NLSIU announces admission to its Two-year Master’s Programme in Public Policy. Classes for the ninth cohort of the programme will commence on July 1, 2022.
Location:: Bengaluru | Karnataka
Level:: | Post Graduate Level
Offered Programmes
Course: Master's Programme in Public Policy
Eligibility Criteria: Any person holding a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized national or international University is eligible to apply to the programme. Applicants in the general category should have graduated with an aggregate of not less than 45% of total marks. Applicants in the SC/ST category should have graduated with an aggregate of not less than 40% of total marks. Students in the final year of their Bachelor’s degree are also eligible to apply. However, their final offer of admission will be contingent upon successful completion of their Bachelor’s degree with the minimum aggregate marks specified above.
Course Duration:2 years
Seats:75
Fee:General Category Per Annum: Rs. 2,90,850.00, SC/ST Category Per Annum: Rs. 2,87,570.00
Admission Procedures
Online application form for the programme will be available on NLSIU’s website from 18 January 2022.
Application fees shall be Rs. 2000/- (Two thousand only). Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Economically Weaker Sections, and Persons with Disabilities shall be required
to pay Rs. 1500/- (One thousand five hundred only).
Selection Criteria
75 candidates will be admitted to the programme in the Academic Year 2022-23. Admission to the programme will be through a three-stage national-level examination process. The first two stages will comprise an all-India written admissions test, the Policy Aptitude Test (PAT). The third stage will be personal interview.
Policy Aptitude Test (PAT)
All candidates seeking admission to the programme shall appear for the PAT. The PAT will have a single question paper with two parts. Part A will comprise of 100 multiple choice questions with negative marks for wrong answers (each question carries one mark; 0.25 marks shall be deducted for every wrong answer). Part B of exam will be to write an essay on a contemporary topic. Only those candidates who obtain 50% of marks in Part A of the test shall have their Part B responses evaluated.
Total duration of PAT shall be 150 minutes. PAT will be held in centres across the country. List of centres are available in the application portal.
Interview
Candidates will be invited for a personal interview based on the rank secured by them in PAT, keeping 1:3 ratio of admitted candidates.
Marking Scheme for Admission
Marks obtained in all the three stages of admission tests (as provided below) will be aggregated to create a merit list for admission.
Part A of PAT (Multiple Choice Questions) – 100 marks
Part B of PAT (Essay Writing) – 50 marks
Personal Interview – 50 marks
Note: The applicable reservations policy shall be applied at each stage of the admission process.
Key Dates
Last date for submitting applications:
26/Mar/2022
Policy Aptitude Test:
24/Apr/2022
Personal interviews: 19 -21 May, 2022
19/May/2022
Release of the list of admitted candidates:
10/Jun/2022
Commencement of Academic Year:
01/Jul/2022