B.A.(Hons.) Program in Economics

Recognizing the Academic Excellence of Madras School of Economics (MSE) for the last 25 years, Government of Tamil Nadu enacted Madras School of Economics Act 2020 and provided the status of “Institution of Special Importance” with effect from April 2021. Now MSE is empowered to award its own degrees, diplomas etc in Economics and its Allied Subjects and Management. The University Grant Commission has included MSE in the list of Institutions established under State Legislature Act in its website.

Currently it offers five M.A Degree Programs, namely M.A. General Economics, M.A. Financial Economics, M.A. Actuarial Economics, M.A. Applied Quantitative Finance and M.A. Environment Economics and two 2-year Post Graduate Diploma in Management programs in Finance and Research & Business Analytics (approved by the All India Council for Technical Education). It also offers both full time and part time Ph.D programs in Economics and Management. It plans to offer Under Graduate Program in Economics from the academic year 2022-23.

Brief history of mse

• In early 1990s, in South India particularly in Tamil Nadu, there was no Centre of Excellence in post-graduate teaching and research in economics. At the same time, the services of well-trained, competent economists were in great demand, and the demand was expected to grow exponentially with the rapid growth and globalization of the economy.
• Dr. Raja J. Chelliah, who founded the National Institute Public Finance and Policy at New Delhi, with the support of a few prominent industrialists and academicians established the Madras School of Economics(MSE) on September 23, 1993.

Vision For The Future

• MSE aims to become an internationally recognized Centre of Excellence in economics, allied subjects and management, attracting the best of students and teachers from different parts of the country and abroad.