IIT Delhi launches MA in Culture, Society, Thought; application process from March 20

NEW DELHI: The department of humanities and social sciences of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi) has launched Master of Arts in Culture, Society and Thought. Interested students can apply for the two-year MA programme from March 20 to April 4.

Students applying for the Master of Arts in Culture, Society and Thought should have a bachelor’s degree in any discipline with a minimum 55% or equivalent CGPA in BA and first division for all other degrees. Students can apply for the programme through the institute’s PG admission portal ecampus.iitd.ac.in/PGADM/login.

The admission will be held on the basis of an entrance exam or Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2024 score (XH) and an interview of the shortlisted candidates in May 2024. The fee structure of the program will be at par with other postgraduate programs of the institute.

Open house on March 15

The academic year will start from July 2024. IIT Delhi will conduct an open house on March 15 regarding the programme structure, fees, faculty members, scholarships, accommodations, academic and career prospects.

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Farhana Ibrahim, head of the department of humanities and social sciences, IIT Delhi, said, “The new MA program explores aspects of contemporaneity and interdisciplinarity across disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Its location at IIT Delhi gives it a unique vantage point to generate a new corpus of knowledge, populate new kinds of archives, and develop critical methodologies to give new directions to humanities and social science research from the global south.”

The programme has been launched to train and equip students for a variety of fields including research, academia, social work, think tanks, media and policymaking, among others. Graduates from the programme will also be eligible to join the doctoral programs offered by the department of humanities and social sciences at IIT Delhi, or other international doctoral programmes.