Creating Promising Graduate Journeys

Graduate students at Ashoka receive personalised attention, support, and guidance throughout their academic journey: from their admissions coordinators, professors, and peers.

Our graduate programmes have a small, curated, and tight-knit community of scholars or peers collaborating to fuel each other’s academic passions and grow both as individuals and as a cohort. The Office of Admissions works closely with the faculty members of M.A. English, M.A. Economics, and M.Sc. Biology Departments coordinate to execute the admissions timeline. While the faculty largely assist us with interviews, their participation is a marker of the University’s high expectations of graduate students. While we have three graduate programmes in particular, our students have always arrived from different disciplines, finding new modes of informing their study. It is not uncommon to find a neuroscience or engineering student in an English, Economics, or Biology graduate classroom in Ashoka. The primary reason is that Ashoka’s interdisciplinary curriculum both offers mentorship and welcomes scholarship at various intersections, provided students make an informed interdisciplinary shift in their careers.

Once students have received an offer of Admission, they are invited to conversations with professors, students and alumni, and other offices. These events facilitated by the Office of Admissions offer insights on various levels. The faculty members not only welcome students to the programme, but they introduce their scholarship and research and also share information about the courses taught by them. In the case of the student and alumni sessions, our guests are welcome to trace their journeys, share their experience of being a graduate student at Ashoka, and provide assistance per the options considered after graduating from their programme. This career guidance vis-a-vis the insight offered by various offices, such as the Career Development Office (CDO) paints a holistic picture of their journey during and after graduating from Ashoka University’s master’s programmes.

The departments also curate a knowledge camp, as per requirement, to ensure students can catch up to the curriculum. This also makes the curriculum accessible to students arriving from different disciplines. With the added opportunity to share classes with undergraduate and Ph.D. students, graduate students also learn in coherence with the student body at Ashoka, and receive multiple opportunities to teach and guide undergraduate students.