Teaching:
The Department has regular full-time courses for MA and M.Phil. The Masters’ programme in Public Administration is job oriented in nature and multi-disciplinary in approach. The sequence of the courses has been scientifically planned so that it constitutes building blocks for four groups of specialization that are taught with special reference to India: Group A: Applied Development Administration (with special reference to India)
Group B: Economic Administration (with special reference to India)
Group C: Human Resource Management (with special reference to India)
Group D: Administrative Management (with special reference to India)
The diversified course content has made the courses popular both in and outside India. The Department has been attracting students from Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Earlier a large number of African, Mauritian and Iranian students were regularly enrolled in the Department. Some of the foreign students are sponsored under cultural exchange programmes. Against 57 seats, the department normally receives around 300 applications. The M.Phil. Course has been designed with a view to impart knowledge of recent advances in the discipline and to train the students in the field of research methodology.
Students are provided the opportunity to develop their leadership, organisational and decision-making skills through the membership and activities of the Administrative Sciences Society of the Department.