Overview

Women's Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University is being offered from Monsoon Semester (contact JNU administration for prospectus and further details).

Key Features

The structure of the Women's Studies programme from Jawaharlal Nehru University will follow the pattern current in many of the Centres in the School of Social Sciences. 16 credits in the first year, is allocated for course work, and another 10 credits in the second year, for a dissertation in a chosen topic in the field. In total, the M. Phil will be for 26 credits.

Each student will have to take one compulsory course (WS 601, Feminist Theory and Social Research). In addition, students have a choice currently of five papers, of four credits each, from which they may choose three papers.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Political Theory and Philosophy

Indian Government and Politics

Comparative Politics

International Relations

Research Methods

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-07-09 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-16 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

26 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

New Delhi, India

Disciplines

Gender & Sexuality Studies Sociology View 7 other Masters in Gender & Sexuality Studies in India

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Foreign Nationals applying for admission as self financing students are required to provide detail of the Bank account, etc. with their application forms and a certificate from their respective bankers to the effect that they have sufficient funds available in their bank account to sustain their studies in India for the duration of the programme.

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