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Economics, sometimes referred to as the queen of social sciences, is all about choice and is at the heart of all decision-making. Broad in scope, it explains how people, businesses, governments, and even families, schools, and charitable organizations make decisions with limited resources. So, if you opt for BA Economics you will learn in depth information about current scenario.

The subject offers wide scope of academic enquiry with the potential to specialise in numerous related fields. Studying Economics will give you a global perspective. You will pick up key skills that will help you to understand government policies, policies of banking and organised sectors.

Before pursuing BA Economics, student possessing knowledge about basic economics at their PUC or XII level is helpful. Even otherwise, student can take up economics with the knowledge of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science.

From a career perspective, a degree in Economics is popular because of the range of work opportunities in the Government Administrative department, in the field of Banking sector, work as a Financial Analyst, great opportunities in corporate sector and even in teaching and Research areas.

You will find slight changes in the syllabus you are studying in BA Economics, BA Business Economics and B.Sc. Economics. The subjects cover under BA Economics are - Business Economics, Managerial Economics, Monetary Economics, International Business Environment, Mathematics and Statistics for Economist and Rural Development, Macro Economics and Human Resource Management. The subjects cover under B.A Business Economics are – Economics of Firm Strategy, Economics of Money and Banking, managerial Economics, Entrepreneurial Development, Macro Economics, Marketing, Human Resource Development etc., The subjects cover under B.Sc. Economics are introduction to Calculus for Economics, Introduction to Statistics with Spreadsheet & SPSS, Principles of Economics, Data Management and Intermediate statistics.

30 marks of UPSC prelims and 60% of General Studies Paper 3 in the mains exam covers Economics concepts. While pursuing BA Economics in the semester syllabus itself, you will get in depth knowledge about economics concepts and current events and also how to relate those concepts into reality.

Economics is a rational and logical subject. To take economics as an optional for UPSC Mains exam one should have in-depth conceptual knowledge about the subject. If candidates have a good knowledge of using and understanding graphs statistical data and its analysis, they can get high marks in the economics papers.

As a citizen of any country, it is essential that they know certain aspects of politics which guide their everyday actions. Political Science is a subject that will help them not only to know about politics but to understand them through various approaches and theories that concerns their life. Students learn about political ideas, activities, phenomena, different forms and manifestations of politics at the local, national, regional, and international levels. Studying political science would make them an informed and rational citizen.

The course is the three-year course that spans 6 semesters. Up to 4th Semester (2nd year), each semester consists of one paper and 3rd year (i.e. 5th and 6th Semester) will consist of 2 papers each. Topics covered in the curriculum include the foundations and subfields of political science. Political science is a discipline that uses different approaches, courses to train students in a number of different critical skills. The course is designed to help students gain better and in depth understanding of theories and approaches, political thoughts, states and institutions, public administration, public opinion and voting, regional issues and perspectives in national politics. The course has a paper in international politics, international institutions and country’s foreign policies, as well. Globalisation and major world government will also be dealt with during the course. The course will also ponder upon newer areas of analysis like gender, human rights and environment.

Students should know what is impacting their life directly or indirectly. For eg; question of a cost of a single text book are fundamentally a political decision. The services they use in everyday life like, fire, police, hospitals, etc. are by and large shaped by political decisions. These simple facts should be known by students. The course in political Science will further shape their knowledge and help connect their life and events with rationality and logic.

Students of political science majors can be found succeeding in many different professions and organizations including law, business and even international Organization. Students interested in research can find themselves placed in various thinks tanks for aiding in framing government policies. Some also find government so fascinating that they make government service their career. For all these diverse fields, study of political science is a must and will definitely help them build their career.

Political science is one of the most informative and necessary subjects for any civil service aspirant looking forward to getting into civil services. Any civil services aspirant who intends to serve as a bureaucrat must have a stronghold over the fundamentals of Political science and has to be well aware of the political environment around him/her. For this, the foundation will be provided by pursuing political science as a subject in B.A.

Choosing Political Science and International Relations (PSIR) as their UPSC Mains Optional subject is helpful in a way that while preparing for optionals, they will also be preparing for prelims. This will, hence, save time for other topics. In this way they can prepare for UPSC Prelims and Mains in an integrated manner. Political Science is more of non-technical nature because of which the aspirants can easily comprehend and study this subject even if they don’t have strong political science background. The concepts are general and anyone who reads newspapers on a regular basis would be able to understand and study the subject. The only topics which might seem a little difficult are certain theories and approaches. But once the core concept is understood, aspirants can master any issues related to Indian politics as well and international politics. It is to be noticed that in the revised syllabus, the factual parts have been omitted which connote that understanding of the concepts is the major pre-requisite to write better answers in this paper. There are certain concepts/topics which will be covered in Paper-1 as well as Paper-2 of PSIR. For example, liberalism, feminism, ideas of Marxism, issues of Democracy, Human Rights Environment, etc. One of the pros of taking PSIR as an optional is that, you come to know varied content which will help you in preparing for current affairs as well.