HIGHER STUDIES IN ECONOMICS-4

INDAIN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE (ISI)

The Economics and Planning Unit offers a two-year program in Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (M.S.Q.E.). Offered in Delhi and Kolkata. 

Course Structure: Courses are taught in four semesters over two years. Students take about four to five courses each semester. There are ten compulsory courses, nine of which are taken in the first two semesters. In addition, students take about ten optional courses.The compulsory courses include

• ·         sequences in Microeconomics,
• ·         Macroeconomics,
• ·         Statistics and Econometrics,
• ·         Game Theory,
• ·         Mathematics for Economists, and
• ·         Economic Development.

     Among the many optional courses, the following have been offered by the Unit in the recent past:

• ·         Advanced Game Theory,
• ·         Macro Dynamics,
• ·         International Economics,
• ·         Finance,
• ·         Industrial Organization,
• ·         Dynamic Programming,
• ·         Applied Econometrics,
• ·         Time
• ·         Series Econometrics,
• ·         Social Choice and
• ·         Political Economy,
• ·         Economics,
• ·         Intertemporal Economics, and
• ·         Environmental Economics.

Admission: Students with a 3-year Bachelor's degree with Honours in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or Physics, are eligible to apply for the M.S.Q.E. program.

Ø      Selection of students is based on past academic record, and performance in entrance tests (in Economics and Mathematics) and in an interview.

Information regarding the admission process is advertised in major Indian newspapers and on our website in February of each year.

The entrance tests are held in early May, and interviews are held in early July. Detailed information about this is mailed to candidates who apply for the program. A new session starts in late July. 

Some sample question papers with syllabus can be found here: Click here.

Placement: Our M.S.Q.E. students get placed in industry in India and abrorad. Some of the companies which recruited M.S.Q.E. students last year are D.E. Shaw, Genpact, Indian School of Business, ICICI Bank, HP Analytics.

Some of our M.S.Q.E. students go abroad for doctoral studies. Over the last two years, our students have got scholarships from Princeton, U. Pennsylvania, NYU, Wisconsin, U. Minnesota, Columbia, Cornell, U. of British Columbia, U. of Texas at Austin, and other US universities for their doctoral studies.