The Department of Economic Sciences at IISER Bhopal was set up in 2017 to promote research and training in all areas of Economics. The research interests of the current faculty span microeconomics, game theory, political economics, trade theory, industrial organization, public economics, social choice theory, corporate finance, option pricing, behavioural economics, agriculture economics and environmental economics.
The department currently offers two academic programmes. One is a Ph.D programme, and another is a 4-year BS programme with the option to obtain a BS-MS (Dual Degree) in Economic Sciences by spending an additional year on a research project (MS Thesis) under the supervision of a faculty.
The Economic Sciences department at IISER Bhopal is one of the few in the country to offer a 4-year BS. Students are exposed to most areas of economics which enable them to pursue a research career in economics and secure employment in the industry.
The department currently has six regular faculty members and three visiting/Adjunct faculty members. It is actively hiring from all areas of economics. Six students are pursuing the doctoral programme, 18 students are pursuing a Master's Thesis (BS-MS), and more than 130 students are in their undergraduate BS with the department.
In 2022, many students graduated with a BS and got jobs at places like Deloitte, Nomura etc. Some of our students got selected for master's programmes at IIMs, Yale University, North Carolina State University, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, King's College London (UK) etc.