Career Opportunities

The social sector today offers a variety of exciting career opportunities for students, with a desire to contribute to the overall development of the country. Growing public investment, landmark legislations like the Right to Education Act and large government programmes like NREGA, NRLM etc., and the increasing participation of NGOs from policy making to implementation and monitoring, call for talented professionals in large numbers. In addition, innovative social entrepreneurs are needed to ideate, create and implement path breaking solutions to social problems.Students can look forward to fulfilling roles in organisations that engage in grassroots work in the field. They can also look forward to roles in academia, policy think tanks, politics, government programmes, multilateral agencies etc., corporate social responsibility departments of companies, funding organisations and the media.