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Masters & PhD in Cognitive Science at IIT - Kanpur!!! Admissions Open. Please look here for more information:

COGJET-2018 Online Portal

The Inter - Disciplinary Program in Cognitive Science invites applications for it's first round of PhD admissions starting tonight. More information can be found here: [http://www.iitk.ac.in/doaa/pgadmission.htm]. Please spread the word.

PG Admissions, IIT Kanpur Ph.D. (Engg.):Ph.D. (Sciences):Ph.D. (Humanities & Social Sciences):Ph.D. (Management):Ph.D. (Design):M.Tech.:Maters of Design (M.Des.):MS (Research):

The Dept.of HSS, IIT Kanpur welcomes the formation of an Inter - Disciplinary Program in Cognitive Science at IIT Kanpur via an office order dated 1/6/17.

Cognitive Science involves a multi - faceted investigation of the human mind & studies everything that the humans do or are capable of doing taking inputs from fields like Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Linguistics, Anthropology and allied fields.

The IDP in Cognitive Science at IIT Kanpur consequently has participating faculty from HSS, Computer Science, BSBE, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Design Program etc.

The Program is lead by senior professors like the Prof. Achla Raina (Head) from HSS, Prof. Harish Karnick from CSE and other distinguished senior faculty.

The Program will initially start with a PhD Program in Cognitive Science from July 2017 & will also start of Master's Program in Cognitive Science by 2018.

You can look at this space for more info in future:

Center for Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur Cognitive Science is the study of the mind - how it comes to be, what it is, and what it does. Researchers and practitioners in cognitive science come from a variety of conventional academic disciplines. Computer scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, philosophers have all contribute...

Dear Economics students and faculties,

The page for the Department of Economic Sciences is now active. You are requested to migrate to the new page. Here is the link

https://www.facebook.com/EconomicSciencesIITK/

Please like the new page to stay updated with the events at the Department of Economic Sciences.

Thank you.

Economic Sciences IITK This is the official page for all alumni, students and faculties of the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Congratulations to all the students below for admission in some of the most sought after programs in the world.

Snehil Patel, Masters in Management, London Business School.
Arushi Jain, Masters in Information Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Sanket Jantre, PhD in Statistics, Michigan State University.

Best Wishes for a productive time ahead.

Dear Members,

To be more agreeable to all the existing members, we will change the name of this page back to HSS at IIT Kanpur. All the economics students will be requested to migrate to the Economic Sciences page, which will be created in a weeks time (since one cannot change the page name twice in 7 days).

Cheers!

The creation of the Department of Economic Sciences at IIT Kanpur has been covered in several national and regional newspapers. Below is the link to the coverage by Times of India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/iit-kanpur-first-to-establish-economic-sciences-department/articleshow/58557717.cms

IIT-Kanpur first to establish Economic Sciences department - Times of India IIT-Kanpur is first among the IITs to start Economic Sciences department. The new department came into operation from Saturday and students clearing JEE Advanced 2017 and also willing to pursue Bachelor of Science (BS - Economic Sciences) program would get admission in it.