SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY M.Sc. (Economics) 2015-16

SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY

Department of Economics

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Notice of admission to M.Sc. program in Economics

M.Sc. (Economics) 2015-16

The Department of Economics at the Shiv Nadar University would like to announce that admissions into the Masters Program in Economics are now open for the 2015-16 academic year.

The M.Sc. (Economics) is a two year (four semesters) program. The students undergo fairly rigorous training that prepares them for admission into PhD programs as well as for jobs in the government, the private sector. The department has a vibrant faculty with varied research interests offering the graduate students the option of working in a wide range of exciting fields. Please see the graduate prospectus of the department for more details.

The department offers an attractive financial support to all incoming students. Please see the department website http://www.snu.edu.in/humanitiessocialsciences/humanities_social_sciences_economics.aspx  for more details.

Academically excellent M.Sc. students may continue on to do their Ph.D. with the department if they so wish.

Eligibility: Students who have or will have a bachelor’s degree (in any discipline) by September 2015 may apply. Prior economics training is not required.

Admission Process:

1.       The first step in the admission process is a written test held across six cities in India: Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Mumbai. Candidates will be informed about the venue of the test at least a week before the exam date. The written test will be held on 03rd May.

2.       Application Forms can be downloaded from the departmental webpage. Completed application forms should reach SNU by 17th April, 2015. Applications can be submitted by email or by post.

3.       The test will have 50 multiple choice questions.

Section I will have 5 questions that will test comprehension and analytical abilities. In Section II, students have a choice between answering questions from Section II A: Economics and Basic Mathematics

Section II B: Advanced Mathematics.

4.       Shortlisted candidates will be called for an interview to be held at the Shiv Nadar University campus. The date for the interview is 25nd and 26th May. The department will reimburse candidates selected for interview with AC 3 Tier fare.

5.       Syllabus for entrance examination:

Section A. Economics and Basic Mathematics

Permutations and Combinations. Sets and Relations, Functions, Limits, Continuity, Differential and Integral Calculus. Unconstrained and Constrained Optimization. Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Central tendency, Dispersion, Skewness and Kurtosis. Probability Theory, Sampling, Estimation, Inference and Hypothesis Testing Theory of Consumer and Producer Behaviour; Market Structures: Perfect Competition, Monopoly and Oligopoly, General Equilibrium. Basic Models of International Trade: Ricardian Model and Hecksher Ohlin Model, National Income Accounting, Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply.

Section B. Undergraduate Mathematics:

Descriptive Statistics, Permutations and Combinations, Sets and Relations. Group and Rings and Fields. Functions, Limits, Continuity, Differential and Integral Calculus, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Unconstrained and Constrained Optimization, Probability Theory, Sampling, Estimation, Inference and Hypothesis testing

APPLICATION FEES: There is no application fee for M.Sc. (Economics) applicants.

APPLY HERE: http://www.snu.edu.in/pdf/MSc-form.pdf

The last date for receiving applications deadline is 17th April, 2015.

For more details: http://www.snu.edu.in/pdf/MSc-Admission-Notice-2015-16.pdf

Shiv Nadar University,

Shiv Nadar University

School of Natural Sciences

Opportunities for Ph.D. Studentship in Chemistry, Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physics

Ref: PhD-SNS-2014

Admission Open for PhD in Natural Sciences

The Departments of Chemistry, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physics in the School of Natural Sciences at Shiv Nadar University invite applications for admission in the Ph.D. programs starting July 2014.

Broad Research Areas Available:

Department of Chemistry

• Chemical biology

• Cheminformatics

• Chemistry of nanomaterials

• Computational quantum chemistry

• Green chemistry

• Medicinal chemistry

• Organometallic and Environmental Chemistry

• Polymer chemistry

• Structural Chemistry and Crystallography

• Supramolecular Chemistry

• Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Department of Life Sciences

• Virology

• Infectious diseases (malaria)

• Industrial Biotechnology

• Role of Novel Regulators of Vascular Dysfunction

• Bioinformatics

• Cell signaling in cancer biology

• Bacterial morphogenesis and bacterial genomics

• Systems and Synthetic Biology

Department of Mathematics

• Harmonic Analysis and its connections with Number Theory, Combinatorics and Probability

• Differential Geometry, specifically Symplectic and Complex Geometry

• Game Theory: Evolution of Cooperation, Finite Automata

• Graph Theory and its applications in Ecology and Archaeology

• Number Theory, both Algebraic and Analytic

• Computational Mechanics – computer-based modeling of phenomena with PDEs and the development of new algorithms

• Mathematical Economics

• Category Theory and Quantum Groups

[Apart from direct admission into Ph.D. as described in this advertisement, we also offer a Master’s program which is integrated with the Ph.D. Students admitted to the MS in Mathematics have a reduced course-load if they later take admission to our Ph.D. program.]

Department of Physics

• Condensed Matter Physics

o Computational Materials Physics

o Statistical Mechanics and Computational Physics

o Low Dimensional Functional Materials

o Nano-carbon and Nano-Tribology

o Dielectric Materials

o Semiconductor Materials and Devices

o Surface and Nano Science

o Nano Electronics

o Soft Matter Physics

• Particle Physics

o Theoretical Particle Physics

o Experimental High Energy Physics

• Atmospheric and Environmental Physics

More detailed descriptions of research interests of our faculty can be found at http://www.snu.edu.in/naturalsciences/natural_sciences_overview.aspx.  Many of our research projects are interdisciplinary in nature, involving collaborations across multiple departments in the School of Natural Sciences, as well as other schools and research centers of the university. Three dedicated research centers – Big Data Analytics Center, Center for Informatics, and Institute for Innovations & Inventions with Mathematics & IT – provide additional support for interdisciplinary research.

Eligibility: A candidate should have (or expect to have by August 2014) a Masters degree in the appropriate science discipline, with a minimum of 60% marks or an equivalent grade point.

Candidates who have qualified for CSIR-UGC NET-JRF, DBT-JRF, GATE-JRF, JEST, ICMR-JRF, or NBHM Fellowship are preferred. Short-listed candidates will be required to demonstrate their knowledge through an on-site written test and interview. Selections will be based on past academic performance, written examination and/or interview.

Financial Assistance: All candidates admitted to the Ph.D. program are eligible for teaching/ research assistantships/fellowships of Rs. 35,000 per month along with tuition fee waivers. In addition, SNU offers hostel fee waivers to all Ph.D. students.

Application Process: All interested candidates should apply in the prescribed form, available at http://snu.edu.in/pdf/SoNS_PhD_ApplicationForm_2014.pdf.  The duly filled form along with supporting documents, and a non-refundable demand draft of Rs.1,000/- (in favor of “Shiv Nadar University” payable at Delhi) should be sent by Speed Post to:

Ms. Rupa Goswami

EA to the Director

School of Natural Sciences

Shiv Nadar University

Post Office Shiv Nadar University

Greater Noida

Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP 201 314, India.

Email: rupa.goswami@snu.edu.in  

Telephone: +91 120 266 3841

Applications should reach the above office by 24 May 2014.

About SNU

Shiv Nadar University (http://snu.edu.in/)  is a multi-disciplinary research university, established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is built on a spacious 256 acres fully-residential campus, near Dadri, U.P., at the outskirts of Delhi. The University is driven by its distinguished faculty in natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, engineering, management & entrepreneurship, communication, education, art and design. The Ph.D. program at SNU is full-time and completely residential.

Research Infrastructure

Laboratories in the School of Natural Sciences (SNS) are equipped with basic research facilities including fume hoods fitted with Schlenk lines, LCMS-qToF, UV-visible spectrophotometers, Infrared spectrophotometers, ball-milling, I-V measurement system, thermal evaporator, glove box, microwave furnace, polarization loop-tracer, bio-safety cabinets (for mammalian, bacterial and plasmodium cultures), CO2 Incubators, shaker incubators, flow cytometry, inverted microscope, plate reader, cell counter, fluorescent microscope, electroporator, PCR, RT-PCR, etc. Advanced analytical instrumentation such as 400 MHz NMR, HPLC, CHN analyzer, DSC, TGA, DLS, rheometer, single crystal and powder XRD, SEM, AFM, Raman spectrometer, photoluminescence, fluorimeter, surface profilometer, MEMS, pulsed electron deposition, magnetron sputtering, vacuum annealing oven, split tube, and cylindrical furnaces are in the process of being acquired.

Computational facilities at SNS include a high performance IBM cluster (“Magus”) consisting of 32 compute nodes (plus two nodes with GPU processors) delivering 332.8 Giga flops with each node and a theoretical peak performance of 10.649 TF from over all compute nodes. Additionally, there are several stand-alone Linux workstations that are being used for teaching and research purpose.

Several software for bioinformatics and cheminformatics, molecular modeling, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and statistic learning are also available.

Our library, housed in a modern 5-storey building, provides online access, from anywhere in the campus, to thousands of electronic journals and databases including APS, AIP, ACS, RSC, AMS, SIAM, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley and Nature journals, in addition to various books and e-books.

For more details:  http://snu.edu.in/pdf/SoNS_PhD_admission_Advt-2014.pdf  

Shiv Nadar University, Undergraduate Admission Notice 2014

Shiv Nadar University

NH91, Tehsil Dadri

Gautam Buddha Nagar

Uttar Pradesh – 201314

Undergraduate Admission Notice 2014

Apply Now    

https://snu.formistry.com/

Shiv Nadar University is recruiting the best and the brightest students from across the country for the following programs at Undergraduate Level for the session 2014 – 18:

Schools	Programs
School of Engineering	- B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering - B.Tech. in Civil Engineering - B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering - B.Tech. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering - B.Tech. in Electronics & Communication Engineering - B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
School of Humanities & Social Sciences	- B.A. in English - B.A. in History - B.A. in Sociology - B.S. in Economics
School of Natural Sciences	- B.S. in Biotechnology - B.S. in Chemistry - B.S. in Mathematics - B.S. in Physics

You can also seek admission to the University as an UNDECLARED candidate, explore various courses available at the University and decide on your Major by Semester 3.

Applications for Undergraduate Admissions of 2014 commence on 1st April 2014. The aspirants can create a log-in and start filling up the application. However, they must wait until they get their board results and submit the application only with the attained score. The information provided in the application form will be considered final and no change will be entertained after the application is submitted.

Key dates for Admission to Undergraduate Programs - Admissions of 2014

Submission of Application: As soon as you get your board results

Start of SNUSAT: 5th May 2014

Activity	Schedule	Cities
Round 1	Last date to apply	6th June
	Last date for SNUSAT	12th June
	Individual Assessment Shortlist	15th June
	Individual Assessment	17th June – 27th June (City specific dates will be notified by 15th May, 2014)	To be decided based on the number of applications from various cities. Will be notified by 5th June
	Selection list	29th June
	Fees payment	30th June – 4th July

Eligibility for Admissions and Scholarships - Undergraduate Programs

Admissions of 2014

Shiv Nadar University’s eligibility criteria are developed to shortlist students with knowledge of subjects which serve as the foundation for each program. While students are admitted to specific programs, SNU offers the flexibility to transfer to any program/school in the University after completion of one year in the program admitted to. Students can also come in as an Undeclared candidate and decide on their Major by end of first year. Such transfer is subject to fulfillment of pre-requisites, availability of seats in the School or the Program and acceptance by the concerned department.

Fulfilling the eligibility criteria is only the first step and does not entitle a candidate to admission. The candidate needs to complete all the stages successfully to be offered admission to Shiv Nadar University. Also, the scholarships given here are indicative and the decision of Shiv Nadar University with respect to grant of scholarship will be final and binding depending on the performance through all stages of the selection process.

To provide a fair and equal opportunity to every aspirant, Shiv Nadar University normalizes the scores obtained in class 12 to even out the inconsistencies that exist between various Boards of Examinations. You can look for eligibility and scholarship based on your examination Board and class 12 scores in the below matrix. The eligibility and fees/scholarship for each of the courses planned at Undergraduate level for the Academic Session beginning 2014 is as follows:

Click on the respective programs to check your eligibility:

Program Subjects Offered Subject Combination required Bachelor of Technology Chemical Engineering Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics Civil Engineering Computer Science & Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering Electronics & Communication Engineering Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor of Science Biotechnology Best of four with English and Biology/Lifesciences/Bio-technology as mandatory subjects Chemistry Best of four with English and Chemistry as mandatory subjects Physics Best of four with English and Physics as mandatory subjects Mathematics Best of four with English and Mathematics as mandatory subjects Economics Best of four with English as a mandatory subject

Bachelor of Arts English Best of four with English as a mandatory subject History Sociology

Board Basic Eligibility to Apply Scholarship D Scholarship E 1. Andhra Pradesh 72% in subjects combination as given above with minimum 50% marks in every subject 85+ 72 - 85 2. Karnataka 3. National Institute of Open Schooling 4. Orissa 5. Tamil Nadu 6. CBSE 65% in subjects combination as given above with minimum 50% marks in every subject 80+ 65 - 80 7. ISC 8. Assam 60% in subjects combination as given above with minimum 50% marks in every subject 75+ 60 - 75 9. Goa 10. Gujarat 11. Haryana 12. Himachal Pradesh 13. Kerala 14. Madhya Pradesh 15. Manipur 16. Meghalaya 17. Nagaland 18. Punjab 19. Bihar 60% in subjects combination as given above with minimum 50% marks in every subject 75+ 60 - 75 20. Chhattisgarh 21. J&K State 22. Maharashtra 23. Mizoram 24. Rajasthan 25. Tripura 26. Uttar Pradesh 27. Uttarakhand 28. West Bengal 29. IB curriculum Aggregate score of 32 with subjects combination as given above 39 - 45 32 - 38 30. Cambridge (IGCSE) Same as CBSE with grades converted to Percentage equivalents

Admissions of 2014

Shiv Nadar University will follow a 4-stage admission process comprising:

Eligibility based on class 12 scores as defined in the section - Eligibility for Admissions and Scholarships - Undergraduate Programs

SNUSAT to be administered at over 250 Pearson Vue test centres across India helping every aspirant to participate in the process. SNUSAT will be available from 5th May 2014 till 25th July 2014. The SNUSAT will have the following format:

Non – Disclosure Agreement: 3 minutes

Multiple Choice Questions – 106 minutes divided into:

Quantitative Ability: 36 minutes

Abstract Reasoning: 40 minutes

Verbal Ability: 30 minutes

Essay question: 1 question, 15 minutes

Note: To understand and be comfortable with the interface used for SNUSAT, please visit the tutorial here: http://www.pearsonvue.com/athena/

Review of Application Form for the candidate’s aspiration in life and the ability to be a stakeholder at Shiv Nadar University

Individual Assessment to assess each prospect’s qualities suitable for SNU; taken by Directors/senior faculty of each school

Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4
Scores in Class 12th (or JEE Main National Rank)	SNUSAT (for all schools)	Review of Application Form	Individual Assessment
Measure of academic proficiency and knowledge of core subject. Aspirants need to fulfill basic eligibility criteria to apply.	Measure of proficiency in language, ability to apply mind to simple problems, data interpretation, logical and abstract reasoning. Aspirants need to have a minimum score to be called for Individual Assessment.	Assessment of ability to contribute to and learn in SNU’s environment	Basic verbal communication, confidence, aspiration in life, assessment of ability to deal with SNU environment and enrich it

To find your eligibility and scholarship, please visit - Eligibility for Admissions and Scholarships - Undergraduate Programs

For more details: http://snu.edu.in/admission/undergraduate.aspx