Academic Eligibility:

• Students need to submit their undergraduate degrees from a recognized university or institution.
• The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) results are not required, but an applicant may submit them. A GRE Subject Test is encouraged.
• All entering students must have earned a bachelor's degree or its international equivalent prior to enrolling at the Graduate School. You may submit an application before receiving your degree, or while your degree is still in progress, so long as the degree will be completed prior to matriculation.

Indian Eligibility:

• Students are required to submit the 4 years of Bachelor's degree from the recognized university or college with first grade.
• Students need to submit their English proficiency scores.

• After graduation, the non-US students are currently eligible for 12 months of OPT as well as an additional 24 months of STEM extension if they wish to work in the United States. Many of our students make use of this great opportunity.
• While several of the program’s graduates head to Ph.D programs in Economics or other related fields after finishing the IDE program, virtually all of them do so after a year or two of working for policy and research groups, such as J-PAL, IPA, EPoD, IDinsight, the World Bank or the IMF.
• Equally many graduates start their career at governmental or international organizations such as a Singaporean ministries, Bank of Japan or the UN. Many others start working in the private sector at consulting firms (McKinsey, Compass Lexecon) or in the finance sector (Nomura, Goldman Sachs).