Re: IGIDR placements

Posted by amalgamateking on Jul 07, 2015; 7:36pm
URL: http://discussion-forum.276.s1.nabble.com/IGIDR-placements-tp7598806p7598807.html

I can't give exact details but I can try and explain the picture that is in my mind regarding these two institutes (the sources are my seniors who are studying/have studied at both these places)

IGIDR is better for placement because of the applied nature of the course (major focus on econometrics and statistics). JNU is better for free thinking (mostly heterodox) SSS is completely unlike any other course in India, perhaps the world in this regard. You get to learn completely different things than what is standard. So, JNU fits that section of academia better. Mind you, IGIDR teaches a very standard Economics Graduate course, so it is not at all that you can't go into academia (or atleast the "standard" fields in academia) after IGIDR. But this whole point is obviously moot, since you want to focus on placements.

SIS would provide comparable jobs on that front. SSS is definitely behind IGIDR.

A person I know who passed out from IGIDR in 2015, is now working at CRISIL. I don't know her exact pay, but I am sure it is around 8-10ish lpa (if not more?) She is posted in Mumbai BTW