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choose two optional papers in Economics in the fifth semester and two more in the sixth
semester. The range of options for these papers is wide, and includes, among others, papers
like International Trade, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Game Theory, Public Economics,
the Economics of Health and Education, Environmental Economics, Financial Economics,
Money and Finance, and Applied Econometrics. Full details of the course structure are
available on the College website.
A significant proportion of the graduating class pursues higher studies in Economics in India
or abroad. There is a very distinguished list of former students of Economics in the College
who have gone on to hold senior positions as economists in Government, in the World Bank
or Asian Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund and so on; many are in
teaching positions at Universities in India (the Delhi School of Economics, Indian Statistical
Institute, Jawaharlal Nehru University, etc.) or abroad (Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia,
Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon, Brown, Michigan, the London School of Economics– the list is very
long). But it is far from the case that studying Economics in St. Stephen’s College leads only
to academic or research careers. A very large number of students have chosen careers in the
civil services and some have reached the highest levels of policy making in the government as
officers or ministers. Many students go on to do Management Studies at one or the other of
the business schools, and thence to the corporate sector. A very large number of top executives
of leading multinational companies and many captains of Indian industry studied Economics
at St. Stephen’s College. Many former students have distinguished themselves in the field of
Law. A fair proportion of students get jobs immediately after the undergraduate degree in a
variety of private sector firms and in the print and electronic media.
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