence-based policy analyses, the role of technology in shaping socio-economic development, data science and governance, and engagement with contemporary issues such as climate change, sustainability, and urbanization among others.

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