Delhi School of Economics

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Delhi School of Economics
Other name
DSE
Mottoतमसो मा ज्योतिर् गमय
Motto in English
Lead us from darkness to light
TypeHigher Educational Institution
Established1949;75 years ago (1949)
Location,
Campus Urban
Affiliations University of Delhi
Website dse.du.ac.in

Delhi School of Economics (DSE), popularly referred to as D School, is an institution of higher learning within the University of Delhi. [1] [2] The Delhi School of Economics is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. [3] Established in 1949, [4] the campus of the Delhi School of Economics houses the University of Delhi's departments of Economics, Sociology, Geography and Commerce, as well as the Ratan Tata Library. Out of the four academic departments, the Departments of Economics, Sociology and Geography come under the Faculty of Social Sciences, while the Department of Commerce comes under the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies. [4]

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Many of its former faculty members and alumni have gone ahead to become world famous economists, social scientists, writers, heads of states and journalists. It presently offers multiple post graduate and doctoral level programmes in a wide range of disciplines.

Campus

The Delhi School of Economics campus is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. [5] It is surrounded by other institutions and constituent colleges of the University of Delhi, such as Ramjas College, The Faculty of Management Studies, St. Stephen's College, KMC and Hindu College. Three constituent departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences - Economics, Sociology and Geography- lie within the Delhi School of Economics campus. [6] It additionally also houses the Department of Commerce, [7] which is a part of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies, and the Ratan Tata Library. [8]

Constituents

Department of Economics

Among the faculty at the department of economics have been the likes of V.K.R.V. Rao, B.N. Ganguly and K.N. Raj (all three of whom went on to serve as vice-chancellors at the University of Delhi), Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate), Manmohan Singh (the former Indian Prime Minister and also the key architect of the economic reforms since 1991), Sukhomoy Chakravarty (who was chief economic advisor), Jagdish Bhagwati, Kaushik Basu, Arjun Kumar Sengupta, Partha Sen, Raj Krishna, Syed Mohammad Ali, the economic historian Tapan Raychaudhuri and others. [9]

The department has been associated with three important journals over the years. It publishes the Indian Economic Review, several faculty members edit the Indian Economic and Social History Review, and for many years it housed the Journal of Quantitative Economics. [10]

The department currently offers a MA and a PhD in Economics.

Department of Sociology

In 2010, Professor Nandini Sundar from the department, won the Infosys prize in the field of social anthropology. [11]

Department of Commerce

The department also offers a full-time two-year Master's programme in MBA Business Analytics (MBA BA) started in year 2023. [12] [13]

Ratan Tata Library

The Ratan Tata Library, popularly referred to as RTL, is situated in the Delhi School of Economics campus. [14]

Notable people

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

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Amitav Ghosh
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Ramchandra Guha

DSE also has officially registered the Delhi School of Economics Alumni Association, which has facilitated alumni events in Mumbai and Washington D.C.

Academics

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Gita Gopinath

Government

See also

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