MA Programmes @ Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Eligibility: Candidates having a bachelor's degree with minimum of 3 years duration or its equivalent (under the 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years formal education) from a recognized university are eligible to apply. At the time of applying candidates studying in 3 year degree progremme should have passed in all the subjects for the 1st to 4th semesters and candidates studying in 4 year degree programmes should have passed in all the subjects for 1st to 6th semester. Only those Candidates who will be able to complete all the requirements of their final year Bachelor's Degree examinations by Saturday, June 11, 2016 are eligible to apply to all the programme. Till the time the candidate submit results of the final year degree examination, admission to any of the Master's Degree Programmes of the Institute will be provisional. The results of the final examination have to be submitted before September 30, 2016. Those who fail to do so the provisional admission stands cancelled. How to Apply: Candidates are required to apply online https://appln-admissions.tiss.edu/   Candidates can apply for a maximum of three programmes across any two of the TISS Campuses and other locations. Candidates have to upload/ attach relevant certificates strictly in the mentioned format. A candidate can apply for multiple programmes and pay for those programmes in one online form and should not fill more than one form. If a candidate is found to have filled more than one online form, all his applications will be cancelled. Unemployed candidates, whose parent’s/guardian’s annual income from all the sources for the financial year 2014-15 is less than Rs.2.5 Lakhs for SC/ST and Rs.1 lakh for OBC (NC) are required to pay Rs.250/- as Concessional Application Fee for each programme, however they should upload the necessary certificates. The application fee is Rs.1030/- (if being payed by Credit card/ Debit card/ Net Banking) or Rs.1000/- + bank charges (if being payed through bank by cash). Candidate has to pay this amount for every programme he applies for. Selection Process: Computer based National Entrance test (TISS-NET) will be held in 39 centres located in different parts of the country. The computer based test is of objective type and even those with a rudimentary knowledge of working with a computer can take the test. The objective test will have questions related to General Knowledge; Analytical Ability, Logical Reasoning; and English Proficiency. Modification/ update in tiss net 2016 from the exam format that was announced earlier. TISS NET 2016 will not have negative marking for any programme including HRM. Candidates who have applied for a single programme or multiple programmes will be attempting a single question paper with 100 questions for a duration of 100 minutes, this includes candidates who have chosen HRM in combination with other programme/ programmes. Short-listing of candidates for the second round of selection Pre-Interview Test (PIT)/ or Personal Interview (PI) will be based on the merit list for online test (cut-off marks to be decided later by the Institute). Only short-listed candidates will receive call letters for the second round (PIT and PI) to be held in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Guwahati. The Pre-Interview Test consists of a Written Test. Important Dates: Last date for online registration: 30th November, 2015 Last Date for receipt of application form by post: 1st December, 2015 TISS NET (Computer Based) at Different Centres: 9th January, 2016 For more details, please visit: http://admissions.tiss.edu/