M.Sc Admissions 2013

Dear Student,

Greetings from Symbiosis School of Economics!

Symbiosis has always been the pioneer in launching innovative programmes that address the changing needs of the economy. The need of the hour is to focus towards intensive study of social and behavioral sciences in general and economics in particular. The primary objective being to create a centre that would nurture quality teaching and research programs in economics.

The Symbiosis School of Economics provides a strong foundation in Economic theory and practice with an interdisciplinary flavor that will prepare students for careers in industry, financial institutions, government or academia.

The Master’s degree offer two specializations: International Trade and Development Studies. The programme provides a strong background in Economic Theory, Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics which becomes the basis for acquiring special focus within the related fields and subfields of Economics.

The programme provides an all-inclusive path to meticulously understand and apply Economic Theories and their application to Economic Modeling and Forecasting in the real world.

For more details about MSc in Economics you can visit our website http://www.sse.ac.in/courses/courses-offered/msc-economics

http://www.sse.ac.in/courses/structure/msc-economics

There are two ways to apply to MSc (Economics):

1.     If you have applied to SNAP, you can register using your SNAP Id and a payment of Rs. 1000 using Demand Draft.

http://oamssnap.blueshiftindia.com/sse/website/

2.     You can directly register to SSE using the link:

http://oamslive.blueshiftindia.com/ssepg/website/

and then make a payment of Rs 1000 using Demand Draft.

Demand Draft should be in the name of “Symbiosis School of Economics”, payable at Pune.

For more admission details please follow the link:

http://www.sse.ac.in/admission/msc-economics/application-procedure

http://www.sse.ac.in/admission/msc-economics/important-dates

Thanking You,

Symbiosis School of Economics

Guest Lecture - September 23, 2011

Topic - Inclusive Growth
Speaker - Padma Shri Dr. Sukhadeo Thorat


Padma Shri, Dr. Sukhdeo Thorat is an economist and was Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and is presently the Chairman, ICSSR.

At the inaugural function of the Research Cluster for Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr. Thorat gave a talk on “Inclusive Growth”. The session was attended by students and faculty from the various SIU institutions, as well as other prominent economists and faculties from various Economics Departments across the city.

Guest Lecture - Nov 17, 2011

Topic: Restructuring Urban Transportation in India
Speaker: Dr. S. Sriraman

About the resource person - Dr S.Sriraman - Dr.Sriraman is presently Walchand Hirachand professor of Transport Economics, at the department of Economics University of Mumbai, and has been actively involved in teaching transportation economics, microeconomics, industrial economics, quantitative economics to post graduate students. Besides teaching, he has a number of research projects to his credit in the field of transportation for central and state governments. He did his Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Loyola College, Madras University, Masters of Arts in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and completed his in Transport Systems from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has published nearly fifty papers professional journals and numerous articles for business weeklies and dailies. He visited the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, USA as a Ford foundation fellow in 1990-91, the University of Ulster, Jordanstown as a British Council fellow in 1997 and is currently visiting professor at TERI University.

About the talk – The talk on “Restructuring Urban Transportation in India” by Dr. Sriraman was quite informative and interesting. He discussed at length the various challenges and opportunities that Indian cities face today in terms of transport. The public transport system is weak and ineffective, it lacks indigenous research and innovation. We still emulate the age old and obsolete technologies which were being used by other nations decades ago, for example – the Sweden model of multi axle buses which were introduced in 1970s there, are now getting imported to India. The quantity and quality of urban transport system are both inefficient and unsustainable. The only option left with general public is to have private vehicles, leading to more traffic congestion, pollution, poor traffic speed and loss of time and resources. The government policy towards urban planning and management is poor and shortsighted and lacks long term endeavor. The capacity building usually follows the demand and does not precede it, leaving a demand-supply lag every time. In the given scenario of rapid urbanization, Government should work with Private sector, NGOs and civil society to monitor and tackle the current problems and to build capacity for future.
The talk was followed by a question and answer round, where students put forward their queries and concerns regarding the urban transport system in India. The common consent was on the existence of huge scope of improvement in the urban transport system. Many students also made up their minds to conduct research on the topic to find constructive solutions.