Open House on Public Policy: Careers and Curriculum

We invite curious, interested and aspiring students, lawyers and other professionals to the open house on NLSIU’s Master’s Programme in Public Policy. This conversation will revolve around public policy education and practice, focussing on the curriculum and pedagogy of what NLS has to offer in this subject. This discussion will be hosted at the Lecture Room 1, India International Centre, New Delhi from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm on December 7, 2025.

The open house will be conducted by the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Public Policy programme at NLS – Dr. Srikrishna Ayyangar and Dr. Devyani Pande. Having a combined experience of around three decades of experience in this field both in India and abroad, they will convey the distinctive approach that NLS has to offer in Public Policy education.

Context

Over the past two decades, Public Policy has fundamentally changed the landscape of governance in India. With more than 60 academic programmes and a multi-billion dollars public policy industry in India today, professionals to work in the area of Public Policy are certainly in demand and on the rise. These jobs range from strategic advisory, policy analysis, evaluation and monitoring of government programmes and advocating for issues in the public interest such as climate and environment advocacy, energy sufficiency, gender and human rights, and community empowerment. Be that as it may, different public policy professional programmes offer a distinct approach to educating aspiring professionals to meet the needs of this profession.

The Masters Programme in Public Policy (MPP) at the National School of India University (NLS) offers one such distinctive approach. Being one of the first to launch a full-time programme in India and having faculty with diverse experience with global and local academic backgrounds from a variety of disciplines and including some of the founding faculty and students of NLS, the MPP has adapted and is at the
forefront of Public Policy education today.

The Master’s Programme in Public Policy (MPP) provides a comprehensive education for aspiring Public Policy professionals to constructively meet the challenges of complex public problems. Our programme comprises relevant and contemporary perspectives from the Social Sciences, multi-methods research, experiential and immersive field projects and internships. Additionally, how governments function cannot be fully understood by only looking only at data-based evidence and socio-political contexts. Data helps to evaluate how governments act because data reflects government action. And laws help to assess how governments think. Public Policy requires understanding administrative procedures, constitutional norms and a case-based understanding of how governments think and act. This programme is distinctive because it is singularly poised to also provide an exemplary foundation in the law relevant to Public Policy.

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